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The fundamental premise of this paper seems flawed -- take a measure specifically designed for the nuances of how human performance on a benchmark correlates with intelligence in t…

The function of news is to help a democratic citizenry be critically informed, and that this kind of statistic doesn't accomplish what it set out to do, although it's certainly int…

Yeah -- I don't get why this is front-page -- reads like LLM quasi-insight: "Through activation, lifeless equations became living systems. The neuron was no longer a mere calculato…

The idealized (Science 1) / realpolitik (Science 2) dichotomy is both real and at first depressing. I also did a PhD in machine learning, and became quite disillusioned after seein…

This is naive 'populism': There's no way to avoid 'allusion' writ large -- e.g. do you object to biblical references, or to references to particular experiences that only some peop…

> Despite the HN comments complaining about it being overwhelming and a dark reflection of how awful and distracting the internet is, clearly enough people enjoyed it to get to the…

> High intake of sweetened beverages was associated with higher risk for most of the studied outcomes, for which positive linear associations were found. In contrast, a low intake …

But it may scale -- that's science in progress

I don't get this line of logic -- of course software has safety implications, because people use it for things in the real world. It isn't "math' that is cleanly separable from the…

But applied mathematics can have ethical impact -- e.g. the concept of whether a human should trust the output of a particular language model. So GP's idea of 'trust' not applying …

Where is the firm dividing line that separates math from philosophy?

The long-term impact of this paper has confused me from a technical lens, although I get it from a political lens. I'm glad it brings up the risks from LLMs but makes technical/phi…

Author here -- some fun videos from the paper: A gallery of evolved robots: https://y2u.be/QNyNtvwA9FI An evolutionary lineage from an initial (barely-functional) seed to a final r…

Ideally, meditation would spur you on to action; that's the direct aim of engaged Buddhism [1]. But more broadly, many Buddhist schools aim to encourage a direct feeling of love fo…