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I just wish it had samples! I want to hear it

His plan is to move to the constituency and serve seriously as an MP. Whether he does or does not do the whole thing in costume is another question

I just can't see myself ever going to a venue to see an AI artist perform. Would it just involve watching a video?

One of the best educational videos on any topic ever imo. I can't help but watch it again each time. So incredibly well paced and accessible

It's unclear on how this "punishes normal developers" in any shape or form.

There are, of course, no normal Chinese developers

This seems to have been flagged or something, but I enjoyed it, if just for the conversational framing

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$0.50 minimum applies per order (Stripe processing floor). No base fee.

Not sure I can trust their output if this simple thing is fluffed

I would be interested to hear you elaborate on this more. I feel like I almost get what you are saying but am not confident I actually understand.

No representatives from ByteDance were present at the signing, and the company hasn’t acknowledged that a transaction is taking place. No purchase price was mentioned, and there’s no indication that the Chinese government has made changes to laws that would be necessary for a deal to take place.

President Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping gave the deal the go ahead. Vance said the Chinese government put up some resistance before the agreement

I find these two paragraphs particularly interesting

So for me, there are many many successful point therapies, and much much fewer higher level successful therapies where chatgpt or low skill therapists won't really help.

I definitely agree. I think I was very fortunate to find someone who specialised in and only did ERP and had a lot of experience. I hear a lot of stories in support groups of well-meaning therapists making things worse. The closest I came to killing myself was after three sessions of psychodynamic therapy (after getting sick of a lack of progress with CBT). All of that therapy was before I understood that I was suffering from OCD.

I think this is absolutely true. My OCD was minimised greatly by treatment, but I am still prone to returning to certain patterns and have to put in active work to maintain my current state

Exposure and Response Prevention therapy

https://iocdf.org/about-ocd/treatment/erp/

I have OCD (or had?) I did a course of ERP with a very good therapist who I would put as the most important person in my life after my partner and family even though I hope to never need to speak to her again. It was a life changing experience in that my average day-to-day quality of life went from something like a 2/10 to a 9/10. I frequently fantasised about killing myself. At least once a day, from ages 12-32. Though I thankfully never went as far as to make concrete plans.

With that context, I can't see a way in which ERP therapy with an LLM (at least, the consumer system prompts we are used to and often think of) would not backfire and be actively harmful.

There are two reasons, and both relate to the people-pleasing tuning that ChatGPT etc have:

1. ERP is actively uncomfortable, that is the point. But there is a delicate balance to the level of discomfort.

Too comfortable and you make no progress. Too uncomfortable and you can set yourself back enormously. We aren't talking one step forward and two back. I got overly confident two months in and put myself in a worse state than I had been on entering therapy (though not my worst state overall over the 20 years). I haven't seen many people in support groups do very successful self-administration of ERP for this reason. My therapist had to do a lot of non-verbal reading of my reaction to gauge if I was at an appropriate level of discomfort, as it was not something I was able to verbalise myself without a lot of practice and learning - and that learning and practice came from guidance by a human who didn't need me to be able to articulate it already.

2. Reassurance seeking is a compulsion, and it is one of the most common and difficult to stamp out.

I can't see an LLM not providing reassurance when asked for it, and so I can't see anyone using an LLM for therapy as making any progress at all without a level of discipline and awareness they would have had to obtain from in person ERP anyway.

Probably the lower bound on transistor size

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling

There is an article of this kind every year where we all get a chance to be up in arms about the fact that language and culture is ever-shifting and changing and not something static.

I remember when the pilot had Ridley Scott’s name attached to it in some way and I couldn’t help but wonder: What is it with that man and pregnancy in space?

That’s the hope

How would we be able to measure decline?

Can you write off everything popular with the normie zeitgeist?

Even if that is true, the LLMs have still be trained on all of the subreddits

I find it hard to characterise someone with the Twitter handle "endwokeness" as not engaged in a foaming at the mouth culture war of their own

Why not?

I wonder if this could be a side-effect of its existing alignment bias? By avoiding making right-wing statements, it even avoids to make them when giving examples of controversial statements.

“The Cybertruck fails to meet a range of basic European road safety norms that apply to passenger cars (M1),” the letter notes. “As outlined below, these range from the Cybertruck’s inadequate, or non-existent, crumple zones for crash absorption to its sharp edges.”

Nice. A blackmail generator

It is not clear to me how this refutes the article. Can you explain a bit more? Do you have an example of a piece of data that lasts forever by virtue of these facts?

Really enjoyable read. The discovery that kicks it off made intuitive sense to me, but I loved the follow on explorations. Especially the frequency plots of some of the more structured noise functions!

very creative!

While this is kind of interesting, it just looks like it's a long way round to recreate Corpus Linguistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_linguistics

The issue is the opposite. Chinese has a comparitively small phonetic pallette (depending on how you view tones). Chinese written completely phoenetically can easily become incomprehensible.

https://ninchanese.com/blog/2022/05/09/the-lion-eating-poet-...