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Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this is sufficient. While I had great success with GrapheneOS in the past, bank apps in Brazil have started blocking it, even when the profile y…

How about this for an evaluation: Have this (trained-on-older-corpus) LLM propose experiments. We "play the role of nature" and inform it of the results of the experiments. It can …

(Not op) Maybe not you in particular, but I expect people to be more forthcoming in their writing towards LLMs vs a raw google search. For example, a search of "nice places to live…

> Explains why RL helps. Base models never see their own outputs so they can't learn "this concept exists but I can't actually say it." Say "Neuromancer" to the statue, that should…

> Humans are more efficient watt for watt than any AI ever invented. Indeed they are. For now. The long term trend is not in our favor.

> block cars in cities a couple of days per week, individually selected per person. The net result in São Paulo (Brazil) for (something that approaches) this is that people end up …

Local governments in BR have already made ads using generative AI that were shown during prime time TV hours[1]. You can argue that is a bad thing (local designers/content producer…

> in Brazil it is 20% (sugar cane based) 30% in 2025 for cars (from 27%), 15% biodiesel in diesel for trucks (from 14%). Source: https://www.em.com.br/politica/2025/06/7183470-gove…

"has existed long before humanity" isn't relevant for my argument. "Will exist long after humanity" -> maybe, maybe not. If we're smart, capable and humble enough, we could, in pri…

Pretty sure no bacteria will survive on earth after the sun expands enough to char it, yes. Even if I'm wrong, and it does survive _that_, then it eventually won't survive the sun …

> Choosing what traits one considers exceptional, will by definition select what species one considers exceptional. /Every/ other species that has /ever/ lived will cease to exist …

You're right to doubt it! And indeed, accounting for externalities (unmeasured or unmeasurable) is a tough economic proposition. If it weren't hard to account for every single vari…

The counterpoint is that not doing so (implying some sort of infinite monetary loss if the entire human species is wiped out) would mean you want to spend every single unit of mone…

> I don’t think they can yet self improve exponentially without human intuition yet I agree: if they could, they would be doing it already. Case in point: one of the first things d…

Is it though? It is my understanding that the quantum fluctuations that give rise to BBs will still exist, even after (and specially after) the evaporation of black holes (perhaps …

Attempting to summarize your argument (please let me know if I succeeded): Because we can't compare human and LLM architectural substrates, LLMs will never surpass human-level perf…

Interesting, I have the exact polar opposite perception. I accessed this through a Qubes AppVM (no GPU, limited memory and CPU budget) and the presence of videos makes this a very …

If a generic human glances at an unfamiliar screen/wall/room, can they accurately, pixel-perfectly reconstruct every single element of it? Can they do it for every single screen th…

Maybe it's a liability issue, not a competency issue.

Unless there is a small enough number of them that they can coordinate and all follow the same strategy.

That ("_every_ money-making industry...") seems like a too strong statement and can be proven false by finding even a single counter-example. gwd's claim (AFAICT) is that _specific…

My favorite site re: end of the world/universe is the old timer http://exitmundi.nl

You cannot "generate evidence at will to meet any threshold of evidence" for this specific example ("all swans are white") because, unless you posit that there are swans in Kepler-…

> You're describing certainty. This is a prediction, not reality. I was being concrete about atoms, in particular , not about what gets named as a "scientific fact" in general. Yes…

Value != Price, so yes a Toyota may be more valuable than a Lamborghini. A Lamborghini is (in general) objectively _pricier_ than a Toyota. The "value" of a car has more dimensions…