Parthood itself is nowhere near as obviously-to-me distinct from our concept of it as birds themselves are from our concept of them… Is it just me?
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I put “energy saving” in scare quotes because they’re in large party energy saving by just being dark.
Huh, no, a 13 W incandescent light bulb would be very dim
By “cannot … any” do you mean “there are no instruments you can” or “there are instruments you cannot”? The former seems completely wrong to me, you definitely can become an expert in playing the kazoo or the triangle in 6 months. (Even if you mean the latter, I think there are very few instruments you can’t become an expert in in 6 months, if you have no other job and no children and can spend 80 hours a week on it.)
Ditto. Doing that for a few days would be borderline okay, but a few times I found stuff in shopping carts I had put there several months earlier, and didn’t immediately even remember about!
Automatically emptying the cart at the end of the browser session sounds a bit overzealous, but 7 days would be a reasonable rule of thumb.
Well, I’m a former (amateur) musician and I still find decibels perfectly appropriate—remembering that 10^0.3 ≈ 2 automatically gives you 10^0.6 ≈ 4, 10^0.9 ≈ 8, 10^1.2 ≈ 16 i.e. 10^0.2 ≈ 1.6, 10^0.5 ≈ 3.2 and going the other way 10^-0.3 ≈ 0.5 i.e. 10^0.7 ≈ 5, 10^0.4 ≈ 2.5 and so on. If those aren’t precise enough, sqrt(10) ≈ 3.16 also gives you 10^0.2 ≈ 1.58 and 10^0.8 ≈ 6.32.
What do you mean “will soon”, some of them e.g. Facebook are already enshittified beyond all repair
Have you experimented with using languages other than Japanese for that?
(longer cycles e.g. English→Mandarin→Arabic→English might also be interesting to try, in principle, though I’d guess that in the current incarnation of Google Translate Mandarin→Arabic is just Mandarin→English→Arabic in a trenchcoat anyway)
I agree that it would probably be a disaster but I can easily imagine someone (probably not Anthropic themselves, but probably someone like xAI or Meta, possibly even OpenAI or Google) not seeing it. It’s not any more obvious than it was that what SBF was doing would backfire, and yet he did that anyway...
Eh. The problems with some strategy don’t just have to be obvious to you for someone to refrain from it, they must be obvious to them. (Case in point: SBF)
If someone like xAI or Meta had a Mythos-level model, I could totally imagine them doing something substantially different, much worse for the world than what Anthropic did even if I could easily see it’d probably be worse for them themselves too (except insofar as xAI or Meta making a Mythos-level model would be evidence for them being less unreasonable than they appear, so interpret my hypothetical as “if Lucifer existed and handed someone like xAI or Meta a Mythos-level model).
Furthermore, the placenta and the amniotic sac are genetically the fetus’s, not the mother’s.
Selling access to Mythos to the general public for however much they can find people willing to pay without explicitly mentioning its comp sec capabilities?
It’s pretty clearly a nonce backformation from “plausible”. There’s some small chance the author wasn’t aware that it wasn’t already an “established” word and would have written something else if they had known it wasn’t, but basically zero chance they meant to type some specific other word but typed “plause” instead by accident.
If 3 is right, then it’s 1.2 grams of glycine (magnesium glycinate is 14% magnesium by mass)
Well, that’s less than one tenth the amount of glycine your body makes by itself and than one fiftieth the amount you’d need according to this post...
[copying and pasting the same comment I wrote on Substack]
Re: Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing EveryoneOne of the issues here is a big branding failure of AI notkilleveryoneism—it sounds like AI might kill all humans but not do anything else, turning the whole Earth into one huge Polesie State Radioecological Reserve, though the actual most likely outcome would be it sterilizing the whole biosphere so “notkillevery*thing*ism” would be more precise. Lots of the misanthropic environmentalist types who would welcome the former would still be utterly terrified by the latter, so we’d better make it extra clear it’s the latter that we mean.
It also varies by culture—e.g. in central and southern Italy it is considered socially acceptable to be a bit late at a meeting, but everybody knows that so if they want to meet you at 11:30 they will tell you to meet at 11:15, or 11:00, depending the level of formality of the meeting. If they were somewhere where being even slightly late is considered rude, they’d tell you to meet at 11:30.
[sings “a little more hyphenation” in his head to the tune of Elvis Presley’s “A Little Less Conversation”]
PMore generally: anything split into (ridiculously small) pages (such as e.g. a thread in a web forum, search engine results, list of bank movements, etc.) for no good reason—with an “entries per page” menu whose options don’t even span orders of magnitude (e.g. 10, 15, 20, 25, 30).
Unless a page has a snowball’s chance in hell of taking up a sizable fraction of the RAM or taking more than a quarter second to load on a modern device with a modern connection, just keep it one page, and if you have an “entries per page” menu please provide at least 10, 100, and 1000 as option (if selecting the last would crash my browser that’s my own business).
The government doesn’t do loss leaders
Nitpick: Whether or not that’s true in this particular case that’s not always true in general. I know of at least one program which is pretty explicitly a loss leader by a government (which I personally benefitted from).
(If someone who worked outside Italy for at least 48 out of the past 36 months moves back to Italy in order to accept a permanent job offer which requires a PhD, the Italian government will waive 90% of their income tax for the first four years. Now, that’s still nowhere near enough to make post-tax salaries competitive to what people could get elsewhere in western Europe let alone somewhere like the US, so in practice the effect is just a pure transfer to people who already had other reasons to want to return to Italy, but from the way the program is advertised it’s pretty clear the ostensible goal is to entice people who were otherwise going to stay abroad, in hope that they will then work in Italy for much longer than the four years the benefit lasts.)
One of these thing is not like the others, one of these things doesn’t belong.
(I can see the appeal of a norm that no-one uses recreational drugs whether or not they personally would be able to handle it; but wouldn’t a norm that no-one pursues a career in the arts imply that no more art would be made, except in people’s spare time?)