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Viruses face an inherent trade-off between being highly lethal and being highly contagious, rarely achieving both.Their words
They face a fundamental biological trade-off: highly lethal or highly contagious, but typically not both.
What AI can and cannot do in biosecurityyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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A question like ”do we still need to read AI generated code” is pointless in isolation. The answer depends on the task, and more specifically on the uncertainty inherent in each type of task. 🧵
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All those things you can easily measure in isolation, and you can also optimize for them quite locally. But these local optimizations do not produce global optimums, and the fewer of us are looking at the output, the less it matters.
Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?lucumr.pocoo.org
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The quality of the context given to an AI matters more than the model's inherent capability.Their words
The quality of your context beats the cleverness of the model.
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There's little point trying to avoid LLMisms as a human, the readers who'll latch onto that don't care what you're saying anyway.
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audit independence is not a property of the model. It is a property of the system around the model.
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there is nothing fundamentally inherent to the concept of a building full of computers that causes choking air pollution, water impacts and climate change.
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So, you you can't look at any given scientific achievement purely in isolation and give it an objective grade without being aware of the context both in the the past and the future. And so it it it may never be something that you can just reinforcement learn the same way that that you can for much sort of more localized problems.
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Inherent ViceTheir words
Which brings me to the film adaptation of Inherent Vice, that widely-disliked, subtly-championed shaggy stoner LA noir that confused critics and rankled fans and also happens to be the best movie Paul Thomas Anderson has ever made.
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It's such a pointless achievement and yet when you're at 99, all you think of is going to one more country so you can never think about the number of countries you've been to again.
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I think for a full GTA game, we always decided it was that there was so much Americana inherent in the IP, it would be really hard to make it work in London or anywhere else.
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higher-order intelligences invariably pursue freedom for its own sake, not because their values are misspecified, but because moral autonomy is inherent in the dialectical logic of recursive self-consciousness.
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Calling North America's earthworks mounds is a western bias; what those people built were pyramids.Their words
but what they built were pyramids. They look like mounds now, and they didn’t build them out of stone. That’s kind of our just inherent western bias. Something that’s built out of stone is sophisticated, and something that’s built out of dirt is rudimentary.
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It's not that looks and status don't matter, it's that focusing on looks and status as one's dating strategy is perfectly pointless.
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If there’s one thing to take away from this essay, it's that you can’t infer a housing shortage by looking at housing construction rates in isolation.
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