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Yes, it indeed is! Thank you!

I looked it up on Google (which is usually very, very good at these types of things) but couldn't find it.

I remember reading a short story about a billionaire hiring a scientist to help him build a simulated world where virtual entities are given the ability to open the bodies of their peers to tinker/upgrade them as a replacement of natural evolution since they were immortal.

This looks very similar to that in a way.

I wonder however if a model can give itself a "skill" or capability that it didn't initially have, just be modifying its own weights.

Here, Astra was able to intervene because the treated model was way less capable. But, would it be able to improve Fable's performance for example, since they both are on the level more or less?

I love this episode so much. Very informative and the slowly paced conversation is calming, with no ads or sudden outbursts to break the rythem.

Actually, I have this very episode downloaded on my phone and whenever sleep eludes me, I play it. I never lasted more than 30 minutes. I must've listened to it hundreds of time by now.

Not true. Even for a lower middle income country like mine, cars with manual gearboxes had become very rare (with the exception of cabs where they remain the norm).

This is very interesting. As someone who thinks AI is an amazing tool, I am very well interested in seeing how will people refusing to use AI fare both in professional settings and day-to-day life.

A new Amish-like lifestyle may be developing before our eyes in real-time and that's very interesting to follow and observe (from a distance).

Sad that the only song by Metallica that made it in is I disappear :/

Yeah, some of the song are duplicated like in the good olden days!

Or at least match the pre-llm human usage frequency.

A total, artificial lack of em dashes can in itself be perceived as another sign of AI writing.

That's way too much metaphors to keep track of, to the point where it turns into a hindrance to comprehension rather than a facilitator.

I know this is a bit offtopic, but shouldn't the title say "the President of the United States," since 1) Churchill is UK's Prime Minister, and Roosevelt is not his President and 2) the publication on which this article appears is from the UK?

Are these configs read-only on the phone or is it possible to manipulate them using the data here to de/activate any service?

I’ve been thinking of building a personalized game full of inside jokes as a birthday gift for a friend who moved to the other side of the planet.

This looks like it might be very useful indeed!

As a right-handed person, I find this deeply offensive and request all left-handed life be destroyed at once!!

That said, would it be possible to make "right-handed" food that is safe to eat, satisfies the psychological urge to consume food in every sensory measure, but still contributes 0 calories?

> who uses he/him pronouns to describe ColonistOne

The next social schism will be a fun one to watch.

Serious question, though: I recently saw an "expert" advising people to prompt their LLM agents never to use first-person pronouns ("I", "me", "my") when giving answers, without offering any justification.

Is there any *real* and *pragmatic* reason for this recommendation?

Don't listen to the naysayers, please. This is both impressive _and_ useful.

As someone with limited time (the only one with such an issue in this comment section, it seems), I really appreciate having a quick video to get the gist of a link in under two minutes. It helps me decide whether it's worth diving deeper.

Currently, I rely on two main signals when choosing what to read: 1) direct interest in the topic, and 2) upvote/comment counts if the topic is new to me.

The downside is obvious: I risk missing out on hidden gems that I’d love, but that lack those initial signals.

Having summary videos lowers the cost of exploration (at least on my side) and gives me an easy way to broaden my horizon.

I forgot which was it, ChatGPT or Gemini, but one of them insisted on calling Trump "former president" even when discussing decisions he just announced as president. Lol

I built a toy news-summarizing agent with Gemma 4, and it was so frustrating, actually, because of the cut-off date.

The model wasted over half the token budget, each time, on internal debates over the current date.

When generating a World Cup summary, for example, it refused to believe qualification rounds were over and refused to even call the web searching tool to collect the data.

I injected the current datetime at the very beginning of the system prompt, but Gemma refused to believe it!

The m-effer insisted the timestamp was fake and hypothesized it was being evaluated in a synthetic lab test with simulated future dates!

No amount of system prompting could convince it to trust the clock.

That was the most frustrating and bizarre "bug" I ever faced!

Are you saying that a single data point contains the same amount of information as a dataset of hundreds if not thousands of entries from across the economy?

Any price comparison over time should include inflation.

Otherwise this is akin to comparing speed of 2 objects in a relativistic setting without stating the frame of reference.

Side note: I don't know why, but the existence of a "cite this" section on this page made me sad.

"Did you know that there _is_ actually a reason behind the blank space at the bottom of every business card? To get the full picture, we need to go back way before the smartphone age, when a bizarre device, known as the rolodex, ruled office desks" — some blogger in a parallel universe, probably.

As someone who lived under an authoritarian regime for more than 2 decades: that's not even close to be true.

Even discussing a taboo topic may cost someone their freedom, if not their life.

Dua Lipa opens, in Portugal, a library for books that are banned and censored (elsewhere).

I always wondered what the model meant when it writes "I'm now considering the architecture of the service" but outputs nothing of the sorts in its CoT.

Is the model really "thinking" about that stuff or is just mimicking human "manners"? And if so, where the thinking is happening if it is not in the literal chain of *thought*?

I'm not sure J-Space is the answer to that question, but very interesting nevertheless.

The issue is not the amount; it's the currency. Ours is not convertible.

To put it into perspective: even *free* services can be completely inaccessible here if they require payment info for verification purposes.

Acquiring hard currency to spend online is truly a bureaucratic nightmare, and even if you manage it, the annual limit is strictly capped (at around $300).

Thanks, but I don't use e-readers as they are not available here.

I've been using MoonReader for many years now and settled on pretty good parameters that make the reading experience very comfortable on both my phone and my tablet.

I live in a country where the selection of available books, especially in English, is very limited. Buying online from foreign markets comes with a long list of administrative hurdles and limits.

If it were not for Anna's Archive and Z-Library, I would've never been able to read the books that shaped who I am today, or keep my passion for learning alive.

Thanks, AA and ZLib! (Also, thank you to the authors whose books and knowledge I consumed without being able to pay them back.)

Thanks for the recommendation. I'm trying to get myself to watch more movies and this looks like the perfect one for a cosy weekend.

And yes, science it seems is advancing faster than we might be aware of.

Manufacturing requires micromanaging every aspect of the process, requiring special machinery, trained workforce (human or not), inventory management.

Reproduction, once we master its blueprint of course, is much less demanding: just provide the ingredients at approximate proportions and the chemistry will work its magic to provide a similar enough unit to achieve the required task.

You stumble upon a news article from 2226. You read it to see who, between Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, won the AI race.

Instead, your learn about Biotic.

It's now the leading polity in the solar system and its environs. It bought Alphabet, OpenAI and Anthropic in a single day back in 2084.

Humans are no longer desired. Their reproduction is capped to an optimal minimum assuring the survival of the species as a relic.

For productive matters, Biotec preferes to rely on its biomachines. Imagine drones giving birth to offspring when traffic is at a peak. It takes more energy, sure. But no factory, nor workers are needed.

If left alone, machines would multiply out of control, instead of rotting to waste like in the olden days.