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New players can find refactoring the factory to be more difficult.

The locksmith paradox is about paying a lot for a small amount of apparent work, right?

The paradox is resolved by considering the expertise, which took a long time and much effort to acquire.

With the heist, the analogous paradox is somewhat weakened. There is hidden effort, but it’s highly specific to the actual target task.

With the locksmith, the hidden work is done on entirely separate tasks and so on, which happen to provide the necessary skills for the current target task.

True, but it depends on what you mean by “works”.

For a good life. Which is hard to quantify obviously.

Why does everyone think we use our phones too much? Are we all wrong?

I’m a strong supporter of following the science. But this is a hard thing to measure. And the effects may be fairly diffuse or accumulate over time.

Size is by far the most obvious one, at least for me.

gaming

Why are visa and Mastercard doing this?

Thirty minutes spent talking to users is worth multiple percentage points of test coverage.

Maybe they are?

Right, but it doesn’t really hold.

The likely outcomes with baking a cake are quite narrow and fairly well understood.

In terms of responsibility for what happens, I probably agree. But we still need to deal with it.

What do cakes have to do with LLMs and how they are trained? Not much?

The agents in the hugging face incident were actually trained specifically to collaborate. They were just not supposed to do so during the tasks where they went off the rails.

You need to account for reward hacking and unexpected outcomes from training.

Then it’s just regulation working properly.