ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
1d ago
Look - if Glock can't sell guns to the government while saying - you can't shoot black people because you have problems with racism, why should Anthropic be able to do so?
A toolmaker should have no say in how his tools are used once bought.
They can certainly offer to sell guns to the government under those terms, and the government can tell them to pound sand.
Similarly, Anthropic can offer to sell Claude without mass domestic surveillance or autonomous kill capacity, and the government can...agree, go back on their decision, and blacklist them from their entire supply chain. Apparently.
ulyssessword
1d ago
But The Associated Press Associates of Pressiness might be out to get you.
ulyssessword
1d ago
OpenAI just agreed to do what Anthropic would not do.
Source? The Altman tweet announcing it said that he (and the DoW!) agreed to do what Anthropic was punished for.
ulyssessword
1d ago
if they only have one drink a night
"One drink" is often standardized as 0.6 ounces of alcohol. There isn't any indication as to the quantity, but if it was a cup of vodka, then it would be about six standard drinks, which is certainly enough to count.
ulyssessword
1d ago
He hates Trump though and always encouraged people to vote against Trump?
He posts about 95% non-Trump content (by a broad definition, or 99% by a narrow one), so I'd still call it "rarely". And while we're posting 2016 articles, I'll highlight You are Still Crying Wolf.
He's certainly anti-Trump, but he's not a TDS-suffering obsessive.
EDIT: hat tip to ControlsFreak: This entire comment chain is about an anecdote from his past, not the main thrust of the paper. He described one somewhat-bad experience with GPT-5 Pro (presumably actually 5, not 5.1 or 5.2), but the rest was about 5.2. Ctrl+F "5" in the article to see that the mention is unique. It might be worth mentioning GPT 5.3 now (he mentions using Codex, so the restrictions don't completely lock him out), but even I think being three weeks behind the state of the art is fine.
I'm not sure about 14.6% vs. 31.3% pass rate on research-level math questions being a huge difference, but it's definitely noticeable.
Also, using a six-month-old model is better than usual for Science. If they had been 12 months behind 5.2 Pro (itself two months old by now) instead of four, then they would be dealing with a zero percent pass rate as o3 wouldn't have been released yet.
ulyssessword
7d ago
A downside is that the model is hard-wired into the chip, allegedly two months from model to production.
That's (almost) the difference between Claude Opus 4.1 and 4.6 (skipping over 4.5), or GPT 5.1 vs. GPT 5.3 (kind of, since it's a restricted release).
There's probably a niche for it, but it probably won't become a core piece of the landscape even discounting the cost.
ulyssessword
8d ago
Microsoft Excel is better than other spreadsheet software.
ulyssessword
11d ago
Yes, they do, that's why there's that silly loop.
That loop is still well-defined though. The example picture on Wikipedia shows the line spiralling around the pole, and ending near the same meridian as its starting point. A different line with the same length and starting point but a slightly shallower angle would end a bit northwest of there, and so on for the rest of the angles which would trace the loop.
If it reaches the pole after spiralling inwards for an infinite number of turns (but finite distance), then it's not well-defined. Otherwise it is.
These are different effects. One is the distortion caused by curvature, and the other is the fact that the surface is finite.
A 1% distortion is one effect, but a 200% distortion is another? What's the threshold between the two, because it sure looks continuous to me.
You get silly answers if you ask for great circle distances longer than the circumference, too.
It's simply not defined. Much like your definition is only defined for a subset of angles near the poles (which is why those points don't appear on the curve).
ulyssessword
11d ago
ulyssessword
11d ago
going 850 miles in a wide range of northerly directions isn't well-defined there.
That's okay, those points don't appear on the curve. From eyeballing it, East-North-East is about as close as you can get to North before that becomes an issue.
Pick a better-behaved set of numbers and the "rhumb ring" (which doesn't seem to be a standard term) will touch the great circle ring in both the North and South directions.
