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This is the human equivalent of "simply write code with no bugs". If you can't figure out how to write code without bugs, you think you can cause a human being in a complex environ…

Interesting, so this was effective when you were a child and you only listened and never did anything your parents told you not to? Sounds like if that was effective it might be yo…

Well said, it also reads like someone who greatly overestimates their own control in what they think and "decide" to do. We are products of society unless we are truly living compl…

And it would only be true of things that are uncorrelated with an ascending sequence. As an example, I hand 4 people envelopes filled with a random amount of cash. Each looks at th…

not really, my claim is that if random data reproduces the trend (e.g. experts undepredict, layment overpredict skill), then it might actually make the argument stronger than the t…

Interesting, maybe the fact that it is replicated by random noise is actually confirming the theory though. The article claims "completely random guessing replicates the DK graph".…

Can't tell if this comment is serious. No, there are individual people who are capable of writing operating systems, browsers, source control systems, complex video games, and prog…

Are you asking why people can't seem to stop? Or why you seem to possess that ability? Both are biologically mechanistic like all behavior. Probably similar to why some people will…

Wasn't the original proof something like "a program that loops indefinitely when the oracle says it will halt, and stops immediately if an oracle says it will not stop"? The whole …

To borrow the argument from the apologists: But everyone learns by example! How is this any different from a person just reading the outputs of Fable, learning, then producing outp…

Does this expend less carbon than you captured? Skimming, gathering, transport, drying, compression, burying. I assume to reach "gigatons captured per year" this would require heav…

This article shows that we can reliably cause phytoplankton blooms, but doesn't link it with actual "carbon removal". I suppose CO2 is temporarily removed in the form of the bloom,…

yep, all those coders paying $200-$500 per day to use claude once subsidy ends will be seriously rethinking how much they really want to vibe-code "rewriting X in rust". Helping pe…

This is a sight-reading test. If a musician practices a piece for thousands of hours, it would no longer be an effective sight reading / creativity test. The purpose of the test wa…

the nature of the test was to see if the models can effectively compose an image of a novel concept outside the training set. If they are trained on it, it ceases to be an interest…

AWS Bedrock has stated that all new Anthropic and OpenAI models will not allow ZDR (only older models).

I think your response might be sarcasm, but actually this very situation demonstrates the truth of the adage. In this case, competition and information-sharing is driving intellige…

Its not surprising a thief would be the most paranoid in securing their spoils.

Yep, time to pay back those campaign contributions in the form of "chinese models embargo". USG has already shown more than willing to dabble in picking what AI companies can do wh…

Not sure you're wanting an explanation, but it comes down more to equivalent algorithms than rigid categories. For example there is a P algo to sort a list of numbers, but not to s…

What are the negatives for doing so?

Isn't the question at hand whether its bad for mathematics if "prove the circle has area 3" devolves into 500 lines of inscrutable lean code, vs just having `pi r^2 == 3`? Sure the…

Its an inevitable state of any market system (especially if regulated). Eventually it will become more profitable to use the gains of capital to buy protection from regulators, ins…

"approaching" is doing some work there. $30K today will get you 90-144GB usable VRAM with solid system RAM and disk and CPU. A single B200 chip at 180GB is $40K. Unfortunately that…

What's crazy is the prompt must be something like "pro-AI but still believable and measured", since its "fixed my iOS app albeit with back and forth". Interesting, they know the HN…