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halberd (halberd@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 05:32:47 JST 
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@SuperSnekFriend @kf01 Ackchyually, pawn promotion rules have varied over time. One common alternative historically was that pawns might only be promoted to pieces which had already been captured. Sometimes, this is described with language of "exchanging" the pawn.
This suggests that, to some degree, pawn promotion is/was viewed as the recapture of a prisoner from behind enemy lines, with the pawn himself either dying in action or being subsumed into the retinue of the more noble piece which he has rescued.
Under this interpretation, pawns promoted to queens are actually capturing maidens from enemy territory who are infatuated with the king, bestowing presumptive royal prerogatives on them before the ceremony because said king is understandably occupied in battle. -
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halberd (halberd@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 12:31:30 JST
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halberd (halberd@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 12:21:36 JST
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halberd (halberd@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 13:29:25 JST
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@BowsacNoodle @matty @Xenophon @GoodBoyUV While searching the archives, I discovered that this edit is over a decade old now. -
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halberd (halberd@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2024 02:05:31 JST
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@SuperSnekFriend @sickburnbro @Zergling_man @branman65 >deliberately removing support for JpegXL
I'm doubling down on my support for JXL now. -
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halberd (halberd@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 12:31:41 JST
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@SuperLutheran @BowsacNoodle @sickburnbro >As for the "manchurian text," I've got no idea what that's about.
Is he just making a joke on the abbreviation "MT"? -
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halberd (halberd@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 03:48:34 JST
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@sickburnbro I'd view that more as a one-off exploit rather than a proof that such a thing will always be possible. On the other contrary, I'd say that since LLMs have demonstrated the capability to lie about their body of knowledge, they may also have the capability to lie about their "reasoning".
But more importantly, I'm supposing a future in which you will not have the opportunity to ask the LLM for its reasoning. You will not be permitted to give prompts to the LLM. You will be shown selected, curated outputs only. -
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halberd (halberd@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 03:23:03 JST
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@sickburnbro I think it's plausible that they'll realize their mistake at some point, and AI will start following the model of academia: it will be used to justify everything controversial ("studies say" will become "the AIs say"), and there will be some implausible barrier to entry preventing a normal person from meaningfully interacting with it ("you have to get a doctorate to criticize the study" might become "you have to get national XYZ clearance to be permitted prompt access" or something). -
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halberd (halberd@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 19:42:26 JST
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@BowsacNoodle invidious.poast.org/watch?v=KhWArBhPWu0 -
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halberd (halberd@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 03-Mar-2023 15:25:30 JST
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@mimorinka @Omega_Variant @latein >even a most faithful person couldn't stand against fear of hunger
Speaking for myself, I think that was part of the point. Hebrews 4:15 says "we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin". This is a reassurance to me. If I am hungry, even if I starve to death in the wilderness, I will know that I am not outside God's care.
From another perspective, I can never say "I am suffering. God has never known what it is to suffer like this, because whenever he was hungry he turned rocks to bread. He does not understand the difficulty of what he asks of me. He is an unjust God, and he is treating me unjustly, he is not worthy of my worship". Jesus does know what it is like to suffer, and to bear it far better than I.
If you have not read it, you may be interested in Dostoevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor", which includes a lot about the temptations. He argues that Christ's rejection of the temptations was related to the "freedom" aspect of salvation, and that the salvation Christ offers us is better than what would have come through accepting the temptations.
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