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If you use the definition from On Bullshit , then bullshit is a statement made without regard for truth value because of its utility to the speaker. As such, LLMs can only bullshit…

…yes? The amount of text isn’t equal and the benefit is primarily that I can push the LLM into a basin you don’t know the keywords for — something that takes a few minutes to type …

Engineers are part of the petite bourgeoisie so they need to speak appropriately to the monied class.

Option 1 sounds better: I’m only out the cost of the drive, which is like $40 and doesn’t require anybody on the other side cooperate with me. - - - More broadly… You call it unlik…

You can run a small model off a home generator — so in an emergency, you’d turn on both the generator and information service, eg, a mesh for “quick” responses querying that huge c…

Perfectly reasonable - eg, organ transplants were experimental in humans at one point in time, following success in animals but before widespread success in humans. People died fro…

Embryos have their own DNA and constitute the full amount of that cell line — unlike your skin shedding. They are absolutely a human. To sibling comment’s point: personhood versus …

AWS already supports Llama and GLM in its Bedrock service for hosted models. They’re much cheaper to run, eg, Llama 3.3 Instruct 70B is 5-10x cheaper than Sonnet 5. https://aws.ama…

Also cases where both happened, eg, Xerox wasn’t wiped out but copiers now have multiple vendors at the high end and have commodity via other brands at the low end.

How so? A quick search suggests that we tried it a bunch on animals, failed on humans, and of the first three human transplants, you had an adult (20s), toddler (2yr), and adult (5…

They’re a human, but not a person. Human is a fact of DNA — of which embryos are unmistakably humans. But we don’t ascribe rights based on humanity, but on personhood, which is why…

Statistical operation doesn’t preclude logical processing. We’ve know that since 1943 when McCulloch-Pitts came up with the first “artificial neuron” definition. And since LLMs are…

2.45 + 2.45 = 4.9 For sufficiently large values of 2 and small values of 5, the statement holds.

$1/day forever is around $9125 using the safe drawdown rate of 4% per year. So if you’re a bakery and a customer offers $9000+ for a fresh roll every day forever, you should almost…

How so? I’m missing the irony.

I found I used fewer tokens by having many short prompts than long ones — because it spent many fewer tokens thinking and narrating.

Lynnwood is where the fun parts of Seattle moved when rents got too high.

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Hans did plenty to damage his own career - eg, his 2024 ban for trashing a hotel room.

I’m writing a JSX templating language — to manage context, branching, etc automatically. You hand it a spec/existing work and it automatically applies a recipe. So far that’s been …

If you do something to a person and they die after, you killed them. If you can’t admit you’re killing people you absolutely lack the ethics to compel actions for others, as in you…

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I believe Thailand did actively monitor some kids and found about 1 in 35 childhood COVID vaccinations.

Lots of societies who started with some killing “for the common good” ended in atrocities. The statistics on men under 25 are still horrific and suggest this was in fact the latter…

Also in DC, eg, at the Bilderberg meeting. Somehow the US ones always fly under the radar: Bilderberg, Council on Foreign Relations, Jackson Hole banker meetup, Bohemian Grove, etc…