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by DennisP 1y ago
Yep just a glance at the ingredients shows obvious differences. Other issues I've seen studies about include contaminants from conveyor belts, and for many snack foods, processing into smaller particles, effectively making them partial
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by DennisP 1y ago
Why not both? For a two-car family, having a good road-tripper and a light sporty car can work out pretty nicely.
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Yes, they do care about it, and unlike many AI researchers they've bothered to learn something about philosophy of mind. They point out that "the philosophical question of machine consciousness is complex and contested, and differ
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Down towards the end they actually say it has nothing to do with consciousness. They do say it might lead to models being more transparent and reliable.
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Not at all. Introspection and consciousness are not the same thing.
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This is just about seeing whether the model can accurately report on its internal reasoning process. If so, that could help make models more reliable. They say it doesn't have that much to do with the kind of consciousness you're
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by DennisP 1y ago
There is a middle ground here. Many European countries do not actually have single-payer, but still perform better than the US. It's a bit out of date now but the book The Healing of America found that Germany, France, and Japan had
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by DennisP 1y ago
The article, talking about a patient's hospital visit, mentions "the $31 low-dose aspirin, of which they'd given him four."
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Maybe so, but in the meantime I'll take all the empowerment I can get.
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by DennisP 1y ago
Suggesting a connection to Nazi ideology just because someone wants to help people avoid toxins seems a bit over the top to me.
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by DennisP 1y ago
Did you entirely miss David Tennant? He was pretty different than the Matt Smith version, and quite good. They had some great storylines too.
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Does that cause any symptoms? Because apparently this can, and they tell you how to avoid it. > Lead author Dr Brent Wagner told Newsweek he personally avoids vitamin C when undergoing MRI with contrast, citing its potential to increase
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by DennisP 1y ago
I bought one, but it didn't have any of the books I wanted. It seems to be nowhere near as comprehensive as the Kindle library.
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by DennisP 1y ago
I was super interested in the Vision Pro when it was first released. Then I found out they went with an app model and the device could only display a single MacOS window. There went my dream of surrounding myself with a bunch of vim windows
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Maybe this isn't possible for LLMs yet, but open source versions of AlphaZero have been trained on peer-to-peer networks. https://zero.sjeng.org/ https://katagotraining.org/
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And diversification is better with an index fund. Both routes have their benefits and drawbacks. I wouldn't say you're paying an "opportunity cost" either way.
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by DennisP 1y ago
One way or another, I think most of us have lifestyles subsidized by society. OP could also have bought stocks in 2015, and perhaps done even better than buying a house. Since the beginning of that year, the S&P500 has more than tripled
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by DennisP 1y ago
Fine, let me put it another way. Fill a test tube with simple chemical building blocks of life. Sterilize everything. If our uncertainty is infinite then we aren't willing to say whether metabolizing, reproducing life arises from scrat
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by DennisP 1y ago
If your level of uncertainty is infinite then you're suggesting that abiogenesis could be happening every day in your back yard. I think you might admit we're a little more certain than that.
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We know a lot more than the simple fact that civilization exists on our planet. See section 3 for how they estimated the parameters. One of the most uncertain parameters is the rate of abiogenesis events per planet. For that one they used a
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Which is why they set very wide ranges on the things we know little about. Doing that is less unjustified than guessing specific values, as people have usually done. It's nowhere near a precise estimate of the probability of life. What
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Yes, but we should consider these linkages when setting values. If we assume that volcanic vent life is very unlikely to become spacefaring, we should either leave it out of the "life" term, or leave it in but lower the probabilit
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by DennisP 1y ago
One approach is to give each variable a probability distribution. The greater our uncertainty about possible values, the wider the bell curve. Drexler and colleagues did that, and found "a substantial probability that we are alone in o
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by DennisP 1y ago
It does seem unlikely that such life forms would ever become spacefaring.
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There's also Sundiver by David Brin, which has plasma life forms in our sun.
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I mean, it's been the standard personal finance advice for decades. Step one is to set aside six months of emergency expenses. If you have an above-average income, you're capable of doing that. It's not "judgmental&quo
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Fwiw, Avi's hypothesis for Oumuamua was not that it was functioning, but that it was old, defunct light sail.
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My claim is that that's a bad decision, for exactly that reason. Job loss can happen for any number of reasons, often without warning. Getting a mortgage without any cushion for job loss is a huge risk. Note also that I'm talking
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by DennisP 1y ago
Seems like a better lesson would be "don't be the Nazi." It's not like it's impossible. The Nazis arrested 800,000 Germans for active resistance activities, and several hundred thousand Germans deserted the military
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The cases in the article were software engineers in the US, and at FTX. Two were engineering directors and the third was a senior engineer. If any of them didn't have plenty of emergency funds set aside, they should have seriously reth

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