rimwolf.bsky.social
Yes, I'm a real person, checking out Bluesky.
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betraying (10)
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The least surprising explanation would be that Meta/Facebook lies about account deletion.
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(Also we pronounce it very differently.)
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The abuser in this case is cultural, not biological, evolution. By most accounts hunter-gatherers don't spend that much of their time providing for themselves, especially if they haven't been forced into marginal ecosystems. But then agriculture and then industrization got invented...
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In English "travail" connotes hard or painful work.
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clampers (8)
SOED says it's chiefly Scottish, with various senses having nothing to do with clamps, e.g. "walk or step heavily or noisily."
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Yeah, the plantation owners or managers in the US were "planters".
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Some, but not all, of the valid "-id" words have a corresponding "-idity" word.
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Galaxy Quest
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WTAF Politico!?
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resurgent (9)
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Mandarin V
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I would say "... in this country."
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Does it worry that it might just be a brain in a jar?
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recursive (9);
maybe recursivity (11), which at least wictionary likes
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It's a blindness of the current Dem leadership to concentrate solely on the economic issues. Most people are well aware that the norms and values of our political system are under severe attack, the silence of the party on this issue is uninspiring, to say the least.
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Have you been reading Dennett?
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Actually I'm a dog. :)
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Can *humans* think, know, etc.? We've got a long history of investigating that question. Operant conditioning (which training of LLMs seems to boil down to) isn't one of generally accepted answers.
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* answering word problems wrong if the names of the subjects ("Jack gives Jill a pail of water ...") are changed from public sources.
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I'm going by some of the obvious failures of LLMs reported in the last few months:
* wrong answer to "how many Rs in 'strawberry'"
* answering B correctly to "who is A's mother" but not A (or any other correct answer) to "who is B's child", for some celebs A and B
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(I'm not sure your contentious post was directed at me, but those are my cards on the table.)
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I highly recommend his book "Foundations of Language", an excellent introduction to his ideas and to linguistics and language in general.
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My take is informed by Ray Jackendoff's studies of semantics, that spoken/written language is basically a way of transferring semantic structures ("ideas", say) from one mind to another. LLMs find a lot of structure in their sources, but evidently nothing like semantic structure.
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An LLM quite literally has no idea what it's talking about.
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The level of fascism is already too high, and the Democratic Party (qua party) hasn't done anything to help.
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I remember when Google search was actually useful. They're one of the prime examples of enshittification.
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Since it's an Executive Order, it means English is the official language of the executive branch of the American federal government. So it doesn't apply to the federal judiciary, state governments, or non-governmental organizations (though you know the Trumpistas are gonna try.)
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Right. I think what's going on is that the intonation of "I am here" is "I am HERE" -- 'am' is unstressed and can be pasted on ("cliticized") to the stressed 'I' to produce "I'm".
But the intonation of "here I am" is "HERE i AM" -- "am" is stessed so can't be shortened.
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Mimmoths! (Any Girl Genius fans here?)
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Harry Reid's line was "She's always there for you when you don't need her."