If I were a massively overvalued LLM company and were discovering that LLM autophagic self-improvement is a dead-end, I'd try to make everyone think the REAL reason we're slowing down improvements is that we're so close to and so scared of super-intelligence.

At least you can define what the word "bioweapon" means, which means that you can, in principle, create a treaty to ban them. (Admittedly, the existing international treaty is unenforced and probably unenforceable).

No one can define what the words "artificial superintelligence" mean.

I know you're being sarcastic, but regarding Elon's claimed (now abandoned?) dreams to get our asses to the red planet, I'm pretty sure that, at least since life evolved on Earth, current-day Mars is less hospitable to life (as we know it) than Earth on its worst day, even in the weeks after the meteor that killed the dinosaurs hit or after thousands of years of super-volcanoes pumping toxics into the atmosphere. Curious to see if anyone here disagrees.

I mean from the Audacity site, not downloading the builds from Github.

They encourage you to download the "installer," which involves a lengthy come-on from Muse, the company that is maybe funding the rewrite?

It has name: Earth 2

...this can only be to extort further bribes in terms of money and favors from Bezos.

George Washington, the first president, in legend: I cannot tell a lie. Dumbold Trump, maybe the final president, in reality: I cannot tell the truth. It's been quite 250 year run!

Every Trump voter sits somewhere on a line that extends between evil (ie Stephen Miller, JD Vance) on one end and ignorant (your sweet but FOX-brained mew maw) on the other. The purely ignorant end is lightly populated. The part of the line where racists claim not to be racist is very populous.

Funny how almost all the vile fascist pigs on this site are anonymous cowards. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

I like you "parts car" metaphor, but I prefer this one: When a whale dies it sinks to the ocean floor and creates a massive feeding opportunity, called a "whale fall." The collapse of the Soviet Union created the biggest whale-fall in the 20th Century. Putin and treasonous American oligarchs, along with the Republicans, are trying to repeat it with the USA.

LHS 1140b has 5x the mass, but only about 2.4x the surface gravity (since the surface is further away from the center of the planet's mass). Which is still enough to make life difficult for large animals, of course.

But even if the gravity was 5g, you could get a lot bigger than bacteria. Regular mice from Earth can survive in 7G environments for months at a time. Bacteria apparently can survive hundreds of thousands of Gs.

"Whomever wrote?" You don't speak English very well. Google it. LOLOLOLLLL

Fair point, I should have specified "the professors and the administrators" need to do their jobs, not just the professors.

I also get it that colleges "need customers", but... two of the universities mentioned in TFA are Brown and Princeton. Both Ivy League, both top-10 in the US, both with applicant acceptance rates of 5% or less. These universities are NOT going to run out of potential students if they start cracking down and enforcing standards. In fact, if they start cracking down and if they're very public about the crackdown, this will help their reputation immensely, and will make them more attractive to prospective students (at least the ones who don't plan to cheat).

Long before LLMs, students would find ways to cheat on assignments-- either by hiring someone to write their papers for them, or by simple plagiarism. The penalty, if you were caught, was that you flunked the course with no appeal. The penalty for repeat offenders was that you got expelled.

The only difference here is that these students aren't getting appropriately penalized. These professors need to grow a pair and do their jobs, instead of rambling on thoughtfully about "best practices".