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That’s the #2 route: selling a lot of books on how to get rich.

Dr. Burry! If the investors withdraw, what’s gonna happen here? Are we done?

Honestly, I don’t know! The… the… The bonds aren’t going down! They won’t move! It’s possible that we are in a completely fraudulent system.

Or… you’re, you’re wrong.

Sure! It’s possible, I just don’t know how!

One part of that is just a story. As for the other part: I’m glad Frodo made it with help from his friends.

The question is, how many of the large ships like tankers and container ships are there? Not something you replace next week.

So then this is yet another attempt to get investors onboard with something that might not exist solely to make him money?

Clearly, in his part he says they don’t have much time, so they must have been successful and then had time later.

They were new meat, ignorant thanks to failing schools and parents, and the conservative echo chamber was right there to give them something to grab onto, just like the Boomers designed it to do.

I’m most upset at my fellow Gen-Xs. My first taste of Facebook long ago showed me how so many of them completely went stupid. I knew these people, and yet some of the shit I saw them post. So it’s the Boomers’ fault, but damn, we dropped the balls too.

The generation thing is messy and inaccurate, and regionally shifted too because some people even as Millennials didn’t have access to things that characterize that generation. But as a trend yes, you were part of the last Gen-X, AND shared a lot of the Millennial aspects as you grew up with things Gen-X didn’t even dream about.

We Gen-X saw both a broken world but had hope of change (a lot of it was misleading, but we didn’t know then). You had that same hope, but saw problems on the horizon. Millennials were the first to see the hope was more propaganda and gaslighting than anything, and Gen Z… yeah, I feel bad for you guys, what a mess you grew into.

I.e., it was always messed up, they just were able to lie better back then. Now they’re not even trying, they just shrug and laugh.

Xennials not represented there (part of why they’re part Gen-X, never recognized). They have one foot in each generation, a group growing up in a small gap of time where they were part of before and after the technological swing. Shows how the explosion of tech created its own subset of generation.

Next year. Definitely on the rise.

As in longer videos, right? Because we’ve had the shorter ones for years now, just the quality had been lacking. Didn’t matter in putting them out there. As Sagan said, not all bits have equal value.

Surprising there isn’t a larger spike in recent years, but I guess even AI slop has trouble competing with human slop.

I just wish we had gotten to this state of things in a better way. Maybe it couldn’t have happened, but at least then we wouldn’t know what we missed and still have what we’ve lost.

My mind is still blown in how words and concepts can be translated into high dimensional vertexes and through the math of their position and direction retain their meanings, and even be changed into the correct alternate versions by doing calculations on them. That doesn’t mean the vectors understand what they represent, but there’s some core level of meaning there. Same with LLMs. No thinking, they screw up stuff that a reasoning being would figure out. Yet there’s something in even the simplest local model that is far more than just autocompleting sentences. That is part of the mechanics, but not nearly enough to describe it.

I think that would depend on the knowledge the subject had before entering the testing scenario

That was my main point on this test being an interesting question starter, but not being conclusive enough because we don’t know. The subjects were purposefully random and not evaluated before the test.

fractions because it’s something that everyone who’s gone through the public education system should know

Yes, well. I don’t think I need to comment on how bad the US system has become. I wonder how much higher the assisted people did while they had the help compared to others?

Faces felony charges, but the federal department he works for passed questions to the local authorities.

They dumped him on someone else to avoid accountability. Nice. Sounds like a Trump organization.

They weren’t measuring the math ability levels, but the changes in what those skills were per individual. But for the assisted ones, we don’t know what they started with, so there’s no base level to compare. If they’re comparing them with the others, then that’s a problem in the study since we’re not measuring their math abilities.

What would a companion study reveal that does the same thing for the math part but just offers calculators instead? Probably the same? If it was dramatically different then there’d be a case that LLMs are affecting the result in some other way and it’s not just the human nature of leaning on what they lost. Or what if that person had a tutor/help with them but they left for the rest of the test? Should be similar results, right?

As I’ve said before, the abilities of the ones with ChatGPT assist don’t seem to be known, as they started off with help. The assumption is that they might on average be the same as the others, but we don’t know that. A simple fix to start is to offer the LLM help in the middle of the test for them, see how the curve of ability goes up and down, and compare before and after.

Not answering the rest, I was more interested in the study and what it was claiming and not arguing about missing context of commentary. I think the study may be right in suggesting people today have more trouble understanding things than they used to, but it’s far deeper and older than LLMs. They are just the latest part of the bigger problem.

Clearly aren’t believers in homeopathy. Unless they’re thinking that more has less effect…