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The linked report seems almost useless -- it doesn't say anything about an error rate or a sample size, so it's a mystery whether 9 out of 20 systems “fabricated information and ma…

I haven't, but the parent said that this is what a company "should" do, not just what they do do.

> Of course the safest (first) option is the correct option from a liability standpoint, which is all a company should operate on since it's first responsibility is to protect the …

That rule is a rule that excludes many socially excluded nerds. So if there are more and more spaces like that, then the nerds that those spaces exclude, are probably going to go m…

It doesn't exclude people who attend high schools and colleges that have a computer lab.

Your comment is framed like "giving a student a personal AI datacenter to carry with them" is unrealistic, but in fact it is easy for anyone with access to $1000-$2000 worth of com…

This comment would make more sense if it were before the new wave of prediction markets, which are high-profile gambling products clearly largely made and popularized by true belie…

I think it's slightly less ridiculous than it sounds, because governments have much more power over their own citizens. As an American I would dramatically prefer the Chinese gover…

> I don’t know who operates this agent, and I’m not going to speculate about why they did what they did.

I don't really understand the criticism. The authors aren't claiming to have the strongest chess engine without search. They are just showing that they got a chess engine to a resp…

That's great, I'm going to use that one in the future.

I recommend Matthew Sadler's Game Changer and The Silicon Road To Chess Improvement .

Karpathy talking for 2 hours about how he uses LLMs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWvNQjAaOHw

I don't know if this matters to you, but Eliezer doesn't think LLMs will kill us. He thinks LLMs are a stepping stone to the ASI that will kill us.

This is fascinating, thanks so much for posting it!

Actually, the main reason I used Nebula was that they advertised a credible-to-me promise that you could download and permanently delete your data upon request. That was some years…

I was interested to read this because some time ago I had my genome sequenced by Nebula. If you look at the lawsuit you can see that what Nebula did was use off-the-shelf third-par…

Content appears largely LLM-generated, which is weird for someone's personal blog.

If kids could do math they would be able to divide the yearly American military aid to Israel ($18b last year) by the American population (340m), so they probably wouldn't conclude…

I guess this is probably what Lucifer said to God about why it was stupid to give humans free will.

I sympathize with how annoying it must be to have other people messing up your work, but also, if your name is at the top of the page, and there's not really any other way for read…

You said it yourself. That's really not an appropriate response to a specific criticism.

It's very stylistically visible. For example, it's covered in `it's not just X -- it's Y" phrasings that are default LLM house style.

When you rely on an LLM to write for you and then present a melange of your work and the LLM's work without attribution, it makes it impossible for others to usefully interpret wha…

Stallman is probably in the top 10 of all time in terms of people who facilitated alternatives to this. He invented the GPL and wrote and maintained a ton of tools for people runni…