I keep seeing all kinds of crazy reports about people's experiences with GPT-3, so I figured that I'd collect a thread of them.

This is disturbing.

Recently there's been lots of interest in alternatives to law enforcement. Many have also expressed concern about recent increases in violent crime. So: what non-law enforcement policies/programs have been shown specifically to reduce *violent crime*? A thread:

E.g., giving kids summer jobs, which reduce violent youth crime not only during the period of the summer job, but also afterwards Dr. Alicia Sasser Modestino: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Some video games actually do work as effective tests of fluid intelligence. ⌨️Performance in MOBAs like League of Legends and Dota correlates with intelligence 🎮Performance in first-person shooters like Battlefield 3, Destiny, and (likely) Fortnite don't show the same pattern

Free job hunting advice from a tenured professor. 1. save your CV in multiple places. I save mine on a floppy disk and print out copies on my dot matrix printer. 2. Make sure the little tape in your answering machine is rewound in case you get called with an offer. 1/4

You might have heard that Conway's Game of Life is Turing complete. But what most people who are familiar with the game don't know, is what that *truly* entails. That it is possible to create Life ...within Life itself. ⠠⠵ youtube.com/watch?v=Kk2MH9…

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Information Design Rules Everything Around Me x.com/TObscurantist/…

Math patch notes (2.3): -added more solutions to Diophantine equation x^n+y^n=z^n -the set of all sets that do not contain themselves placed out of bounds, eliminating barber exploit -inductive processes now halt after 2^100 steps -df/dx now a fraction

Newcomb’s problem is just a standard time consistency problem basilhalperin.com/essays/newcomb… I argue the typical description of Newcomb’s problem is confusing only because it unintentionally conflates *two different possible points in time* from which you could make your choice

so good astralcodexten.substack.com/p/idol-words?s…

set theorist who is so excited they cannot contain themself

Have you seen Bertrand Russell's "16 Questions on the Assassination"? Mind-blowing for me when I first read it personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Phil…