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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>What may be shocking to some people is that this phenomenon applies to people of any gender My point about what people don't talk about (and what those articles also ignore) is that it's not just men watching porn. >Easy
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
One interesting thing I don’t see enough people talking about is the decline in early-life sexual activity that goes along with this [0]. It appears somewhat caused by the fact that the “do it yourself experience” used to be a very inferi
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
I mean not to be all like “read Plato’s republic, literally the most famous Greek philosophy” but… * Polemarchus claims that justice is helping one’s friends and harming one’s enemies and that this is what one owes people (332c). Socrates’
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
I see you got in a debate below, but Jesus is mentioned in Tacitus's Annals, and if you don't believe those, then you don't believe a lot of what we accept for fact about Rome in the First Century.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_(Tacitus) Tacitus talks abut Jesus in The Annals, and if we don't take that collection at face value, a lot of our understanding of Rome becomes shaky.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
The real problem is that capitalism already has mechanisms to make these lists, but they would be a boring read. 30 under 30 in Finance? Build a list of the top investment banks, PE/VC shops, Hedge Funds, etc. and take the people und
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
> Rocks are “wiped clean” of information every time they dissolve. Same with weather systems. I won't go into why this isn't true (things are made of atoms and unless there's nuclear processes going on, those atoms stay th
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Viruses don't have intention (IDK what this has to do with anything), but they do compete because the risk of extinction. If there's no extinction mechanism then the weak organisms do not go away, everything just accumulates (li
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
The Historicity of Jesus is such an interesting topic. There almost certainly was a man from Nazareth named Jesus (we have pretty good unbiased sources there). However, unless you are a follower of his (or potentially some related religions
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Yeah but this [0] exists and a good fraudster goes “Hey, I’m an up and coming entrepreneur who is about to cash out and I want to give out some scholarships. Can my foundation buy access to your list please?” Then you spend like $1mn tops o
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Not only that , but the logic of the whole thing was weak anyway and I'd argue it didn't achieve any of its goals. There are plenty of places to torrent books online. If people are desperate for a book and savvy enough to know a
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
And what’s so crazy is that it seems like not that hard of a thing to actually make? Like I’m sure the College Board would sell you a similar list and if you really needed to fluff it, maybe some other shady sources. Classic “only the stu
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>” Meme” is referring to ideas, not jpegs. Would you be surprised to learn that jpegs represent ideas and I’ve read the selfish gene? > Rocks and weather don’t reproduce with some random error. Any system that does will evolve. Rocks
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
If you don’t die, then what’s the point of responding to stimuli?
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
> There's nothing special about biological organisms. We disagree. Rocks don’t fight to survive. Weather doesn’t fight to survive. They just exist in an environment. The literal differentiator of biological organisms is that they f
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
It’s clear to me why biological organisms need to fight for survival, but it is not clear to me why software code would. It has an infinite time scale. It doesn’t need to bump another model off the GPUs to run. It can just wait with no pe
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
What happened is as follows: 1) Various US policies have driven up rates of destructive drug use (i.e. it's easier to get truly toxic drugs like Meth and Fent than it is to get lower harm, but equally potent drugs) 2) Various US polici
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>12th St isn't even close to being in Noe The reality of the matter is that SF is the diametric opposite of NYC. In NYC, people live in Murray Hill for a year, move somewhere else and talk about their amazing experience in the UES
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
What happens is SF doesn't have the traditional US organizational structure of 'heavily policed mall-like downtown -> elevated highway over poor neighborhoods -> suburbs' (like it or not, even NYC has turned into that w
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
In practice, GPT uses byte-pair encoding [0] for each Unicode character. That’s why cases are treated differently - they’re different in Unicode. This is also the only way to teach a model how to properly capitalize things (since there are
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
One of the tests no one really wants to think about is as follows: LLMs feel real to us because they use our language, which embeds a ton of information in it. A model trained on an alien language would be the exact same model (word
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
I think you're really stretching the definition of deterministic here. For example, switching training order of images has a known impact on outputs, but I don't see the equivalent in traditional compression. I agree with you that
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Ok, so let's assume it's using a Visual Transformer architecture, since AFAICT, we don't know. What the model does is turn the picture into numbers in a clever way (embedding). Then, the model compares the relationships betwe
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>a levelized cost The LCOE "represents the average revenue per unit of electricity generated that would be required to recover the costs of building and operating a generating plant during an assumed financial life and duty cycle&q
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
> This change, the report explains, will help GM “capture more data on how consumers drive and charge EVs.” Oh cool, a company reducing features so they can collect more data on me.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Again, you can be afraid of imagined scenarios or you can do research. Uranium in power plants is dangerous because there are literal tons of it in one place. Any amount that could be feasibly moved has a low overall level of radiation (ura
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
No, we’ve known about the greenhouse effect for well over a century. It’s not non-chalance, it’s indifference. EDIT: the cause of the indifference is in part because it’s harder to get scared about! Our brains aren’t perfect risk estimators
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
I suggest you do your research about fallout. It decays about 1 order of magnitude for every 7^n of time. That’s the idea behind fallout shelters, you wait until the fallout is no longer dangerous. The atmosphere is a very harsh place for
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>that can kill millions Did the inverse square law stop working recently or do they all take turns touching it?
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Well, it’s certainly not evidence against, but it’s still possible that there are n-families of unrelated grammar structures and Google’s training caught enough examples of each of those families via popular languages. Also, for all we know

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