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I'm legit freaked the fuck out by this, it feels like a flashing red warning signal that the alignment problem is wholly unsolved and OAI isn't taking it seriously.

The disconnection between pelican quality and overall model quality is interesting. I initially assumed that since pre-training is when a model gets its general skill that it happe…

1. The four color theorem is a useful case study, for which the original proof was validated and 400 pages long. My prediction is that the first couple waves of proofs will be hard…

Mathematics seems like the ideal candidate for AIs to achieve absurd results. It's a purely abstract grammar with true auto-verifiability. Even SWE has the requirement of interacti…

The evidence says that during disasters ppl come together and help each other during disaster while state and business institution act in an at best obstructionist and at worst pre…

https://www.epa.gov/radiation/tenorm-oil-and-gas-production-... Basically there are radioactive rocks in the deposits that natural gas is stored in. Additionally there is some radi…

Look, in order to prevent scary radiation from entering the environment through nuclear we have to use clean and even more radioactive natural gas.

Time to do that most desperate of things, actually read past the abstract. First, this study was only in academia, and not industry so the results aren't necessarily generalizable.…

There's a lot going on but the basic reasons are: Evangelical white Christians think the existence of Israel is necessary to bring about the Apocalypse, a thing they want because t…

Quick rule of thumb, the reason we associate it with cancer is because the only ppl we systemically tested for it had cancer. If you tested everybody you'd probably find it in ever…

Parts of India might get uninhabitable in the summer in some of the worse case scenarios. Given the population there and the fact they're a nuclear armed state that's a geopolitica…

If my choice is between definitely dying of boring old hypoxia and maybe dying in a cool explosion I know which one I'm picking. But to be serious it's risk management and if the p…

This is a nightmare. Getting spammed by ads on my devices is bad enough. Now when I go out in public I get shamed for all to see. Targeted automated advertising has got to be banne…

Yea, if something is a Natural monopoly, which search almost certainly is, then it should be a publicly owned utility.

This is morally and politically a non-starter. Electricity improves people's lives way too much to be time restricted.

Just another step on the way to the US becoming a pariah state. I'm really not looking forward to the next few years here. While electing a Democratic government might be able to r…

You don't work at a startup to make more money, you work at a startup for non-monetary benefits and if you're extremely lucky you might get rich quick. Average case is you make les…

This study gets absolutely demolished by the fact that all the major old world democracies were trade/citizen empires in the tropics and sub-tropics; Athens, Rome, Carthage, the Ma…

The yugoslav wars had a total death rate of < 1%, and saw most of the cities still standing. 3-4 Million ppl were displaced, ~15-20% of pre war population and there are 5-6 countri…

> They have a good point about missing data, but they're glossing over the fact the fatality rate goes up drastically if the medical system fails. If the medical system starts to f…

Try public transit in literally any country besides the US, the US is currently terrible at public utilities for ideological reasons. Basically the line of thinking is the governme…

This gets to one of the fundamental limits of for profit operation of businesses, different scales of firm have different incentives. For American Airlines it made logical sense to…

It also should allow the government to direct the business for the public good.

Gonna be that guy and say that this map almost certainly has inaccuracies at least in southeast and south asia. If individual owner/operator businesses count I'm sure you can find …