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YES! YES! YES! AHAHAH YES!

Research suggests that aerobic fitness largely compensates for the negative health effects of being overweight. https://www.physiologicallyspeaking.com/p/physiology-friday-...

e.g. being aerobically trained and overweight may be more or less equivalent to being at a healthy weight but not training. obviously the best case scenario is to be at a healthy weight and trained. additionally, aerobic training is much more achievable and sustainable for most people long term than weight loss.

How could that make sense? The emergent capabilities of the models are obviously critical to the evolution of that whole system.

I thought private equity was all about liquidating nearly bankrupt businesses

Don't "real" consequences apply for setting weights? There's an actual monetary cost to train these models, and they have to actually perform to keep getting trained. Sure it's VC spend right now and not like, biological reproduction driving the incentives ultimately, but it's not outside the same structure.

It's not an assumption, it's an extremely developed international field of tactical and strategic study that leads to these conclusions

I love location sharing with friends. "Find my Jerry", "Find my Anna" we call it in our friend group. It simplifies logistics, gives us a narrow but fun little window into each others' worlds.

"Is __ on the top of the mountain or waiting in the lift line?" I want my friends to find me, and my friends want to be found by me. It's nice!

You want to always use mineral zinc and to learn for your own body and the sun conditions of your environment whether and how often you need to reapply. You're not going to be doing that math based on SPF anyways.

It's a common failure mode and most other OTCs won't kill you if you occasionally accidentally take an extra dose or two. Agreed that it's safe at the correct dose but the hazards are severe and dosing incorrectly is inevitable at population scale.

Arguably there are some evolutionary advantages to the presence of elders in social species with cultural transmission but your point stands

Seidenberg's work is really interesting but he's definitely not arguing that sweat lodges are a part of historical Jewish practice. He's doing a compare/contrast.

caught in the wild, the moving goalposts of the Turing test

Hahaha I love that idea. An LLM enters the Obsidian vault and responds to a prompt by following an arcane and elaborate sequence of calculations. Does it really understand?

I'm also not an expert here, but looking through the figures [1], that one HR result for Asperger's in a figure 4 is...surprising to see, given the headlines.

This is far from strong evidence of an effect, but you're absolutely right that this at least deserves discussion in the paper and coverage.

1. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/suppl/10.7326/ANNALS-25-0099...

Nope! Rabbi Akiva, who, as the story goes, was an illiterate shepherd until he started studying in his 40s, and went on to become one of the most renowned scholars of his era. This is why some Jewish tradition teaches that for mystical study, one should wait until the age of 40

I think this mostly has been debunked in the last 15 years, except in the unscientific health influencer space

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39017376/

Also, at temperature 0 LLMs can behave deterministically! Indeterminism isn't necessarily quite the right word for the kind of abstraction LLMs provide

Determinism isn't always ideal. Determinism may trade off with things like accuracy, performance, etc. There are situations where the tradeoff is well worth it.

I imagine there are some boundary constraints - mobile video can only be so compelling. I would guess we're already pretty close to that threshold.

It's a different chemical cocktail, but more importantly consenting to it makes a bit of a difference in terms of how it registers morally.

There is no shortage of cranks generating novel cosmological theories, but this writer doesn't seem to be one of them. He's interested in predictive power!

I think it's fascinating and enjoy this theory a lot, but the epistemics strike me a little funny. The mechanism itself can't be tested. If this mechanism exists, these observations would tend to be expected from a random sample of possible universes. There's absolutely no way to evaluate how "representative" our n=1 observation is.

I'm not yet convinced this kind of approach is valid, although I'm almost certain there's nothing better at a certain scale. empiricism is useless if you need a galaxy-scale particle accelerator.

SQL lol

Can't recommend dbt highly enough to get over the SQL boilerplate problem. After using dbt for a few years it's unimaginable to work without it.

Ah, yes, the ol "it was just one tab, but it's very strong/pure."

Indeed this kind of utilitarian suffering quantization leads to some weird, some would say "repugnant" conclusions

And the non-primates! Also living lives full of suffering and joy.

This sent deepseek into a real tizzy. It ended with

The "car" is actually a person named Carol or Carl (likely the father), who is a surgeon. The ER doctor is saying, "I can't operate on Carol/Carl, he's my surgeon!" This means that the person brought to the hospital after the accident is the surgeon of the ER doctor, hence the doctor cannot operate on their own surgeon.

Not bad actually

That's not right, the great filter comes after the development of intelligence

I felt similar reading that book. She seems very clear that she wants to develop paradigmatic physics, and wants Assembly Theory to be paradigmatic, but there's not a lot of meat on the bone.

If it seems interesting to you or you're experimenting with keyboard-driven tiling WMs, though, I would highly recommend this particular fling.