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Warning: you may have become cynical.

I didn't read that comment as snarky at all - efficiency comparisons between emerging tech and SOTA (grass, trees) are extremely relevant!

(Warning to welf: you may be naive)


Slightly shameless, but easier than typing a longer reply.

https://www.paritybits.me/think-toggles-are-dumb/

https://nilock.github.io/autothink/

LLMs with broad contextual capabilities shouldn't need to be guided in this manor. Claude can tell a trivial task from a complex one just as easily as I can, and should self-adjust, up to thresholds of compute spending, etc.


>LLMs with broad contextual capabilities shouldn't need to be guided in this manor.

I mean finding your way around a manor can be hard, it's easier in an apartment.


I could be misinterpreting your claim here, but I'll point out that LLM weights don't literally encode the entirety of the training data set.

I guess you could consider it a lossy encoding.


Leveraging OpenAI for a Worldcoin proof-of-humanity toehold? Blue checks for WorldID holders, and a presumption of dead internet everywhere else.

Google historically allowed employees to self-direct 20% of their working time (onto any google project I think).


> Aren't students already allowed to fail?

It's technically allowed on an individual basis, but the economics don't work for any institution to attempt to raise its bar.

If institutions X and Y grant credential Z, and X starts failing a third of its students, who would apply to go there?


For the most part degrees from roughly comparable schools in the same subject are fungible. However, graduating cheaters who should have flunked out of school their freshman year is a one-way ticket to having a reputation that your degree is worthless. You're now comparable to a lower tier of schools and suddenly Y's degree is worth a lot more than yours. The best way (not to only way) to combat this is to actively cull the bottom of your classes. Most schools already do this by kicking out people with low enough GPAs, academic probation, etc. My undergrad would expel you if you had a GPA below 1.8 after your first semester, and you were on academic probation if your GPA was > 1.8 and <=2.5.

This assumes, of course, an institution is actively trying to raise the academic bar of its student population. Most schools are emphatically not trying to do this and are focused more on just increasing enrollment, getting more tax dollars, and hiring more administrators.


At the risk of piling on (others have commented), I'll go so far as to say that there really is more information here if you make the gentle assumption of a human observer.

In the animated version, a human observer here is allowed (forced) to occupy mental states of a real-time observer. They have the experience of "X has jumped ahead - I wonder if it'll last - oh, wow, Y is really surging".

The visceral experience matters, and is impossible to recreate post-hoc if all of the info is presented up front.

(edit: "more information" in so far is it informs more - leaves more impressions on the observer)


The 'before' image passes the test this time in a "Treachery of Images" sort of way.


I still don't really get this. Do you mean that frent-ends have proprietary code?

Contracts on-chain can be slightly inscrutable in their bytecode format, but it's pretty uncommon for smart contracts to not be published with source code and a verifiable build.

Example, picked randomly from a transaction in a recent block: https://etherscan.io/address/0x388c818ca8b9251b393131c08a736...


> Do you mean that front-ends have proprietary code?

Yes, sorry for not being clear, but this is what I meant. When the average person uses crypto, they're not using an open source app to buy/sell it. They'll be doing it through a propriety service, with a non-open source front-end. That service will build on top of a lot of great open source tech yes, but the final layer is very likely a private company.

I know there are open source options, but my understanding is the overwhelming majority of human trades won't be using them. My point is, refusing to use pix because there's not an open source mobile app is odd to me.


Apps as in applications, contracts are not apps.


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