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I'll bite. How does Gitana 18 and the general continued technological progress in the Ultim class fall short? If you had something to contribute, couldn't you just get involved in …

Ah, another example of multiple equilibria! Investment in intelligence and defence spending can lead to entrenched interests which demand continued spending. The famous military-in…

Yeah, that clarifies that you're missing the core idea here. Brett Deveraux is pretty popular here, so maybe you'd like the analogous discussion of high-equilibrium and low-equilib…

The piece is actually quite concise, but you're right in the other respect. You definitely didn't read it. Private equity as an explanation is explicitly rejected.

By all means please caveat away! This is HN after all. I was torn between pithyness and qualifying those statements myself. Obviously there's a lot of interesting variation that's …

I had to look up the concept of a framing definition so I might have gotten these wrong but I would equivalently state: 1. Modern margarine is healthier than butter. 2. Seed oils a…

The title is inadvertently correct only because modern margarine is healthier than alternatives such as butter.

Bartz v Anthropic is some good authority on fair use ( https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.43... ). Still, it can't be said to be definitive because the plain…

I come back to this every so often as well. After so many years of looking at Markov chain outputs that almost looked like they made sense or chatbot systems rewriting your sentenc…

There are birds that go far longer than typical aeroplane flight times without a single flap of their wings either using thermal, ridge, or other sources of lift. Are these flying …

Not to mention, when you use a Monte Carlo model, you can easily count the samples which lead to certain outcomes. In their review, they noted that the correlated polling miss in t…

None of us are your doctors but Naproxen has well-known gastric issues up to ulcers and stomach bleeding which is why it's advised to be taken with food and why it's also often pre…

The only caveat is that AES is not necessarily a black box. It's possible there may be hidden structure to take advantage of, but if there is there's no reason to suspect it's one …

Sean Duffy is no longer acting administrator of NASA. This proposal was apparently part of a bid to get the support of a coalition of old-space companies and new-space non-SpaceX c…

Very different in character. The US fair use four factor test ( https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/ ) is really flexible. You don't need to fall into an en…

'Which you would think is fair use' - I must admit I wouldn't think that. When I consider Indian content creators making use of clips from Indian media organisations I can't really…

It's 19 June 2020 and I'm reading Gwern's article on GPT3's creative fiction ( https://gwern.net/gpt-3#bpes ) which points out the poor improvements in character level tasks due to…

TFA is based on the ruling which found that Anthropic training on these books was fair use.

As another example you can consider the apparently successful DOTA2 and Starcraft 2 bots. They'd be interesting if they taught us new ideas about the games in the same way that Alp…

Popularly it's been reported by mariners that the whales are asleep. It makes sense, they need to stay on the surface to breathe and there's no evolutionary reason not to sleep the…

I lived on a catamaran around 2000 onwards as a kid. Solar panels were surprisingly widespread, particularly on multis with outboards (and therefore limited ability to make power t…

I read the whole presentation. The physics experiment criticism Guttman makes that I referred to is at page 16/30. Nothing after that engages with QC to the extent that the first h…

I agree! People who predicted QC soon over the last few decades should lose credibility. They were wrong and they were wrong for no good reason. There is a real opportunity cost to…

Man, some real "Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence" energy here. Seems unnecessary given what I read of Gutmann's history. I get it must be annoying…

My housemate during our honours year had large portions of his thesis plagarised by the student who took over his work afterwards. We were surprised to discover that of all the lif…