Reminds me of Solresol, except being a 5-tree makes it so it could fit a pentatonic scale, which is fun.
I've actually noticed this in a hobby project, where I have some agents running around a little MOO-like text world and talking to each other. With DeepSeek-R1, just because it's fun to watch them "think" like little characters, I noticed I see this sort of thing a lot (maybe 1-in-5-ish, though there's a LOT of other scaffolding and stuff going on around it which could also be causing weird problems):
<think>
Alright I need to do this very specific thing "A" which I can see in my memories I've been trying to do for a while instead of thing B. I will do thing A, by giving the command "THING A".
</think>
THING B
This is a good point! Typically I start from a clean commit in a fresh chat, to avoid this problem from happening too easily, proceeding through the project in the smallest steps I can get Claude to make. That's what makes the situation feel so strange; it feels just like this problem, but it happens instantly, in Claude's first responses.
I happened to be discussing this in the Discord today. I have a little hobby project that was suddenly making fast progress with 3.7 for the first few days, which was very exciting, but then a few days ago it felt like something changed again and suddenly even the old models are stuck in this weird pattern of like... failing to address the bug, and instead hyper-fixating on adding a bunch of surrounding extra code to handle special cases, or sometimes even simply rewriting the old code and claiming it fixes the bug, and the project is suddenly at a complet...
I do think it's helpful that managers now have a reliable way to summarize large amounts of comments, instead of making some poor intern with Excel try and figure out "sentiment analysis" to "read" thousands of comments without having to pay for a proper data scientist, and I wonder if that's already had some effects in the world.
Ah, what a fun idea! I wonder if coloring or marking the ropes and/or edges somehow would make it easier to assemble ad hoc- I think Veritaseum's video about non-periodic tilings included some sort of little markers on the edges that helped him orient new tiles, but that was on Penrose tiles and I'm not sure this shape has the same option.
This is absolutely a selfish request, so bear that in mind, but could you include screenshots and/or quotes of all X.com posts, and link to what the post links to when applicable? I have it blocked.
I thought these were pretty... let's say "exciting"... reads, but I'd be interested to hear more people's opinion of this as a trustworthy source.
Thank you.
It seems like if there is any non-determinism at all, there's always going to be an unavoidable potential for naughty thoughts, so whatever you call the "AI" must address them as part of its function anyway- either that or there is a deterministic solution?
You can read the fanfiction this is for at: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14412246/1/Miss-Macross-My-Life-as-The-Star - I'll get around to cross-posting it someday.
All of their work is great, but for my favorite I highly recommend 'Ra', for similar reasons of feeling what it's like to interrogate your own thoughts, senses, and reality itself.
Also this fun little story (Valuable Humans in Transit) about an AI: https://qntm.org/transi
I didn't know what to expect, and this was an interesting read. What was the context for when and where it was delivered? EDIT: nm just saw the Fiction tag. Still interested in context though; I do not know who James Windrow is, except for what I can speculate on from this story.
In Anthropic's support page for "I want to opt out of my prompts and results being used for training" they say:
...We will not use your Inputs or Outputs to train our models, unless: (1) your conversations are flagged for Trust & Safety review (in which case we may use or analyze them to improve our ability to detect and enforce our Usage Policy, including training models for use by our Trust and Safety team, consistent with Anthropic’s safety mission), or (2) you’ve explicitly reported the materials to us (for example via our feedback mechanisms), or (3
I see people upvoting this, and I think I can see some good insights in this post, but MAN are glowfics obnoxious to read, and this feels really hard to read in a very similar way. I'm sad it is not easier to read.
Something that may help build a better model/intuition is this video from Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGAhWgkKlHI
I mentally visualize the cold air as a liquid when I open the door, or maybe picturing it looking similar to the fog from dry ice.
Since it's cold, it falls downward, "pouring" out onto the floor, and probably does not take more than a few seconds, though I would love to see someone capture it on video with a thermal camera.
After that, I figure it doesn't really matter how long the door is open, until you start talking...
I don't think it would be TOO long, I happily read through very long posts on here.
However, that said, I was curious enough to read that blog post, and that's about the length and level of detail I expect in a normal short-to-medium size LW post, but it also stopped short of where I wanted it to. I hope that helps calibrate a little? I don't know how "typical" I am as an example LW reader though.
Oh, and because I know it annoys me when people get distracted away from the main question by this sort of stuff, question is "Can you share the experimental resul...
I've been doing similar things with my day-to-day work like making stuff in CSS/Bootstrap or Excel, and my hobbies like mucking about in Twine or VCV Rack, and have noticed:
However, if you treat it almost like a student, and inform it of the errors/conseq...
I've been doing this for years! When I worked in an office, I had a set of metal chopsticks I was able to leave on my desk — metal was easier to clean.
RE:Footnote #4:
I'll come back to this at some point. Specifically, I'd like clicking that link either to take me to the correct note if it already exists, or CREATE the note if it doesn't exist, while triggering the Templater action that generates all the nice dynamic content on the Daily Note.
