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Sometimes I also write here: https://gabipurcaru.substack.com/
This question is genius: https://manifold.markets/MatthewBarnett/will-gpt4-get-the-monty-fall-proble
They came up with a tweak to the famous Monty Hall problem where it's obvious that you need to take the *opposite* decision from Monty Hall.
So the question is: will GPT4 be able to solve this tweaked version, or mistake it for the original one? Good mark of intelligence vs. rote learning.
@jeff@mastodon.online I think 500 is fine for regular conversation, as long as there's a clean way of occasionally posting long-form. E.g. either native support for threads (with good UI/UX), or a support for posting "notes" (e.g. with markdown support, images etc), or similar.
Funny how many aspects of software engineering have fundamentally remained unchanged in the past 20+ years. Here's an article from *2001, *still holds up very well:* *
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architecture-astronauts-scare-you/