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You are wrong. The confusion arises because Coxon said “within the decade” with no associated probability and Hubinger said “within the next decade” at 10%.
It would be glorious if there was a split version!
Re:There Is No Comfortable Reading Position on Monday January 19, 2026 @02:56PM (#46683686)
I put a 5 dollar phone-holder-ring on the back of my kindle, problem solved.
Re:Autism's Confusing Cousins on Saturday December 06, 2025 @05:44PM (#46177269)
In a maximally earnest way — to what degree should we be sure these language harms are real on net? Are there data as opposed to anecdata? (Of course many phenomena are real without data; we can just be more confident in cases with data)
Re:Weighting an average to minimize variance on Sunday November 16, 2025 @01:03AM (#45943115)
This is also a nice way to combine the ratings of a number of noisy annotators with variable annotations noise.
Re:Meta Superintelligence's surprising first paper on Saturday October 11, 2025 @10:12PM (#45554546)
This is not work by any of the high profile new hires, in case folks are confused.
Re:Why We Think on Saturday September 27, 2025 @05:49PM (#45399636)
Lillian’s blog is extremely good in general & if it’s new to you I suggest checking out the other posts also. I particularly enjoyed the one on human data.
Re:Uv format: Code Formatting Comes to uv (experimentally) on Thursday August 21, 2025 @08:18PM (#44979765)
right, but you definitely shouldn’t be using any other formatter than ruff and this helps with that
Isn’t the answer to the question just classic economies of scale?

You can’t run GPT4 for yourself because the fixed costs are high. But the variable costs are low, so OAI can serve a shit ton.

Or equivalently the smallest available unit of “serving a gpt4” is more gpt4 than one person needs.

I think all the inference optimisation answers are plain wrong for the actual question asked?

Re:200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green on Monday July 28, 2025 @01:13PM (#44712927)
You can dream of better yet! If the spec was required to be open source for the government project, then you could have commercial choices and some less feature rich open source version.
Re:Tom Lehrer has died on Sunday July 27, 2025 @02:01PM (#44703207)
I feel the AI safety community has not made enough of Lehrer’s masterpiece on the topic:

https://youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?si=DYsY5Juco-kJ5eWD

Indeed, it’s like saying a jet plane can fly!
Re:OpenAI claims Gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @05:06PM (#44619404)
It takes Tim Gowers more than hour and a half to go through q4! (Sure, he could go faster without video. But Tim Gowers! An hour and a half!!)
Re:OpenAI claims Gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @01:46PM (#44617621)
It’s interesting that this is a competition elite enough that several posters on a programming website don’t seem to understand what it is.

My very rough napkin math suggests that against the US reference class, imo gold is literally a one in a million talent (very roughly 20 people who make camp could get gold out of very roughly twenty million relevant high schoolers).

Re:OpenAI claims Gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @01:36PM (#44617518)
There wasn’t in the CoT for these problems.
Why is the method called sendOnce? It’s send with a capacity limiter / semaphore right, so what about it is Once?
This is great! I have daydreamed about how to do a more complex algo: instead of character speed and frequency you could do bi-character speed/frequency/error rate and probably improve over keybr further.
Re:The Hollow Men of Hims on Thursday June 26, 2025 @02:54PM (#44390228)
“bad” seems fine?
Re:The Hollow Men of Hims on Thursday June 26, 2025 @12:27AM (#44384175)
This article is quite bad: haughty in tone and confused in content.

If you are interested in learning something about a key part subject matter (compounding loopholes and their impact on drug prices), this article is much better:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-compounding-loophole

How do you purport to know this?
I get motion sick more easily than most, and a Waymo is much much smoother than a typical uber driver. I am happy to pay a fairly large time&momey premium for this.
I saw your comment and counted — in May I took a Waymo thirty times.
Re:Spaced repetition systems have gotten way better on Sunday May 18, 2025 @09:06PM (#44025666)
One could train a language model to predict task difficulty (and other parameters) here, which would be great for the initialisation of new cards
Re:A Research Preview of Codex on Friday May 16, 2025 @07:04PM (#44010580)
with a bad ai it is pointless, with a good ai it is powerful.

codex-1 has been quite good in my experience

Re:A Research Preview of Codex on Friday May 16, 2025 @02:37PM (#44008574)
It is a cost benefit trade off, as with all things. Benefits look pretty good.
Did you get help from ChatGPT ooi? The humour sounds a bit like modern ChatGPT style but it’s uncanny valley.
Re:Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong? on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @08:36PM (#43979475)
I think your threat model is bad — the isolation of accounts offers little and most people have effectively only the security of their email provider anyway.

That said, buying several keys would be a natural and happy path solution for the paranoid. Make sure to get three for each account (same as primary) as either you need a backup or the extra key offers no extra security.

Re:Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong? on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @06:24PM (#43978429)
I know this was sarcasm, but bank card is not appropriate because you should have one hardware key for all services produced by an independent provider.

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