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Forget about alignment, we're stuck on "satisfying answers to difficult questions". But to be fair, so are humans.

I'll have to rewatch that one, thanks

I adore the opening shots of Jurassic Park.

If you recall, the opening scene has a dinosaur being transferred from a container to a pen. If you haven't seen it for a while, you might remember seeing the attack. I know I did.

But go back and watch it, you might be surprised.

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Also, I challenge you to find a better technical exposition scene than Mr. DNA. Seriously, if you can think of a better technical exposition scene, I'd love to know it.

Yea, that group of people is insufferable and wrong about almost everything. Dating apps are the one place where they kind of have a point; which really raises the question "Are we (app developers) the baddies?" Dating apps are not a nature preserve, they are a created environment.

Also, there's all kinds of maxing stuff, and there's basic advise, like wash your face and get a haircut before you get your picture taken.

Before you pay for boosts on a dating app, pay for good pictures.

Here is what a man seeking woman profile needs:

1. Good Pictures. Honest. Good lighting. Appropriate grooming and attire (whatever than means in your social context). Smile in a carefree way in most of the pictures.

2. Attractive man in the pictures.

3. No icks.

Yes the pictures are more important than being attractive.

As a matter of storytelling, the theme is "aspirational", but the particular aspiration is up to you.

Pro-tip: On YouTube the [.] and [,] keys step individual frames on paused video.

Yup. I have not experienced anything nearly this serious with a CEO, but I have had company leadership say and do very stupid things that reduced my focus on the corporate mission. Fortunately, they do still occasionally provide me with interesting puzzles (and they still pay me).

> because people are losing passion for their mission.

Or perhaps they are losing people with the passion for the mission.

Unfortunately, it appears that the universe does not care very much about human satisfaction. Fortunately, other humans do.

Daft Punk is pollinating at my house! (My House!)

Ahead of time, and from the inside, it looks and sounds like 'restoring proper order'.

Afterwards, and from the outside, it looks and sounds like ... well read some history about attempts to 'restore proper order'. The outcome and progression is entirely and sadly predictable.

It's been about 80 years since WWII. Are we doomed to repeat this on an 80 year cycle, when the last generation who went through this passes from the scene?

Nature is not kind.

Yup, and this was the original dream of Theranos - lots of measurements, lots of data. It's a nice dream, shame about the lies though.

Some assumptions are so obvious no one bothers to state them, or even remember them.

Assumption: Medical professionals are trained to use Evidence Based Medicine (EBM).

One might assume that EBM means something specific, and I'm sure it does, but that specific thing is different for different people.

One thing that EBM sometimes means is: common sense is no substitute for evidence. There are uncountable times that common sense has been wrong in the medical context.

So, you have a lot of people commenting here that this is obvious common sense, but many medical professionals will pull out a reference chart of caloric content and glycemic index and say "look at the evidence".

So, it is very useful to do studies that bring evidence to common sense.

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My other pet peeve with EBM is that it does a poor job of understanding that different interventions work for different people - it is time consuming and expensive to do that kind of investigation, thus some/many medical professionals do not understand or believe it.

This comment is intended as a critique, not a dismissal.

Remember the time that Florida fought the federal government for access to socialized medicine?

https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2024/florida-becomes-fi...

> "Today, the DeSantis administration received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Canadian Prescription Drug Importation Program. The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) submitted this first-of-its-kind plan to safely import cheaper drugs from Canada to the FDA nearly 37 months ago, and after filing a lawsuit against the FDA due to delays, has finally received approval. This approval will save Florida up to $180 million in the first year."

Oh dear, this seems to be a bit of a footgun.

I've noticed that people who are good at getting promoted are good at claiming success.

Claiming success is not wrong per se, and getting promoted is not wrong per se, but sometimes the claimed success does not accurately represent value delivery.

"Definition of Done" is a social exercise, not a technical one.

To extend your illustration, 5 years ago no one could train an LLM with the capabilities of a 13 year old human; now many companies can both train LLMs and integrate them into products.

> taken it from a toy to genuinely insanely useful.

Really?

Or use a histogram.

Yes, give the computers anxiety too!

I wonder what the ratio of good:bad professors is.

Someone should write a list of "Power Gradients Considered Harmful", eg Crew/Cockpit Resource Management

Thank you for taking my lunatic ravings semi-seriously!

Ok, but why stop here? You've effectively created a rotary potentiometer in one dimension, you could add two more dimensions like an analog thumbstick on a game controller. Do any controllers have a twistable thumbstick?

Also, like other commentors have stated - this could be a jack too, so you could have a jack knob analog stick.

BUT WHY STOP THERE?

You could mount it on a linear pot/slider.

BUT WHY STOP THERE?! (help me)

You could daisy chain pluggable rotary analog stick jack stacks...

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The madness has taken him

I love plausible eager beavers:

"explain the quote: philosophy is a pile of beautiful corpses"

"sloshed jerk engineering test"

cross domain jokes:

Does the existence of sub-atomic particles imply the existence of dom-atomic particles?

> Which seems like it's going to have the effect of just accelerating the demise of the organization they claim to love so much.

Sometimes there is not a direct path to 'good'. Sometimes the path to things getting better goes through a rough patch.

It is very dissatisfying that a lot of people are doing very stupid things very publicly right now.

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Politics is an information game, and you can't play an information game without changing the game; all information games are metagames.

The way the game is being played right now is drastically changing the game.

I won't claim that the game will be better after this (especially in the short term), but it certainly will be different.

Once this category of error is raised to your attention, you start to notice it more and more.

A little piece of technology made sense in the original context, but then it got moved to a different context without realizing that move broke the contract. Specifically in this case a flying boat became an airplane.

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I recently worked a bug that feels very similar:

A linux cups printer would not print to the selected tray, instead it always requested manual feed.

Ok. Try a bunch of command line options, same issue.

Ok. Make the selection directly in the PPD (postscript printer definition) file. Same issue.

Ok! Decompile the PXL file. Wrong tray is set in pxl file... why?

Check Debug2 log level for cups - Wrong MediaPosition is being sent to ghostscript (which compiles the printer options into the print job) by a cups filter... why?

Cups filter is translating the MediaPosition from the PPD file... because the philosophy of cups is to do what the user intended. The intention inferred from MediaPosition in the PPD file (postscript printer definition) is that the MediaPosition corresponds to the PWG (Printer Working Group) MediaPosition, NOT the vendor MediaPosition (or local equivalent - in this case MediaSource).

AHA!! My PPD file had been copied from a previous generation of server, from a time when that cups filter did NOT translate the MediaPosition, so the VENDOR MediaSource numbers were used. Historically, this makes sense. The vendor tray number is set in the vendor ppd file because cups didn't know how to translate that.

Fast forward to a new execution context, and cups filters have gotten better at translating user intention, now it's translating a number that doesn't need to be translated, and silently selecting the wrong tray.

TLDR; There is no such thing as a printer command, only printer suggestions.

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I didn't make a claim either way.

LLMs may well reach a closed endpoint without getting to AGI - this is my personal current belief - but people are certainly motivated to work on AGI

0 and 0.0001 may be difficult to distinguish.

It is a morally disgusting, but very rational take.

It is morally disgusting because of the relative harms between the parties, but very rational because of the personal risk/reward calculation.