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I think the reaction to this protest is definitely a very bad look, but that it's too early to say how that partnership panned out. Still hopeful!

I think it's pretty reasonable that many users might perceive this as a betrayal of an implicit social contract. People posting things ten years ago, or even a year ago, shouldn't …

Yeah, that's what I'm basically thinking: for scientists who already like Python because it's readable and mostly matches the mental model of what they care about, being able to ca…

I'm quite hopeful that language models for code might actually lead to more people getting comfortable with multiple languages and especially some kind of hopping back and forth. I…

I think it's related to Reddit users who posted (very frequently!) on a counting focused subreddit (people literally post "1", "2" , "3" in sequence so usernames appear 50k+ times)…

Basically agree -- feels off-putting, but not technically a wrong detail to add. An additional reason it rubs me the wrong way, however, is that I believe open-source software code…

IMO - this kind of tool cuts across a debate that currently involves a lot of people yelling past each other. If you're an artist, of course you can make changes to your process or…

It's an open challenge, this preprint proposes a solution for robust data valuation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.15466 However, I'm not aware of anyone actively trying to adapt thes…

Yes, this doesn't use attribution techniques like influence functions or Shapley values that are popular in machine learning research, but I am pretty convinced that even a nearest…

Appreciate the distinction in the above comment that they are two distinct questions, but also agree the two questions are very connected. I should've been more specific: I was thi…

This is a great point. Not a lawyer, but as I understand the most likely way this question will be answered (for practical purposes in the US) is via the ongoing lawsuits against G…

Yeah, that's a fair critique, I think the short answer is depends who you ask. See this FAQ here: https://www.licenses.ai/faq-2 Specifically: Q: "Are OpenRAILs considered open sour…

Thanks! Looks like a bunch of changes were made to page structure and CSS (in a way that makes scraping a bit more inconvenient). Filed an issue for myself, but looks like the othe…

Super cool idea, thanks for building and sharing! One possible suggestion for future iteration: I think it's a bit of a shame that everyone's been sharing ChatGPT outputs almost ex…

Also, based on all the public info about InstructGPT (the closest ChatGPT "family member"), all of StackExchange is definitely in the training via OpenAI's "filtered Common Crawl",…

There's a big concern in the long run: if ChatGPT seriously reduces the number of people who visit StackExchange domains, there will be no dataset no for GPT 4 / ChatGPT 2. E.g. wh…

Also curious... I spent a while trying to get system to tell me directly, but no dice: https://twitter.com/nickmvincent/status/1598478685019189248?... It gives a generic answer tha…

Yeah, I think this is spot on. The version of WMF Enterprise being described here is formalizing / codifying an informal relationship that already existed (Google using Wikipedia c…

In practice, I believe the reason is historical: that's how Wikipedia started and it hasn't changed. But there's pretty compelling evidence that it provides Wikipedia some unique b…

Crazy impressive! A question about the training data: anyone familiar with this line of work know what social media platforms the "conversation" data component of the training set …

Yeah, that's fair! My view is not that everybody should use Rally, or even Firefox. Rather, it's that even though there's going to be massive filtering going on with regards to who…

I understand there seems to be a lot of pent-up frustration in these comments, some of it related to this specific initiative and some not. I'd like to highlight a few reasons why …

Definitely a challenge for many mechanism design approaches to intervening in the world. As I understand, the only really solution is to experiment in the real world, see what hold…

Worth emphasizing that, as the article states, there's a lot of ongoing experimentation with quadratic voting. Wikipedia has a good overview ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrat…

The core argument for x^2 is basically just that it's the only function with linear derivative, so for rational voters who calculate marginal benefit of additional votes purchased …