Well, it is true that computer programs have far surpassed humans in board games. They are very well suited for it. It just has nothing to do with the hypothesized abilities of future “AI” as rationalists conceive them.

Oh, I didn’t know that!

The paper is itself written by LLM.

flaviat explained why your counterexample is not correct. But also, the correct statement (Liouville’s theorem) is that a bounded entire function must be constant.

CS has a huge number of people who think you can derive the solutions to social problems from first principles. It’s impossible to reason with them.

Karl Radek jumpscare

In this case these are grade schooler’s (roughly ages 9-18) essays for a standardized test, so there isn’t a body of students who could grade them.

Given consistent trends of exponential performance improvements over many years and across many industries, it would be extremely surprising if these improvements suddenly stopped.

I have a Petri dish to sell you

codeword is banana bread

Will there be statues to swap as well?

Related to aviation systems, here’s a writeup about a complicated incident, where a discrepancy between two “identical” components was a contributing factor:

It was possible for one channel to detect that the plane was airborne while the other channel did not […] With one channel in flight mode and the other in ground mode, the SECs believe that there has been a failure of one of the LGCIUs, and they both shut off.

Mistress

is this more evidence that robots are taking our jobs? the investigation continues…

The Democratic party’s presidential nominee for 2028 will be chosen by a primary election, which will also be in 2028. Until a candidate wins the primary election, there is no nominee. This is important because Newsom is a sack of shit and we have multiple years with which to oppose his run for nomination.

He is not the Democratic presidential nominee for 2028.

mary chung’s mentioned! i miss mary chung’s

There’s a part where they quote someone saying “I am not particularly confident [in my p(doom)]” and I’m still remembering getting talked down to about how Actually all subjective uncertainty can be represented as probabilities because Bayesianism and you wouldn’t happen to be one of those stupid frequentists right?

That’s weird, The Register’s versions of the quotes are different (not just pared down).

decision theory is when there’s a box with money but if you take the box it doesn’t have money

Hochman correctly deduces that R9PRESENTATIONALism originated in the 18th century, but fails to realize that the roots of this movement actually lie with the Bavarian Illuminati, a secret society which was supposedly suppressed by edict in 1784 but has in fact maintained a shadowy existence influencing politics up to the present day.

I don’t really understand what point Zitron is making about each query requiring a “completely fresh static prompt”, nor about the relative ordering of the user and static prompts. Why would these things matter?

“Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog”