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New comment by topaz0 in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

topaz0 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:34:57 +0000

Interesting point I guess, much to consider

New comment by topaz0 in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

topaz0 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:55:34 +0000

To be clear, I am not agreeing that people only upvote their favorite billionaires, just that if this particular thing was done by a Chinese model it would not have gotten the same attention

New comment by topaz0 in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

topaz0 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:37:34 +0000

Yeah

New comment by topaz0 in "98% isn't much"

topaz0 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:59:39 +0000

Log odds ratios are less misleading. Or at least odds ratios.

New comment by topaz0 in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

topaz0 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:07:12 +0000

Road safety is a social good -- it depends on the cooperation of everyone on the road. Choosing to put down your phone or slowing down make everyone safer, including you. Choosing a bigger car makes everyone less safe except you, who get marginally more safe. It's obviously antisocial and the kind of choice that makes the world worse for everyone.

New comment by topaz0 in "You can't unit test for taste"

topaz0 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:25:43 +0000

Appreciating that there are some benefits is differwnt from adhering to the church

New comment by topaz0 in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

topaz0 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:51:05 +0000

It's not a question of whether it's biased to say that, rather whether it would tend to bias the model's response (e.g. toward weighting the stated downsides as more imported than the implicit upsides). But that said, choosing to highlight particular facts while leaving others silent is a very common sign of bias.

New comment by topaz0 in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

topaz0 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:33:12 +0000

The other issue is that it is going to depend very strongly on how you ask.

New comment by topaz0 in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

topaz0 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:06:54 +0000

It's an antisocial, even solipsistic way to do that. Offense evidently intended, even if you convince yourself it's not.

New comment by topaz0 in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

topaz0 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:32:49 +0000

You decrease the risk to you but you dramatically increase the risk to other people, especially pedestrians. The total deaths go up.

New comment by topaz0 in "Solving Wordle using information theory"

topaz0 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:10:30 +0000

The only virtuous goal is to type some fun words imo.

New comment by topaz0 in "My Mathematical Regression"

topaz0 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:35:58 +0000

Database problems are math problems too.

New comment by topaz0 in "AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A"

topaz0 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:36:44 +0000

If you look at his GitHub it does seem like he's obsessed with the tools

New comment by topaz0 in "Dopamine Fracking"

topaz0 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:31:02 +0000

Since I can't upvote @thrance's reply, I'll second it here: certainly complaints about postmodernism date to the 90s or earlier and fear of Marxism is as old as Marx (less sure about when "cultural Marxism" specifically became a scare-term of art)

New comment by topaz0 in "Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them"

topaz0 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:42:07 +0000

By "word on the street" do you mean "word that they are leaking to the press so they get favorable coverage, and based based on opaque and questionable accounting"?

New comment by topaz0 in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

topaz0 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:16:11 +0000

If we're nitpicking metaphors I think it's more accurate to say it's like they were taking requests to rekey the lock on your door.

New comment by topaz0 in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

topaz0 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:15:56 +0000

Individuality is not to be tolerated.

New comment by topaz0 in "Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers"

topaz0 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:57:00 +0000

Nice work. I guess "vast majority" is overstating the case, but majority anyway.

New comment by topaz0 in "Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers"

topaz0 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:02:22 +0000

But also all of their multiples. I suspect that those account for the vast majority.

New comment by topaz0 in "Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers"

topaz0 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:16:44 +0000

The 2^64 in gps argument comes from the number of pairs of 32 bit numbers, not from the upper bound of multiplying two 32 bit numbers. So for the addition case the symmetry argument is still only good enough to get you down to about 2^63, which doesn't help you at all because you have much stronger information from the upper bound.