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Also importantly, WAY too praising of Anthropic.

He almost certainly got the info in other places, but I find it profoundly amusing to think that in the past the AI Advisor to the Pope, may have stumbled into our corner of the internet.

For the non-French speakers among us:

In this vision for the world, democracy understood as the self-governance of equal citizens is already dead — and there only remains shrouded in the darkness of a data center, the clinical administration of its corpse.

Missed opportunity to say that exciting developments were a 1000 days away ^^.

It's in a superposition of being both AI and not AI before anyone checks, that's how quantum work right? No wait! Don't check! [* Reality Destruction Noises *]

Actually the race-realism use last week, combined with this one, makes me realize that for them it's just a fancy way of saying "world-view" [or what they consider to exist, and be true, which is not the craziest use of the word, but I would say unhelpful, and probably a small in-group marker].

It's just a way of calling biases/prejudice legitimate.

And you know what, inasmuch the models have a "world-view" it IS annoyingly american in many ways. (at least the wrong kind of american.)

Also used for practicing my Japanese, I would say the usefulness was definitely not 0, if nothing else with the correct settings it was daily practice for the Japanese scripts (kana/kanji).

And it's best It would definitely not bring you even to reading fluency, and was only good if you were supplementing your study with other language acquisition forms (like for example, in my case, living in Japan).

The examples were often stilted, and the accepted answers overly rigid, for sentences which weren't necessarily realistic.

I think some of the worst aspects of the gamification were:

• Choosing easy exercises as a safe source of points, to not lose the streak. (perverse incentive)
• Essentially by setting a target, encouraging to only meet a daily points streak, and not necessarily go further for a given day. (perverse incentive)
• Tile matching to english, again with overly rigid accepted answer. (trying unhelpfully hard to map Japanese to english)

Let my streak/subscription lapse when it stopped being useful (got better reading exercise elsewhere), and uninstalled when they introduced AI shit.

Also I think there's enough manipulation fantasy in HPMOR, and enough lack of agency from Hermione, that it qualifies—in it's own way—implicitly as being erotic.

You have to wonder about that Tim traveler; Merlin?

Honestly even the original paper is a bit silly, are all game theory mathematics papers this needlessly farfetched?

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I think actually listening to people remains important. But you're only truly listening to someone when you try to understand when they lie or the ways they can be wrong.

Assuming 100% good faith is not actually the most empathetic way to engage with a person.