DrScientist

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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Markets require information to operate efficiently, but it's not actually in the interest of the companies involved. Who wants to have to endlessly ruthlessly compete? They would much prefer monopolies or cartels - however government
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
While the Shatner portrayal of Kirk is hard not to like, I was always slightly irritated by the recurring transparent theme of gut winning over reason ( but then I became a scientist ). Though not sure 'irrational' is the right te
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Good leadership makes a huge difference - whether that be big or small. I've seen it myself - in particular it's amazing much of a difference good leadership can make at a huge company. However at the same time it can also be true
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Perhaps you've watched too many classic StarTrek episodes as a child and are channelling the Spock versus Kirk leadership theme.
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
All models/data sources are biased - you need to understand inherent biases in any data source. The first point is a strawman - these models are not going to be used to set foreign policy on Taiwan - it's to write code etc. Likewi
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
If the online retailer has a no quibble returns policy - then at there is at least a strong incentive to minimise returns, rather than oversell.
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
>> The creation of value is me taking energy from the sun and converting that into a chair. > Which requires money to do. No it doesn't require money. It requires energy. Money is often involved as a means of exchange, but i
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
But aren't you confusing the means of exchange with the creation of value. The creation of value is me taking energy from the sun and converting that into a chair. You lending me money is you extracting value from artificially being a
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Sure - but that's a meta question of whether the current economic/political systems are delivering good allocation of resources for whatever target function you favour. And that's complex - even in your simple example you can
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Why not? What am I missing. If you loan me 10 pounds and I simply keep it or spend it but refuse to pay you back - aren't I the winner and you the loser? Claiming that the market is a positive sum system, because I use that 10 pounds t
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Who funds the majority of cutting edge scientific research? Is it companies or is it governments? If governments around the world see LLMs built from public knowledge as pre-competitive as the public knowledge itself, then why wouldn't
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Money isn't lost per se, it's transferred. ie for every loser there is a winner. Obvious ones are those who can extract value from this companies now ( high salaries/bonus etc ), swapping worthless paper for real assets, Nvid
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
>This didn't stop the Soviets. They did an enormous amount of very dangerous research with minimal logical application. Ultimately what stopped them ( and everybody else - let's face it it wasn't just the soviets ), is it&
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
The point of taking biometics is they can check if the same person is travelling on the same passport each subsequent visit. Sometimes they rely on just image matching, and sometimes they ask for an additional finger scan ( but not normally
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
What you are potentially missing is the public sector wouldn't necessarily be in the same race as the commercial companies. It doesn't matter if a public effort is a year or two behind the curve ( and hence has dramatically lower
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Don't buy the idea that the only thing that's standing in the way of people making bioweapons is the censoring of LLMs. If you are motivated enough to assemble all the kit you'd need, and actually do it, then you should be mo
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Indeed. You could go even further and say that the modern Western preference for whack-a-mole politics rather than long term competence is one of the reasons that countries like China is on the rise.
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Sure. Have you ever listened to music while simultaneously writing a comment on hacker news - and managed the split cognitive load effortlessly?
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Sure. Still don't see why the result is at all surprising. If you couldn't process multiple streams ( I see nothing special about speech - note parsing speech is potentially different from thinking over the top - ie the difference
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
> Spending a small amount of time processing stream A, then dropping that and processing stream B for a moment, then swapping back. Just like how a single core CPU can process multiple threads. The brain isn't a computer with a sing
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
If you couldn't process multiple streams ( audio/visual/other senses ) how would you ever be able to monitor the background for danger and context switch? There is a difference between conscious experience and what's goi
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
Sure - though this thinking can lead to the common misconception that CEO's just need to be generically good managers and not experts in the area the company operates in. I think this is often wrong for two reasons - the layers a
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
There are two things here - Steve might well hire smart people to tell him what to do - but in the end Steve made the choices and drove them through. Management is all about choices with limited information - there is rarely one clear and o
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
I think there is a strong cultural effects to whether this is true. I've worked in multinationals and I've noticed that in the US ( east coast in particular ) it's much more hierarchical - where arguing with your boss in publ
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
I think you are right that the issue is tribal framing. The question is whether satire will puncture that. Farage's supporters will be trying as hard as possible to paint Binface as a lefty establishment figure- but satire gives you an
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
I do wonder here whether the core problem here is that github is outside your firewall, and so you are always one secret leakage/misconfiguration away from disaster.
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
> this stuff is hard, you will fail a lot, and you will fail a lot more if you don't have an extremely clean environment to do this in The Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology is one of the most robust to use. You need to buy some
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
1,2,3 are dominated by platform stickness or even active lock-in. Can't say I see the same advantages to stop you switching the model you use. > It seems that enterprises will pay top dollar for service guarantees, integration, and
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
With these kind of 'demonstrations', the key question is what have we learnt as a result? Not sure what that is in this case.
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by DrScientist 3mo ago
I think you underestimate, in the time before the everyday internet, how many people's world views and values were largely set by their direct personal experience, rather than any media they consumed. Sure, church and state, and to a l

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