Wait until it starts feeling like revelation deja vu.

Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have swerved from the truth, saying resurrection has already occurred. They are upsetting the faith of some.

• 2 Tim 2:17-18

It’s the back and front of a single sheet of paper.

It absolutely could.

With a reference frame constructed from over 500 adults, we tested a variety of mainstream LLMs. Most achieved above-average EQ scores, with GPT-4 exceeding 89% of human participants with an EQ of 117.

• https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09042

We first find that LLM agents generally exhibit trust behaviors, referred to as agent trust, under the framework of Trust Games, which are widely recognized in behavioral economics. Then, we discover that LLM agents can have high behavioral alignment with humans regarding trust behaviors, particularly for GPT-4, indicating the feasibility to simulate human trust behaviors with LLM agents.

• https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04559

A lot of people here have no idea just how far the field actually has come from dicking around with the free ChatGPT and reading pop articles.

This may ultimately be a good thing for social media given the propensity of SotA models to bias away from fringe misinformation (see Musk’s Grok which infuriated him and his users for being ‘woke’ - i.e. in line with published research).

As well, to bias away from outrage porn interactions.

I’ve been dreaming of a social network where you would have AI intermediate all interactions to bias the network towards positivity and less hostility.

This, while clearly a half-assed effort to shove LLMs anywhere possible for Wall Street, may be a first step in a more positive direction.

I mean, there are good uses as well. Just as an example:

• Providing helpful information: People are looking for information to reduce their environmental footprint. Fuel-efficient routing in Google Maps uses AI to suggest routes that have fewer hills, less traffic, and constant speeds with the same or similar ETA. Since launching in October 2021, fuel-efficient routing is estimated to have helped prevent more than 2.4 million metric tons of CO2e emissions — the equivalent of taking approximately 500,000 fuel-based cars off the road for a year.
• Predicting climate-related events: Floods are the most common natural disaster, causing thousands of fatalities and disrupting the lives of millions every year. Since 2018, Google Research has been working on our flood forecasting initiative, which uses advanced AI and geospatial analysis to provide real-time flooding information so communities and individuals can prepare for and respond to riverine floods. Our Flood Hub platform is available to more than 80 countries, providing forecasts up to seven days in advance for 460 million people.
• Optimizing climate action: Contrails — the thin, white lines you sometimes see behind airplanes — have a surprisingly large impact on our climate. The 2022 IPCC report noted that contrail clouds account for roughly 35% of aviation’s global warming impact — which is over half the impact of the world’s jet fuel. Google Research teamed up with American Airlines and Breakthrough Energy to bring together huge amounts of data — like satellite imagery, weather and flight path data — and used AI to develop contrail forecast maps to test if pilots can choose routes that avoid creating contrails. After these test flights, we found that the pilots reduced contrails by 54%.

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/report-ai-sustainability-google-cop28/

Even something like household phantom power currently uses more energy than AI at data centers.

I’m all for putting pressure on corporate climate impact and finally putting to rest the propaganda of personal responsibility dreamt up by lobbyists, but I don’t know that ‘AI’ is the right Boogeyman here.

Yep. A bit like a 7 day publicly displayed tracker of days on a 28 day lunar calendar cycle.

Was “I am the God of your Father” an editorial attempt to distinguish the deity from the gods of Egypt, or from the god of a Mother?

There’s some pretty odd details in that book, like in Isaac’s supposed patriarchal blessing which discussed “the sons of your mother bow down to you” or it being the only place there’s the male form of gebirah (“Great Lady”) - a title first applied in the text to Isaac’s mother whose name is based on the word for ‘chief.’ Who is supposedly later followed by a figure ‘Deborah’ (‘bee’) who is a leader of the people around the time we now know bees were being imported into Tel Rehov and regularly requeened to avoid genetic drift with local bee populations. Also weird that the events regarding a “land of milk and honey” supposedly take place in a land with no honey and only one discovered apiary.

That apiary gets burned down right around the time Asa allegedly deposed his grandmother the gebirah (“Great Lady”).

The best summarization of the state of Google’s Assistant related support and dedication can be seen in this thread.

We sell device you use.

We know we added a problem that even replacing the device won’t fix.

We’re aware of the issue and are working on a fix.

We just downsized the department.

Crickets

All while users generally suffer.

One of the most interesting parts of that gap is the one day battle he fights in against Egypt right after Troy falls where he’s captured until seven years later someone shows up who tries to ransom him to Libya.

Why?

Because an event like this really happened.

In the 5th year of Merneptah there’s a single day battle between Egypt and allied forces of Libyans and sea peoples, at least one of which is commonly thought to have been pre-Greek (the Ekwesh), and Egypt is successful capturing many prisoners of war.

Exactly seven years later Egypt is overthrown by an usurper Pharoh, with the following dynasty writing that it had been overthrown with the help of outside forces.

While there was likely no ‘Odysseus’ involved, it’s a useful reminder that sometimes there’s historical accuracy buried inside mythology.

And yet it ends talking about going to a far better place than any before, so it must not have been all that ‘best’ after all.

Just wait until they find out public schools are giving their children dihydrogen monoxide without asking for parental approval.

I find it odd when people get upset at the idea of having access to their own aggregated data but almost never get upset when they hand over massive amounts of data to companies that can privately do the same things on their data.

Google already processes your Photos data, and while you get their facial recognition data pipeline fed back to you, there’s a fair bit of other analysis going on that you aren’t always seeing. But people aren’t generally complaining that they are scanning your photos for criminal activity or trying to maximize product engagement using the data.

But if suddenly they turn back over access to that deep analysis so you can ask a chatbot “what did I eat for my birthday two years ago and who was there” and get a description of the meal, who else was there, and relevant images without needing to scroll back your timeline - now it’s suddenly creepy and we don’t want it (even though literally all that information is already being processed at roughly the same level of fidelity already).

People are weird.

It’s almost unbelievable that the graphics are this good.

Rockstar always releases their first trailer a little under 2 years out from the planned release date, so 2025 was no surprise.

Also, they are one of the few developers who release the first trailer where it really looks like the end product, so I know it’s legit, and the hair indicates there’s FSR, so it really does seem like this is what we might see on release - but that’s still kind of mind blowing given the gap between this and what’s been out so far.

YouTube probably updates views on a periodic basis and likes in realtime.

My guess is you’ll see views as higher than likes once activity dies down and the latter catches up to the former.

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It’s the board for the non-profit which owns and controls the LLC, and none of the board members have equity in the non-profit.

This wasn’t a board of investors/owners like for profit boards.

ToTK.

BG3 was amazing and is the best RPG of the year hands down. A really outstanding game that deserves all the praise and I’d certainly feel it deserved GotY if it won.

But ToTK was really just beyond expectations with its game design. The open ended puzzle design, the sheer number of “wait, I can actually do that?” The way it continued the BotW reinventing LoZ (NES) trend by reinventing LttP’s dark world…

It’s one of the toughest years I can recall, as BG3 was also beyond expectations and had incredibly nuanced design. But I feel like in a lot of ways it was still more structured by being guided by tabletop, whereas ToTK really just broke the mold all over again for Nintendo.

It might be my favorite Zelda title of all time.

Clearly Harvard isn’t truly committed to diversity on campus. I’m guessing she was the only applicant to submit a 40 minute mix tape of animal noises, and yet they turned her down because there just wasn’t a “40m animal noises mix tape” box to check.

A shame what modern education has become.

More jogging in place than going in any direction.

I mean, she also looked like this.

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