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It would be nice if there was a listing of exactly what was included somewhere.

I am very ambivalent on this post. On one hand, I agree that excessive defensiveness stinks up a code base. On the other, I am a huge fan of local reasoning. Especially in the worl…

On my first run I aced all of the sections until the last and then I got some really weird ones (e.g. zenzizenzizenzic). When I ran it again I got 95% new words and I fumbled a cou…

I ran through it twice, first time 91 second time 90, score: 69,500. Midwit confirmed.

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I'm not following your logic here. Are you basing your predictions on the predictions of CEOs? If I understand you correctly you are saying, CEOs predicted X and they were wrong. N…

I believe that the statement `a.x = 100;` is invalid since Record types are immutable. That is, the situation you are afraid of should be impossible.

I think I mostly got this, but just to test it, it would be like in Typescript where I might say: type Foo = { x: number; } type Bar = { x: number; y: number } type FooBar = Foo | …

> More generally than just Java, nullability is often a property not of a type but of a variable. This is a tangent, but I'm not sure I follow this. Can you give an example to make…

> Stoicism in Ancient Rome was COMPLETELY about controlling your emotions, This is so false it deserves comment. For example, the SEP for Stoicism [1]. You'll notice that the first…

> Unless you break the hypothetical by adding some alternative option C That is kind of the point, isn't it? That my hypothetical scenario isn't realistic. Let's imagine two worlds…

I think the big lesson of this that hasn't yet been learned: it literally doesn't matter how moral Amodei or anyone else is at Anthropic. When push comes to shove, the US governmen…

Credit where credit is due I suppose. I'm still concerned over the direction this is going but at least Anthropic is listening.

I think we are very disconnected on the topic of conversation here. Somehow you've confabulated my point with an attack on the prisoners dilemma or races to the bottom? The person …

We have 10,000+ years of human civilization at this point. There must be some other active ethical maxim operating other than "choose the lesser of two evils" to explain why there …

That's a bit like asking how the defendant in a legal case is an interested party. Even if you think someone is guilty, it does make sense to allow them to at least submit their de…

Your logic doesn't hold up well to simple escalation logic. Company A founds itself on doing 0 harm to Area X. Competitor B shows up and starts finding success doing 10 harm to Are…

Totally understand on managing context length. But in a sense, the work is just providing the library of primary texts (and given the public domain nature of these kinds of works, …

Imagine you are in the shower one day and you come up with the sketch of a possible innovation on model architecture, however there are some fine details and tricky implementations…

I accept your point, in the sense that I wouldn't suggest that they have any obligation to share their own research. What seems to be different here, is that they are saying they w…

It is very difficult to see this move as anything other than Anthropic pulling the ladder up behind itself. They can dress it up in "safety" all they want, I find it hard to interp…

This is an interesting project and in some ways similar to an idea I had. My idea was actually just to aggregate primary texts (whatever public domain versions are available) for a…

I have not done any calculation on the capex but I'm guessing that SpaceX has. We're also just guessing on what these "datacenters" will look like. It is silly to think of them in …

Sure, but considering the size of the challenge it makes sense to figure out the parts that can be studied on the surface first. Challenges like procuring, challenges like setting …

If xAI is a datacenter REIT, it is a special kind that has a promise that no other datacenter provider could dream of: LEO datacenters. As far-fetched as that may sound, the bigges…