You would first need to define intelligence before you can measure it. We’re still nowhere near any kind of agreement on that first step.

I also apparently have high IQ according to online tests and my mind still glazes over conversations even when it’s a topic that I’m supposedly an expert on. I know all the words. If you were then down and I read them, I’ll be able to make perfect sense of them. But a real time conversation? Forget it.

On lead-acid, yeah. It was a fun time for all.

And it allows users to create their own one-off objects that they need rather than a corporation creating an immense surplus of parts the majority of which will never reach consumer hands and will end up in a landfill.

This is key. You can 3D print things to fit your exact needs. Mass produced injection molded plastic is only cheap because of the mass production. Molds are expensive. That means they necessarily have to produce a lot more than people need and market them to people who don’t actually need the item in order to make up for the upfront cost.

Here in Canada, it’s half the cost for rice. I don’t imagine it’s that different in the US (at least, pre-tariffs). Assuming 2500Calories per day, I can get a year’s worth of Calories from rice for about 500CAD while it would cost me 1k CAD for the same on soda (calculated based on $1/2L of Crush cream soda).

No, see, you start with the assumption that everything is zero-sum, then you look at the other guy to see suffering and conclude that you must therefore be winning.

No, this doesn’t work for me. I imagine myself standing in the middle of the road where the camera would be. If I look left and right and see these two cars, it means they’re going in the same direction.

Make them bid for their place on the queue!

If you’re wealthy enough, you can. Otherwise, all your time is going to be spent working (not through producing art) to make ends meet and resting so you can do it all over again the next day.

It’s not a perfect analogy because no one is paid to eat ice cream. People do get paid to produce art, and that allows a lot of people to pursue their passion while still being able to house and feed themselves. Automating art and making it cheaper than humans means they would no longer be able to do that. We’ve automated away jobs that people actually enjoy doing. It’s not banning per se, but it greatly reduces how much time people can spend on it.

It has nothing to do with the meaning. If your training set consists of a bunch of strings consisting of A’s and B’s together and another subset consisting of C’s and D’s together (i.e. [AB]+ and [CD]+ in regex) and the LLM outputs “ABBABBBDA”, then that’s statistically unlikely because D’s don’t appear with A’s and B’s. I have no idea what the meaning of these sequences are, nor do I need to know to see that it’s statistically unlikely.

In the context of language and LLMs, “statistically likely” roughly means that some human somewhere out there is more likely to have written this than the alternatives because that’s where the training data comes from. The LLM doesn’t need to understand the meaning. It just needs to be able to compute probabilities, and the probability of this excerpt should be low because the probability that a human would’ve written this is low.

I don’t think we would’ve had so many lessons on this in school if it didn’t need to be taught.

Have people just completely forgot how search engines work? If you search for two things and get shit results, it means those two things don’t appear together.

A sentence saying she had her ovaries removed and that she is fertile don’t statistically belong together, so you’re not even getting that.

Productivity is how fast I’m moving towards my goal. Its end goal is to reach my goal.

Easy enough to write. But reading and maintaining? That’s the hard part.

I find it amazing how little space corn syrup takes up relative to how much is produced. It’s no wonder we use it in everything.

It’s the only time where it’s relevant to the conversation, no? Why would you bring it up anywhere else?

Milk first makes it possible to get the wrong ratio of cereal to milk because

1. the cereal floats and you have no idea how much you put in there
2. You can underestimate how much volume the cereal takes up and not leave enough room in your bowl

Ah, the age-old unpopularopinions dilemma. Do I upvote because I agree, or upvote because it is unpopular and I disagree?