Rury

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by Rury 2y ago
> LLMs current architecture seems to mainly work by understanding patterns in the existing body of knowledge ... >But it is clear humans are capable of creativity and reasoning that are not reducible to mere pattern matching and this
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by Rury 2y ago
The article isn't wrong about captivity/freedom, although alphas are certainly thing. Hierarchies are naturally born out of confrontations and how they're settled, and captivity (ie scarcity) breeds confrontations. If two sep
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by Rury 2y ago
Most people don't care about the fundamentals of equity valuations is the crux of it. If they can make money via derivatives, who cares about the underlying valuations? I mean just look at GME for one example, it's been mostly a s
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by Rury 2y ago
Maybe because the loudest news said it was bearish. Lot's of people let the media do their thinking for them.
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Who says we're in agreement?
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by Rury 2y ago
Even if the majority of people are in agreement of "we dislike the current people running the government", you still have the problem of agreeing on what to do about it. Some people may want to overthrow current government norms a
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by Rury 2y ago
Well, that's sort of the thing you're missing... the vast majority of people are not the "manager" or "owner" in this situation. But if they were to take responsibility, it would mean they'd have to replac
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by Rury 2y ago
There's also iodine in eggs, milk, yogurt, many cheeses, and various seafoods. If you regularly consume such items I wouldn't worry too much.
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by Rury 2y ago
Money is just a means to obtain goods and services. So no... money isn't really the goal.
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by Rury 2y ago
> The law made it so no one had the position to squeeze suppliers for lower prices Not quite. The law made it so that suppliers couldn't offer better deals to one of its customers over another. But retailers could still squeeze supp
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by Rury 2y ago
Clearly you miss the point or don't understand politics, if you think the matter or comparison I made has anything to do with finitism. Politics has everything to do with conflicts in wants. For example, some people want free speech, a
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It's just politics... Replace "open internet" with "land" and imagine countries (ie people) are attempting to block others access to some resource. It was naive to assume that the internet wouldn't adhere the n
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by Rury 2y ago
It's kind of the same concept as the student becomes the teacher, the slave becomes the master, etc. Anyhow, such a principle typically exists wherever there is an opposing relationship of sorts. In the case of money, for every debtor
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by Rury 2y ago
You don't need any of those reasons. The simplest reason is simply that for AI to do anything, you need to instruct it to do so. You know what we call the art of instructing computers? Programming...
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by Rury 2y ago
Here's why AI won't end the profession... (at least not completely). Programming is defined as the art of creating/writing instructions for computers to perform. If you're aware, then you will realize that for AI to do a
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by Rury 2y ago
>This tacitly assumes a pretty naive model of how these markets work. The dynamics of poor liquidity, dead equity, stock restrictions, intangible asset loss, etc materially change the outcomes you can expect. In many cases it may cost th
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by Rury 2y ago
I think what you do is simply tax stock ownership. Say you own 100 shares of stock. A 2% tax would mean the government would confiscate 2 of your shares, so you then own 98 shares. The government then proceeds to sell their confiscated shar
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by Rury 2y ago
Revisions are normal, although 800k is fairly high. Most of this scale are usually 200k-300k, though in 2019 we had a revision of ~500k.
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by Rury 2y ago
That's because programming isn't just about syntax. The real difficulty lies in the problem solving. Sure AI can help with that, but the problem still largely rests on the programmer, as AI won't do anything unless prompted t
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Not really. Back then miners risked less work for less certain value. Nowadays miners risk more work, for more certain value. While it may seem like the past risked more, the risks/work hasn't really changed.
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The problem with bitcoin is that past work is worth more than future work. More work/energy has to be expended now for 1 bitcoin than in the past. It's just as an unequal system as inflationary fiat.
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by Rury 2y ago
Most animals get tired running very quickly too. A cheetah, just like you, also can't sustain a run at their max speed for very long (about 30 seconds max). But when it comes to endurance, very few animals come close to us thanks to ho
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by Rury 2y ago
Because, there is another option: accept a lower standard of living. And depending on what your standard is, it can be a perfectly acceptable (even desired) option.
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by Rury 2y ago
It's not unique to the US at all, it's fundamentally just how power dynamics work. Power comes from controlling access over valuable resources (ie power = control). Being a middleman gives you some control over something, and ther
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by Rury 2y ago
>so profit off it then? Many already have, as they're the ones that sold to investors. And for any that chose to remain on the sidelines, not footing the risk can be pay off enough. Shorting however, isn't about predicting a bu
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by Rury 2y ago
The necklace in the right photo is a more obvious giveaway, whereas you have to look closely at eyes to see if they match.
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Not in mice AFAIK, but they've done it with flies which have an even better generational turnaround time (although are less alike to us). Selective breeding of fruit flies at their oldest possible age for breeding, yields longer lifesp
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> What really needs explaining is why, despite the unusually strong general US job market[1] for several years now, the US tech market specifically has been seeing layoffs and hiring freezes It's very simple (hyperbole): When borrow
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People overcomplicate the matter. The second law of thermodynamics is fundamentally very simple: things flow towards (or seek) a state of equilibrium. That's it. Entropy is just a measure of equilibrium. All the concepts are like you s
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People don't need to be deluded, just ignorant. And you don't even need that, just having a different set of priorities would suffice.

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