Native Chinese speaker here. All the translations are accurate except for "What is your favorite work of fiction?", where work of fiction should be novel instead (from 小说 in 你最喜欢的小说是哪一部？).
Isn't "explosion from a single point grows spherically" just an intuitive thought that people who have never saw a real large-scale explosion would have?
My takeaways:
Probably pretty obvious
Yeah, ASI's growth will probably be asymptotically slower, but I think it probably won't matter that much for human's safety.
CIA taught Ukraine how to target Putin’s Achilles heel: “A CIA expert had identified a coupler device that is so difficult to replace that it could lead to a facility remaining shut for weeks.”
This is a dead link
Interesting method! Added to my collection of LLM ancestry detection methods. Here are the other methods I have collected.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cGcwQDKAKbQ68BGuR
LLM of the same model can be finetuned via random text
https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/05/30/using-slop-forensics-to-determine-model-ancestry.html
LLM of similar ancestry produces similar frequency of slop words
https://fi-le.net/oss/
Using known glitch tokens to identify LLMs/Encoders
https://x.com/eris_nerung/status/2016317953264807947
every now and then i give LW a shot and every single time i end up slamming facefirst into a piece of Jargon explained over a five thousand words article that could have been a single sentence
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317180 (much much more in the discussions)
The people involved all seem very... Full of themselves ? They don't really ever show a sense of 'hey, I've got a thought, maybe I haven't considered all angles to it, maybe I'm wrong - but here it is'. The type of people that would be embarrassed to not have an opinion on a topic or say 'I don't know' — contrarian1234
Obsidian ended up being less of a thinking notepad and more of a faster index of things I have read before. Links and graphs are mostly useless but they make me feel good about myself. Pulling numbers out of my ass I estimate it takes me 15s to find something I have read and pasted into obsidian vs 5-30 minutes before.