This whole argument would be dead in the water if society had de-carbonised 20 years ago instead of now. This stinks of the personal responsibility fallacy of carbon emissions when the real answer is to do the boring job of making energy production cleaner and doing a better job at moving people around.
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ImaCake commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults? asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein
This article attempts to establish disjoint categories "good rationalist" and "cultist." Its authorship, and its appearance in the cope publication of the "please take us seriously" rationalist faction, speak volumes of how well it is likely to succeed in that project.
Not sure why you got down voted for this. The opening paragraph of the article reads as suspicious to the observant outsider:
>The rationalist community was drawn together by AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky’s blog post series The Sequences, a set of essays about how to think more rationally.
Anyone who had just read a lot about Scientology would read that and have alarm bells ringing.
ImaCake commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults? asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein
I don't know, most of science still runs on frequentist statistics. Juries convict all the time on evidence that would never withstand a Bayesian analysis. The prosecutor's fallacy is real.
Most science runs on BS with a cursory amount of statistics slapped on top so everyone can feel better about it. Weirdly enough, science still works despite not being rational. Rationalists seem to think science is logical when in reality it works for largely the same reasons the free-market does; throw shit at the wall and maybe support some of the stuff that works.
ImaCake commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults? asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein
This looks like it'll be useful for CAPTCHA purposes.
According to the researchers, “the triggers are not contextual so humans ignore them when instructed to solve the problem”—but AIs do not.
Not all humans, unfortunately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_captain
I tried the Age of the Captain on Gemini and ChatGPT and both game smarmy answers of "ahh this a classic gotcha". I managed to get ChatGPT to then do some interestng creative inference but Gemini decided to be boring.
That was relevant when you were learning to search through “information” for the answer to your question, eg the digital version of going through the library or digging through a reference book.
I don’t think it’s so valuable now that you’re searching through piles of spam and junk just to try find anything relevant. That’s a uniquely modern-web thing created by Google in their focus of profit over user.
Unless Google takes over libraries/books next and sells spots to advertisers on the shelves and in the books.
> searching through piles of spam and junk
In the same way that I never learnt the Dewey decimal system because digital search had driven it obsolete. It may be that we just won't need to do as much sifting through spam in the future, but being able to finesse Gemini into burping out the right links becomes increasingly important.
Consider the adoption of conventional technology in the classroom. The US has spent billions on new hardware and software for education, and yet there has been no improvement in learning outcomes.
This is where the skepticism arises. Before we spend another $100 billion on something that ended up being worthless, we should first prove that it’s actually useful. So far, that hasn’t conclusively been demonstrated.
The article states that Study Mode is free to use. Regardless of b2b costs, this is free for you as an individual.
Confused on the Max 5x vs Max 20x. I'm on the latter, and in my email it says:
> "Most Max 20x users can expect 240-480 hours of Sonnet 4 and 24-40 hours of Opus 4 within their weekly rate limits."
In this post it says:
> "Most Max 5x users can expect 140-280 hours of Sonnet 4 and 15-35 hours of Opus 4 within their weekly rate limits."
How is the "Max 20x" only an additional 5-9 hours of Opus 4, and not 4x that of "Max 5x"? At least I'd expect a doubling, since I'm paying twice as much.
The ambiguity here is awful marketing practice. This bitter pill would be much easier to swallow if it was a hard number instead of these vague ranges. It would serve Anthropic better too - telling people they only get 300hrs vs between 240-480 (which they will naturally evaluate as 240hrs) will mean less users leaving the platform.
The more I see Bending Spoons in the news, the more I realize how shitty of a company it aims to be.
I once applied to their job listing. I adored the idea of working there. Now all I can think about is "I'm glad they rejected me"
I mean they own meetup which is one of the worst platforms that has failed to die in-spite of how terrible a product it is.
That's pretty much how all laser particle counters work... except the good ones use a fan and a chamber. Guess we'll have to wait and see how this compares to the reference sensors.
Yep, I suspect this is all marketing fluff and no substance. I see a lot of superlatives but no substantial technical breakthrough here.