DiscourseFan

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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
Yes, a traditional car. See my comment below about co-ordinated modular autonomous vehicles. Basically tiny cars that fit one person that can link up to share energy on longer routes, or even busses with detachable "pods" for last
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
Unless you are working for a competing firm or have a specific clause in your contract, you can literally just sign up for AI projects as a contractor and start contributing. You will see and understand everything after a few months. Nobody
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
You must not live in a place suffuse with Waymos. At 3am anywhere in the coverage area you will get a car coming within 2 minutes, often for at least 20% less than an uber/lyft, and sometimes up to 50% cheaper. There is no way a bus ca
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
If a root is only serving a smaller number of people, why have an entire bus? Busses make sense for thoroughfares, but I often board nearly empty express busses that are only running because of state/city appropriations. If we could mo
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
Not explicitly, no, but its pretty obvious if you work in the industry and aren't blinded by AGI hype
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
Ok but an autonomous bus, or autonomous vehicles designed to fit different numbers of people, would not be better than a one size fits all bus?
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
A network of fully autonomous electric self-driving cars on a developed roadway can only be superseded in efficiency by high speed rail. There is no way that traditional forms of public transit could outclass it. This is Waymo's big mo
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
I think LLMs will continue to improve in the capabilities which they are demonstrably good at, but there are many things which they are not good at which it is not cost effective or meaningful to improve, and in these areas we will not cons
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
I spent a lot of time in Europe after graduating college. I thought I wanted to move there, I enjoyed the peacefulness of a daily life and people who were concerned for the general welfare of society over an above profits. Then I came to Ca
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
Can you expand on this?
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
It was Babylon (2022), which takes place in 1930s Hollywood
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
I agree that it's a bit reductionist to boil this down entirely to "Christian Apologetics," I think you'd have to do some serious rationalizations to see how the notion of human finitude, time as the limit of cognition,
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
Alright Heidegger
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
Anyone who works in "red teaming" or has experience breaking AI systems will be able to easily disable these tools in the service of oppressive regimes, or even figure out how to "fight fire with fire."
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
I don't know if its something that we will be able to measure precisely or at least in aggregate at first since the positives will only come about in the long term. Anecdotally, all my recent trips to the doctor have basically been as
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
I think it makes sense that historically American film focused on narrative based dramas and slow burn horror. Think of classic Hollywood hits such as Citizen Kane and Psycho. This is even apparent in the recent success of Obsession, which
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
No I mean of course, I thought Kumamoto was very nice and I especially enjoyed visiting Mt Aso, I was lucky enough to see into the crater and hike around the peaks
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
Kumamoto is barely finished rebuilding from the last quake, you can still see cracks in structures as you drive down the road. This is really horrible; not to mention the city is already beginning to depopulate as the youth move north to Fu
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
I think that if you compare American sentiment with Chinese sentiment you'll see that these people are really not acting in their own favor. Well, in a certain sense they are, because these companies will basically become massive insti
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
See u/ verdverm's response, below
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
I believe the Russians and Chinese recognized this years ago, which is why they are using their propaganda machines to make Americans hate datacenters.
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
The technology is too hard to capitalize on. It’s far more democratic than, say, an iPhone, or a search engine. Anyone can download a model to their computer and start toying with it, how do you profit off of that? Even if everyone was cons
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by DiscourseFan 2mo ago
Yes but, AI can still be used for relatively common applications (coding basic pages), and furthermore you can build agentic loops to check more difficult code, or explain the conceptual order of the code, and I imagine over time the domain
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by DiscourseFan 3mo ago
I think that absolute numbers in specific cities don't tell the full story. NYC also has far fewer people with college degrees than SFO, which would correlate more strongly with Trump supporters. I think that if you polled those who vo
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by DiscourseFan 3mo ago
I’m not sure I understand your point. Its not the case that more people voted for Trump in a place where more people are taking reverse psychological cues from him, but precisely the opposite case, the more people take reverse cues the less
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by DiscourseFan 3mo ago
I'm not sure why my experience differs from yours. When I was in the northeast recently I got into heated arguments with people, one person said they "hated Waymo" and refused to elaborate (but also said they used AI everyday
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Continuous Contact (2005)(k-punk.abstractdynamics.org)
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by DiscourseFan 3mo ago
Everything is contained in other things. Its very Leibnizian
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by DiscourseFan 3mo ago
You have no idea, you must not know that they are afraid of Waymos out in the northeast, they think they are evil or something, I'm not even joking. Anyway, I didn't say it was a political thing I said it was a cultural thing. The
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by DiscourseFan 3mo ago
No, because most people in say, California, which is very pro-tech, are perfectly fine with AI. But people in the Northeast are angry at it. It’s entirely cultural.

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