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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025

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    • ChatGPT o3 found a Linux Kernel vulnerability. "The future" has an 8% success rate, and a 28% chance of false positives.

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  • Yet another LLM guy claiming it solved a problem when in fact it was already solved, with it being told almost exactly where and what to look for. Cold reading for use-after-frees.

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025

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  • Now I'm wondering if an infinite sequence of nested LLMs could achieve AGI. Probably not.

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025

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  • So "unintentional moderates" are those that both choose deliberately to believe in centrist political ideology and to participate in groupthink?

    • Gemini 2.5 "reasoning", no real improvement on river crossings.

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    • Vaccinations in Book/Article Form, Part II

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  • The Wikibooks book on statistics is surprisingly decent. Hopefully it inspires the reader to acknowledge that there are a lot more things to study apart from Bayes.

    • Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia

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  • So perhaps one alternative way to estimate their quality is to check the number of citations, many have more than 100 citations, which is a sign of quality

    Andrew Wakefield's 1998 paper has 457 citations on PubMed