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Also by Terry Bisson and one of my favorite stories is Bears Discover Fire 1990 https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bears-discover-fi...

This is such an infuriating narrative. As if the top AI researchers in the world couldn't detect and mitigate a major problem with the distribution of their training data and the p…

There is a TCEC category for 4k engines. The top ones are ~3000 Elo.

That's pretty obnoxious.

Have you compared the versions of Stockfish in each? In Lichess I think you can also choose different eval nets. There's a small one and a big one. That will affect N/s. Have you c…

The article says death rates from falls in younger people has declined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-Gammon

> we made an offer that was a prime number $12345678910987654321?

Well, HF.

The box contains everything.

2x faster than what?

I am an expert level chess player and I have multiple people around my level play illegal moves in classic time control games over the board. I have also watched streamers various …

Tcec games are deliberately played from imbalanced opening positions. The draw rate would be much higher for the top participants if this wasn't forced. However, I agree that engin…

Nice, now I can exhaust my monthly quota in 0.004s.

I was just thinking about how common this is, even for experts in a field. The line of thinking goes something like: 1. Observe the current state of the art. 2. Make a claim implyi…

>Problem is the current systems can’t reason about things, math included. Have you tried asking GPT-4 any questions that require reasoning to solve? If so, what did you ask, and wh…

Yes, I was making a joke about Monday being a trading holiday.

I predict that the stock will not react at all on Monday.

What are you embedding exactly? Chunks of documents?

In the article the main and reserve chutes were tangled with each other, so maybe these probabilities aren't independent and can't be multiplied?

The box contains everything.

You could in theory behave in exactly the same way without inner subjective experience. The argument goes like your brain gets exactly the same signals and processes them in exactl…

Could this be the opportunity for Kamila to continue her winning streak? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/25/kamila-grabska...

We have absolutely no idea what makes something conscious or how to measure whether something is conscious or not. It is perfectly reasonable to consider that AGIs might have consc…

Or are we? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine?wprov=sfla1