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by Jensson 7mo ago
I don't think they used wood burning saunas in this study, basically all saunas today are electric.
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> and realistically more; most people don't have a sauna in their home Most people have a sauna in their home, this is Finland.
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It is hard to study this in a place with less access to saunas.
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Finland has saunas everywhere, having a sauna at home isn't even expensive average people have that, its just a cultural thing its like having a toilet at home it isn't something normal people can't afford.
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by Jensson 7mo ago
> Outdated compared to what? In your counterfactual, VC funded agents don't exist anymore, no? Outdated compared to reality / humans, their knowledge cutoff is a year further behind every year they don't get updates. Human
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> I don’t agree that doing everything yourself manually is the only thing that can grant you that understanding, because I don’t think that understanding is domain-specific. It evolves naturally as soon as someone realizes that their lis
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by Jensson 7mo ago
Writing maintainable code is learned by writing large codebases. Working in an existing codebase doesn't teach you it, so most people working at large companies do not build the skill since they don't build many large new projects
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by Jensson 7mo ago
Most people learn multiplication by counting, it has been in basic mathbooks since forever. "1 box has 4 cookies. Jenny ha 4 boxes of cookies. How many cookies do Jenny have?" and so on, the kids solve that by counting 4 cookies i
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by Jensson 7mo ago
General superintelligence is more well defined, I assume that is what he meant. When I hear superintelligence I assume they just mean general superintelligence as in its better than humans at every single mental task that exists.
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> People would have said the same about graphing calculators or calculators before that. Socrates said the same thing about the written word. Well, we still make people calculate manually for many years, and we still make people listen t
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> How do you know if it survives the shot without that, if it's just person A saying "I don't think Python perf will be an issue" and person B saying "I think it will"? That is the point, knowing that it is
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by Jensson 7mo ago
And shooting down shit is also valuable. It is fine to have ideas without thinking them through, and it is also fine to criticize those ideas without thinking through the criticism. That is how we figure out how the ideas could work.
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Its essentially just a tax you pay for using higher education. You pay that in other countries as well via your taxes. Your tax debt is also permanent so you can't get out of paying taxes just by declaring bankruptcy. It is a bit weird
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> If it’s safe I can leverage it. Loans to private persons are very unsafe, for example they can move abroad and just stop paying as the article is talking about. Every person doing that raises interest for everyone else.
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That is what taking a loan is, you are able to do it, its how you afford your homes etc. The bank is the essential guarantor in that transaction, without the bank the person you buy the home from doesn't trust you enough but the bank h
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by Jensson 7mo ago
That is how bad countries are made. Good countries are made by people thinking that its also wrong to steal from the government. For example you should never ever vote on politicians that waste tax money. Some countries do that, but USA is
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by Jensson 7mo ago
Its not immoral to not be able to pay your debts, but its immoral to not pay them when you are able to.
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People don't have that right when they are criminals, prisoners don't get to leave their country etc and this is essentially that.
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Emotional signals are more than just text though, there is a reason tone and body language is so important for understanding what someone says. Sarcasm and so on doesn't work well without it.
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by Jensson 7mo ago
Old forums weren't called social media. I think for it to be social media it has to be about your social graph, here on HN I almost never read peoples names and I don't really connect with people so it isn't social media, its
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by Jensson 7mo ago
> It's not so much a prompting problem as a critical thinking and verbal reasoning problem. And that means you have to learn without AI to understand when the AI is wrong. This is just how its dangerous to use a calculator without k
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Not if they hire good to go and literally kill the competition.
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> If you disagree, please tell me for which task requiring intelligence you'd rather have an animal's wit than that of an LLM. Navigating your way to a location without colliding with anything. Finding food in the woods. Such s
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Iran gives missiles to the houtis, houtis then use those to fire at American ships. Its the same kind of proxy war as Ukrain, and people call that a proxy.
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> The people that drew up a potential target list did so years before And the building was a military installation years ago. Then Iran made it into a school, nobody is omniscient here, collateral damage will always happen in war. If thi
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How many American lives would you sacrifice for that? The people who made the decision to fire a missile at this place didn't decide to start the war, once you have started the war you have to make ugly tradeoffs like being too liberal
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To me social media was more fun before the addictive patterns started appearing. And HN is one of the most fun social media sites there is and it doesn't have those addictive patterns.
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> Whoever made the choice to use Maven to plan a sneak attack without careful checking made an unforced error when they had all the time in the world to prevent it Who said they had all the time in the world? You can't get most of I
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Nobody will stop USA as long as they fight evil regimes.
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> 2nd of all 400/11000 athletes is 3%. that's roughly inline with population statistics in the 15-25 demographic No its not 3% for the world, for USA maybe but most countries barely have any trans people at all.

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