I have glimpsed the glory of the True ꙮ on work PC

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AfoGGrJfuNzofpzWL/models-may-behave-differently-in-graded-episodes-a-tirade

Really liked this.

My first thought, elaborating on the exam metaphor - when I was in college, proctors served two main purposes: they would watch students to prevent cheating, and if there was a problem with the exam, they would try and fix it. I actually had a malformed question (listed a lemma that was false as stated) on an exam once and had to ask the professor about it.

If results are already LLM-graded, why don't we just include the following two addenda to any RLVR question:

Then just have the LLM grader handle both. Too expensive/complex for Haiku-level graders, maybe?

Zvi asking the same questions

recently had a convo with a friend, saying how badly i’d love to go to space, and they responded with horror. this has made me realise my wishes are not universal

*decent as in well above a living wage; more to say “not a shit ton of money”

Oat milk was discovered much more recently than you may have known. Like many now-familiar technologies, it was discovered by accident during the Apollo program when NASA discovered what a zero-g environment does to goat milk.

listen. i am firmly pro-jaywalker. it is your god-given right as a pedestrian and as an American to place your body in the path of an oncoming car.

however. and i must stress that this is a request (under no circumstances am i going to hit you with my vehicle). if you are capable (young, able-bodied, etc). i do think it is prosocial to have a little bit of pep in your step. to adopt a canter and not a saunter. thank you for your attention to this matter.

I think it ought to be said explicitly that this is a promise you can't keep.

It's a mistake to talk about the etiquette and political implications of jaywalking without acknowledging the physical realities of human reaction time and vehicles' braking distance.

recently vancouver had a trans march and due to some planning fuckup(??) for 5 minutes before a police car arrived a busy intersection was held closed not by a police car but by volunteers holding signs like "road closed parade ahead pls wait 5 minutes and/or turn right and make a slight detour"

bc these were volunteers without visible guns no less than 5 drivers used the threat of vehicular manslaughter to push past into a block occupied with pedestrians, which wouldn't even get them where they wanted to go faster but got them temporarily 50m closer to where they wanted to go at risk to pedestrian lives.

this is the driver's psyche, the madness of the wheel and the gas pedal!

When sharks says they are not gonna hit you with their vehicle, they're recognizing that their class position as "motorist" has enculturated them into a system of values where "tap the gas to give the jaywalker a bit of pep in their step" is a verb accessible to them--one sharks would never reach for, but one that is within reach.

& two things are true.

"People driving cars" is not a fucking oppressor class jesus fucking christ what is WRONG with you

Anyway yeah whether or not jaywalking is morally defensible is an utterly irrelevant argument. Jaywalking is stupid. Jaywalking in a situation where there is more than zero traffic is putting your life at risk, and the circumstances where it is so absolutely vital that you get where you're going those few minutes faster that it is worth that risk to your life are few and far between. Just don't do it.

before you get mad at someone for holding a POV that seems ridiculous, it may be worthwhile to check their tags and see if they are, in fact, being ridiculous on purpose. kaiasky's tags:

Before you passive aggressively tell someone off for assuming a post presenting an opinion that is very much within the bell curve of ridiculous opinions is nonetheless being sincerely held, it may be worthwhile to check who they reblogged it from and see if the tags that indicate that opinion was not sincerely held were, in fact, visible.

admittedly I put the disclaimer in the tags bc I didn't want to break the character of my post & in that sense sorta knowingly invited the possibility of it being taken as a serious opinion. ("driverly class" "frolic in the street" is me trying to tip my hand, but reasonable to miss)

So like reply #1 clowning on me, ultimately very fair--I'd echo sharks "good habit to check if they're trolling first" but like, if someone reflexively blocked my ass for having such a stupid take. well that's well within their right and sorta the cost of being a rly good poaster. I'd be a clown if I said like "nooooo unblock me I was only pretending to have a stupid fuckin opinion".

I guess reply #2 "very much within the bell curve of sincerely held ridiculous opinions" I both understand the defensiveness (how the fuck was I supposed to know this post was stupid As A Joke.) but would generally suggest that

may be better than

shrug.

my feelings here are complicated here bc like. 1. my partner (autistic) would absolutely blank-stare at me if I said "oh obviously 'driverly class' was a clear cue that it's a joak." 2. there is very little more funny to me as writing words like 'driverly class', & in some sense the risk that somebody (you're today's lucky winner!) misinterprets it is a price I'm willing to pay for the integrity of the extremely stupid bit.

I don't really know what to do w/ the contradiction there. sorry for my part in making u read some stupid shit.

You see this sort of post a lot in left circles, and it's a very cute idea, but conservatives aren't actually that dumb. You might be able to make them nod along to what you're saying (assuming you don't hit on the big ticket culture war issues, this absolutely would not work for immigration and probably won't work for climate change), but you're not actually going to change anyone's mind like this.

Consider the opposite. A conservative wants to convince her left-wing friends to back her ideas. "Immigration is a labor issue. By reducing the number of immigrants we can increase average wages for workers." This does not work on many left-wingers.

Basically everyone who disagrees with me is a sort of dog who can be appeased by speaking in the right tone of voice

idk I feel like the value of these sort of things is. ur not gonna change anyone's voting behavior but the conversation at the bar or party or water cooler might go smoother, yknow.

listen. i am firmly pro-jaywalker. it is your god-given right as a pedestrian and as an American to place your body in the path of an oncoming car.

however. and i must stress that this is a request (under no circumstances am i going to hit you with my vehicle). if you are capable (young, able-bodied, etc). i do think it is prosocial to have a little bit of pep in your step. to adopt a canter and not a saunter. thank you for your attention to this matter.

I think it ought to be said explicitly that this is a promise you can't keep.

It's a mistake to talk about the etiquette and political implications of jaywalking without acknowledging the physical realities of human reaction time and vehicles' braking distance.

recently vancouver had a trans march and due to some planning fuckup(??) for 5 minutes before a police car arrived a busy intersection was held closed not by a police car but by volunteers holding signs like "road closed parade ahead pls wait 5 minutes and/or turn right and make a slight detour"

bc these were volunteers without visible guns no less than 5 drivers used the threat of vehicular manslaughter to push past into a block occupied with pedestrians, which wouldn't even get them where they wanted to go faster but got them temporarily 50m closer to where they wanted to go at risk to pedestrian lives.

this is the driver's psyche, the madness of the wheel and the gas pedal!

When sharks says they are not gonna hit you with their vehicle, they're recognizing that their class position as "motorist" has enculturated them into a system of values where "tap the gas to give the jaywalker a bit of pep in their step" is a verb accessible to them--one sharks would never reach for, but one that is within reach.

& two things are true.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AfoGGrJfuNzofpzWL/models-may-behave-differently-in-graded-episodes-a-tirade

the human brain is so cool, if you're tired and stressed enough, your brain will go, "don't worry, I got you" and shadows will start moving

and what's the genital situation on the shadows

oh this is my post

Smooch by KaceyM

2005

numbers if they had youtube drama

listen. i am firmly pro-jaywalker. it is your god-given right as a pedestrian and as an American to place your body in the path of an oncoming car.

however. and i must stress that this is a request (under no circumstances am i going to hit you with my vehicle). if you are capable (young, able-bodied, etc). i do think it is prosocial to have a little bit of pep in your step. to adopt a canter and not a saunter. thank you for your attention to this matter.

behold what is possibly the greatest custom-magic-related thread of all time