DrScientist

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by DrScientist 4mo ago
> I have no idea how. It's not hard, or a new problem. For example in the UK paid for political campaigning on radio and TV has been banned pretty much since the dawn of those mediums. In terms of print, you can have media pluracy r
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
PA was proscibed after the Filton offenses. A key principle of justice is laws are not retrospective - you can't be put into prison for something that was legal at the time. Again, yet another example of a failure of natural justice
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
The parent was around direct democracy - where a particular question is posed - and frequent hybrid is randomly selected people to work on a specific question. If you are saying choose people at random to be an MP for 5 years ( or whatever
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
With humans bandwidth is pretty much always limited - however it's clear that a representative has a higher bandwidth for politics than the average person - because it's their job ( and note they normally have a team of researcher
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
> I'd argue that the fiefdoms within parties come primarily from their corporate likeness. Since the ultimate goal of any party is to capture power and remain in power, the structures that emerge serve this goal first, everything el
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
No idea - AI tells me under 30 dollars per unit for the ROM with development costs in the low 10's of millions. If that's anywhere near right then it seems like a no brainer.
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
> It may work in some other country.. Jury service in the UK is generally seen in a positive light ( despite having far too much hanging around ). I suspect the US problems could be easily fixed by forcing employers to pay you while you
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
> There's implication, that representative democracy selects for a group with inherently higher average bandwidth allocated per proposal \ Eh? It's a representatives full time job to consider these things as oppose to the gener
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
A consequence of democracy means average people get a vote. However average people are actually pretty good at making the right moral, common sense calls, if not the technical legal detail. I suspect that's in part because they are not
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
I heard this idea, or variants of it, quite a lot recently. Some of the examples I've seen it tried - I've seen the people setting it up trying to fix the outcome by carefully choosing the question, then providing expert advice on
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
Rather than direct usage, I suspect a lot of Gemini capacity is being use for the AI summary presented with every google search or AI features of android phones etc. And I'd expect Google will want to prioritize capacity for those - th
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
I can see this happening, but I suspect it will have the opposite to the intended effect - it will mean companies will move or move their R&D to countries with the appropriate freedoms.
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
You are confusing the ability to bring information to people, with the ability of people to consume it. As has been mentioned elsewhere on the thread - the real issue is often there are complex 2nd and third order effects, often there are d
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
Given GLM is open weight - all you need is one company to take the taalas approach ( model on hardware ), and you're sorted right? https://taalas.com/products/
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
You are missing the point, this is not about the merits or otherwise of the case - that's for the jury to decide - it's about due process. The whole point of a jury is that you are, in the end, judged by your peers, not by the sta
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
Same Filton case. You had the bizarre situation that some of defendants dismissed their lawyers because the lawyers were constrained in what they could say in the defence of their clients - so the defendents did there own closing speeches.
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
The problem isn't people valuing certainty and doing deals based on that, the problem is monopoly of supply. You could argue strategic deals like this allow the manufacturers to make the massive capital investments in manufacturing cap
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
As you say the max penalty is 14 years in prison. I would argue the state harassment of these protestors is the actual terrorism - using state violence for political means. As you say there is also an underlying reason - but it's not
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
You don't get prison for that. It starts "I support" and ends action. It's just the most recent and egregious misuse of anti-terrorism laws - doing the sort of thing that they claimed it never would be used for when they
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
The funny thing is that quite often people who actually perform attacks are well known to the security services ( because they have been frequently referred to them - rather than some online trawl ). cf UK manchester bombers. In the end the
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
Case in point - in the UK you can currently be put into prison for a long stretch under terrorism charges for holding up a sign with just 4 words.
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
Depends on whether you've also gone for self-hosted electricity generation or not.
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
> No, the way it worked in the past for pro sports wasn’t enough to have those players worldwide famous and gossiped all the time So? The point is football doesn't require this. It's not necessary for football to happen. The fi
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
> There are still big inefficiencies for those who have capital to discover good scientists / engineers. Lots of them are unknown. The way it works in academia is that scientists compete with each other for the limited capital ( gra
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
> Having the whole world connected to top sports players also costs a lot of money, it doesn’t happen naturally The existence of pay-per-view sports TV wasn't a pre-requisite for professional football - that existed way before - clu
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
What's amazing about these models is they are effectively a distillation of the internet in something that can fit onto your local machine [1] and be queried via natural language. [1] It seems inevitable that decent local models will b
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
BTW I notice John Jumper chose Anthrophic ( or vice a versa ).
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
I'm sure he was fine financially when he first worked at Google - without leaving to found the startup as well. But money at that level isn't about being financially secure - to have a roof over your head and food to eat - it&#x27
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
Sadly most science and engineering is very capital intensive. So take this scenario - I'd argue that if you want to make progress in the field of these particular ML models, then you are going to need resources ( compute/data etc
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by DrScientist 4mo ago
Sorry to bring up the elephant in the room - but could this decision be in part the opportunity to acquire large amounts of stock before a massively inflated IPO?

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