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I'm not alexithymic; I directly experience my emotions and have, additionally, introspective access to my preferences. However, some things manifest directly as preferences which I have been shocked to realize in my old age, were in fact emotions all along. (In rare cases these are stronger than the ones directly-felt even, despite reliably seeming on initial inspection to be simply neutral metadata).

That's right. We initially thought it might be important so that the LLM "understood" the task better, but it didn't matter much in the end. The main hyperparameters for our experiments are in train_ray.py, where you can see that we use a "token_loss_weight" of 0.

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What makes you believe that Substack is to blame and not him unpublishing it?

Self-playing Adversarial Language Game Enhances LLM Reasoning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10642

He explicitly says that the people who argue that there's no gap are mistaken to argue that. He argues for the gap being small, not nonexistent. He does not use the term "near zero" himself. 

LLMs now can also self-play in adversarial word games and it increases their performance https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10642 

"Or", in casual conversation, is typically interpreted and meant as being, implicitly, exclusive (this is whence the 'and/or' construction). It's not how "or" is used in formal logic that they would misunderstand, but rather, whether you meant it in the formal-logic sense.

Noted, thanks.

American Philosophical Association (APA) announces two $10,000 AI2050 Prizes for philosophical work related to AI, with June 23, 2024 deadline: https://dailynous.com/2024/04/25/apa-creates-new-prizes-for-philosophical-research-on-ai/

https://www.apaonline.org/page/ai2050

https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/hard-problems/

Well, it's hard to tell because most other civilizations at the required level of wealth to discover this (by which I mean both sailing and surplus enough to have people who worry about the shape of the Earth at all) could one way or another have learned it via osmosis from Greece. If you only have essentially two examples, how do you tell whether it was the one who discovered it who was unusually observant rather than the one who didn't who was unusually blind? But it's an interesting question, it might indeed be a relatively accidental thing which for some reason was accepted sooner than you would have expected (after all, sails disappearing could be explained by an Earth that's merely dome-shaped; the strongest evidence for a completely spherical shape was probably the fact that lunar eclipses feature always a perfect disc shaped shadow, and even that requires interpreting eclipses correctly, and having enough of them in the first place).