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All those studies are flawed because they are always a few years of sub-subsistence income. Of course most people rationally don't drastically change their employment in response to that - as expected per the permanent income hypothesis. A permanent, liveable UBI would be quite another beast.

Just slap a pigouvian tax on it.

Is it just me, or is the lower-case s too tall? It sticks out like a sore thumb in the paragraphs, clearly taller than other x-height letters like e, o or r.

you are absolutely right, it is motion-sickness inducing. how did this make it in to production?

You assume the worst case: every character that could ever have been entered is in use.

Yes, it really is that simple. They chose that responsibility the moment they allowed those characters. Any deductions done after that need to have a failsafe with the expectation they will break a clueless user's device.

> He hasn't kept ahead of the destruction of the dollar very well.

That hasn't been his goal. For the last two decades he's been running a huge charitable foundation...


Is that what they call visiting private islands these days?

It's a pretty well known entity. You can find more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_Foundation

> It's a pretty well known entity. You can find more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_Foundation

Gates's relationship with financier Jeffrey Epstein started in 2011, a few years after Epstein was convicted for procuring a child for prostitution

I see.


Who says it started in 2011? I find that hard to believe.

Gates was having interviews with John Brockman's edge.org in 1996: https://www.edge.org/conversation/bill_gates-digerati-chapte...

Gates was at The Edge dinners in 2010: https://michaelshermer.com/articles/my-dinner-with-bill-gate...

Jeffrey Epstein funded The Edge in the late 90s early 2000s, then not around 2008/9 during his first trial and prison, then again after he got out:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-ep...

https://epsteinweb.org/john-brockman/


Wait. Are you claiming that there's some sort of link between "Gates's relationship with financier Jeffrey Epstein started in 2011" and the Gates Foundation which launched in 2000 by merging with the Gates Sr. Foundation from all the way back in 1994?

Was that in between his visits on Epstine island?

Sure. Al Capone did a lot of charitable work too.

Someone can do more than one thing.


Yes, "charitable work". I'm sure a foundation like that could make a good front for child trafficking. Not that Bill would ever do such a thing obviously, his common interests with that old rascal Jeff must have strictly included other things.

Are you asserting that the Gates Foundation was a front for sex trafficking? Or are you just saying shit because you think the memes are cute and will get you social media approval?

I assume you think you're adding some kind of value to the discussion, here. But who knows, maybe you just really fucking love malaria.


> Are you asserting that the Gates Foundation was a front for sex trafficking?

Do you know what an assertion is?


I'm not denying bill did improper sexual things. But I think his goal was to evade taxes, which Epstein likely helped out with. In return, bill was likely blackmailed for his access to Microsoft, which benefits Israel.

I mean, obviously, it's not going to be a faithful representation of the actual thinking. The model isn't aware of how it thinks any more than you are aware how your neurons fire. But it does quantitatively improve performance on complex tasks.

As you can see from posts on this story, most people believe it reflects what the model is thinking and use it as a guide to that so they can ‘correct’ it. If it is not in fact chain of thought or thinking it should not be called that.

It is the same with human chain of thought, though. Both of them are post-hoc rationalisations justifying "gut feelings" that come from thought processes the human/agent doesn't have introspection into. And yet asking humans or machines to "think out loud" this way does increase the quality of their work.

I disagree - humans often reason in a series of steps, and can write these down before they've reached an answer. They don't always wait till they reach a conclusion (with no self-insight into how they did so) and then retrospectively generate a plausible answer as LLMs do.

In mathematical proofs they may guess and answer and then work out a proof, but that is a different process.


if its not a faithful representation of the actual thinking, why would they be scared of people distilling against it

Because even though it's not representative of the actual thought process, chain of thought improves model performance.

The single-track mode where the wheels are in line like a bike seems useful for navigating floors strewn with obstacles.


Almost every gold medal winner in the past games would not have been affected by this new rule, so that's a biiit hyperbolic. Those athletes are still far outside the normal performance of women (or men, for that matter).


If you're a cosmologist ;) usually they talk of 3 elements though - H, He and "metal".


Multiple digraphs, a _trigraph_ and then accents too? Ugh. The real best alphabet is something like Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, IMO.


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