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It’s basically as useless a label as „judeo-christian“. Yeah there are some shared ideas, but putting the person running your neighborhood food bank in the same group as the Westboro Baptist Church, mother Theresa and Netanyahu won’t really help you much when making sense of the world.
September 30, 2025 at 5:54 AM
It’s basically as useless a label as „judeo-christian“. Yeah there are some shared ideas, but putting the person running your neighborhood food bank in the same group as the Westboro Baptist Church, mother Theresa and Netanyahu won’t really help you much when making sense of the world.
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It's a very rough heuristic, but: if you're a government arresting Quakers, you might want to sit down and have a bit of a think.
August 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It's a very rough heuristic, but: if you're a government arresting Quakers, you might want to sit down and have a bit of a think.
They say explicitly in this thread that these numbers have already corrected for that effect.
July 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
They say explicitly in this thread that these numbers have already corrected for that effect.
HDM was not Philip Pullman's first series. He had already published many novels (and one long series) when Northern Lights came out.
That's the way in which your take is factually inaccurate. I also subjectively think it's a terrible take because Subtle Knife and Amber Spyglass are amazing books!
That's the way in which your take is factually inaccurate. I also subjectively think it's a terrible take because Subtle Knife and Amber Spyglass are amazing books!
May 15, 2025 at 6:21 AM
HDM was not Philip Pullman's first series. He had already published many novels (and one long series) when Northern Lights came out.
That's the way in which your take is factually inaccurate. I also subjectively think it's a terrible take because Subtle Knife and Amber Spyglass are amazing books!
That's the way in which your take is factually inaccurate. I also subjectively think it's a terrible take because Subtle Knife and Amber Spyglass are amazing books!
Evolution isn't necessary to make a convincing argument against God.
Alice's reply here should be "Who made God?" Any reply to this can likely be responded to with "Why can't same apply to universe itself?"
With explanatory power of God removed, then you just appeal to lack of evidence.
Alice's reply here should be "Who made God?" Any reply to this can likely be responded to with "Why can't same apply to universe itself?"
With explanatory power of God removed, then you just appeal to lack of evidence.
April 7, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Evolution isn't necessary to make a convincing argument against God.
Alice's reply here should be "Who made God?" Any reply to this can likely be responded to with "Why can't same apply to universe itself?"
With explanatory power of God removed, then you just appeal to lack of evidence.
Alice's reply here should be "Who made God?" Any reply to this can likely be responded to with "Why can't same apply to universe itself?"
With explanatory power of God removed, then you just appeal to lack of evidence.
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Long ago I internalized the standard "don't anthropomorphize" advice. But I've gradually come to believe it's a mistake to internalize too strongly. So much "human" behaviour is obviously rooted in our animal nature!
April 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Long ago I internalized the standard "don't anthropomorphize" advice. But I've gradually come to believe it's a mistake to internalize too strongly. So much "human" behaviour is obviously rooted in our animal nature!
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For those who aren't familiar with the tasks, my 10-year-old can solve them in 5 mins each.
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8/8
April 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
For those who aren't familiar with the tasks, my 10-year-old can solve them in 5 mins each.
8/8
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Finally, I want to note how preposterous the o3-high attempt was. It took 1,024 attempts at each task, writing about 137 pages of text for each attempt, so more than an Encyclopedia Brittanica per task, at a cost of more than $30,000.
That's *something* but doesn't look like intelligence.
7/n
That's *something* but doesn't look like intelligence.
7/n
April 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Finally, I want to note how preposterous the o3-high attempt was. It took 1,024 attempts at each task, writing about 137 pages of text for each attempt, so more than an Encyclopedia Brittanica per task, at a cost of more than $30,000.
That's *something* but doesn't look like intelligence.
7/n
That's *something* but doesn't look like intelligence.
7/n
I'm confused why the first two points in the second paragraph are not covered by the first paragraph?
February 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I'm confused why the first two points in the second paragraph are not covered by the first paragraph?
Wow! I find this very surprising! Even as a human I don't think I have this kind of self-awareness (thinking of next-token-generation as analogue of System 1 and CoT as analogue of System 2). I'd have to self-reflect on some examples before I could answer a new question about my dispositions.
January 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Wow! I find this very surprising! Even as a human I don't think I have this kind of self-awareness (thinking of next-token-generation as analogue of System 1 and CoT as analogue of System 2). I'd have to self-reflect on some examples before I could answer a new question about my dispositions.