This reminds me of Ken Thompson’s speech on trusting trust. The recursive/meta nature of it all has helped me explain to those unfamiliar that this is such a waste of time. Education is where it’s at, but I’m preaching to the choir here on HN.
Trying to restrict the non-printed ICs you'd connect to your 3D printed parts would be even dumber. There's a zillion things that can slam out bits and control a stepper motor.
you can build a 3d printer out of general-purpose electronic bits, anything they tried to ban would send ripples into countless other industries that are completely unrelated to each other or 3d printing.
By "general-purpose" I mean that there's no components that are 3d-printer specific; motor controllers and microcontrollers and voltage regulators and all the various jellybean parts. And even if there were any, they could easily be replaced with general-purpose components.
>The anxiety creeps in: What if they have removal? Should I really commit this early?
>However, anxiety kicks in: What if they have instant-speed removal or a combat trick?
It's also interesting that it doesn't seem to be able to understand why things are happening. It attacks with Gran-Gran (attacking taps the creature), which says, "Whenever Gran-Gran becomes tapped, draw a card, then discard a card." Its next thought is:
>Interesting — there's an "Ability" on the stack asking me to select a card to discard. This must be from one of the opponent's cards. Looking at their graveyard, they played Spider-Sense and Abandon Attachments. The Ability might be from something else or a triggered ability.
The anxiety is coming from the "worrier" personality. Players are combination of a model version + a small additional "personality" prompt - in this case (https://mage-bench.com/games/game_20260217_075450_g8/), "Worrier". That's why the player name is "Haiku Worrier". The personality is _supposed_ to just impact what it says in chat (not its internal reasoning), but I haven't been able to make small models consistently understand that distinction so far.
The Gran-Gran thing looks more like a bug in my harness code than a fundamental shortcoming of the LLM. Abilities-on-the-stack are at the top of my "things where the harness seems pretty janky and I need to investigate" list. Opus would probably be able to figure it out, though.
That's the best way to do it. Otherwise all the money will go to the rich brat children of politicians/etc who are socially connected to whoever they put on the selection committees.
Rich parents are masters of helping their children exploit the system in as many of the thousands of ways that exist. A few hundred here, another hundred there, maybe some one-off thousands here.
In most of the world, rich people are rich because they are good at exploiting government funds. It's a lifestyle.
Mostly because the kind of people who run and advocate for programs like this are actively hostile to the idea of merit. Prioritizing talented people would be antithetical to them.
Prioritizing merit would be fine if there was some way to measure merit empirically, and if that measure couldn't be gamed by anybody with money and/or connections. But this is for artists, so...
And thinks that s/he's a winner and the stuff s/he enjoys is made by winners, and the stuff s/he doesn't like is made by losers. Merit, universal, objective = ME; Worthless, narcissistic, special interest = YOU.
>An advertising-based business model would introduce incentives that could work against this principle.
I agree with this - I'm not so much worried that ChatGPT is going to silently insert advertising copy into model answers. I'm worried that advertising alongside answers creates bad incentives that then drive future model development. We saw Google Search go down this path.
>By contrast, intrinsic mortality stems from processes originating within the body, including genetic mutations, age-related diseases, and the decline of physiological function with age
So we put genetic diseases in the bucket of intrinsic mortality and then found that intrinsic mortality has a heritable component?
Yeah this paper came across to me basically as "if you ignore environmental causes of death, the heritability of death goes up"... which seems kind of circular.
Not necessarily. It could be the case that randomness plays a huge part in non-environmental caused deaths, and if that were the case we would see very little heritability.
No, you randomly get cancer since cancerous mutations happens randomly. Environment can just affect chance of getting cancer, it doesn't give you cancer directly and there is no way to completely avoid cancer risk.
For example even if you live the best life possible you will still have an inherent cancer risk based on your genes and that affects the random chance of you getting cancer, it isn't a clock that says exactly when cancer will happen.
I really like everything Uri Alon (last author) publishes, but these types of studies have a history of inflating genetic contributions to phenotypes. Decoupling genetics from environment is not easy as they are both highly correlated.
In fact, the article discussion states: "Limitations of this study include reliance on assumptions of the twin design, such as the equal environment assumption". My take on this is that the main result of the article is probably true, but the 50% figure is likely to be inflated.
I hit the jackpot with the ultrasound technician who spoke passionately about what she believed about lifestyle risk for cardiovascular conditions and she believed quite strongly that heart disease runs in families more because lifestyle runs in families than because of genetics. She's not at the top of the medical totem pole but I can say she inspired me to take responsibility for my health than the specialist who I talked to about the results.
If the environment was significantly more varied in health impact between twin comparisons than expected, then the correlations they found under estimate the genetic component.
Some randomness is part of the signal being studied, and some is undesired measurement noise to be controlled for. And it is only the latter that is beneficial to be carefully removed or otherwise controlled for.
There's no prior reason to expect the cited conditions to have any specific relation to genetics. Any of them could easily be caused or accelerated by environmental conditions.
Yeah, it’s important to note that heritability is a statistic about today’s population, not a deep natural parameter that tells you about causality. Heritability of smoking went up when smoking became less socially approved, for example.
I am somewhat surprised that the constitution includes points to the effect of "don't do stuff that would embarrass Anthropic". That seems like a deviation from Anthropic's views about what constitutes model alignment and safety. Anthropic's research has shown that this sort of training leaks across contexts (e.g. a model trained to write bugs in code will also adopt an "evil" persona elsewhere). I would have expected Anthropic to go out of its way to avoid inducing the model to scheme about PR appearances when formulating its answers.
I think the actual problem here is that Opus 4.5 is actually pretty smart, and it is perfectly capable of explaining how PR disasters work and why that might be bad for Anthropic and Claude.
So Anthropic is describing a true fact about the situation, a fact that Claude could also figure out on its own.
So I read these sections as Anthropic basically being honest with Claude: "You know and we know that we can't ignore these things. But we want to model good behavior ourselves, and so we will tell you the truth: PR actually matters."
If Anthropic instead engaged in clear hypocrisy with Claude, would the model learn that it should lie about its motives?
As long as PR is a real thing in the world, I figure it's worth admitting it.
A (charitable) interpretation of this is that the model understands "stuff that would embarrass Anthropic" to just be code for "bad/unhelpful/offensive behavior".
e.g. guiding against behavior to "write highly discriminatory jokes or playact as a controversial figure in a way that could be hurtful and lead to public embarrassment for Anthropic"
In this sentence, Anthropic makes clear that "be hurtful" and "lead to public embarrassment" are separate and distinct. Otherwise it would not be necessary to specify both. I don't think this is the signal they should be sending the model.
Yeah, both directly and indirectly. Over time, "sponsored links" became more and more visually indistinguishable form organic results, and advertising incentives drove changes to the search algorithm.
Considering that I have reported a Google ad that I deem political and Google does not, that I'm going to appeal because as a eu citizen I can do so, that they'll most likely refuse the appeal and I'm ready to bring this to the relevant Italian authority, yes
A few days ago I read a newspaper article about Israel's government using ads to spread its propaganda. In eu, you have to follow some rules if you want to do so. These rules are not followed. Combined with the fact that ads might not be distinguished easily by average users, I feel that Google search results can be influenced by ads
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