HDThoreaun

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by HDThoreaun 8d ago
Hermione is the actual hero of the story. Every time rationalist harry makes a mistake he is acting against her direct advice. Her character literally exists to show off his deficiencies and his coming of age basically boils down to realizi
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by HDThoreaun 9d ago
yes exactly. Fan fiction readers largely do not care about grammar or nice prose, just has to not be overly distracting which unfortunately most fan fic fails at
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by HDThoreaun 9d ago
He convinces Draco that his whole ideology is wrong. He convinces him not to rape anyone before he rapes anyone. Not exactly sure what the better outcome is here, just turning him in would only strengthen his violent ideology. There are man
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by HDThoreaun 9d ago
Let me be clear, he's no cormac mccarthy(my favorite prose is the passage from blood meridian describing the raiders). My bar for fan fiction prose is basically whether it annoys me, its a low bar. Most of what makes hpmor good is the
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by HDThoreaun 9d ago
I really, really dont understand this complaint at all. Harry and draco disliking ron is supposed to show that they are snotty kids who have big blind spots. The characters are supposed to be dislikable at the start, the story is about the
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by HDThoreaun 9d ago
> It's terrible as a work of literature. It has many, many, many flaws Pretty much all fan fiction is terrible literature. I find yudkowsky's prose to be above average for fan fic which admittedly is just saying hes among the b
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by HDThoreaun 9d ago
As far as manifestos go HPMOR is a pretty good one. I think that’s what a lot of the critiques about it miss. Yudkowsky is actually a pretty decent writer, especially in the fan fic scene. Not only is his prose actually acceptable which is
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by HDThoreaun 10d ago
Ill stick with the free one
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by HDThoreaun 11d ago
That’s a completely fair take. Countries are free to enact sanctions against the us just like they are free to enact sanctions against Iran if that’s what they want to do.
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by HDThoreaun 14d ago
You can import oil paintings from China for very cheap. I’ve got a ton of nice ones
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by HDThoreaun 14d ago
No one is paying mathematicians to develop a conceptual understanding. If the signal for who is “winning” math in academia disappears mathematicians will have a big problem
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by HDThoreaun 16d ago
Google docs exists as a competitor to microsoft office. Google gives it away free to consumers for the same reason AI labs sell subscriptions for 10% of the price of the api. They hope businesses will switch to what employees know how to us
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by HDThoreaun 16d ago
Completely wrong. CPI is based on the prices of all things people buy. Comparing inflation in one sector to inflation in the whole economy is a very useful signal.
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by HDThoreaun 16d ago
Where did they claim it as their own? Doesn’t the release cite buckmaster and claim their work is a continuation of what he and levent were working on?
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by HDThoreaun 17d ago
Copy pasting ai code from the browser is not perfectly acceptable. The only reason to do it is because you haven’t tried agents. It shows a lack of imagination and a willingness to settle for inferiority.
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by HDThoreaun 17d ago
All 3 of those things could easily happen with today capabilities.
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by HDThoreaun 17d ago
It bothers me when people have terrible inefficient workflows for no good reason
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by HDThoreaun 18d ago
Isnt the entire history of academic progress iterating on work that other academics shared with you? Obviously this situation is spicy but openAI cited their work no?
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by HDThoreaun 18d ago
The honest answer is that a lot of these academic mathematician types who get hired at ai labs are autist adjacent. Levent is basically the chief example
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by HDThoreaun 18d ago
Nuts that Tao literally predicted the exact strategy openAI seems to have used not even a week ago
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by HDThoreaun 18d ago
All the ai labs are open about training on prompts. The question is if buckmaster had disabled that with the toggle openAI provides.
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by HDThoreaun 18d ago
What makes you say that? You think people like paying professionals to edit their videos? Surely some do, but everyone?
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by HDThoreaun 18d ago
That may all be true, but it was certainly not a hilarious experience. I would say my driving was about on par with average at the time, most drivers aren’t really paying attention. The vast majority of people in my how city are not driving
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by HDThoreaun 18d ago
Because the only force keeping costs down is insurance death panels. One of our problems is that we don’t have enough death panels compared to our peers.
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by HDThoreaun 18d ago
My personal friend worked under bubeck as a grad student and told me he’s abusive.
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by HDThoreaun 18d ago
Yes that sounds like something openAI would do to me. Not that they’re just looking through random professors chats but they heard buckmaster made progress on navier stokes and decided to read his chats.
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by HDThoreaun 18d ago
Those denials are literally the only thing in the entire system keeping costs down
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by HDThoreaun 19d ago
I grew up in a very urban area and learned to drive in about 3 hours when I was 21.
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by HDThoreaun 19d ago
The legal process isn’t a free for all. There’s only so much bullshit they can throw at you before the judge finds them in contempt.
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by HDThoreaun 23d ago
Insider trading is like the whole point of prediction markets. Users pay the insiders for better information

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