philip_b

• philip_bMay 19, 2024, 10:23 AM

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  in reply to: Johannes C. Mayer’s comment on: Fund me please—I Work so Hard that my Feet start Bleed­ing and I Need to In­fil­trate University

  Replied in PM.

• philip_bMay 19, 2024, 5:27 AM

  2 points

  10

  on: Fund me please—I Work so Hard that my Feet start Bleed­ing and I Need to In­fil­trate University

  I would like to make a recommendation to Johannes that he should try to write and post content in a way that invokes less feelings of cringe in people. I know it does invoke that because I personally feel cringe.

  Still, I think that there isn’t much objectively bad about this post. I’m not saying the post is very good or convincing. I think its style is super weird but that should be considered to be okay in this community. These thoughts remind me of something Scott Alexander once wrote—that sometimes he hears someone say true but low status things—and his automatic thoughts are about how the person must be stupid to say something like that, and he has to consciously remind himself that what was said is actually true.

  Also, all these thoughts about this social reality sadden me a little—why oh why is AI safety such a status-concerned and “serious business” area nowadays?

• philip_bMay 16, 2024, 8:53 AM

  1 point

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  on: Why you should learn a mu­si­cal instrument

  I’ve been learning to play diatonic harmonica for the last 2 years. This is my first instrument and I can confirm that learning an instrument (and music theory) is a lot of fun and it has also taught me some new things about how to learn things in general.

• philip_bMay 16, 2024, 8:49 AM

  2 points

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  on: Do you be­lieve in hun­dred dol­lar bills ly­ing on the ground? Con­sider humming

  I hum all the time anyway.

• philip_bMay 10, 2024, 5:49 AM

  8 points

  −3

  on: Dyslucksia

  Unless I don’t recognize the sounds. It’s like asking me to beatbox the last 5 seconds of the gurgling of a nearby river. How the fudge would I do that?

  Wait, are there people who can do that?

  I think that’s pretty easy :)

• philip_bApr 20, 2024, 8:55 AM

  −5 points

  5

  on: The power of finite and the weak­ness of in­finite bi­nary point numbers

  Please go, study math fundamentals properly, and then come back. What you wrote doesn’t make much sense.

• philip_bJan 22, 2024, 1:26 PM

  4 points

  −1

  on: Cat­e­gory theory

  I think this last edit is bad.

• philip_bDec 27, 2023, 3:33 PM

  2 points

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  in reply to: johnswentworth’s comment on: john­swent­worth’s Shortform

  Is there any “native” textbook that is pragmatic and explains how to use bayesian in practice (perhaps in some narrow domain)?

• philip_bOct 29, 2023, 1:46 PM

  4 points

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  on: Wire­head­ing and mis­al­ign­ment by com­po­si­tion on NetHack

  Did the model randomly stumble upon this strategy? Or was there an idea pitched by the language model, something like “hey, what if we try to hallucinate and maybe we can hack the game that way”?

• philip_bOct 12, 2023, 5:20 PM

  0 points

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  in reply to: jefftk’s comment on: PortAu­dio M1 Latency

  Are you able to play sounds using other programs (e.g. open a YouTube video in the background) while getting great latency in reaper or in something similar to reaper?

• philip_bOct 12, 2023, 5:47 AM

  0 points

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  on: PortAu­dio M1 Latency

  I’ve been thinking of buying an M1 MacBook because everyone says that Apple’s sound system is great and works out of the box correctly with low latency and no problems, unlike Windows+Wasapi, Windows+ASIO, and Linux. I want to use it for music stuff without an external audio interface. How true is this and would you recommend it?

• philip_bOct 12, 2023, 5:45 AM

  2 points

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  in reply to: luciaquirke’s comment on: lu­ci­aquirke’s Shortform

  You says Vast.AI is the “most reliable provider”. In my experience, it’s an unreliable mess with sometimes buggy not properly working servers and non-existent support service. I will also say the same about runpod.io. On the other hand, lambdalabs had been very reliable in my experience and has a much better UX. The main problem with LambdaLabs is that nowadays it happens pretty often that it has no available servers.

• philip_bOct 2, 2023, 2:35 PM

  1 point

  1

  on: Re­vis­it­ing the Man­i­fold Hypothesis

  This sounds similar to whether a contemporary machine learning model can break a cryptographic cipher, a hash function, or something like that.

• philip_bMay 15, 2023, 4:39 AM

  13 points

  6

  on: The Light­cone The­o­rem: A Bet­ter Foun­da­tion For Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tion?

  Can you formulate the theorem statement in a precise and self-sufficient way that is usually used in textbooks and papers so that a reader can understand it just by reading it and looking up the used definitions?

• philip_bMar 22, 2023, 8:37 AM

  8 points

  4

  on: [Linkpost] GatesNotes: The Age of AI has begun

  I have a kinda-unrelated question. Does Bill Gates write gatesnotes completely himself just because he wants? Or is this a marketing/​pr thing and is written by other people? If it’s the former, then I want to read it. If it’s the latter, I don’t.

• philip_bDec 15, 2022, 4:16 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: Johannes C. Mayer’s comment on: Jo­hannes C. Mayer’s Shortform

  Do you mean “What do you want me to do” in the tone of voice that means “There’s nothing to do here, bugger off”? Or do you mean “What do you want me to do?” in the tone of voice that means “I’m ready to help with this. What should I do to remedy the problem?”?

• philip_bDec 15, 2022, 3:58 PM

  1 point

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  on: Ba­sic build­ing blocks of de­pen­dent type theory

  I have recently read The Little Typer by Friedman and Christiansen. I suspect that this book can serve as an introduction similarly to this (planned, so far) sequence of posts. However, the book is not concise at all.

• philip_bDec 2, 2022, 3:36 PM

  2 points

  1

  on: Jailbreak­ing ChatGPT on Re­lease Day

  Are those instructions for making a Molotov cocktail and for hotwiring a car real? They look like something someone who’s only seen it done in movies would do. Same question for methamphetamine, except that recipe looks more plausible.

• philip_bNov 20, 2022, 10:01 PM

  2 points

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  on: Re­fac­tor­ing My­self: 4 Years Later

  Thanks for writing this update! I think your English skills have improved a lot.

• philip_bNov 15, 2022, 7:39 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: Pausecafe’s comment on: Help Me Re­fac­tor My­self I am Lost

  I’ve just read your previous two posts. I, too, will be interested to read another post of yours.