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I’m disappointed this is the first comment on this post. gwern’s writing (including on nicotine) was formative for me; it showed me how and why the internet the was important: it l…

https://xkcd.com/2501/

Long-form slop. Mmm…

Ah yes, the Backrooms of UX hell. With the right procedural generation and some decent flavor, that could be genuinely horrifying!

This matches my understanding, thanks. I thought I was going crazy reading other comments.

I’d bet the author does understand. I’m fairly certain subsequent runs even with the same prompt will make selections with different entropy. Even with low temperature, there’s no …

I agree it’s equivalent, and that’s a great way to think about it. But… I wouldn’t be surprised if humans answered closer to the LLM results than 80:20. I’d actually be surprised i…

I think of it as "the first time anyone has not lost". Until that crash run, every game had ended with a top out.

> turn the door handle, and unplug the rack. There are door handles that you cannot turn, and racks you cannot unplug: ones buried deep in the Cheyenne Mountains and hidden far awa…

Not exactly sure what the details, but there high quality, commercial products that are probably doing something like this: https://voxon.co/products/

Sure. Most of my experience is in California, but I've found the grading differences from region to region to be just large as from out of state or international. I climb 5.11c+ co…

If you care about strongly about privacy... choose your email provider accordingly. If Outlook is your company's email provider... the third parties are the concern of your IT depa…

> Dismissing a multi-millenia multi-cultural fundamental norm as "indoctrination" severely downplays the collective learning of uncountable generations. I agree in this case, but o…

Afaik, your intuition is basically right! A superconductor exhibiting only the Meissner effect won't hover ("pin"). It's a defect (where small amounts of the field aren't expelled)…

Uh, do you remember what youtube comments were like 2016-ish and earlier? It seems obvious to me the overall experience of youtube comments is much more dependent on youtube's choi…

> you'd think i was insane I don't think so at all. In general, society (ours, and afaict all others too) has a vested interest in the formation and preservation of family units. T…

Twitter could recreate a similar system: 1) auto-tag tweets with labels, rather than users needing to submit to subreddits 2) auto-sub most people some default set of labels 3) let…