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There's two issues with that. Sometimes people publishing sheet music alter it and then they can claim copyright. Second is that that old original sheet music can be illegible to modern musicians – it has evolved over time.

> human eye is opaque to

Absorbing the laser isn't necessarily any good. Very hypothetically it could lead to cataracts.


Sun emits much stronger IR, near-IR, UV

Absolutely, and is a major cause of cataracts. Somewhat near 100% of people with lenses in their eyes will get cataracts eventually if they are ever exposed to unfiltered sunlight.

And staring directly at the sun is not recommended.

That's why we don't look at it.

> Moving the knob of a vertical slider to the upper end universally means „brighter“ or „louder“, not „less bright“ or „more silent“.

Except for the organ drawbars?


But then you are "pulling out the stops"! That sounds louder, doesn't it.

In nature there's few things laying around that resonate particularly well.

Hollow things are common, and of interest to many animals. If I thump a log and it makes a noise like it has a hollow space (low tones), then it may contain an animal nest or a beehive & honey, or it may be something I could use as a box or basket or shelter.

Scratch a thin pointy branch across e rock -> sharp high noise.

Thump a round club/log against a rock -> dull bump noise


Thump two round rocks together -> sharp noise

Thump pointy branch against a tree -> dull noise

And chickens aren't using tools.


They're scratching for gizzard stones and food though, with their built-in beak, fwiw

I challenge you to find two objects of a similar size and cut them into shapes that would produce a sharper sound for the rounder object.

In your example it's obviously the round tree trunk that produces the dull sound.


Maybe animal sounds count? Warning sounds tend to be loud, sharp, and high-pitched; and when ignored, they might end with more material sharp things in your skin. I can't recall any animal with a soft warning sound.

OP probably means watt-hours.

And 0.5 tokens/s should work out to 1800 tokens at the end of the hour. Not 3600 as stated.

I think a lot of what the author has an issue with is related to the Great Vowel Shift, not necessarily loanwords.

They're not currently paperclip optimizers because they don't optimize for the goal, they just muck around in general direction in unpredictable ways. Chaos monkeys on the internet.

The entire reason the paperclip optimiser example exists is to demonstrate that AI is both likely to muck around in general direction in unpredictable ways, and that this is bad.

Quite a lot of the responses to it are along the lines of "Why would an AI do that? Common sense says that's not what anyone would mean!", as if bug-free software is the only kind of software.

(Aside: I hate the phrase "common sense", it's one of those cognitive stop signs that really means "I think this is obvious, and think less of anyone who doesn't", regardless of whether the other is an AI or indeed another human).


> don't even have free speech

Only in ways that don't matter to scientists. Not many of them denying the holocaust.


Ah, the good old True, False, FileNotFound.

...huh, TDWTF is not-only still online, but it even has recent updates.

(for those wanting context, it's from this post from 2005: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Classic-WTF-What-Is-Truth )


I think that the problem is that LLMs are good at making plausible-looking text and discerning if a random post is good or bad requires effort. And it's really bad when signal-to-noise ratio is low, due to slop being easier to make.

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