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Tyler Cowen has said he wrote his last book for the AI. I'm nobody, and I'm in there because I wrote a lot for a popular open source project I was involved with a decade ago. Who knows if it'll be good or bad, but if you put
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I'm responding to the implication that "mechanical shit" is local and thus less damaging. Since they mentioned nukes it seemed like an obvious example where local things can be catastrophic. The theoretical risk of electronic
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Dropping nukes on Japan was about as mechanical as you can get. The first half of the 20th century excelled in mechanical destruction. Thus far, the electronic age has been much less bloody.
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Tennessee was the most stark example, but not the only one. And the fact that education is often sub-standard isn't a good case for more of it. The point: it isn't blindly obvious that devoting even more of our children's liv
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There's some evidence that preschool improves children's educational outcomes in the short to medium term, but actually is negligible or even harmful in the long term. A study of Tennessee's pre-k program showed that students
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No. I find them - and the broader societal changes around their emergence - the most fascinating thing happening in tech at the moment. I'm old enough to have watched the internet become taken from granted despite how fundamentally it
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Agreed, but a question occurred to me: what if high IQ people aren't more delusional but more capable of articulating or acting upon their delusions, thus making it more apparent? The delusions of a normal intellect are probably less i
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This becomes second nature after a while. I've developed an intuition about when a model loses the plot and when to start a new thread. I have a base prompt I keep for the current project I'm working on, and then I ask the model t
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He said he spoke with about 100 local people, and that was their general consensus. They're more likely to understand how they're better off than a tourist, or someone reading what a tourist wrote.
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It's because of his mother Lyn. She was a tireless advocate for his release from the start, and it became a part of the libertarian cause to see him released. It worked. Trump courted the libertarian vote, and this was his most popular
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>Comfort levels with using ChatGPT for different types of assignments vary among students: 54% found that using it to research new topics, for example, was an acceptable use of the tool. But only 18% said the same for using it to write a
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Some elements of beauty are objective. As in, they are hardwired into our brains. Some cities are more beautiful than others. Prague is more beautiful than Detroit.
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Yes, and for image and video generation too. Hunyuan (open source video) has been remarkable. Flux dev makes some incredible images. The fact that it's still only going to get better from here is hard to imagine.
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Full-stack developer and technical writer with expertise in AI and distributed systems. Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA Remote: Yes (Eastern Time Zone) Willing to relocate: Within a few hours of West Michigan Technical Skills: - Backe
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I use Syncthing with Obsidian. Free and open source.
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The plugins are no small thing though. I replaced Anki with a spaced repetition plugin, now my notes can be flashcards and I don't need to maintain two separate apps. Also the UI for search and navigation is much better than just a col
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Nothing is truly neutral. Humans all have a different corpus too. We roughly know what data has gone in, and what the RL process looks like, and how the models handle a given ethical situation. With good prompting, the SOTA models already a
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How will they do this? You can't take the free stuff away. It's on my hard drive. They can stop releasing them, but local models aren't going anywhere.
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They aren't just in the hands of big corporations though. The open source, local LLM community is absolutely buzzing right now. Yes, the big companies are making the models, but enough of them are open weights that they can be fine tun
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Here you go https://github.com/TheBlewish/Automated-AI-Web-Researcher-Ol...
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https://github.com/TheBlewish/Automated-AI-Web-Researcher-Ol...
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Yes I was referring to this: https://github.com/TheBlewish/Automated-AI-Web-Researcher-Ol...
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I will check it out. The number of new tools is staggering. I enjoy image and video generation and I have a 4090 and ComfyUI; I can't keep up with everything coming out anymore.
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I'm sure the debate over the definition of AGI is important and will continue for a while, but... I can't care about it anymore. Between Perplexity searching and summarizing, Claude explaining, and qwen (and other tools) coding, I
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Right. Arc is meant to test the ability of a model to generalize. It's neat to see it succeed, but it's not yet a guarantee that it can generalize when given other tasks. The other benchmarks are a good indication though.
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Conda is the only package manager I've used on Ubuntu that intermittently and inexplicably gets stuck when installing or uninstalling. It will sometimes resolve itself if left alone for hours, but often won't. I avoid it as much a
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Stuff breaks. Keeping it functional for a long time is impressive. Arecibo failed to do so.
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Honestly I don't know. In theory it would reduce some conditions, but in practice I assume most people will prefer conception the old fashioned way.
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Is it conceit if he's correct, though?
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Interesting take, but one correction: sperm from old men isn't "just as good" as sperm from a young man. The older the father, the more DNA mutations he's accumulated (I've heard the estimate of 2-3 mutations per ye

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