PokerPirate
20d ago
I find your comment nonsensical.
The great cathedrals were built by men who had no concept of literature
You don't consider the bible "literature"?
All of my civilizational enemies are well-read.
The elite of both the red and blue tribe are well read, they just read different things and want to be known for reading different things. OP has good examples of blue-tribe reading, so here's some examples of red-tribe coded reading: the Bible, ancient greek plays, Shakepseare, John Locke, Federalist Papers, Heinlein, Tom Clancy, Little House on the Prairy.
PokerPirate
20d ago
Hahaha! You made my day :)
PokerPirate
20d ago
Yes. I was a naval academy graduate, but am now a pacifist.
PokerPirate
20d ago
A major purpose of the Iran War is formation of combat leaders. I haven't seen anyone else mention this elsewhere. But it is quite explicit within the military officer hierarchy that one of the main reasons we invade for "funsies" is to keep us in practice for when we actually "need" to invade someone for real.
PokerPirate
20d ago
I believe your link goes to a problem from the arc-agi-1 dataset, not the arc-agi-3. The former is basically "solved" at this point.
PokerPirate
20d ago
The callousness is the point, isn't it? No one self-labels as "I want to bomb brown people". It's an accusation against other people that they are callous because "They want to bomb brown people." Suggesting that someone else is callous doesn't strike me as callous.
PokerPirate
21d ago
It's because they wrote a "good prompt" to get the models "thinking" in the "right way". No data leakage here.
PokerPirate
21d ago
The highest scoring AI couldn't complete more that 0.5% [on ARC-AGI-3]
It's worth pointing out that within a day, the AIs had gotten to 36%: https://www.symbolica.ai/blog/arc-agi-3.
In general, though, I agree. My take is that AIs are good at solving leetcode style problems but nothing bigger. The way to be productive with them is to know how to divide up your tasks into leetcode tasks for the AI and the non-leetcode tasks for people.
PokerPirate
22d ago
As soon as streaming became the main business it was over, because bandwidth considerations came into play, similar to the space considerations of Redbox, and it was thus impossible to keep an inventory of that size, especially when the licensing agreements were more complicated and probably required them to pay for rights even for stuff that wasn't in high demand.
It's 100% the licensing agreements that cause this shortage, and not bandwidth.
PokerPirate
22d ago
Your write ups have reminded me of someone I think the motte would enjoy learning about: Ichizo Hayashi. He was a kamikaze pilot in the Japanese Navy and---oddly---a committed Christian. He has been particularly useful to historians because he kept a diary and wrote letters to his mother about his training regimen.
Just several days before his kamikaze mission, he wrote:
The enemy's actions are being blunted. There will be victory for us. It will be the last finishing blow by our crash dives. I am happy.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. I truly can feel this keenly. I am grateful that I am living. However, it is a marvel that we are living now. Naturally we are persons who must die. I do not think to attach a reason to our dying. I only seek the enemy to make a crash dive.
I added the bold. It's a quote from the bible that is quite well known in American Christianity, and widely recited by American chaplains on the eve of deployments. It still boggles my mind that this young Japanese man found meaning in his kamikaze mission via Christianity. And that Christians today who would otherwise find Hayashi incredibly foreign and evil derive the same meaning for the same work but an "enemy" cause.
This type of primary source history from the Japanese side is probably not what your actually interested in reading right now, but the book I read about this is Listen to the Voices from the Sea. It's got a lot more of Hayashi's diary entries and a handful of other authors as well.
PokerPirate
25d ago
There's also US nuclear weapons in Germany. They're under a shared US-NATO command structure. German officers are nominally in charge of delivering these weapons in a time of war. Does that mean Germany "possesses" nuclear weapons? Only the test author knows :(
My impression is that there were lots of ambiguous questions like this where some answers could be reasonably argued either way.
PokerPirate
27d ago
I fully endorse this take.
My minor add is that there is a nice website https://fal.ai that provides easy-to-use API access to all of these video models. It is profitable and so not going away. Openrouter (https://openrouter.ai) previously only specialized in serving text models, but they have made recent experimental API improvements to add multimedia output as well.
The media APIs aren't quite as interchangeable as the text APIs, and providers are making an effort to provide some sort of moat around weird features in their APIs to make no frontier model a drop-in replacement for another frontier model. But media generation obviously isn't going away.
PokerPirate
27d ago
at common law
You use the preposition "at" here throughout your post when non-lawyer me would naively have said "in common law". Why?
I mostly agree. My point is just that elites of all belief systems read. And so saying "my civilizational enemies are all well-read" as @coffee_enjoyer did as a way to associate reading with his out group is nonsensical.
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