MarkusQ

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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
The reference to Marx and (implicitly) the labor theory of value renders the GP unserious. Just looking at the people doing the assembly (and not all the people in the supply chain), ignoring the time aspect (I doubt there's any produ
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
> wages have not kept up with inflation This is not true. https://econofact.org/factbrief/fact-check-have-inflation-ad...
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
> But time passes and situations evolve. Ed Zitron, though, clearly does not. > Over the last two years, he has called the top repeatedly: The AI bubble was definitely about to burst here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and h
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
Not adjusting for inflation and quality really damages the integrity of the comparisons, as does cherry picking your base examples. Taking your first, the $47K 3 bedroom starter home with a yard. In 2026 that would be $200K (cumulative inf
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
Places you spend time other than work and home. Places you contribute, compete, converse, hang out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place They used to be a significant factor in people's lives before we found
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
Well, reasonable people generally don't have a death wish. :P
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
There are also an awful lot of people trying to push it/publicize it.
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
> You have finite attention, so doing a research report on every dependency means you're never actually working on the core problem. Reading that took five minutes and gave a good intro to the counter argument to Curry-Howard-all-th
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
> A person transported from 1926 to 1976 would find the world nearly unrecognizable. I'm not one of these, but I met some. One thing I recall is their comparing the early 70s to the late 20s (there were a lot of parallels), and exp
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
We have to stop acting like these things "think"; it leads to really weird misinterpretations of the output as "meaning" things. For example, they will occasionally replace "colour" with "color". Why
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
We need more of this. For every "well of course, just...X, that's what everybody does" group-think argument there's a cogent case to be made for at least considering the alternatives. Even if you ultimately reject the a
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
Yeah, you're only here for a short while, so why not make the worst of it?
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
This would be a sort of convergence? They were both right in part (Chomsky that there was structure there, Norvig that it could be sussed out using brute force statistics). As is often the case, when two smart people who have thought a lo
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
Yeah. They seem to specialize in low-effort Musk bashing. (Not that there doesn't appear to be a evergreen market for that among the jealousinati.)
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
One a day? I think we're up to over 4 a second. https://worldstats.io/clock
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
To me it seems it's used with the intent "They don’t just <do X>, they <do Y>," implying that Y is a proper superset of X. My point is that X is in fact a superset of Y, making the most charitable reading "T
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
Right. And my point is that "leaning in" doesn't mean masking, it means committing to. Taking seriously. Exactly the sort of thing he's describing. I'm wondering if people have heard the expression "leaning
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
Always remember https://m.xkcd.com/2501/
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
> They don’t just lean into epsilons, the session context tolerance is used for almost every single point classification operation in geometric kernels and many primitives carry their own accumulating error component for downstream mat
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
More to the point, TFA is specifically addressing the issue (which is part of what makes it a big deal). They aren't saying "we see these things now, so they must be good" but rather things like "we see these selected fo
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
Yeah, I get that. But using something that should be on the "costs" side of the ledger as your metric still seems fraught. It feels like another LOC trap.
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
I'm still waiting for the update that explains why, after going from clock speed to FLOPS, etc. (which I understood) we suddenly started measuring processing power in GW. It makes as much sense as measuring automotive motors in decibe
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
But most of them are still deleterious. Remember, all improvements are changes, but most changes aren't improvements. The trick that makes evolution works is this: out of lots of random changes, most of which are harmful, the harmful
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
The didn't decide, they observed; consistent directional pressure over thousands of years is strong evidence that an allele is being selected for.
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
Misapprehension? If so, they aren't the only one. https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/06/uk_online_safety_act_...
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
So the story is... a publication that opposes the party currently in power, quoting a few people from the side that's presently out of power, saying that their being out of power is really bad, and we may never recover? How is this dif
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
This is essentially a distillation on the bigger model; you'd wind up surfacing a lot of artifacts from the host model, amplifying them in the same way repeated photocopying introduces errors. https://dailyai.com/2025&#
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
There isn't enough training data though, is there? The "secret sauce" of LLMs is the vast amount of training data available + the compute to process it all.
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by MarkusQ 6mo ago
Sure. But the whole point is that there is a significant difference between Schwartz and non-Schwartz, that only turns up after they start working for real, producing new work rather than rehashing established material, and it takes years t

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