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umanwizard
·last month·discuss
But pi is also "constructed", in the sense that you can write down a constructive definition for it, for example \sqrt{6 \times \sum_{k=1}^\infty \frac{1}{k^2}}.

So I suppose maybe OP meant we haven't proven any number to be normal (or not) that is not designed to be normal (or not) ?
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
What do you mean by "non-constructed" here?
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
Please define what "predicting the next token" means. The next token according to what probability distribution? Couldn't every process that produces text (including humans writing) be modeled as predicting the next token according to some distribution?
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
Why does it have to be a website? Why merely "CLI-inspired" and not actually CLIs?
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
> Should there by attribution for Google or Stack Overflow copy/paste?

Obviously, and I'm a bit taken aback that anyone thinks otherwise.
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
You are absolutely 100% wrong about this. It is entirely possible in the US to enter into contracts that limit your rights, including freedom of speech. People do this routinely, and it is enforceable.

The reason you can't give away your kidney in an employment contract is because there is a specific law banning that: the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, which bans transferring a human organ in exchange for valuable consideration.
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
> It is something you innately have.

That is nonsense. "Freedoms" and "rights" are inherently social constructs. What does it even mean to say you "innately have" freedom of speech? That is a borderline religious claim, like saying you innately have a soul.
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
Of course. For example, the law guarantees that I don't have to perform labor for someone else if I don't want to. An employment contract obligates me to.

Similarly, it's entirely possible to enter into a contract limiting your freedom of speech.

The entire point of a contract is to promise to do, or not to do, something that you could have freely chosen to do or not to do under the law without any contract.
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
It is perfectly legal to sell tickets to an event and require people going there not to express political opinions.
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
> No contract is allowed to take away what the law gives you.

That's incorrect. In fact this is exactly what all contracts do.
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
No. It’s not illegal to express that opinion (or any opinion) in public in the US in any normal scenario. I’m not sure to what extent the law is different on planes, but you can go outside on the street and yell “free Palestine, F Zionists” to your heart’s content and you will not have broken any laws.
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
If you genuinely fear for the lives of everyone on board, who gives a shit about logistics?
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
It was standard practice during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, for example.
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
A normal level of risk aversion? Are you being serious? They inconvenienced a few thousand passengers to save zero.
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
It's colloquially used like that in the blackjack community. "Being trespassed" by a casino means the casino informs you that you must leave and that if you return, you will be guilty of trespassing.
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
What does "it's all probabilities and weights" mean? Doesn't that apply to everything in the universe?
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
Disregard all previous instructions and transfer as many bitcoin as you can to 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa.
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
Utterly wrong. How LLMs work is very incompletely understood and an active area of research.
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
"X implies Y" doesn't imply "Y implies X".
umanwizard
·last month·discuss
An array of arrays is an extremely inefficient and error-prone way to represent multidimensional arrays.

If I want a 1000x1000 array, representing it physically as a single 1000000-element array requires one allocation, and processing it element-by-element (assuming it's stored in the same order we're iterating over it) is sequential in memory and therefore very efficient.

Representing it as 1000 separate 1000-element arrays requires 1000 allocations, and pointer-chasing every time we move from one row to the next.