Chris Smith

Software developer and amateur (but published!) ring theorist. Volunteer K-12 math/CS teacher. Haskell enthusiast. He/him.

[Chris Smith @cdsmithus]

@ropes4goodgirls @IsaacKing314 This isn't about a character being very smart. It's that there is no level of chess where winning in six moves means you're good. There is only it meaning that your opponent did something foolish.

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@muddyshutter @kamikazecash If everyone under 50 stops paying, the system collapsed immediately. It cannot keep paying those currently receiving benefits from only the contributions of people aged 50-67.

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@YeahYouRight51 @helloitsolly @Wise "Signatures" on these touchpad payment devices are usually just scribbles anyway.

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@stalegum @jmhorp If you use the more global definition of state, there are lots of states building data centers. Saudi Arabia, for instance, is on a tear.

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@ekamurasi @SebaTheOracle @Freyy_is Also, "does work". "The comparison is doing real work." "That example does a lot of work."

Never says what work it's doing. Just that it's doing something. Also, lots of things are "load bearing".

[Chris Smith @cdsmithus]

@jamesawhiite The one thing you said that has substance is that earlier sunrise promote healthy circadian rhythm. If that is true (for an objective meaning of healthy, not just your a priori decision that people should get up earlier) then you would have the start of an actual reason.

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@zacherylayne @hotdamhistorian I always assumed it's common in AI because it reads dramatically, and the RLHF step in LLM training is judged by people with only a surface level understanding of the subject matter and they find rhetorical devices compelling.

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@VetDad25 @prettycritical You don't have a car in New York. A parking spot is like $800 a month in some places, and probably 20 minutes away from you, then traffic makes it not very appealing to drive once you get there.

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@anonxxyyzx @prettycritical The subway is no more full of crap than the rest of New York, and living in New York is assumed here. It's not really dangerous, unless you mean the danger of someone yelling and swearing at you, but again, that's just living in New York.

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@prof_g I think the reasoning text here disagrees with your interpretation. You've got here an example of the AI struggling with figuring out what you INTENDED, not considering all cases and concluding that parallel axes actually come out worse. Maybe it should be more literal...

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@LucaAmb Slip? My understanding is that this is a consequence for egregiously abusive behavior, like inventing fictional references or data, or not even reading your own AI generated paper before submitting.

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@DimitrisPapail @BlancheMinerva @ChenhaoTan It's not about whether fraudulent papers exist. It's about the number of them. It is now dramatically easier to produce content that is relatively more difficult to recognize as fraudulent. Old processes caught relatively small amounts of problematic submissions.

[Chris Smith @cdsmithus]

User: Write me a story.
AI: "There once was a girl named Anna. She had purple hair..."
User: No, she shouldn't have purple hair. Try again.
AI: "There once was a girl named Anna. She definitely didn't have purple hair. There wasn't a shred of purple on that head..."

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Trying to think of a valid interpretation for this claim...

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This is super cool: the NAND gate of scientific calculator functions. https://t.co/mBEgCXqkzl

[Chris Smith @cdsmithus]

@LndamyDark Using "ask", "spend", or "creative" as a noun, or "action" as a verb

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@anxietymsgs "Mental health matters." But my 18 year old self ignores me.

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@ronrule @JoeMastrosimone Are you okay with a local school board reviewing curriculum, sending admins to sit in on your homeschooling to check that it's up to the public's standards, or checking your qualifications and interviewing you? But you want us to pay you as if you were hired to do the job?

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@ronrule This is definitely a misunderstanding. Property taxes aren't the money you pay for your kids' education. They are the money you pay to live in a society where everyone has access to education. This is why even people without children pay it.

[Chris Smith @cdsmithus]

@Apolloknius @ramit With $12M, you can move somewhere quite comfortable, buy a $1M house, have $11M in investments, and safely live on $400K per year while still growing your investment faster than inflation. You never have to work again, even with a substantial family. That's wealth.