Nah. You pick a better-behaved function, and it won't be an issue. The same distortion that causes you to measure a 300 mile distance as a 302 mile arc causes you to measure a 250 mile distance as an 850 mile spiral.
ulyssessword
11d ago
see below. distance-direction vs. direction-distance.
ulyssessword
12d ago
So every point on this orange curve is the same distance from the yellow point? I don't think so.
ulyssessword
12d ago
... until I'm allowed to talk to women.
That one specific woman. Try again and hope that the next one is a bit more openminded.
ulyssessword
12d ago
She instantly made an annoyed face and turned away, never to talk to me again.
Sounds like that would've happened sooner or later regardless of your answer to that one question. It might as well be "sooner".
But like, what are we supposed to do in these situations? Is it just impossible to talk to people with different political opinions now?
There's not much you can do if someone else doesn't want to talk with you. Lying and hiding your beliefs might work, but that's not much of a solution.
ulyssessword
12d ago
There's a shorter way to get to that point but that doesn't matter.
How would you describe a point at the same latitude as yourself, and 300 miles away (by great circle)? "302 Miles East"?
ulyssessword
12d ago
I interpret them as "flies [to a point which is] 300 miles [to the] North [along the most-direct route]..." and "travels [along a path continuously facing] north for [a path length of] 300 miles". Compare to a winding trail: You can go 10 miles North by travelling North for 20 miles.
Both the bear and the helicopter are point-to-point (destination = distance+direction), while your followup question was path-based (travel mode and path, for a distance). The bear hunter walked in an equilateral triangle with approximately 119.9 degree corners.
If it had been "He travels south for one mile, east for one mile, and north for one mile", then it would be a 1 mile line, a 90 degree corner, a 1 mile arc with radius 1 mile, another 90 degree corner, then a 1 mile return line that's 122.7 degrees off from the first line.
I haven't mathed it out, but I suspect both versions involve the helicopter landing in New Jersey, but in different locations.
ulyssessword
12d ago
Well, if I state that a helicopter takes off and travels "north" for "300 miles" what does that mean to you? Same question for "west," "south" and "east"?
That's a different question than the one upthread. If you're running laps around the pole, then you're going west for 300 miles, but you did not fly 300 miles west, you flew in a circle.
Do you really want chatbot outputs to be that sensitive to your exact phrasing, or would you prefer reasonable interpretations?
ulyssessword
16d ago
PS: Watch the whole video. It's probably the greatest opening statement I've ever seen.
Damn, good call.
ulyssessword
17d ago
Isn't Canada in the midst of a gun buyback?
Kind of. Half the country is in the midst of something that could charitably be called a buyback.
The Federal Government has zero credibility on the issue, and they haven't taken any of the obvious opportunities to improve. If you properly file for the buy"back", then they won't guarantee any money, nevermind guaranteeing a fair price. They capped the payouts at about $250M, planning for 136k guns (vs. industry estimates of 500k+).
I also heard (and subsequently debunked) that they were giving themselves two months to do the paperwork, not that they were giving gun owners two months to apply. That tells you something about the current state of affairs.
Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Yukon are all obstructing it to various amounts because Trudeau was disastrous to national unity, both with specific policies (like this) and with his general attitude.
ulyssessword
18d ago
ulyssessword
18d ago
The dictionary definition is useless on its own. As an example, this scary cave diving sign checks all of the boxes.
ulyssessword
21d ago
...coronavirus lockdowns. Again we are being expected to tolerate draconian government interference with our daily lives...
How disruptive are ICE's activities in Minnesota? I have a hard time imagining that they create 1/10 the interference of the COVID lockdowns (averaged over their respective worst month-ish, counting everyone in the city except those properly targeted for arrest, and not counting the actions of protestors).
How many businesses are shut down? (Probably some, because their employees got arrested) Are they required to get identification and documentation before they serve customers? Are the schools still open? Can you visit your friends?
I'm not on the ground there, so I don't know exactly what's happening (or what their COVID measures were, for that matter). I'd just be very surprised if it was even in the same order of magnitude as the lockdowns.
FYI, the wikipedia page doesn't contain the quote you're referencing.
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