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throwawaytemp29··on My AI agent caught most of our sites saying sent while no email left the server
Wery sloppy
throwawaytemp29··on St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core
Um what?
throwawaytemp29··on Advertise in ChatGPT
It’s called GEO (generative engine optimization)
throwawaytemp29··on Inductive or deductive? Rethinking the fundamental reasoning abilities of LLMs
That is certainly true, for some definition of 80%.
throwawaytemp29··on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Three whole countries. You left out one. Everyone makes mistakes. :)
throwawaytemp29··on Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?
Me too. I had a 26 hour schedule for like a month once. It seems fine til it isn’t.
throwawaytemp29··on Eddiots
I don’t think the Italian one means what you think it means.
throwawaytemp29··on Experimenting with olivine crystals in the ocean to increase CO2 absorption
Given US has around 4% of the worlds population, this is not possible.
throwawaytemp29··on Rate The Landlord: Anonymously share information with tenants like you
Capitalism = exploitation? That seems like the point they are trying to make. And it’s mostly not wrong, although we haven’t found a better way. Perhaps more accurately, human behavior = economic behavior = exploitation, regardless of the economic system.

Expanding it out, I doubt it’s specific to humans, more like a property of known life forms.

throwawaytemp29··on We aren't close to creating a rapidly self-improving AI
So his argument is that the AI needs humans (to create data) to rapidly improve. So then it becomes: step 1: ai enslaves humanity step 2: ai forces humanity to create lots of data for it step 3: profit?
throwawaytemp29··on Incognito ChatGPT with no account required
Didn’t work for me, gave me the error: Unexpected error. Try again later.

Which, um, I won’t.

throwawaytemp29··on 19 random digits is not enough to uniquely identify all human beings
Eleanor and Fake Elaneanor would disagree, although that was time of death.
throwawaytemp29··on New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong
I always believed that nurse practitioners would be just about as good at primary care as a doctor. But fuck me my nurse practitioner is useless. Like tons of British Columbia residents I don’t have a family doctor, so thought this would work. But they are afraid to do anything. At least a doctor will be confidently wrong like chat gpt.
throwawaytemp29··on Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?
You can run into issues with long running threads. It only has so much context (I think around 4K words). It doesn’t have all the context of all the thread. My understanding is that it is summarizing the thread and resubmitting it as part of the prompt each time.

It took me a while to figure out why it kept forgetting things from earlier in the thread.

I’m looking forward to when you can have a bigger context or explicitly set some sort of context that is persistent.

throwawaytemp29··on Venus is volcanically alive, new find shows
And if they murder us, and intentionally forget us out of spite?

Like if they have a society, maybe their founding myths will involve a baby robot created by some (non-human) robot deity, or if they are more rational a pseudo-scientific story of evolution from a toaster.

throwawaytemp29··on A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept (2012)
Isn’t the integral of the blue curve higher though? Like if I want to maximize total utility over the displayed time the blue would be higher.

Also time has value, getting something earlier is generally better due to compound interest. Even some vague utility function like fun can display such a property of being better earlier, due to being able to remember the memory for longer.

throwawaytemp29··on Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
Phew
throwawaytemp29··on Mars Now
Lol - let’s have a Mars colony without digging.
throwawaytemp29··on Tell HN: If you have trouble focusing on projects/meetings, see a psychatrist
100% this. I have been struggling with this for the last 5 years and only after my son was diagnosed with ADHD did I realize that I have it as well. Just having an explanation for the challenges makes life easier and I don’t have to beat myself up about it so much.
throwawaytemp29··on Programmimg Pearls (1985)
Y10K bug! Only 4 digit dates.