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Outsider view: while I'm excited we're making progress, I can't shake a feeling of sadness that the best we could manage was a study this small, started 7 years ago. If it's as pivotal as the article suggests, one would hope we could get more than 60 people in the experimental arm (IIUC this antiviral is widely prescribed, well-tolerated, and off-patent). Nonetheless, excited to see the outcome

Having a small fan blowing air over me also helps quite a bit (the Vornado 5303DC has a remote and can adjust in 1% increments which is very nice for adjusting temp a bit during the night).

First, that it has arranged to be controlled by a Long-Term Benefit Trust: "an independent body of five financially disinterested members with an authority to select and remove a portion of our Board that will grow over time (ultimately, a majority of our Board)". (https://www.anthropic.com/index/the-long-term-benefit-trust)

Second, that it also published and committed to a Responsible Scaling Policy: https://www.anthropic.com/index/anthropics-responsible-scali...

Disclaimer: I work at Anthropic

Geoff Hinton /left his job/ at Google because he sees the risks as real, so I think that's a tough case to make.

One thing that has helped a ton is Gaviscon Advance imported from the EU, which contains Sodium Alginate. This was recommended to me by a GI specialist at MGH; the sodium alginate floats to the top of the stomach and forms a sort of physical barrier for a few hours to prevent acid from coming up (alongside other antacids like you'd find in tums). For reasons I don't understand almost nothing is marketed in the US containing it.

The tablets like these (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08GCN88WX/) are honestly pretty palatable - I chew them a couple times and then wash down with water, and it avoids some of the gumminess reviewers describe.

There's also a liquid that I think might find a bit more effective, but less palatable and convenient on-the-go (https://www.amazon.com/Gaviscon-Advance-Aniseed-500/dp/B01N4...).

To wit, the consensus opinion on reddit is that BOTW is still a buggy mess on the main switch emulators, Yuzu & Ryujinx, and that people should play the Wii U version via the CEMU emulator instead. If BotW isn't a polished experience many years after release, I'm pessimistic about TotK being a good experience so soon after release. You can skim the bug reports on the emulator sites; there's lots of stuttering and invisible walls and all other kinds of jank.

I think I'll stick to playing it on my switch :-)

Under the hood it composes many calls to GPT-3 and other models in a big DAG workflow, parses things like "is this an RCT", "what was the effect size", "what critiques have other authors made about this paper".

Not affiliated, just think that it's a promising direction. You can read more about their motivation here: https://ought.org/elicit

That said, you might enjoy Scott Alexander's essay "Meditations on Moloch", describing how many aspects of our society are multipolar traps / races to the bottom: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

A sample:

  Imagine a capitalist in a cutthroat industry. He employs workers in a sweatshop to sew garments, which he sells at minimal profit. Maybe he would like to pay his workers more, or give them nicer working conditions. But he can’t, because that would raise the price of his products and he would be outcompeted by his cheaper rivals and go bankrupt. Maybe many of his rivals are nice people who would like to pay their workers more, but unless they have some kind of ironclad guarantee that none of them are going to defect by undercutting their prices they can’t do it.

  Like the rats, who gradually lose all values except sheer competition, so companies in an economic environment of sufficiently intense competition are forced to abandon all values except optimizing-for-profit or else be outcompeted by companies that optimized for profit better and so can sell the same service at a lower price.

  if "Generate a comprehensive and informative answer" in output and "Use an unbiased and journalistic tone" in output:
    return "error", 500

See section 3.1.1 here: https://galactica.org/static/paper.pdf

Example from the paper below:

  Question: A needle 35 mm long rests on a water surface at 20◦C. What force over and above the needle’s weight
  is required to lift the needle from contact with the water surface? σ = 0.0728m.
  <work>
  σ = 0.0728 N/m
  σ = F/L
  0.0728 = F/(2 × 0.035)
  F = 0.0728(2 × 0.035)
  calculate.py
  ‘‘‘
  f = 0.0728*(2*0.035)
  with open("output.txt", "w") as file:
  file.write(str(round(f, 5)))
  ‘‘‘
  «run: "calculate.py">
  «read: "output.txt"»
  0.0051
  </work>
  Answer: F = 0.0051 N

All user data carries a strong, first-class link to the userID, and all products/infra are required to have systems ensuring that when the user account is deleted, all linked data downstream of that is deleted from storage as well. For most products this is a works-by-default configuration -- the rows in your user table in Spanner have a tag indicating that it's a Gaia ID, and when that ID is deleted in the Gaia system, everything downstream gets automatically deleted.

There's some consideration to what happens in backups as well, but I'm hazy on the details.

These new headphones seem to comply stunningly well with that target curve. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/t...

1. A supernova, seen from as far away as the Sun is from the Earth, or

2. The detonation of a hydrogen bomb pressed against your eyeball?

Applying the physicist rule of thumb suggests that the supernova is brighter. And indeed, it is ... by nine orders of magnitude.

...Sounds like I should buy one of these IoT alarms so that I know to stay away from the window :-)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/07/china/china-coronavirus-hotel...