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by DennisP 8mo ago
The US did have deflation in the fourth quarter of 2008: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/economics/deflation Of course this is talking about the overall price level. The prices in specific sectors can fluc
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Honestly, when I read your first sentence, given the lack of a capital H, my brain initially went the same direction the AI did. Then I realized what you meant but since I already went there, I might have made a similar response as a joke.
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One method would be to use the same key that you use to hold some cryptocurrency, so if you share then you risk losing a bond. Of course it's not ideal to make everybody hold crypto just to use online services, but maybe we can approxi
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We go through a lot of single-use plastics.
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And unless GP has a security clearance, they can't know for sure what OpenAI is allowing on classified networks.
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SpaceX is currently on a streak of over 300 successful Falcon missions in a row. I'm not convinced their approach isn't compatible with risk aversion. They push their test rockets to failure and learn from what goes wrong. That se
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They did reach orbital velocity though. If they'd aimed slightly differently they would have attained orbit, and reentry was as difficult as if they had done that.
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smells like...victory.
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Sensor fusion seems like it'd be a big problem when you're handcoding lots of C++, and way less of a problem when all the sensors are just feeding into one big neural network, as Tesla and probably others are doing now. The traini
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As the article briefly mentions, plenty of people just trying to learn stuff will ask idiotic questions they don't realize are idiotic. It'd be nice if they got non-idiotic answers from the government.
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Yeah most of the attention is still on Bitcoin and that'll be proof of work forever.
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Which is why I said "they go haywire sometimes." But in most cases, they work well enough that very few professional investors are able to consistently beat the judgement of the market.
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Good points, but commodity futures and stock prices take into account all sorts of information. They go haywire sometimes but given how hard it is to beat the market, they seem to do a pretty good job of aggregating it all.
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The amount of money depends on how big the markets are.
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In fact, a lot of people claim that the main point of prediction markets is to give the general public better predictions, and insider participation actually helps with that.
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If you're talking about crypto mining, all of the big smart contract platforms that can run something like Polymarket are running on proof of stake. Their energy usage is comparable to any other internet protocol with a similar amount
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And there's good reason for that. Someone with a clearance once explained to me that they're mainly worried about things that make you vulnerable to exploitation by foreign agents. If you're covering something up, that's
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That's how it works now. This way regular people have some say instead of no say.
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That seems like a really great idea.
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"Coordinated" and "deceptive" are orthogonal concepts as well. If AIs are acting in a way that's not coordinated, then of course, don't say they're coordinating. AIs today can replicate some human behavior
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Consciousness is orthogonal to this. If the AI acts in a way that we would call deceptive, if a human did it, then the AI was deceptive. There's no point in coming up with some other description of the behavior just because it was an A
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Fwiw I lean to your side and would be interesting in reading what you have to say about it.
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If you want to see a reviewer next to it for scale, Doug DeMuro is 6'4" and has what you're looking for, from various angles over the course of the review. Looks like a reasonable size to me. https://www.youtube.co
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If only those ridiculous guys who wanted something fun to drive had realized how much more fun they could have by making fun of people and feeling superior.
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They're working on that. They're partnering with Nvidia and the R2 will get upgraded hardware for self driving in the fall. I couldn't tell from the website if making a reservation now lets you wait for that.
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You don't just want the best investment, you want several good investments that are uncorrelated with each other. Gold is better if you're looking for something to diversify your investments in the stock market, since it tends to
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Bitcoin has always traded more like tech stocks than gold.
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A lot of the old stuff isn't so much about escaping Earth, as outgrowing it. A feeling that it's our destiny to expand to the stars, just as it was life's destiny to come out of the oceans. The more we look for alien civiliza
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If you think the Jesus freaks want to propagate ancient gnostic texts, then you really don't know your Jesus freaks.
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The link includes all sorts of stuff that modern Christians generally consider heretical, so I don't think it's proselytizing. Most people underestimate the diversity of beliefs in early Christianity. A lot of that was violently s

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