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You totally ignored the point OP was making! Even if it is a parenting issue, simply declaring that will not make parents parent better. It's the same reason why we ban children fr…

Counting cache hits towards the token budget is exactly how it should be done for these kind of evals, and at any rate, for cyber evals all frontier models benefit from more tokens…

China is 6 months behind because of distillation attacks, otherwise the gap would be larger

They are taking in more than they are spending hosting them. However, the cost for training the next generation of models is not covered.

Meta was strongly against the Australian social media ban.

Sorry, the "they" referred to the hyperscalers

Even more extreme, that might mean they won't be able to offer Claude to non-US companies at all.

The article didn't suggest that the video mentioned was AI slop, it correctly recognised it as human generated.

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So the problem IS that people are putting in too much (even if accidentally) ?

There are several concrete proposals to regulate AI either proposed or passed. The most recent prominent example of a passed law is California SB53, whose summary you can read here…

Australia's soon-to-take-effect ban affects nine platforms, including Instagram and Facebook, but not HN. These bans often operate on the amount of users a platform has, so HN is u…

Jonathan Haidt, the most prominent psychologist pushing for restrictions on social media use for children, is also the most prominent proponent of letting kids play and roam more f…

What a fantastic way to write a post mortem, pedagogically very useful.

At least in part, according to the article, because the not-yet-on-GLP1 folks are NOT customers since they are often denied coverage in the first place.

The West told plenty of its companies, through public pressure or laws, that they have to divest from Russia, and they did. Rationally they recognized that selling their assets is …

As far as I know that was a distinct, previous endeavor. Only afterwards did the Vinklevoi approach him to make the website, an idea which he then allegedly ran with on his own.

Does 4Chan also have bot BEHAVIOR detection (e.g. unnatural mouse movements)that google captcha has?

The article provides almost no hard data to back the headline up. They link a report on buy backs, but at least the abstract/summary does not provide support for the claim either. …

FWIW, I thought he did pretty well and came away more convinced of his theses. For most of Tyler's alternative and let's say colorful explanations of the data, Haidt provided diffe…

Like the OP, I also greatly respect the work Rachel and you did for AI. Nevertheless, I can't help but think that you are seeing this issue to negatively. "The point of the article…

It's basically all present in the article

While true in general, it is really not that necessary to have a representative sample for checking whether your software works. With large enough sample size a convenience sample …

Comparing against 1990 is wrong though, as we should compare against the start of widespread social media use (2010 at least), and it's also pretty likely that other OECD countries…

This is not an accurate reading of the Conclusion section. He just sums up what has been observed and does not mention any causal factors. Earlier, he explicitly says that causal f…