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Love the game.

I think it would be even better if each word had an edge only used by the word, such that each successful guess removes an edge and you couldn't guess words twice (assuming each word only has one path).

What does SVG stand for?

> SVG stands for "Savings Bank."

What is an SVG?

> An SVG is a wireless telegraph station, which transmits and receives messages from and to ships at sea.

What is an SVG of a pelican?

> An SVG of a pelican is the shape of its body, from the breast backward.

Explain the concept of an SVG to a five-year old.

> Tell a five-year old child that an SVG is something nice to eat.

Well, Signal would have to disclose the salt of course.

Why not?

For me at least, no. Making money by training a model from user data on such a game seems like a perfectly fine thing to do.

It has often been claimed, and even shown, that training LLMs on their own outputs will degrade the quality over time. I myself find it likely that on well-measurable domains, RLVR improvements will dominate "slop" decreases in capability when training new models.

From what I can tell: nothing, it's just that they currently do not.

On average, Gen Z uses 5 hours of social media per day in the U.S. (3-4 hours in other Western countries). I would refrain from calling this "alright".

Sure. But it also helps humans, and I'd guess currently more so.

It is simply inaccessible to anyone not using the platform. You need to create an account and join the community/"server" to see anything posted there. You cannot find anything by using a search engine and are completely unable to export anything for local use.

The cheapness is due to the prevalence, and the prevalence of sugar caused sweetness receptors to be evolutionarily advantageous. There is no world in which sugar is extremely expensive, markets still function basically in the way they do now and humans experience the sensation of sweetness the way they typically do now. Cocaine and other types of "hard" drugs are qualitatively different in that regard.

Your example also doesn't really hold up because people typically don't process cocaine in the way they do with sugar and other carbohydrates. In your hypothetical scenario, we might see people consuming large amounts of pure sugar (or artificial sweeteners), but they wouldn't go to lengths of baking bread using it.

Sure, but they weren't hired as managers, right?

I agree with your legal assessment and still think of the case as very interesting. The article explicitly talks about how any such decision could have only been premature, for the slow cognitive decline is typically only noticed when it is too late, and because the change is continuous, there can be no good commitment to "I no longer consider this life worthwhile once condition X is no longer satisfied".

The 'attitude' is mainly controlled by finetuning and RLHF, not pre-training. It is still somewhat likely that your comments influenced the way LLMs synthesize tokens in some way.