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Ask Claude or ChatGPT the wrong thing and you’ll get a “I can’t help you with that request”.
Sometimes the refusal makes sense. Sometimes it doesn’t. Either way it raises the question: can the average person get a model that just… doesn’t? By “average person,” I mean the average LLM enthusiast.
The first thing that comes to mind is what people have been doing sinc...
Despite showing promise for studying the internals of neural networks, Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) do some puzzling things, like feature-splitting, feature-abso...
Previous analyses likely anchored on mass drivers(costly, heavy) rather than sling launchers or ignored the possibility of launching and storing projectiles in parking orbits for later strikes. Both of these changes make lunar bombardment much more practical.
centrifuge/sling based launch system rather than a mass drivernon-suspicious materials (composites, electric motors...The 1999 cult classic Boondock Saints has an unforgettable scene about halfway through the movie where the FBI agent (played by Willem Dafoe) hot on the Saints’ trai...
tl,dr: ground rent from fossil fuels is much greater than the negative externality costs of greenhouse gases, implying it is realistic that we can neutralize all emissions in the near future without any further economic deadweight or the need to subsidize other energy sources.
The ground rent from fossil fuels represents a massive, poorly managed source of wealth, its e...