Molecules responsible for smells tend to be small, on the order of 100-300 Daltons—otherwise they aren’t able to diffuse easily in the air. The vast majority of allergens, on the other hand, are proteins, with the very…
Maybe for some value of "what you ask them." I have a data pipeline with 6 steps, A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F. I asked Codex to make some specific optimizations to step B and benchmark them. It did what I asked. Then it…
A couple weeks ago someone on this website argued that expecting AGI to be able to learn from experience was moving the goalposts. Turing discussed learning from experience extensively in his classic thinking machines…
See, it can push back. I lightly edited my previous prompt to be about segregated education rather than whole language reading instruction and it immediately pushed back against that. I'm not making any normative claims…
This is a completely different prompt, not just in tone but intentionality. Yours is asking for advice, mine is asking it to write a specific (mini-)article. The comment I replied to suggested that LLM-written articles…
It's something that someone using an LLM to generate slop articles absolutely will do, which was the original context I was replying to: > Vibe writing may be an improvement. I doubt frontier models would go along with…
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Asking politely for a congressional investigation is about as far from a riot as you can get. Why do you feel the need to cast it in such a flamboyantly negative light?
One would hope so, yes.
To be fair, low quality superficial reviews were also not uncommon before LLMs…
> It strikes me as akin to plagiarism. If the purported author can’t even answer basic questions about the paper, how can they plausibly claim to have written it? Authorship standards differ by field. In biology, for…
> Apple Reference Image could be (part of) a solution, by certifying that both images were taken by the same device This is explicitly not possible, as the post you were replying to pointed out.
Codex still does this regularly, in my experience: “two tests mistakenly asserted [insert condition here], I have corrected them.” It always apologizes when caught, of course.
You can claim you’re acting honestly all day long but you still have a CEO with a long-standing reputation for lying.
Even better, from the BMJ christmas edition https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f7102 > Around 0.5% of women consistently affirmed their status as virgins and did not use assisted reproductive technology, yet reported…
> it clearly is just technology debt they've been carrying around from a silly decision over a decade ago Almost three decades ago—development started in 1999 and the game was released in 2003.
The mandatory policy was part of the codebase that the agent was working on. The agent didn’t feel like figuring out how to make the new feature it was working on respect that policy, so it just changed the policy.
My ex-Catholic's friend's mother refused to speak to him until his first child was born, at which point the draw of a grandchild overcame her aversion I guess. They've (mostly) reconciled now.
Today Codex decided that it could resolve the blocker by just changing the mandatory policy it was running up against into an “advisory policy.”
People I know personally were strongly ostracized after leaving Jehovah's Witnesses (in the US) and the Catholic church (in Latin America). Cut out of their existing social circles, immediate family members refusing to…
Sam Altman: “GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert.” Elon Musk on Grok: “better than PhD level in everything.”
> Now talk to someone living near the equator like Singapore, and 0F is unimaginably cold (even 40F is basically unheard of), and 100F is very hot but not extraordinarily so. Bad example--Singapore has never had a…
Agreed. The concept of “don’t reuse your old work when you’re supposed to be creating new work” may be valid, especially in training environments, but it shouldn’t be called self-plagiarism or treated like plagiarism.
Perhaps an easier to intuit version of it is how full airliners are. An airline might report that their flights are on average 60% full, and that might be completely absolutely 100% true. But that's not what passengers…
Make sure to remind it to make no mistakes.
Molecules responsible for smells tend to be small, on the order of 100-300 Daltons—otherwise they aren’t able to diffuse easily in the air. The vast majority of allergens, on the other hand, are proteins, with the very…
Maybe for some value of "what you ask them." I have a data pipeline with 6 steps, A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F. I asked Codex to make some specific optimizations to step B and benchmark them. It did what I asked. Then it…
A couple weeks ago someone on this website argued that expecting AGI to be able to learn from experience was moving the goalposts. Turing discussed learning from experience extensively in his classic thinking machines…
See, it can push back. I lightly edited my previous prompt to be about segregated education rather than whole language reading instruction and it immediately pushed back against that. I'm not making any normative claims…
This is a completely different prompt, not just in tone but intentionality. Yours is asking for advice, mine is asking it to write a specific (mini-)article. The comment I replied to suggested that LLM-written articles…
It's something that someone using an LLM to generate slop articles absolutely will do, which was the original context I was replying to: > Vibe writing may be an improvement. I doubt frontier models would go along with…
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Asking politely for a congressional investigation is about as far from a riot as you can get. Why do you feel the need to cast it in such a flamboyantly negative light?
One would hope so, yes.
To be fair, low quality superficial reviews were also not uncommon before LLMs…
> It strikes me as akin to plagiarism. If the purported author can’t even answer basic questions about the paper, how can they plausibly claim to have written it? Authorship standards differ by field. In biology, for…
> Apple Reference Image could be (part of) a solution, by certifying that both images were taken by the same device This is explicitly not possible, as the post you were replying to pointed out.
Codex still does this regularly, in my experience: “two tests mistakenly asserted [insert condition here], I have corrected them.” It always apologizes when caught, of course.
You can claim you’re acting honestly all day long but you still have a CEO with a long-standing reputation for lying.
Even better, from the BMJ christmas edition https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f7102 > Around 0.5% of women consistently affirmed their status as virgins and did not use assisted reproductive technology, yet reported…
> it clearly is just technology debt they've been carrying around from a silly decision over a decade ago Almost three decades ago—development started in 1999 and the game was released in 2003.
The mandatory policy was part of the codebase that the agent was working on. The agent didn’t feel like figuring out how to make the new feature it was working on respect that policy, so it just changed the policy.
My ex-Catholic's friend's mother refused to speak to him until his first child was born, at which point the draw of a grandchild overcame her aversion I guess. They've (mostly) reconciled now.
Today Codex decided that it could resolve the blocker by just changing the mandatory policy it was running up against into an “advisory policy.”
People I know personally were strongly ostracized after leaving Jehovah's Witnesses (in the US) and the Catholic church (in Latin America). Cut out of their existing social circles, immediate family members refusing to…
Sam Altman: “GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert.” Elon Musk on Grok: “better than PhD level in everything.”
> Now talk to someone living near the equator like Singapore, and 0F is unimaginably cold (even 40F is basically unheard of), and 100F is very hot but not extraordinarily so. Bad example--Singapore has never had a…
Agreed. The concept of “don’t reuse your old work when you’re supposed to be creating new work” may be valid, especially in training environments, but it shouldn’t be called self-plagiarism or treated like plagiarism.
Perhaps an easier to intuit version of it is how full airliners are. An airline might report that their flights are on average 60% full, and that might be completely absolutely 100% true. But that's not what passengers…
Make sure to remind it to make no mistakes.