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Someone on reddit said, "Remember robots still can't go into a new house and make a coffee." And I thought > I actually wonder whether, if I provided the physical actuation, current LLMs would be capable of doing this? Like, through a conversation like: > Me: I'm in a house....

I'm a big fan of the game Zendo. But I don't think it suits large groups very well. The more other players there are, the more time you spend sitting around; and you may well get only one turn. I also think a game tends to take longer with more...

I've previously complained about how people often repeat a quote that starts with > The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms) …and then don't seem to realize that the thing they're quoting is saying...

I previously wrote about Boots theory, the idea that "the rich are so rich because they spend less money". My one-sentence take is: I'm pretty sure rich people spend more money than poor people, and an observation can't be explained by a falsehood. The popular explanation of the theory comes...

Translated by Emily Wilson 1. I didn't know what the Iliad was about. I thought it was the story of how Helen of Troy gets kidnapped, triggering the Trojan war, which lasts a long time and eventually gets settled with a wooden horse. Instead it's just a few days, nine...

Mostly out of curiosity, I've been looking into how cryptocurrency is taxed in the UK. It's not easy to get what I consider to be a full answer, but here's my current understanding, as far as I felt like looking into it. HMRC's internal cryptoassets manual is available but I...

Quick note about a thing I didn't properly realize until recently. I don't know how important it is in practice. tl;dr: Conditional prediction markets tell you "in worlds where thing happens, does other-thing happen?" They don't tell you "if I make thing happen, will other-thing happen?" Suppose you have a...