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> occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section No eye tracking in this dystopia I guess.

> Information bubbles mean people are more convinced than ever. And therefore critical thinking is more important than ever. That isn't intrinsically a problem, but it is a problem…

> It has been over a decade since any ordinary off-the-shelf closed-source software was meaningfully obscured from serious adversaries. Probably goes without saying but the last li…

Throttle and yoke aren't a vote of no confidence from aircraft manufacturers. Some modes of operation are suitable for autopilot and some are not.

Where does your 500 come from? Why can't Satoshi be someone who simply had no deanonymized online presence?

> You would not start with "The car is functional [...]" Nope, and a human might not respond with "drive". They would want to know why you are asking the question in the first plac…

> You said it correctly with "would've been safer to start building a distance buffer", that is the proxy the insurance companies want to use for risk assessment. Then use it? Mand…

The landing page video's first incident is a car coming from behind and from the right, cutting off the filming car. The filming car didn't react at all when instant (but measured)…

> I reboot, log into Epic and GOG, and start downloading The Outer Worlds, a game from 2019 I’ve been playing a bit lately. It runs fine with Proton, and I can even sync my saves f…

For those hoping for more elaboration (including myself): 1. Only the portion of the principal that is due to be paid within the next 12 months is considered a "current liability".…

Wouldn't the principle be a current liability, and the interest the future liability?

Not OP and not an accountant. I see the reasoning for accountants keeping future liabilities off of the balance sheet. I do this myself in multiple contexts. Still, when making dec…

> One way would be to use a polycentric form of law where each individual could determine what or which form of law to live under that protects them by voluntarily entering some so…

Who or what should determine the natural rights that one lives by?

> Neither was slavery. Was that OK too? And to clarify (though it’s worrying this point needs to be made), I mean morally. It may well have been morally OK to most people (see: mor…

My question was "What's the value of a secret benchmark to anyone but the secret holder?" The root of this whole discussion was a post about how Gemini 3 outperformed other models …

I learned in another thread there is some work being done to avoid contamination of training data during evaluation of remote models using trusted execution environments ( https://…

I see the potential value of private evaluations. They aren't scientific but you can certainly beat a "vibe test". I don't understand the value of a public post discussing their re…

It's hard to have any certainty around concealment unless you are only testing local LLMs. As a matter of principle I assume the input and output of any query I run in a remote LLM…

I guess there's two things I'm still stuck on: 1. What is the purpose of the benchmark? 2. What is the purpose of publicly discussing a benchmark's results but keeping the methodol…

Ok, but then your "post" isn't scientific by definition since it cannot be verified. "Post" is in quotes because I don't know what you're trying to but you're implying some sort of…

This thought process is pretty baffling to me, and this is at least the second time I've encountered it on HN. What's the value of a secret benchmark to anyone but the secret holde…

> By this logic, literally nobody anywhere has free speech. Nobody anywhere has freedom of speech. And a majority of people don't really think about what it means and don't want it…

What image are you using? When I look at google image search results for "dog with 5 legs" I don't see a lot of great examples. The first unequivocal "dog with 5 legs" was an illus…

Who did Satoshi talk to?