@superkitty21 @thebestjopper I mean this is how I approach it in a tournament. When my team loses I start cheering for whoever beat them, because the further they get the less bad my team's loss looks.
English
FeepingCreature
5K posts
@thebestjopper Switching teams every time your team loses sounds hilarious. Or having 32 jerseys in your closet ready to whip out at any time. Or only liking a player after they win the Hart/Art Ross and dropping them immediately when they go down in the rankings.
English
I think about this frequently
English
@AiSimonThompson @davidad I don't think consciousness is what you think it is. neither novels nor tweets have computation. I don't think enduring state is necessary for consciousness; in fact, I don't think consciousness even *has* enduring state- it's an illusion created by the nature of qualia.
English
@FeepingCreature @davidad there is no mechanism for them to be conscious; they reset on every iteration. Only the text in their context creates any change... so if you think an LLM is consious then so must a novel be, also this tweet!
English
LLM whisperers often describe a phenomenon known as “truesight” (named after the D&D magical ability to see in total darkness). Here is some proper scientific documentation of this phenomenon.
Of course, it is not magic. It’s a combo of very strong Bayesian inference + cheating.
euan ashley@euanashley
Models performed well without, and a little better with, the images. In one case, our no-image model outperformed ALL of the current models on the chest x-ray benchmark—including the private dataset—ranking at the top of the leaderboard. Without looking at a single image. 🤯🤯
English
@AiSimonThompson @davidad whatever these things are doing, it's not "seeing" as we understand it. but it's probably some form of perception. their vision is incredibly spiky, if they have a rudimentary consciousness it probably feels like blindsight. you don't see pixels, just ideas that come to mind.
English
@davidad I generated simple composites of shapes, every frontier model has problems counting them.
github.com/sgt101/llm-tes…
English
@0xextractvalue @BullMilkDealer @NathanpmYoung okay yes that is hard to tax admittedly. however from the view of the financial system it's already mostly interested in things that generate income anyways, and that's traceable.
English
@FeepingCreature @BullMilkDealer @NathanpmYoung Yeah but the taxers don't know what you are doing with income post tax. That's what you are missing. People will store their wealth post income tax in things that are impractical or impossible to tax.
I'm talking literal corporeal things like a mental ledger of favors.
English
@tenobrus Bout three hours a day, though some of that is background. Mostly gaming and discussion content.
English
@FeepingCreature @PrinceVogel @bzogrammer this seems like a likely answer, but I like the (completely stupid) idea that there was a time in the guys' evolutionary history where it was marginally advantageous to become a soup-like homogenate for a while 😅
English
Can someone explain to the sort of selection gradient that starts an animal down the path to doing this? What does a proto-cocoon look like?
水江未来@MIRAI_MIZUE
Let's take a peek inside the pupa to see what's happening. 蛹の中で何が起こっているのか覗いてみましょう。
English
@InvaderbugGames @PrinceVogel @bzogrammer like, it's impressive in no small part because nobody would create an animal that grows like this *intentionally.*
English
@InvaderbugGames @PrinceVogel @bzogrammer that's a correct understanding! two counterarguments:
first, it doesn't necessarily need to always have done what it currently does. you can sort of mutate *into* a weird line sideways. second, why would God create an animal that grows, then ungrows, then grows again?
English
i just used the phrase ‘just a tad’ for the first time in years and thought to myself, ‘i’ve never known why tad means little, i wonder if it’s related to tadpole’ so i looked it up and it is, in fact, a shortened version of tadpole. i think that’s charming
English
@PrinceVogel @bzogrammer I want to imagine it like an embryo that can swim. you get born, you relocate somewhere more favorable, you grow up. but then evolution layered features onto the embryonic stage that had to be *unbuilt* after.
English
@bzogrammer My question is what does this look like in the proto stage? Some sort of specialized healing function?
English
@furmerly @ginnnnnn05 thesis: blowjob
antithesis: eating her out
synthesis: 69
English
@ginnnnnn05 asking the woman im having sex with if the blowjob is hegelian
English
it's been a year but someone finally found the answer to my tweet
English
@Skade590739 @NathanpmYoung I don't see why tax season would do this.
yeah country borders are a problem. you'd probably want to outlaw ownership of local assets by foreign nationals or at least mandate an in-country proxy for tax purposes. a flat tax at least makes it mathematically easy here.
English
@FeepingCreature @NathanpmYoung So like, every single tax season we just crash the valuation of any company owned by citizens of X country?
Do you not see the long term problem in that you would be catastrophically disadvantaging your own citizens' ability to invest while other nations buy up everything?
English
@ofcoralcaves @WT_Mason @NathanpmYoung "you take all the risk, the government none but share in the rewards" is literally every tax ever raised.
English
@WT_Mason @FeepingCreature @NathanpmYoung Yep. So, why bother investing? Your money has already been taxed at least once. Investment would collapse.
Why would I take all the risk & the Govt take none but share in the rewards?
Ridiculous idea.
English
@MF_Techs @pelvis_man @NathanpmYoung This is an argument about level of taxation more than kind of tax, imo.
English
@FeepingCreature @pelvis_man @NathanpmYoung Companies already pay taxes. All this does is encourage investors to move money out of the USA. It serves no other purpose.
English
@WT_Mason @NathanpmYoung yep! but again this is the nature of all taxation, it's always proportional to success. to be clear, I think it's extremely possible to set the level too high. I view this as a replacement for most other forms of taxation.
English
@FeepingCreature @NathanpmYoung Maybe I’m having a difficult time understanding this concept, but wouldn’t this just mean the government owns parts of your shares in companies you invest in? Youd be getting stolen from because the investment you made did well
English
@beagleoverlord @NathanpmYoung "the government takes <a good accrued to you>" literally holds for every tax. Income taxes: "so the government takes the fruits of your labor." Land value taxes: "so the government takes your homestead." VAT: "so the government takes money out of every transaction."
English
@beagleoverlord @NathanpmYoung @grok I'm pretty sure literally every tax ever levied has faced complaints of illegitimacy, violation of private property, and claims that it would harm the economy. factcheck?
English
@beagleoverlord @NathanpmYoung this is the nature of taxes
English
@FeepingCreature @NathanpmYoung So the government takes the company you found. Great idea!
English