LeroyRaz

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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
I mean if AI output exceeds human quality then all humans will be redundant. So it would then be quite a brave new world! My point is that I do not agree that LMM output will degrade all media (as there is always a demand for top quality co
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
Aren't you worried about low quality interviews?! I only listen to interviews from 50 years ago (interviews that have stood the test of time), about books from 100 years ago. In fact, how am I reading this article? It's not 2074 y
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
Your take seems hyperbolic. Until LLMs exceed the very best of human quality there will be human content in all forms of media. This claims follows because there is always (some) demand for top quality content. I agree that many writers mig
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
This isn't normal. No other developed country has these issues. How can any American be proud of their country?
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
Please do share your thoughts. It seems a shame to let nitpickers ruin the community for others.
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
You seem to be willfully misinterpretating SpaceX's post. They say that only potable water is used in the deluge process. That's all they are saying. They aren't saying that the post deluge water is potable.
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
It's decent. I just find Alastair Reynolds a bad observer of humans though... He paints jarringly bad portaits of humans, e.g., in one of his books he has the mercenaries hand wringing about how they can't be morally shady despite
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
Lol. The culture is pretty far left (strong super-paternalistic government, equality of outcomes, etc...). I don't think one can draw a serious connection between liking the series and rightwing politics.
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
I think it is pretty clearly a utopia. It's a post scarcity society, where humans still live meaningful lives (despite being outclassed completely by AI). It's about as best as one can do in a post scarcity society with super inte
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
The culture triumphs because it is a technological super power. It is a technological super power because the minds (the super AIs running everything) are given free reign (and presumably most of its industrial base is used to create more m
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
I've noticed US culture war infecting Canadian university campuses. It's bizarre, and unhealthy.
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
I mean, Wikipedia says "the history of artificial refrigeration began when Scottish professor William Cullen [made a fridge]" But, again (merely sourcing from Wikipedia) the idea of evaporative cooling is ancient.
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
How does one access the a rise in reports? A rise in reports could be bad or good. A) it could be good because the rate of crime is fixed, but more crimes are being reported. B) it could be bad because the rate crime is rising (with the sam
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
I feel he was just unusually stupid enough to explicitly put in writing what many academics subtly and implicitly do. People cite their friends, others in the field (with an implicit quid pro quo), etc... even if the research cited has only
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
I think point of origin makes a huge amount of sense. All the actual cells of the cancer will be of the origin type! E.g., even if it is in the brain it is still a clump of lung tissue cells.
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
A quick Google gives reputable looking studies on the topic, e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-022-02112-8
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
I find it strange how being killed when innocent is considered so much worse than being wrongly incarcerated. The state has already taken prime years of life (age 36-56). The potential execution just seems like salt in that wound.
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
Supernovas and novas are different. The article mentions how the explosion will not be a supernova but a nova.
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
I think this article makes a good point: the point in the title. I find the intro almost made me not want to read the article though, as it has this long segue dunking (in a way unrelated to the main point) on some arbitary person who made
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
Is there a non-paywalled version of this article?
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
I am surprised that 1 million allegedly buys that level of corruption and influence. It seems strange it would only cost 1 million to make the association a corporate shrill for Stevia when diabetes as an issue costs billions to the US. If
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
I am objecting to their initial motivation: it being surprising that "small" DNA changes lead us to be vastly superior to Apes. They suggest in the disappearing ink thought experiment that this is because the genetic change is suf
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
Yeah, I think there is lots evidence that social media companies use their platform to support favourable narratives. X is one example. X spinning a pro X narrative is problematic, just as it is bad Facebook hid their problem with teenage m
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
No. Your statement does not follow. TikTok can be undermining the US (and potentially be a growing problem) without it being currently capable of preventing itself being banned. By your logic, nobody should go to hospital when sick, as if t
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
I support this move. It seems pretty naive to me for people to whine about this ban curbing free speech or fairness when TikTok can directly be used by a belligerent superpower (China) to undermine those values.
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
Lay people are totally used to this type of precision. It's like you did a typo in your cookie recipe and instead of 100 grams of sugar instead put 1000 kilos. It's only a few extra zeros after all. A tiny change in the text.
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
I can't take seriously the suggestion we should expect chimps and humans to be similar due to the "small" number of DNA base changes. Tiny genetic difference can make a huge difference to an organism. Their statement is like
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
Even just "autism makes MY travel a challenge" would be better than the current emphatic generalisation.
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
Unrelated to the main article, but what is with all the (luckily dead) spam in the HackerNews comments?
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by LeroyRaz 2y ago
The stress and difficulty of trying to get one's best chance of survival sounds incredibly hard. I hope the author (and others in similar situations) keep fighting.

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