MichaelDickens

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by MichaelDickens 4mo ago
What do you mean "better profitability criteria"? I don't want an index to exclude companies on the basis of profitability. I want it to hold the market. (I also don't want them to create special exceptions. The S&P
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by MichaelDickens 4mo ago
There is an entire segment of mutual funds and ETFs that avoid stocks with high valuations, called value funds. About half my equities are in value funds. The downside is that it's not an arbitrage. Sometimes they perform worse than th
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by MichaelDickens 4mo ago
I wouldn't say Anthropic is worse than OpenAI, but there's a lot wrong with them. https://anthropic.ml/ has a collection of incidents and relevant evidence.
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by MichaelDickens 4mo ago
Being pedantic, but I don't want to lose the meaning of the term: "AI psychosis" doesn't refer to someone who thinks AI is really good. It refers to someone who develops symptoms of psychosis from talking to an LLM, e.g.
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by MichaelDickens 4mo ago
From their previous comment: > I fought for years trying to convince my colleagues to write good commit messages. Now Claude is writing great commit messages but since *I'm no longer looking at code* - I never see them. I don't
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by MichaelDickens 4mo ago
It's relevant because the fact that it's religious organization was an important fact in the judge's ruling. From the article: > If Kars4Kids resumes advertising, [Judge Apkarian] wrote, its ads must contain “an express, a
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by MichaelDickens 5mo ago
Logically I understand that cyan is directly between green and blue, but my brain believes it's 100% blue.
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by MichaelDickens 6mo ago
I believe the original idea of the Constitution was that most things would be regulated at the state level. This is pretty much already the case with marijuana, where it's illegal at the federal level, but in practice if it's lega
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by MichaelDickens 6mo ago
What exactly are you implying? It sounds to me like you're saying that if it's impossible to make a product safe, then there shouldn't be any safety requirements. I think a more sensible position is that if it's impossib
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by MichaelDickens 6mo ago
People can have motivations for wanting to cut back Social Security other than "they hate working Americans". I would prefer commenters make more of an effort to understand their opponents' perspective rather than painting th
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by MichaelDickens 6mo ago
Maybe people inside the company think Anthropic behaves ethically, which says something scary about either their ethical standards or their general awareness, considering how much documented unethical behavior we've seen from Anthrop
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by MichaelDickens 6mo ago
Rather than curtailing women's right to vote, my preferred solution would be to increase men's right to not be conscripted.
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by MichaelDickens 6mo ago
I think if that were the rule, all the program managers would just quit and there would be no manned spaceflight anymore.
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by MichaelDickens 6mo ago
I can foresee a design flaw, which is that the cat will ignore all the specially designated areas and sit on your keyboard instead.
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by MichaelDickens 6mo ago
No, but Chrome is not the only browser.
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by MichaelDickens 6mo ago
I'm not a web dev but if the goal is to improve load times, I'd think it would make more sense to load the full article text up front, and lazy load heavier data like images and video? I've seen a lot of websites that do it t
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by MichaelDickens 7mo ago
Economics has the Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics: https://jcr-econ.org/
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by MichaelDickens 7mo ago
Altman has personally claimed that we are close to AGI. Therefore, according to him, OpenAI should invoke the self-sacrifice clause.
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by MichaelDickens 7mo ago
OP says one query uses 0.3 Wh. Driving an electric car for 10 miles = 3,000 Wh which is roughly 10,000 Wh per hour. I'm not sure how many queries is equivalent to an hour of Claude code use, but maybe 5 seconds, which means an hour of
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by MichaelDickens 7mo ago
> It's a piece of software that predicts the most likely token, it is not and can never be conscious. A brain is a collection of cells that transmit electrical signals and sodium. It is not and can never be conscious.
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by MichaelDickens 7mo ago
> I think agents should manage their own context too. My intuition is that this should be almost trivial. If I copy/paste your long coding session into an LLM and ask it which parts can be removed from context without losing much, I
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by MichaelDickens 7mo ago
In my experience virtually every magazine is like this, not just Quanta. I open an article hoping to learn something about some scientific or mathematical discovery, but instead the article is almost entirely about the discoverer. For learn
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by MichaelDickens 7mo ago
> Yes it was a pragmatic change, no it was not a change in their values. The commentary here on HN about Anthropic's RSP change was completely off the mark. They "think these changes are the right thing for reducing AI risk, bo
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by MichaelDickens 7mo ago
It's both. Saving time is a form of status signaling. Professionalism usually entails spending longer on something than is optimal for effective communication, which is a way of signaling "my time is less valuable than yours"
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by MichaelDickens 7mo ago
> On the positive side of this, research papers by competent people read very clearly with readable sentences, while those who are afraid that their content doesn't quite cut it, litter it with jargon, long complicated sentences, ho
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by MichaelDickens 8mo ago
I would think that, by default, noise would not have a bias? Adding noise doesn't change the mean, it just increases the variance, right?
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by MichaelDickens 8mo ago
Who can you sue? The scammer?
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by MichaelDickens 8mo ago
Slavery was wrong 200 years ago; it is still wrong today. What changed is that the wrongness of slavery became more widely known.
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by MichaelDickens 10mo ago
Isn't this a retcon? As I understand, autism was considered by many to be a spectrum in the literal sense, and the "colors" thing came later.
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by MichaelDickens 11mo ago
I'm not OP but presumably the knot made it so that the cable wasn't long enough to reach the computer.

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