Bohaska

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Bohaska Mar 18, 2025, 3:37 AM
7 points
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in reply to: Christopher Green’s comment on: Levels of Friction
Zvi has a Substack, there are usually more comments on his posts to there compared to his LessWrong posts https://thezvi.substack.com/p/levels-of-friction/comments

This particular post has 30+ comments in that link

Bohaska Mar 8, 2025, 1:21 PM
3 points
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in reply to: Daniel Kokotajlo’s comment on: What a 20-year-lead in military tech might look like
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/03/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-drones-deaths.html Here’s a link to an NYT article about that.

Here are some quotes:
Drones, not the big, heavy artillery that the war was once known for, inflict about 70 percent of all Russian and Ukrainian casualties, said Roman Kostenko, the chairman of the defense and intelligence committee in Ukraine’s Parliament. In some battles, they cause even more — up to 80 percent of deaths and injuries, commanders say.
The conflict now bears little resemblance to the war’s early battles, when Russian columns lumbered into towns and small bands of Ukrainian infantry moved quickly, using hit-and-run tactics to slow the larger enemy.

today most soldiers die or lose limbs to remote-controlled aircraft rigged with explosives, many of them lightly modified hobby models. Drone pilots, in the safety of bunkers or hidden positions in tree lines, attack with joysticks and video screens, often miles from the fighting.

Ukrainian officials said they had made more than one million first-person-view, or FPV, drones in 2024. Russia claims it can churn out 4,000 every day. Both countries say they are still scaling up production, with each aiming to make three to four million drones in 2025.

They’re being deployed far more often, too. With each year of the war, Ukraine’s military has reported huge increases in drone attacks by Russian forces.
2022: 2,600+ reported attacks
2023: 4,700+ reported attacks
2024: 13,800+ reported attacks

Bohaska Dec 24, 2024, 8:50 AM
8 points
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on: Bohaska’s Shortform
People are better defined by smaller categories.

If someone is part of both a large category and a small category that usually don’t overlap, it’s likely that they are an outlier in the large category, not a representative member.
For example, if someone is both a rationalist and a Muslim, you shouldn’t expect them to be very similar to a normal Muslim but much more similar to a rationalist, and that it’s possible that they may not be very good at representing Muslims in general to a rationalist audience.

Bohaska Dec 23, 2024, 12:26 AM
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in reply to: Sam Rosen’s comment on: Sam Rosen’s Shortform
The category of “social construction” is a social construct.

Bohaska Oct 18, 2024, 9:47 AM
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in reply to: Lech Mazur’s comment on: Paper: Large Language Models Can Self-improve [Linkpost]
Good job for guessing that it was Google correctly! Here’s the arXiv print.

Bohaska Oct 16, 2024, 3:36 PM
4 points
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on: Bohaska’s Shortform
UBI would probably work better in Kenya compared to the US because when people are in extreme poverty, funds get used to meet pressing needs, but when these basic needs are met, extra funds are probably more likely to go into having more leisure time. People in Kenya generally have more low-hanging fruit to buy a motorcycle or to get a home renovation, but in the US, major life-changing things probably cost too much for UBI to cover and the income might be used on something like alcohol.

Bohaska Oct 14, 2024, 3:23 AM
3 points
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on: Open Thread Fall 2024
Why are comments on older posts sorted by date, but comments on newer posts are sorted by top scoring?

Bohaska Oct 7, 2024, 7:01 AM
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in reply to: gwern’s comment on: Open Thread Fall 2024
What about a goal that isn’t competitive, such as “get grade 8 on the ABRSM music exam for <instrument>”? Plenty of Asian parents have that particular goal and yet they usually ask/force their children to practice daily. Is this irrational, or is it good at achieving this goal? Would we be able to improve efficiency by using spaced repetition in this scenario as opposed to daily practice?

Bohaska Oct 6, 2024, 9:48 AM
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on: Open Thread Fall 2024
If spaced repetition is the most efficient way of remembering information, why do people who learn a music instrument practice every day instead of adhering to a spaced repetition schedule?

Bohaska Oct 6, 2024, 7:19 AM
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in reply to: Raemon’s comment on: “Slow” takeoff is a terrible term for “maybe even faster takeoff, actually”
hare/tortoise takeoff

Bohaska Oct 5, 2024, 11:49 AM
3 points
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in reply to: Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel’s comment on: Vladimir_Nesov’s Shortform
This seems like the sort of R&D that China is good at: research that doesn’t need superstar researchers and that is mostly made of incremental improvements. But yet they don’t seem to be producing top LLMs. Why is that?

Bohaska Oct 4, 2024, 6:36 AM
3 points
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on: Is Text Watermarking a lost cause?
Google Gemini uses a watermarking system called Synth ID that claims to be able to watermark text by skewing its probability distribution. Do you think it’ll be effective? Do you think that it’s useful to have this?

Bohaska Oct 1, 2024, 10:23 AM
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in reply to: cSkeleton’s comment on: Changes in College Admissions
The digital version of the SAT actually uses dynamic scoring now where you get harder questions if you get the ones in the first section correct, but it’s still approximately as difficult as the normal test so tons of people still tie at 1600

Bohaska Sep 22, 2024, 10:22 AM
1 point
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on: How to teach things well
We call on our knowledge when something related triggers, so in order for a lesson to be useful, you need to build those connections and triggers in the student’s mind.

Seems related to trigger-action plans...

Bohaska Sep 22, 2024, 8:47 AM
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in reply to: ChristianKl’s comment on: Making intentions concrete—Trigger-Action Planning
Such as this one!

Bohaska Sep 1, 2024, 4:41 AM
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in reply to: sapphire’s comment on: Arjun Panickssery’s Shortform
Given that Biden has dropped out, do you believe that the market was accurately priced at the time?

Bohaska Aug 14, 2024, 5:48 AM
3 points
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on: Rabin’s Paradox
LessWrong messed up the formatting so in my home feed I saw a bet where I pay you $1000 if I lose but only gain $10 instead of $1,000,000,000 if I win

Bohaska Jul 3, 2024, 2:03 AM
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in reply to: Viliam_Bur’s comment on: How to avoid dying in a car crash
Hello from 12 years in the future!
Try cruise control. Helps you drive your car on the same lane when on highways. Makes it much less tiring.

Bohaska May 31, 2024, 1:09 PM
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in reply to: dreeves’s comment on: dreeves’s Shortform
Not necessarily related to your main point, but you could have downloaded a markdown-based text editor and pasting what you copied into it, and they’ll convert the text to Markdown, which Discord uses. A couple of them should support automatic formatting of HTML text to Markdown.
For example, I copied a portion of the article and pasted it into Obsidian (a markdown-based note system), and it formatted the text into Markdown for me. This is what it looked like in Discord:

Discord only supports the first 3 levels of headings so the subheading doesn’t format, but everything else is fine. When I compared it with your richtext editor, it matched perfectly.

Bohaska May 27, 2024, 7:48 AM
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in reply to: Archimedes’s comment on: Level up your spreadsheeting
True, but that’s because the author is writing about working with Google Sheets, not Excel.