I found today, after following this tutorial (which is great, btw, with some tweaks for personal preference this thoroughly fixes everything I felt missing from Obsidian), that putting the template in both the "Daily Notes" template AND as a "Folder Template" mad...
courage to reject an all powerful authority on moral grounds
This was the most interesting part of the whole story to me, and it's an angle I haven't quite seen in this type of story before. However, I think it was in competition with the personalities of Elohim and Shaitan. They felt too petty and talking-past-each-other to make sense as people from an enlightened race. Maybe if their "conflict" was also a pre-planned part of their strategy, instead of a squabble?
The cultural and literary references didn't bother me, but they did mean that by the end of...
Oh, and whenever you are able, run things through www.hemingwayapp.com and optimize for shortest length and lowest grade level without losing information.
"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
I ended up as part of a team managing the internal communication & knowledge platform for a company that was at the time (early 2020) about ~100,000 employees, now ~146,000. My area of responsibility now includes over 20,000 employees, but I do not directly oversee anyone. I did not have education or much experience particular to this domain, but somehow became a preferred pick for the role, so make of that what you will.
The strategy I've always tried to employ is to treat everyone as intelligent equals, and making as much effort as possible to underst...
I think an important aspect to mention explicitly is that it's paired with the phrase "a map that reflects the territory". It's important not because Harold Fiske or the Mississippi River are important to rationality, but because this image exemplifies the idea of that a map is meant to help you understand and reason about something that is not the map.
I agree. Their 'candidate explanations' felt unsatisfying when I got to them, because they spend so much time building up what a good explanation would necessarily feel like. Maybe that was the goal, but if it was, they didn't make it explicit.
Watched this last night. Kurzgesagt is one of the greatest achievements YouTube has enabled, in my opinion.
As a LessWrong reader I had heard a lot of these ideas before, but part that surprised me was Scenario 1: Even if we "only" thrive about as long as other Earth mammals, the 200,000 years modern humans have been around is still only about 1/5th of the way through our story.
I'm doing this as a comment, not an answer, because it's only slightly related to the specific question, but Matt Parker did some videos about similar "impossible" events and/or probability claims, and he includes discussions on why we tend to make errors like that, as humans.
How lucky is TOO lucky? — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ko3TdPy0TU
How did the 'impossible' Perfect Bridge Deal happen? — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9-b-QJZdVA
I suppose the hope is that then there will be a third tier: "How to move your couch the right way, and why everyone thinks you need avocados for it."
The above comment just helped me realise that the connotation above is why I like the word "credence". Does "credence" have similar problems in other cultures though?
Can you elaborate more on whether there have been noticeable results in either A) taking successful actions based on the most recent predictions or B) improving the forecasting skills of the players? And if so- how were these things measured? How would you prefer to measure them?
Opening in the center, away from you, for sure. Whether symmetric or asymmetric.
In your scenario of carrying in cargo (whether groceries or, say, a sleeping child), having both swing away is a clear advantage.
I think that does make the door significantly less secure against forced entry, but it there's already a secure outer door that's maybe less important?
I've been using Roam for about four weeks (found via the Zettelkasten Method article linked in an earlier comment). I wholeheartedly agree with every claim above- Roam lets me freely write down things I want to remember, in a way that I can trust future-me will actually be able to use.
I track commitments using the /TODO feature, and have found that it doesn't even matter when and where I write it (it doesn't even have to be on the page for the relevant project), because all you have to do is browse to the page "TODO" to see all your to-do items.
When you ch
...Yes- maybe they're just very uncommon, but I've never been on a bike that I could gear down low enough that it felt easier to pedal than to take a step, on a moderate hill.
Are there any other Vegas locals that might be interested?
I am actually starting to see this; Droput.tv is one example https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/11/19/dropout-tv-review/
But, they still advertise on existing platforms like YouTube, Twitter, etc.
I don't know how that affects this model.
Wouldn't carrying this analogy to its conclusion mean that you would have to generalize it for a human mind which doesn't already have a bunch of prior understanding of the world? Instead of a universal turing machine, you're using "a universal turing machine that has been taught about witches", which feels like it should be called out as part of the experimental methodology.
So really you would imagine describing the hypothesis and all of the information required to understand the hypotheses to a human that doesn't already kno...
To be more specific, after rereading the article and thinking for a few minutes, the skill seems to be in correctly deciding whether to accept "everything is a little slow and painful!" as a single big symptom (Mountain), or seeing it as an excuse to not examine and uncover the many small symptoms contributing to that feeling (Cloud). Probably a good place for some heuristics on what bad diagnoses look like.
The difference between Mountains and Clouds seems to be the most critical. They're both described as "problems with many small causes", and now I know they need different strategies, but I don't feel well equipped to notice differences, if any.
This post helped me notice a difference I've felt between satisfying and unsatisfying explanations; why Feynman explaining something feels different from Wikipedia explaining something. I love it.
There was one famous chicken that was beheaded (during a routine slaughter) just high enough to keep the brain stem intact. A clot coincidentally prevented death from blood loss, and it lived for two years as a touring attraction, before finally dying by choking. It spent most of its time attempting to preen and peck.
I am down to clown.
"Childish" is the word I also keep coming back to, but hesitate to use, for fear of insulting children by comparing them to people like Sam Altman and Elon Musk.