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That's very interesting, I wonder if this applies also to models quantized to ints like (-1,0,1), and I wonder if the labs could maintain frontier performance if they removed float…

For me, that unfamiliarity is precisely the point of reading something ancient.

Maybe it's just me, but "modern" and "context-aware" are the two things I most want to avoid when seeking out a translation of an ancient text.

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There's a difference in the latency distribution between when you submit a query and you see the response, which is what the comment is (clumsily) asking about. But yeah, there are…

Speedruns are for playing the track solo, right? If you're playing normally (with other people and items), even the most skilled player can't avoid getting hit by some universal it…

> there's nothing wrong with traumatic harm or abuse because people are resilient and it doesn't matter to their well-being I know it's just a throwaway example, but this statement…

As someone who does _very_ related research, I'd push back on your skepticism. I recommend Gilbert's "Stumbling on Happiness". It very accessibly addresses almost every point you r…

Alpha School is a decent counterpoint to this. Of course, it's a highly selected group of students. I very much doubt it's scalable in the way one would hope.

Maybe worth checking the data first... https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction

That's very interesting. It kind of mirrors the experience of having a very smart friend. Edit: https://xkcd.com/2501/

According to https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/ , Luna at Max at it's previous cost was comparable in both performance and cost to Sol at High. With an 80% reduction in cost that become…

That's not really a common attitude in academia, unfortunately. The most common attitude is something closer to "I want to be well known and respected by smart and influential peop…

> only approximate solution is to prevent any restrictions on the use of it - a-la-2nd amendment Not even in 'Murica do we have anything close to no restrictions. You can't buy you…

The same could be said about the judicial system though, right? Both the prosecution and defense are paid to influence the judge, and will naturally provide a biased perspective. B…

Alternatively, couldn't this be seen as evidence on favor of the "corporate narrative" on lobbying? Namely, that the purpose of lobbying is to ensure politicians have instant and e…

People often confuse "irrational" with "rational on inference given incomplete information" This is the latter. See also: stereotype accuracy

Based on your comments I think you do understand it but are taking it too seriously / too literally. Consider the title: Scott Alexander and others have written more clear, philoso…

Title is misleading. The vans are manufactured by an Israeli company and bought by US government entities, not vans affiliated with the nation state of Israel.

> I always thought that retransmitting the full chat every turn is a foundamental problem So did many NLP experts who worked on LSTM, GRU, etc. But transformers empirically won out…

> from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader This feels purposefully misleading. Did they manually watch hours and hours of footage, or is this the equivalent of "I searc…

I can understand saying "will be" a disaster, but "have been"? How do you square that with data like this?: https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8...