AnIrishDuck

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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
> With single modality sensors, you have no way of truly detecting failures in that modality, other than hacks like time-series normalizing (aka expected scenarios). "A man with a watch always knows what time it is. If he gains anot
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
The reality is also that nobody (aside from Mark "I Want To Buy a State of the Art AI Research Lab" Zuckerberg) is even offering millions in cold hard cash. Instead, they're offering something worse: the _chance_ to cash out
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
The advice I've seen with delegation is the exact opposite. Specifically: you can't delegate what you can't do. Partially because of all else fails, you'll need to step in and do the thing. Partially because if you can&#
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
> No, they are deliberately designed to mimic human communication via language, not human thought. My opinion is that language is communicated thought. Thus, to mimic language, at least really well, you have to mimic thought. At some lev
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
> Python is hyper agreeable. If I comment out some safeguards, it'll happily bypass whatever protections are in place. These models are different from programming languages in what I consider to be pretty obvious ways. People aren&#
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
> ChatGPT is a program. The kid basically instructed it to behave like that. I don't think that's the right paradigm here. These models are hyper agreeable. They are intentionally designed to mimic human thought and social conn
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
What was the legal basis for this "purchase"? Because as I understand it, Trump came in, saw a law he didn't like (CHIPS), and unilaterally "altered the deal" I don't think it's fair to characterize this a
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
> Excuse me now as I need to go watch a short that explains the difference between Australian and British accents. Very important, goodbye! I also am a big fan of YouTube for exactly this reason, but you need to be careful. There's
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
I'll also note that all of this still mostly reinforces your main thesis. One major issue with central planning is that it usually lacks the internal feedback mechanisms necessary to properly account for all of these factors. Price sig
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
Well first, we have this: > The Jimmy Carter administration began a phased deregulation of oil prices on April 5, 1979, when the average price of crude oil was US$15.85 per barrel ($100/m3). So, the process wasn't really an ins
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
There were ... many other factors involved in the gas shortages of the 70s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oil_crisis I don't think the history here is as neat as you have laid out. To be clear: this is not a
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
The economic term for this is "externality" [1]. A pigovian tax is one solution, though it suffers from issues like the one you describe. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
> No one said that a commodity is a "true" measure of value. A commenter simply said that it is often a useful proxy. It is something that is useful to do to understand specific trade patterns. Ok, if it helps replace "tru
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
I pointed out they were providing ridiculous answers to the question of "how do you measure value" and they doubled down on the ridiculous. You are correct, there are many ways to measure value. However, I don't think picking
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
> For decades, China's GDP growth towered over the US's. It's much easier to 100x $1k than to 10x $1m. This is not to take away from the achievements of the Chinese economy, which are gargantuan. You just can't linear
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
You, of course, can choose these as your units of value. I think it is telling that the rest of the world (particularly the central banks of most countries) have instead chosen USD (well, more specifically US treasuries) as their preferred
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
Growth is trivial to achieve when you are starting from zero. My footnote very much alludes to this. This is incidentally what the US did to powers like Britain a century and a half ago. I just find it amusing that in this theory of trade C
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
The entries in a database are IOUs. The US will have to return something at some point, but as we have complete control over our own currency, the terms of the deal are... very flexible on our side. It's effectively a bet on China&#x27
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
What other system of value are you using here? Bottle caps? Nostalgia? While the dollar remains the global reserve currency, this is just a wild theory of trade. If the $450 of value was so easy to extract, why wouldn't China simply as
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
An automated objective function is indeed core to how alphago, alphazero, and other RL + deep learning approaches work. Though it is obviously much more complex, and integrated into a larger system. The core of these approaches are "se
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
> The LLM skeptics need to point out what differs with code compared to Chess, DoTA, etc from a RL perspective. An obviously correct automatable objective function? Programming can be generally described as converting a human-defined spe
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
Blender is serviceable for simple stuff, but you really want CAD for mechanical parts. Think figurines (Blender) vs gears (CAD). Constraints, among many other important features, just aren't as well represented in Blender. An analogy i
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
This interconnection is the case in the US as well. It's trivial to get books within the same regional system, and you can do inter library loans for pretty much any other library in the country (though not the Library of Congress, whi
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
> In modern times, librarians are working against the factions that do that. A thousand times this. People who think that librarians are secretly censoring the flow of information are completely out of touch with how librarians work. Lib
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by AnIrishDuck 1y ago
> There may be a difference in what they do when the community requests content not in the catalog. My partner is a librarian and I can tell you they frequently add books they personally dislike or outright loathe (be it for content re
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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
The concept you are describing here is "tax incidence" [1]. Tariffs are taxes. I'm sure lots of hours will be spent researching the incidences of these across many industries. As you note, one major factor is the presence of
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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
Ads in the AI overview. That's always been the endgame for them here.
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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
I appreciate the alternative perspective. I have found them outright wrong or misleading often enough to generally just skip them, or get mad when I slip and catch myself reading them.
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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
Yeah, without context criticism of this code is silly. What if this wasn't always how cards worked? What if the mapping was (at one point in development) not straightforward? Or localthunk had some ideas and wanted to leave the door op
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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
Yeah, working on a game myself and ... sometimes you just gotta do stuff like that. Working on a game solo requires juggling several wildly different disciplines at the same time. Sometimes you're in "game designer" mode, you

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