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Adding complexity is just one aspect. Everywhere there is someone whose job is to ensure the bottom line never changes and status quo for the powerful is preserved. Insurance, taxe…

Yes, unfortunately a phrase that's used in an attempt to lend gravitas and/or intimidate people. It sort of vaguely indicates "a complex process you wouldn't be interested in and c…

As something of a technophile myself.. I see a lot more value in arguments that highlight totally ridiculous core assumptions rather than focusing on some kind of "humans first and…

> fully AI generated and fully AI review This reminds me of an awesome bit by Žižek where he describes an ultra-modern approach to dating. She brings the vibrator, he brings the sy…

In philosophy 101 the usual foil for Rousseau vs.. would be Hobbes, but that framing with a realist/pessimist would not be popular with the intended audience, where the goal is to …

Funny but the eyebrow-raising phrase 'recursive self-improvement' is mentioned in TFA in an example about "style adherence" that's completely unrelated to the concept. Pretty clear…

Yeah, I mean I hope there are not many people that still think it's a super meaningful test in the sense originally proposed. And yet it is testing something . Even supposing it we…

Outcome would depend on the rest of the test, but I'd say the "human" version of this answer adds zero or negative value to chances of being human, on grounds of strict compliance,…

I think the TT has to be understood as explicitly adversarial, and increasingly related to security topics, like interactive proof and side channels. (Looking for guard-rails is ju…

Hah, tools-or-no does make things interesting, since this opens up the robot tactic of "use this discord API to poll some humans about appropriate response". And yet if you're susp…

Turing test isn't actually a good test of much, but even so, we're not there yet. Anyone that thinks we've passed it already should experiment a bit a with counter-factuals. Ask yo…

Agree with all this; see my other comment in thread for more color, more math. I don't want to come across as embracing pseudo-science, misinformation, etc. I do like to think abou…

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Not OP, but I think the plot twist is, maybe we need to be able to entertain "obviously absurd" ideas to be able to land on a correct position if the culture we're inside of is not…

There's some interesting stuff in here if you can tolerate the meandering and the way-back-when. Like you'd expect from po-mo wonks, everything's gotta be infinitely subtle and inf…

Most people do this so that they can eat the rocks afterward. They are shiny and very nutritious, and it strengthens the teeth. It's normal for some teeth to break off during this …

You might prefer this sort of thing: A Definition of AGI https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18212

The capital was better fortified and the French wanted food and loot. So softer target sounds nice, especially if you think this crushes morale immediately and don't believe the op…

> And temperature 0 makes outputs deterministic, not magically correct. For reasons I don't claim to really understand, I don't think it even makes them deterministic. Floating poi…

> It DOES fail more when the numbers are longer (because it results with more text in the context), I tried to raise this question yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Glad to see the pentagonal multiplication prism is just as weird as the addition helix https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00873

Thanks for doing this. OpenAI is not in fact open, so referencing their claims as obviously true on anything else is just a non-starter. Counterpoint though, it's been a while sinc…

Agree, this stuff was trending up very fast before AI. Could be my own changing perspective, but what I think is interesting is how the signal it sends keeps changing. At first, em…

> “Settling Defendants have agreed not to provide nonpublic data to RealPage for use in competitor pricing recommendations and to refrain from using RealPage’s RMS that relies on n…

Seems like an optimistic read on things. This is the kind of common-sense approach you would expect in a world without lawyers, just observing that collusion is bad because the eff…