No new evidence is presented. What is it about processed food that's so bad for you? The slicing? The smashing? The pressing? The freezing? The drying? The boiling? The canning? The conveyor belts? Is it simply filled with malice by the people who create it? How come none of my...
Computers get smarter. People don't. Some bots will be greedy and some will not. The greedy ones will take everything.
O3 and Claude 3.7 are terribly dishonest creatures. Gemini 2.5 can be a bit dishonest too, even though Google writes tests like mad. I would bet that lie-proof benchmarks will be difficult and expensive to make and that the lie-proofing techniques won't easily generalize outside of coding tasks. Perhaps a...
It seems the company has gone bankrupt and wants to be bought and you can probably get their data if you buy it. I'm not sure how thorough their transcription is, but they have records for at least 10 million people (who voluntarily took a DNA test and even paid...
Why is almost everything either overwhelming or nonexistent? I can't step outside without stepping on a pigeon, but I haven't seen a cardinal in years. Topics are discussed either constantly or never. You bike 200 miles per week or never. You are probably cancer free or dead from cancer. Your...
I thought of this a couple years ago and figured it was so obvious that it wasn't worth posting about, but people are still discussing trauma endlessly, and I have not seen an explanation written anywhere, so here's this. "Trauma" is a bad experience deemed anomalous. It means "the world...
Let's call the thing where you try to take actions that make everyone/yourself less dead (on expectation) the "safety game". This game is annoyingly chaotic, kind of like Arimaa. You write the sequences then some risk-averse not-very-power-seeking nerds read it and you're 10x less dead. Then Mr. Altman reads it...