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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
The Atlantic Journalism Standards Have Gone To Hell. Evidence: See article
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> The cost of renting a gas car once a year or calling a taxi when you're stranded are comparatively tiny compared to retaining full-time ICEs just in case That is because a lot of people have ICE cars already. If there were a lot o
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
This guideline is basically banning the use of std::string. Having a string abstraction beyond C null-terminated string is a huge deal both for convenience and for safety. It is super easy to get strings wrong in C. This is also one of the
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
There is a big difference between helping a friend or acquaintance just being nice to doing something for money. Once you add money into something, there is a whole level of scrutiny and legal and ethical implications. Like others have been
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
> That latency, frustratingly enough, doesn’t come from the actual rendering, which happens locally on that beefy hardware, but rather the fact that Cocreator validates everything with the cloud for “safety”; never mind that you can crea
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
Meanwhile Alien: Even our most modern military motherships are able to perfectly run code that works on the 1950's models. We have truly achieved write once, run everywhere. (Independence Day 1996)
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>Bullitt, the licensed manufacturers of the CAT S-22 I purchased, folded the day before my phone arrived. Despite the news, I tried the hardware for about a week. It let me call, text and access the messenger functions of a couple of app
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
Actually, I am more interested in cloud free where my data never leaves my device. If, you can use LLMs, etc to make my on-device experience better without sending out information to the cloud - more power to you. Running stable diffusion o
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
> I grew up eating bear sausage and it was delicious. Isn’t sausage the goto thing when you want to take meat that would otherwise be nasty and turn it into something palatable? I don’t think you statement contradicts the parent post abo
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
Yeah, having police say, we could find out who the guy charging towards someone with a knife is, bland we have the technology, but we can’t do it is not likely to be a winning political argument.
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My concern is that this type of policy represents a profound rejection of the Western ideal that ideas and information are not in and of themselves harmful. Let's look at some of the examples of harm that are often used. Take for examp
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
> OpenAI’s Superalignment team, responsible for developing ways to govern and steer “superintelligent” AI systems, was promised 20% of the company’s compute resources, according to a person from that team. But requests for a fraction of
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
This is a very disingenuous argument. These same people are the ones who formulated a chemical that works, proved that it works, proved that it is safe. That same chemical improves the health of the population saving billions in costs and q
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
The irony is that they were scrapped after unsuccessfully trying and failing to align OpenAI by forcing out Sam Altman. Sam Altman completely outsmarted and outmaneuvered them. If they lost so badly to Sam Altman, they are deluded if they t
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
I don’t know if others have noticed, but GPT-4o doesn’t have the preachiness and moral smugness that earlier GPT models had. The earlier ChatGPT models were very quick to call a request unsafe or unethical and refuse to help. GPT-4o is a br
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
They failed to align Sam Altman. They got completely outsmarted and out maneuvered by Sam Altman And they think they will be able to align a super human intelligence? That it won’t outsmart and out maneuver them easier than Sam Altman did.
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> Superintelligence will be the most impactful technology humanity has ever invented, and could help us solve many of the world’s most important problems. But the vast power of superintelligence could also be very dangerous, and could le
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> Illness should not be a source of profit. Exactly. Let's take this further. Nobody should be making money off other people's suffering. So. Let's also zero out doctor's and nurse's salaries. Hospital administra
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> If Novo Nordisk set its US prices for Wegovy to match the Danish price, spending to treat half of US adults with obesity would drop from $411 billion to $94.5 billion, a roughly $316.5 billion savings. The solution to the drug price cr
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> The world desperately needs a leader - a Churchill, a Lincoln, just about anyone - to stand up to it, to show people there are other, much better ways. The Churchill who authorized the bombing of Berlin? The Churchill who authorized th
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> Other people have received notes from police threatening consequences including imprisonment over online posts and links shared on Twitter. Remember, this is what happens when government gets to control the media in the name of stoppin
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> “Superalignment” group will be folded into broader research efforts at the company. I think super-alignment and super intelligence are incompatible with each other. I think a huge part of intelligence is in examining the basic premises
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
Actually, this is feel-good nonsense. Pretty much every society has treated at least some of those over whom it has power over very, very poorly: Assyria, Persia, Greece, Rome, Han China, Franks, Arab Empire, Mongols, Ottomans, Spanish, Fre
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
> and not the slightest bit New Testament. I don't know about "slightest" The part where the state severely beats an innocent man and nails him to a couple of pieces of wood, and the guards hang around waiting for him to
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> its about the users who accepted this change and the social capital of the organization that pushed it In other words, fiat
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> If Americans wanted public administrators who weren't so corrupt, they would be chosen by sortition for limited terms from professional societies You should leave out “from professional societies”. Having professional societies in
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> One of the wisest and most important pieces of advice I received as a startup founder was this: “The worst outcome is a mediocre success”. …in a zero interest rate environment where there is a bunch of money sloshing around looking to
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y ago
> specifically, will AI be a bicycle that we control, or an unstoppable train to destinations unknown? I am more worried about AI becoming a tank - an instrument only the approved agents of the state are allowed to possess and which is u
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> The hospital said it had “no indication that it was the result of his recent transplant.” Sorry, the burden of proof goes backwards. When you are doing something this novel and the patient dies so soon afterwards, the null hypothesis i
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From the perspective of a person living in the US, it is technically correct that ancient aliens were responsible for all the ancient Egyptian artifacts. They were ancient in that they lived a long time ago and they were aliens in that

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