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by Herring 1y ago
It’s not skewed much by immigration. This is because the native-born population is much larger. See: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/publicat... 51% of native-born adults scored at Level 3
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by Herring 1y ago
Apparently 54% of American adults read at or below a sixth-grade level nationwide. I’d say AGI is kinda here already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
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by Herring 1y ago
Aren't most jobs bullshit jobs already? Fingers crossed genAI doesn't change this too much. Low empathy has been an issue with humanity since day 1. I wouldn't even know how to begin to fix it. It'll probably still be an
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by Herring 1y ago
Nah you can, you just need to worry extra hard about finding product-market-fit or you’ll have something 100% useless on your hands.
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by Herring 1y ago
Yeah and the infrastructure of economic/political exclusion is initially just used against that "horrible" group X, but eventually expands to the majority of the population. This is because greed is basically an endless hole.
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by Herring 1y ago
Americans getting a crash course in how white supremacy destroys itself. Did you know: Slavery was so profitable, it sprouted more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation. Look at them now. https
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by Herring 1y ago
> Party A: wants to abolish slavery > Party B: wants way more slaves > Media: record low percentage of Americans satisfied with agriculture today! Impartiality is very important.
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by Herring 1y ago
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by Herring 1y ago
*shrug this kid is growing up fast Give it another year and HN comments will be very different. Writing tests already works now. It's usually easier to read tests than to read convoluted logic.
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by Herring 1y ago
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I meant LLMs are more reliable and accurate at judging than at generating from scratch. They basically achieve over 80% agreement with human evaluators [1]. This level of agreement is similar to the
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by Herring 1y ago
So get another LLM to do it. Judging is considerably easier [For LLMs] than writing something from scratch, so LLM judges will always have that edge in accuracy. Equivalently, I also like getting them to write tons of tests to build trust i
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by Herring 1y ago
It's basically that America has a caste system, and public transit is a lower-caste thing that any respectable member of society should ideally avoid. It's a pity because public transit done well is amazing - https://ww
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by Herring 1y ago
Yes and no? I think irl conversations were always more about connecting "what's going on in your life, who did what, I'm worried about X" eg with family. On the rare occasion there's a disagreement over facts, it&#x
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by Herring 1y ago
Why? This website is for 2-liners, not in-depth discussions. More and more I find myself discussing important ideas with Gemini, not other people :/
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by Herring 1y ago
I think it's actually kind of a miracle it didn't happen earlier. This country has been all about getting rich since slavery. Concentration of economic power generally leads to concentration of political power (ie non-democracy).
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by Herring 1y ago
Yes unfortunately it does matter. Concentration of economic power generally leads to concentration of political power (ie non-democracy). There are tons of pathways, eg campaign finance, lobbying, media ownership, threat of capital flight,
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by Herring 1y ago
The obesity rate is still rising in most areas worldwide. I'd argue we still haven't developed herd immunity to gas-powered automobiles invented early to mid 1800s.
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by Herring 1y ago
Apple's tune will completely change the second they get a leading LLM - Look at all the super important and useful things you can do with "Apple General Intelligence"!
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by Herring 1y ago
> our goal is to fine-tune a pretrained model on its own generated labels Haven't all the big labs been doing this for a couple years now? It's a good idea, with great execution, but it's far from novel. https:/&#x
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by Herring 1y ago
Both the Biden and Trump administrations have generally opposed European efforts to reduce reliance on foreign arms - The "Buy European" strategy. The Trump administration seems to be pursuing a dual strategy: publicly demanding E
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by Herring 1y ago
"We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every 4 years" - French Minister Delegate for European Affairs.
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by Herring 1y ago
Lots of people don't care about "progress" in an absolute sense, eg longer healthier lifespans for all. They only care about it in a relative sense, eg if cop violence against minorities goes down, they feel anxiety and resen
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by Herring 1y ago
I used it to generate SQL questions set in real-world scenarios. I needed to pick up joins intuitively, and the websites I could find were pretty dull.
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by Herring 1y ago
This is quite helpful and insightful, thanks. I just went down a rabbit hole about human psychology and scapegoating.
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by Herring 1y ago
The US right wing thinks very differently about inequality compared to progressives. They are more about opportunity than outcomes. They want free markets, individual responsibility, and are generally skeptical of govt programs aimed at red
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by Herring 1y ago
Yeah I came to the same conclusion the answer is (probably) racism, but I’ve never hated another person/culture enough to impoverish myself (or die in a war!) so I don’t really get it…
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by Herring 1y ago
The overlap is extensive. Abortion, immigration, racism/DEI/trans, tax cuts, deregulation, judicial appointments, fossil fuel production, skepticism towards green energy and climate change, prioritizing conservative Christian reli
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by Herring 1y ago
Vote for republicans => get red state policies. Trump won the popular vote. America is trying very hard to become one big red state. Red states have had the worst outcomes for generations but they keep going back to republicans. The reas
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by Herring 1y ago
Why use a separate app at all? I just use notepad (or its iOS equivalent).
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by Herring 1y ago
> What use does "the environment" have if you cannot afford to live? There are plenty of extremely poor people in the world who don’t use that as an excuse to try destroy others - and often themselves. Plenty. Travel and you’ll

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