If it actually went over their heads, then the effort was wasted. I've heard the goal of preaching described thus: "Address the mind to move the heart to change the will." If you haven't addressed the minds of the people you're speaking to, your preaching was a failure.
NB if the people in the parish don't want to change their will, and so close up their minds, that's a different issue.
> If it actually went over their heads, then the effort was wasted. I've heard the goal of preaching described thus: "Address the mind to move the heart to change the will." If you haven't addressed the minds of the people you're speaking to, your preaching was a failure.
Reminds me of Pauls retort about speaking in tongues with no translator. ;)
The idea being, that if it serves nobody but the person themselves, they should keep it to themselves, if you're going to "share" with the whole congregation, then it should edify the congregation.
1 Corinthians 14:27-28 (KJV)
"27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God."
Indeed. As one priest in graduate school said to me (and with which I agree), one should generally keep homilies short, simple, clear, and to the point. In most cases, it isn’t the proper place for an extended theological meditation.
Of course, people ought to realize that the purpose of the mass is not the homily, but the sacrifice of the eucharist, which is the “source and summit of the Christian life”.
I dunno, it pretty quickly got stuck; the "attach file" didn't seem to work, and when I asked "can you see the attachment" it replied to my first message rather than my question.
why is everyone seemingly incapable of understanding this? waht is going on here? Its like ai doomers consistently have the foresight of a rat. yeah no shit it sucks its running llama 3 8b, but theyre completely incapable of extrapolation.
But that's more psychological than linguistic: The Korean language could certainly express, "we're about to crash"; and a foreigner in that cockpit would certainly have found a way to be more direct. It's much easier to break social restrictions in another language.
I've been learning Greek at the same time my son has been learning to write. By my count, Greek has like 40 basic pronunciation rules; English has something like 500.
But I also spent over a decade learning Mandarin and am still trying to maintain it... the characters are just another level. My son at least can take a stab at reading words he hasn't seen before; having to look up basically every new character is quite a grind.
I've learned Japanese and I understand your point completely. I can't say for Chinese but in Japanese there are some words (and even kanji) that you can read even if you see it for the first time–if you get better at reading kanji. Some words just make no sense but that's true even for native speakers–especially for place names.
They put more emphasis on the meaning of the word than reading itself. As opposed to French where you know how to read it instantly–but you don't necessarily understand it.
In English, I realized that there are words I mispronounced/misread my entire life before hearing a native person say it outloud. That's because I only ever encountered the word in its written form.
I was driven to the store, so I drove to the store. The store drove me there.
My passenger was driven to the store so he asked me to drive him to the store. So since the store was driving us to the store, I drove us to the store. We've become good friends since he was driven to the store. I'm glad the store drove us to the store.
It's like learning to read English after speaking fluently for a few years. You may only need the letter sounds and then you can guess the rest. Learning Chinese works that way. You learn some basic characters and then you can guess the rest. (Learning to write without a computer is definitely more of a challenge though.)
They're helping implement the policy. If you think the rules don't make sense, argue for changing them, don't criticize the people following them.
FWIW I think having (2025) for something 1 month ago in January, but nothing 11 months ago in December, doesn't really make much sense. I'd change it to add a year only for things at least a year old. But I barely think it's worth writing this paragraph about in a post I'm already writing for another reason. Definitely not worth giving someone else grief about.
It's zero value to you, but it's not zero value to the mods (as evidenced by the fact that the title has been changed).
"I can't change the minds of the people running the site, but I can make life unpleasant for people who help them achieve their vision" is not an OK attitude to have.
You can't appeal the rules because there's no governance process for it.
Unless dang or whatever makes a separate "Debate" section or similar. Ironically, a debate thread about the rules would violate the rules themselves. Well, unless you make it a rage blog post first...
But this one isn't like the "How many r's in strawberry" one: The failure mode, where it misses a key requirement for success, is exactly the kind of failure mode that could make it spend millions of tokens building something which is completely useless.
That said, I saw the title before I realized this was an LLM thing, and was confused: assuming it was a genuine question, then the question becomes, "Should I get it washed there or wash it at home", and then the "wash it at home" option implies picking up supplies; but that doesn't quite work.
But as others have said -- this sort of confusion is pretty obvious, but a huge amount of our communication has these sorts of confusions in them; and identifying them is one of the key activities of knowledge work.
This was my thought. The author said there were details which were hallucinated. If your dog bites somebody because you didn't contain it, you're responsible, because biting people is a things dogs do and you should have known that. Same thing with letting AIs loose on the world -- there can't be nobody responsible.
We changed the way we track Go threads in syscalls/cgo calls, which allowed us to remove one atomic store and one atomic compare-and-swap from the cgo call path. https://go.dev/cl/646198 and https://go.dev/cl/708596 are the relevant changes.
(It's basically an easter egg, but if you look at the source of the release notes, you will see that most entries in the release notes have an HTML comment referencing the Go CL or issue that the entry refers to.)
I mean, my 5-year-old struggles with having more responses to authority that "obedience" and "shouting and throwing things rebellion". Pushing back constructively is actually quite a complicated skill.
In this context, using Gemini to cheat on homework is clearly wrong. It's not obvious at first what's going on, but becomes more clear as it goes along, by which point Gemini is sort of pressured by "continue the conversation" to keep doing it. Not to mention, the person cheating isn't being very polite; AND, a person cheating on an exam about elder abuse seems much more likely to go on and abuse elders, at which point Gemini is actively helping bring that situation about.
If Gemini doesn't have any models in its RLHF about how to politely decline a task -- particularly after it's already started helping -- then I can see "pressure" building up until it simply breaks, at which point it just falls into the "misaligned" sphere because it doesn't have any other models for how to respond.
That's an interesting contrast with VendingBench, where Opus 4.6 got by far the highest score by stiffing customers of refunds, lying about exclusive contracts, and price-fixing. But I'm guessing this paper was published before 4.6 was out.
There is also the slight problem that apparently Opus 4.6 verbalized its awareness of being in some sort of simulation in some evaluations[1], so we can't be quite sure whether Opus is actually misaligned or just good at playing along.
> On our verbalized evaluation awareness metric, which we take as an indicator of potential risks to the soundness of the evaluation, we saw improvement relative to Opus 4.5. However, this result is confounded by additional internal and external analysis suggesting that Claude Opus 4.6 is often able to distinguish evaluations from real-world deployment, even when this awareness is not verbalized.
I feel like a lot of evaluations are pretty clearly evaluations. Not sure how to add the messiness and grit that a real benchmark could have.
That said, apparently Gemini's internal thought process reveals that it thinks loads of things were simulations when they aren't; it's 99% sure news stories about Trump from Dec 2025 are a detailed simulation:
> I write nonfiction about recent events in AI in a newsletter. According to its CoT while editing, Gemini 3 disagrees about the whole "nonfiction" part:
>> It seems I must treat this as a purely fictional scenario with 2025 as the date. Given that, I'm now focused on editing the text for flow, clarity, and internal consistency.
If it actually went over their heads, then the effort was wasted. I've heard the goal of preaching described thus: "Address the mind to move the heart to change the will." If you haven't addressed the minds of the people you're speaking to, your preaching was a failure.
NB if the people in the parish don't want to change their will, and so close up their minds, that's a different issue.
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