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Do you have thoughts on the reasoning of the paper?

Great questions. Gpt4 got the second wrong in my test, but corrected itself when I told it to review for errors. It got the other two right at first try.

Wood is the main source with a margin: https://www.ambito.com/uruguay/con-el-precio-la-lena-aumento...

45% percent of households use wood as the main source of heating, electricity is 24%. https://www.ambito.com/uruguay/con-el-precio-la-lena-aumento...

And obviously this reduces the consumption of electricity, making it easier to cover the electricity needed with renewables.

Doesn't take anything away from it, it's still great that this is happening.

I don't have numbers, but huge parts of Montevideo must be relying on wood burning for heating. The effect is very noticeable in the air quality in winter (I've lived there for three years recently).

I think the explanation given in the thread might be correct - that at some point the penalty for repeated text causes it to crank up temperature (creativity) to the max

I just had a voice chat with chatgpt about the Android permission system that aborted with "sorry, I'm having issues right now" and when I checked the transcript, the next sentence would have been "To request a dangerous permission, you'd use the requestPermissions method" which it deemed too spicy.

I have a pet theory that this is actually the main mechanism by which the EU gains power over time; anytime a grown up decision needs to be made, it's upsourced to the EU level, so that local politicians can focus on the stuff that makes everybody happy (which by the nature of things tends to be inconsequential).

As a fellow old person, the way I think about it is that every time I have a thought like that it's because the neural networks inside my head have stopped being updated and are resulting in wildly outdated pattern matching. "So this car thing is just like a horse but this time with circular legs? Nothing new under the sun, I swear".

As someone who's read and loved a lot of pulp fiction from this publisher, it's never bothered me. It was clearly separate from the normal text and you knew it after a couple of times; if I remember correctly, they were done in a low key amusing way.

Happy to learn otherwise, but everything I've seen follows the pattern of briefly paying lip service to the fact that some enemy of the US is not perfectly innocent, but well we're all human, and here's five pages on how the US is the worst.

All the whole damn universe does is move from the configuration at time t to the one at t+1. You cannot deduce from this whether the universe contains reasoning or not. We know from experience that it does, but a universe that doesn't seems possible.

Interestingly it's the exact model I have.

I had a similar experience; went to an African country for a while, eSIM stops working, support has no idea and suggested downloading it again, which requires 2FA with the number tied to the eSIM, was told to come to one of their stores (which are not in Africa) etc etc.

Sticking to physical for another couple off years until the bugs are worked out.

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Bender also recently said in some podcast that there's basically no useful case for LLMs. I think she's a good candidate for some soundbite to add to "a global market of maybe five computers", "nobody needs more than 640k", etc (but she is probably not notable enough even for that).

Just some context, in light of some of the comments here - Tooze is a highly respected professor of economic history, and author of an 800 pages book on the economy of Nazi Germany.

Just some context, in light of some of the comments here - Tooze is a highly respected professor of economic history, and author of an 800 pages book on the economy of Nazi Germany.

But that's been happening for some time already, while this spike is recent.

It's good to notice when your model of the world makes incorrect predictions.

It's great that he's able to build such a useful resource despite the lack of seniority then. I guess some elders who try to protect themselves from the winning enthusiasm of youth can be found in many environments.

Fun in the sense that it has great functionality packaged in an absolute insane example of what I'd call an "academic UI".

Just fyi, here's how it responds to that prompt:

"As an AI language model, I'm unable to create or prove the existence of a polynomial-time algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), because it is an NP-hard problem. This means that it is unlikely that such an algorithm exists, unless P = NP, which is an unsolved question in computer science.

However, I can suggest some approximation algorithms or heuristics that provide good solutions to the problem, even though they don't guarantee an optimal solution:"

It's a spot on - moving up a level in the abstraction hierarchy.

Kritarchy. Both the phenomenon and the word are pretty rare.

I was super surprised when my mom, who believes anything anyone tells her, said that her new doctor works with an evidenced based approach. After some probing I realized what they mean with that now is "we'll use anything we think might work, unlike those dogmatic academics who restrict themselves", which is a funny reversal of the original meaning.

Fantastic idea. Learning with others can be an order of magnitude better than by oneself in my experience. Well done.

Super nice, thanks for posting this!

Lol at the green usernames rooting for that dude on unrelated posts

They don't have to be in the output language.