Side note: This seems like a completely different topic from your top level comment. Kind of weird to start a mostly tangential argument inside an unresolved argument thread.
You'd still be better off creating the 1M x 100 world than the (1M + 1) x (100 - ε) world.
- Where does (1M + 1) come from?
- In the post Ben mentions that manufacturer doing hundreds of experiments, not millions. Of course, in the limiting case the smallest quality drop can and will be observed, but I believe Ben is not talking about that.
- Even we use the 1M base figure, it doesn't explain why it is +1 rather than e.g. +1000
- You are assuming that the icecream manufacturer is trying to maximise aggregate utility, which seems obviously false to me.
Alternatively, what about matching people by browser history? If there is a way to avoid data security and privacy concerns (ha!) then there are actually a lot of advantages.
I have recently learned that Fully Homomorphic Encryption (doing calculations on encrypted data) 1. exists and 2. is usable in a small scale.
https://bozmen.io/fhe
https://bozmen.io/fhe-current-apps (FHE Real-world Applications)
Current FHE has 1,000x to 10,000x computational overhead compared to plaintext operations. On the storage side, ciphertexts can be 40 to 1,000 times larger than the original. It's like the internet in 1990—technically awesome, but limited in practice.
What do you mean by "retraction"? Do you just mean an opposite statement "sharks are older than trees" --> "sharks are not older than trees", or do you mean something more specific?
Assuming just a general contrasting statement, my gut feeling is that 1. this heuristic is true for certain categories of statements, but generates wrong intuition for other categories 2. this heuristic works, but rarely because of memetic reasons, instead it is just signal to noise ratio of the subjects.
Currently I am thinking about counterexamples from statements that roughly equates to a recommendation "Twitch is the best streaming platform" (I know it isn't very fitting as a memetic statement), which heuristically sounds plausibly true to me because 1. I know there is a very small number of streaming platforms 2. people who talk about this is likely to know what they are talking about
the commenter's job to pay via microtransactions, and maybe the author can tip back if they like it via a Flattr-ish.
Yes, I feel like it is worse than author or forum paying though, because of incentives. There are other possible ways like the commenter paying for failed comments and author/forum paying for those that passed.
Monthly subscription is also possible yeah. I had this in mind and swept it under "the forum paying for the model and getting the cost back from elsewhere".
privacy concerns
you misunderstood, I meant that some people probably don't want their account to be traceable to their real identity, any monetary transaction is problematic unless crypto
- rate limits seems like a must
- but maybe it can be quite lax if a cheap model is used
- So you now need to pay before you post?
- privacy concerns
- and comments are disabled when you're out of funds? natural consequence but lol.
- Long comments that don't pass in the first try likely motivates comment author to a. jailbreak / b. let another LLM rewrite it rather than drafting a new one
- I would like it more if it is the forum paying for the model, and getting the cost back from elsewhere.
You can also pay $10/mo to Kagi and get different filter presets ("lenses"). Is it worth the price for you? idk.
I think the Quick Takes feed needs the option to sort by newest. It makes no sense that I get fed the some posts 3-7 times in an unpredictable order if I read the feed once per day.
I think LW's dark mode is bad, and is actually too dark. Almost nobody uses full #000000 for dark mode.
One of my pet peeves is that the dropcaps in gwern's articles are really, really offputting and most of the time unrecognizable, even though gwern's articles are so valuable that he has a lot of weirdness points in my head and I will still read his stuff regardless. Most of the time I just guess the first letter.
I hate dropcaps in general, but gwern's is the ugliest I have came by.
image source: https://gwern.net/everything
I apologize. Should have searched before talking.