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No need to file fraudulent representations. You just need to send a spreadsheet to the county elections office, apparently - see https://www.propublica.org/article/right-wing-activists-geor.... If six individuals can threaten hundreds of thousands of voter roll cancellations without any consequences, then I don't see the threat of jail as a realistic deterrent.

Nice. Combine this with Georgia’s online portal to cancel a voters registration[1] which only requires a name, dob, county, and last four of ssn and you have disenfranchisement at scale!

[1] https://sos.ga.gov/page/voter-registration-cancellation

Yeah, I figured out that it didn’t work at first because I still had the previous attempt (where it got it wrong) in my conversation history. Starting with a fresh conversation gave me the correct answer. It was still funny to see it “rationalize” the wrong answer tho.

Are there any cases where someone was caught cheating and promptly copped to it? I guess it’s hard to tell if that’s never happened. I’m truly intrigued.

I really wanted to believe this could be simply fixed by more prompt engineering and chain of thought, so I tried it with Claude 3.5 and … well unfortunately still no luck. the reply is amusing - I’ll include it verbatim below.

Of note, this happened because earlier I had asked it without CoT and it incorrectly stated two “r”s. Once I started a new conversation (so fresh context window), it gave the right answer (3) and no longer claimed the “still the second r” as shown below.

Let's think through this step-by-step:

1. First, let's spell out "strawberry" letter by letter: s-t-r-a-w-b-e-r-r-y

2. Now, let's count the "r"s as we go through each letter: s (0) t (0) r (1) - First "r" found a (1) w (1) b (1) e (1) r (2) - Second "r" found r (2) - This is still the second "r" y (2)

3. After going through all the letters, we've counted 2 "r"s.

Therefore, the word "strawberry" contains 2 "r"s.

Right, but wouldn't you be better off by admitting it, then making amends to address it? At least you will be seen as having some shred of integrity. You're banned from the sport for a period of time regardless. IMO continuing to deny the obvious is way worse than addressing it head on and moving forward.

What’s incredible to me is the continued cries of innocence from the cyclists that have been flagged by these detection mechanisms. Just like Armstrong after he was accused of doping.

It takes a special kind of person to continue to proclaim their innocence so fervently even when presented with irrefutable proof that they’ve cheated.

I would be curious to hear what information it (ChatGPT) provided that changed his mind?

Failed buried transmission wires caused the famous five week blackout of Auckland NZ in 1998 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Auckland_power_crisis

Not a tunnel, an invisible fence line.

I always thought of title insurance as a complete farce. However, I did end up with a scenario where title insurance paid out (to me) to the tune of several thousand dollars when I was sued by a neighbor.

The neighbor accused me of infringing on her property. I, in turn, proved (enough to the title insurance company, anyway) that the neighbor had also infringed on my property, and had done so in an invisible way (underground) since before I purchased the property. Since that infringement was not disclosed to me when I closed on the property, the title insurance company agreed to compensate me for that infringement to save the expenses of litigation.

At the end of the day, I ended up net positive to my own pocket as a result of their litigation. Unfortunately, a lot of lawyers made a lot of money in the process and everything (insurance, etc) ends up being more expensive as a result of crap like this.

This is, unfortunately, how our (US) justice system works.

The entire concept of an "NDA" has been bastardized in this manner, if you think about it. Conceptually you may think of an NDA as protecting sensitive data from disclosure, a sort of intellectual property right. However, it's been co-opted by folks to do nothing more than cover up inconvenient truths because they realize most people cannot afford to either (a) give up money they are promised in the future or (b) bankrupt themselves in their own defense.

So it's basically a game where whomever has the most money can ensure their narrative wins out in the end, because competing narratives can simply be "bought out".

I'm not sure what you're arguing here? If someone is accused of committing three crimes, but only one is "serious", then the person should only be prosecuted on the one, but not the other two?

What is your view of the events that transpired?

Which word do you take objection to? Considering he begins each rally with the January 6 "patriot" anthem, I stand by the "his" word. He clearly aligns with the folks who he considers "political prisoners" (his words not mine).

As far as "coup" - I'd say summoning thousands of folks to the Capitol, then not calling for dispersal once they have physically breached the perimeter of the building where the Congress and Vice President are assembled to certify the election results (where he lost), plus (arguably, more importantly) engaging in a campaign to establish networks of alternative electors in key swing states that do not match the popular votes in those states, then I'd say "coup" (granted, with a "attempted" modifier would be more accurate) would be a reasonable word to use for the events that transpired.

It may be an old school soundboard run by a human on the other side of the world- scammers have been using those for years

My guess is the $$$$ cost?

Right, and those folks you mention are working remote so there is no commute for them. On the other hand, the rent continues to increase for lower income workers who must continue to commute to work.

It’s more about protecting your network against a potentially malicious device rather than protecting the device from attackers on the Internet. From that position, placing the isp device on a “DMZ” aka outside your own router/firewall, makes perfect sense.

I still remember being in awe of his paper on strange attractors - plotting the random number generators from various oses and languages in 3D space to discern patterns. That blew my mind at the time.

Edit: ah here it is. It was initial tcp sequence number generators: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/oldtcp/tcpseq.html

how did the thieves get the phone number of the author, then? is it on the lock screen when the phone is wiped, in order to facilitate its return?

You're assuming DOCSIS. I'm on FTTP, where the demarcation point is a cat5 cable to my equipment. Granted, there could be chicanery on the optical terminal, but that still doesn't provide my ISP visibility into my internal network.

I have a feeling the OP ... has the skills to manage his router :)

but point well taken in general.

the difference is that you could move... I don't blame you for staying put- I would do the same in your situation!

I use this phrase a lot of times: "money buys options" (not the securities kind)

How does that support a janitor? or a school teacher? or a policeman? or a retail clerk... I can go on and on... there are too many jobs where there is no possibility for "remote work" yet may not pay well enough for you to live close to the office/place of employment

also, yet another reason I don't trust (and don't use) any ISP provided equipment. Remote administration from my ISP? No thank you.

I wonder if this is due to a fundamental shift in who commutes to work?

High paid, "white collar" work is shifting to a remote/hybrid structure, or are paid enough that they can move to reduce commute. However, lower paid, service-oriented jobs require physical presence in the workplace. The increasing affordability gap for housing means these people have to live further and further away from their workplace.

I am by no means a data scientist, but if, as a large language model, ChatGPT was trained to optimize the same "quality" metrics that are used to evaluate the models trained on these random web scrapes, and now ChatGPT output has a larger proportion of the random web scrapes, wouldn't the measured "quality" increase as a result? It all seems intertwined.

In other words are we just overfitting?

It's important to note that the tests that they use appear to be open source, for example https://huggingface.co/datasets/lighteval/mmlu.

Again, I could be totally ignorant on how these things work. (edited to add key words associated with ChatGPT output in order to increase the quality of my comment :))

this is an interesting thought, but how workable is this? basically these companies are so powerful and US politics are so broken that I don't see any effective regulation getting passed any time soon

Reading the section on [synthetic data](https://huggingfacefw-blogpost-fineweb-v1.static.hf.space/di...) was eye-opening for me. The hockey-stick growth of words associated with common ChatGPT output in the common crawl database over the past ~18 months is worrying.