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How is it impossible? The OS already advertises which codecs and cyphers it accepts. Is adding an age flag a bridge too far? And arbitrarily changed? Can a regular user arbitrarily…

Like it or not, there is a large constituency who wants to “protect the children”. By demonizing them and failing to engage with the worries over social media and pornography We ha…

Slower is meaningfully dumber when you’re time bounded and need all the inference time compute you can get.

Inference time compute is the new scaling.

There’s no guarantee more general results exist. It’s likely that any sufficiently complex “market” admits no incentive compatibility.

Not much faster. Any k-coloring algorithm of complexity F(n) can be used to create a chromatic number algorithm of complexity lg(N)F(N) simply by bisecting on N.

That is super cool. What kind of interceptor? Solid rocket motor with control surfaces?

How can I parent my kids when every child in the school is a social media addict? If heroin were commonplace and available in every kid’s pockets would parents be to blame then too…

Well for one thing SMS isn’t bundled with addictive apps that constantly try to lure you into traps against your better judgement.

That’s really sad. Locked in a walled garden of vampiric carnivorous plants. And for what? A modicum of convenience?

What benefit do kids draw from instagram and facebook?

It’s very confusing to me. I’ve occasionally used pro to do high-level research and design. Then I ask it to create a prompt for Codex ultra. Ultra can do a lot of genetic benchmar…

Why not pro/ultra?

Google’s AI has been very glitchy for me lately. I used to reserve chatGPT for serious work and Gemini for daily personalized unimportant things. But now I switched completely to C…

There’s no way I’m giving Zuck any of my data.

And changing your car oil is easy. Vacuuming and dusting the house is easy. Many easy things. Too many for me to do all.

You know how a microphone can also serve as a speaker? Can this technology also do text to thought?

How do you automate experimentation? Doubtlessly, AI can iterate at superhuman speeds in the domains of thought and design: Software, mathematical proofs, literature search. But in…

In my city I call a handyman to fix my dryer and guess what? He uses chatGPT to help him through the issue. $350 Beyond a basic amount of manual dexterity and familiarity with mech…

For the present, human bodies are far more capable than robotic ones.

What say you of warehouse workers? Of restaurant staff? These exist today and are dehumanized in much the same way, but perhaps with lesser effect. Don’t mistake my ill portent for…

I think the next bottleneck is embodiment. AI can lay the best laid plans, but who will execute it? I think a possible solution to the dual problems of AI embodiment and unemployme…

Fixed number of rounds with a target should use DP for solution, not KC.

> A company’s public statement in the middle of an outbreak is not marketing. It is evidence — what the company said it knew, and when, published to the world at a moment when nobo…

And yet, knowing how to calculate a wave function helps little with leading a happy life, finding and maintaining good relationships, talking to children, etc. The more secular we …