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You mean when he teamed up with hack journalist Matt Taibi to try and make a mountain out of a molehill?


If you did not study these topics, the chances are good you do not know what questions to even ask, let alone how to ask them. Add to the fact that you don't even know if the original summary is accurate.


The original summary is the paper’s abstract, which I read. The questions I ask are what I don’t understand or am curious about. Chances are 100% that I know what these are!

I’m not trying to master these subjects for any practical purpose. It’s curiosity and learning.

It’s not the same as taking a class; not worse either. It’s a different type of learning for specific situations.


Asking the right questions (in the right language) was important before and it's even more important with LLMs, if you want to get any real leverage out of them.


How does the wand know what I'm flicking it at? What if I miss? Maybe the wand thinks I'm targeting some tiny organism that lives on the organism that I'm actually targeting. Can I target the wand with itself?


> How does the wand know what I'm flicking it at?

Magic! (i.e. not purely part of the thought experiment, unless I'm missing something interesting)

> What if I miss?

Panpsychism better be true :)

> Can I target the wand with itself?

John Malkovich? Is that you?!


It's magic. Chill out. It knows.


When I saw this I rolled my eyes. It is well-understood that purpose-built models perform better than general models on tasks like this, and yet it would seem one of the main purposes of running this experiment according to the website is to figure out if general models are enough.

In addition, I cannot imagine how the selection of securities was chosen. Is XRP seriously part of the proposed asset mix here?

It's hard not to look at this and view it as a marketing stunt. Nothing about the results are surprising and the setup does not seem to make any sense to me to begin with.


At this particular moment in time, the old quote about "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" feels relevant on a couple of levels. I keep waiting for the bubble to burst and for these executives to be forced into finally confronting the realities of this technology, but it is taking a very long time indeed.


Not all bubbles burst, some deflate quite silently especially if people expect them to burst.

Microsoft didn't care to ask users when they put copilot into everything and they won't ask users when they'll "consolidate the experience" to whatever works.

And just so I can claim that I "knew it all along" in the future I'll say that some form of "agent OS" is here to stay when the dust settles.


This style of rabies vaccine is for pre-exposure. Post-exposure vaccination is more involved if you aren’t primed.

In addition, it used to be the case that people received abdominal shots and the course was pretty intense. That has ended, but people remember it.


Oh I remember alright! I got bitten by a stray dog when I was 12 years old. I was given abdominal shots of the vaccine for several days. I can't remember if it was for 7 or 14 days, but it was a very painful and traumatic experience. It caused me to have a deep fear of dogs for several decades.


post exposure vaccination is a thing?? does it work for everything and why is it called vaccination not treatment?


> post exposure vaccination is a thing?? does it work for everything

I believe in this discussion the context is specifically rabies.

> and why is it called vaccination not treatment?

It's both, really. You get a shot of rabies immunoglobulin (at the site of potential infection, i.e., bite) _and_ an extended course of vaccine at the same time.


Yes, you can get the vaccine but you only have days/weeks to do it.


To me, their usage is akin to to turning a plaintext file into rtf. Emojis do not look the same across platforms. Generated text should default to the generic IMO.


Plain text doesn't look the same across platforms for the same reason emojis don't, what's your point? At a technical level, it's no different than a plaintext doc with Chinese (or almost any other non-latin script) characters in it. It's still just a linear stream of text encoding with no specific structure beyond that.


Ok. :green-checkmark:


They don't say what feelings it empathizes with.


i'm sure if we try hard enough that we can probably guess!


It's important to be fair and balanced. For example did you know Hitler was actually a really good painter!


funny, but if you read the mecha-hitler tech debrief, mecha hitler was a 'sycophancy' bug, a-la gpt4o, if you gave gpt4o all your edge-lord tweets, and told it to be funny back to you and connect with you. Probably not grok's default posture, just sayin


Bro. Listen. Digging through a garbage can and finding half a cheeseburger doesn’t mean you’re smart. It means you’re a raccoon.


but but hivemind


They give an example in the blog post (mourning a pet cat).


You're almost there. Think to yourself now: what was it that happened in the past that necessitated the need for a large regulatory apparatus, auditors, etc.?


Why do you think they’re “lazy”? The point is usually to bait you: “You’ll never guess this one weird trick!”

Here it actually makes some sense. There are _so_ many AWS services. It’s similar to the quiz about AWS service icons that demonstrated that not only are the icons broadly unknown, there are myriad unknown services which further complicates things.


bait is definitely a better description, though i still think bait could be more effectively worded.


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