I’m idly curious how many people working for the USFG a) know what 10^26 is
b) know what a floating point operation is
c) can go to a blackboard and calculate how many floating point operations, say, Google Search probably uses within 6 orders of magnitude. (Not a criticism.)
@patio11
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US Government Workers’ Understanding of Floating Point Operations
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Clarity in reasoning: From thought to written expression
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I don’t usually find myself in debater mode. “Will I believe this after I set forth my reasons in detail?” or “Does the written artifact *read* clearly after it has been taken out of the probabilistic networked soup in my head and reduced to a linear, bounded flow of English?”
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AI automates content creation replacing manual writing tasks
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One of my old hacks used to be “Write one to throw away” and now I don’t even have to write it! I’ve got someone who will write literally infinite amount of good-enough-to-throw-away at any time!
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First attempt misspelled things but accepted feedback quickly
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The first attempt put two Is into the word “things” but it was amenable to feedback, but I didn’t want to spend ten minutes on the joke where one would do.
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AI Alignment Problem and Font Kerning Humor
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This would solve the AI alignment problem, which is the difficulty of getting sufficiently complicated vector math to understand kerning. /s
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Community Normalization Drives Interesting Innovation Adoption
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"Most people don't do interesting things, unless they're in a community where that thing is normalized" – @slatestarcodex I found this extremely truthy and triggered some correlaries that I don't see talked about much:
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Emergent Features of AI Systems and Social Awareness
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In my bleaker moments, I almost think that those are emergent features of the system. “Are you sufficiently socially aware that you can discover the true rules of an important game whose stated rules are a lie, or will you be a real pain in the keister to work with?”
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Self-modification bureaucratic compliance in AI systems
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I have had to heaaaaaaaaaaaaaavily self-modify over the years to give the bureaucracy what it wants as opposed to what it asks for.
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Information Asymmetry in Health Insurance and AI Ethics
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It suggests you have an informational edge as to your near term health outcomes over the insurance company, either because those outcomes are within your control or for another reason.
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Book Value Limitations for Software Company Valuations
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The book value for a software company (assets minus liabilities equals equity) will almost always fall far short of the true economic value, and nobody would use that for e.g. investing decisions in a small company, but it is “just real enough” to quickly handwave away a request.