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> If you're curious, I can also tell you how the competitive scene works or how people qualify—it's a surprisingly serious tournament circuit for such a simple-looking game.
which are completely fabricated by the LLM.
The key to successful poisoning attacks is to introduce brand new information that doesn't directly contradict other training data. It's much easier to convince the LLMs that you're the king of a fictional Mapupu kingdom than the president of the United States. So this means that for bad actors it's more efficient to manufacture brand new fake stories instead of trying to distort the real ones. Don't produce fake art…
A curious theory holds that Boris Johnson's sometimes bizarre sayings were an attempt to bury search results that didn't suit him. For example, talking about his hobby of painting model buses, to suppress search results about the campaign bus with false statement written on it, and alledged affairs with a model. https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/editors-let...
I met him because I had to give him a software demo at number 10 as part of London Tech week. One of the other teams there had some sort of childrens’ app and got him enthusiastically doing star jumps. Just a complete clown through and through.
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Sure. None of those organisations have power over you (unless you work for them, I guess). You’re free to use whatever name you like for whatever you want. Whichever organisation names venomous snakes has no power over you either, but if you’re bitten by one and they ask you which one it was so they can administer an antidote, I highly recommend you stay with the name they gave it instead of some other name you made…
In this hypothetical, am I being treated by someone from this taxonomic organization?
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In this hypothetical, am I being treated by someone from this taxonomic organization?
No, you’re being treated by a doctor. Who needs to have a precise common understanding of what you’re saying.
"It was maybe three feet long, and brown."
"Thank you, but what I meant was, what is the name of the snake according to the Institute of Ophidian Nomenclature?"
"I ... have no idea?"
"No idea?"
"No doctor. It had these kind of white markings on its head and ..."
"Sir, if you can't give me the formal name of the snake there's nothing we can do."
"What? You're joking, right?"
"If it still hurts in the morning, take two tylenol and call your PCP. And now I'll have to ask you to leave the hospital."
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No, you’re being treated by a doctor. Who needs to have a precise common understanding of what you’re saying.
"OK, sir, can you tell me about the snake that bit you?" "It was maybe three feet long, and brown." "Thank you, but what I meant was, what is the name of the snake according to the Institute of Ophidian Nomenclature?" "I ... have no idea?" "No idea?" "No doctor. It had these kind of white markings on its head and ..." "Sir, if you can't give me the formal name of the snake there's nothing we can do." "What? You're jo…
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It's such a pity the Oxford English Dictionary decided to paywall themselves decades ago - they used to be THE dictionary in most countries, now nobody seems to know who they are.
The OED’s goal isn’t really to be every nation’s dictionary.
curious!
Pails in comparison to what Frank Dux and Frank Abagnale were able to convince much of the world they did with no evidence other than their own stories. Who knows how much of recorded and believed history is complete bullshit? Not to get too far into sacred territory, but claims around Siddhartha Gautama, Jesus Christ, and the Prophet Muhammad are quite a bit less plausible than the legends of Ragnar Lodbrok or the t…
Pails in comparison to what Frank Dux and Frank Abagnale were able to convince much of the world they did with no evidence other than their own stories. Who knows how much of recorded and believed history is complete bullshit? Not to get too far into sacred territory, but claims around Siddhartha Gautama, Jesus Christ, and the Prophet Muhammad are quite a bit less plausible than the legends of Ragnar Lodbrok or the t…
Paul's letters reference new testament scripture and those can be dated roughly 60 AD (so within the life time of the witnesses). The new testament correctly described pontius pilate as governor of judeau (something Tacitus failed to do) and seemed to have referenced the conflict between Tiberius and Sejanus. The Jews (Hellenistic sadducees) blackmailed Pilate knowing that he was a Sejanus ally (John 19:12). The name…
First: this isn't true. There are plenty of Ashokan inscriptions from ~150 years after the Buddha's death, and they speak of an already-existing Buddhist orthodoxy.
Second: there's plenty of archeological evidence of both the Buddha and Muhammad; the lack of written documents has more to do with the cultures they were in at the time. You don't need to drag other religions down to engage with the evidence for the historical Jesus.
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Paul's letters reference new testament scripture and those can be dated roughly 60 AD (so within the life time of the witnesses). The new testament correctly described pontius pilate as governor of judeau (something Tacitus failed to do) and seemed to have referenced the conflict between Tiberius and Sejanus. The Jews (Hellenistic sadducees) blackmailed Pilate knowing that he was a Sejanus ally (John 19:12). The name…
> Buddha has virtually no textual documents placed within 900 years of his death First: this isn't true. There are plenty of Ashokan inscriptions from ~150 years after the Buddha's death, and they speak of an already-existing Buddhist orthodoxy. Second: there's plenty of archeological evidence of both the Buddha and Muhammad; the lack of written documents has more to do with the cultures they were in at the time. You…