ToValueFunfetti

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by ToValueFunfetti 2mo ago
I'd think that the claim >Nobody invests a billion dollars in a facility without first lobbying to get an exemption from property taxes. Most states in the US have passed incentives that include sales and property tax exemptions. is
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by ToValueFunfetti 2mo ago
Could you point to some evidence that we are not? Or at least an anecdote or an opinion on what the issue is or anything at all of substance rather than a provocative question and a bit of snark? What am I supposed to take away from this- I
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by ToValueFunfetti 2mo ago
This doesn't make any sense. The population has experienced massive uplift over the last few decades. Their parents weren't going on vacations with the family as kids, they were struggling to put food on the table. Houses are outp
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by ToValueFunfetti 2mo ago
I'm not a moderator, but this is not the way to engage here, and your profile seems to have a lot of the same. You should peruse the comments section of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html or at least try
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by ToValueFunfetti 2mo ago
As far as casino games, you might find yourself in this situation with a half-decent poker hand or if you're counting cards in blackjack. Casinos don't hand out advantages over the house, which is why the former is coming from oth
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by ToValueFunfetti 2mo ago
Reactions to Windows ME forced MS to respond with XP; reactions to Vista forced them to respond with 7. They're being stated in parallel rather than chronologically.
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by ToValueFunfetti 2mo ago
It's good that we'd be able to increase the amount of goods and services produced and reduce prices. For example, a lot of people would benefit from access to cheap, reliable heart surgery within a few days of learning they needed
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by ToValueFunfetti 2mo ago
I would think that qualia is the element of that list that actually matters here- "Is there a way that it feels to be an LLM?" is, I expect, the underlying question being asked within "Is an LLM conscious?". If LLMs coul
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by ToValueFunfetti 2mo ago
I can accept that AI labs themselves, like essentially no company before them, are overselling how dangerous their product is far marketing. It's weird how confident everyone is about that theory, but it does at least make sense. But c
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by ToValueFunfetti 2mo ago
Thank god. I'd been hearing we screwed up catastrophically by electing an admin that took a chainsaw to our foreign aid programs, killing millions in the developing world. Such a relief to learn we were never doing that stuff in the fi
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
Did you mean to say you feel LLMs will be made into an even worse replacement? Otherwise not clear on your "early days" point. The second half of your second paragraph is also forward looking- as I said, LLMs would have to get o
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
Jury, I direct you to exhibit A. >You're basically asking to be coddled, affirmed, validated, and protected. Incorrect. My interactions with LLMs simply don't look like this. I don't know where you got this idea from what
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
I have more meaningful intellectual conversations with LLMs in a given day than in a month on social networks. And the LLMs never try to make me feel angry or stupid, they never ignore my arguments to go on their own soapbox, they almost ne
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
Yes, thank you. The news story here is that it slipped below IPO price during intraday trading. In a perfect world, IPO price should equal the fair value; in our world, there are random-walk price variances moment to moment; in synthesis, b
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
This is shaped like more-or-less every IPO I've seen. I think you have to wait for more of a collapse to claim dispositive evidence of a scam (or widen your claim to 'almost all IPOs are scams').
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
Not clear on where you're confused. The article does not claim this is the state today, it says in 2028- did you misread? In any event I think this is entirely plausible, say >9%, based on trendlines and the fact that I hear about t
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
Speaking as someone who agrees with you, it's much better to just make your point than to lay it out in hints like this. It's condescending and annoying. No offense intended, just a note.
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
The top two comments in this thread agree with the point you just made. This is true of essentially any thread on the subject. If this place sucks, it would have to be because of people like you. If not, you in particular may not be very go
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
For the love of all that is sacred, please stop doing this. I'm begging you. The whole social media landscape is dying and you are creating a throwaway to participate in ruining this small corner. I assume this is not your first. And n
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
"Permanent underclass" is the notion that people who get involved at the ground floor will essentially get infinite wealth relative to the ones who don't. It's a little goofy, but more of the capitalism you'd expect
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
Agreed. There's sort of this spiteful anti-hype here that I find very offputting, and ultimately I think it's because a lot of folks are going out and encountering opinions I never see. I hear wild conspiracy theories about data c
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
Ah, this clarifies things. I suppose I brought this on myself by putting it at the start of the sentence, but I do mean little-c cynicism, not the ancient philosophy. I was surprised to be called out on it, as GP is a shining example, and I
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
This seems out of line with what you were saying above. Do you mean you would put money on a position less favorable than 50/50? What do you consider the likelihood such that you think you can announce it to be false today? 99%? I&#x27
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
I hate to get bogged down in semantics, but with the hope that one of the stronger top-level critiques makes it into the top slot here and this conversation gets buried: Cynicism is defined as >An attitude of scornful or jaded negativity
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
Science means the pursuit of knowledge. It doesn't mean "only believing proven things". If we're going to be rude, lets at least take the time to be right.
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
Nobody argued anything . GP just dismissed it as religion without engaging with a word of the material. Parent is taking a stab at why. Not that I'm complaining. Cynicism is the failure mode I rely on HN for. It's the populism th
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
I think you may be overindexing on the criticisms here. OpenAI has absolutely done impressive work in math already, and the criticisms are almost always based on the article that they initially published, usually available here in the HN co
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
I think, and I may be totally off base, that the labs are specifically avoiding art and (non-technical) writing as an endpoint. It's bad PR for them- it calls attention to the copyright question and threatens the 'human flourishin
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
Have you heard of ACLU v. Clapper, HLP v. DoJ, Doe v. Ashcroft, or US v. Moalin? Parent acknowledges decades of degradation and points to thorns like these.
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by ToValueFunfetti 3mo ago
The difference is whether you say "thank you" to the government that does (a) or "screw you" to the government that fails to do (b). It's the difference between me not killing you and me granting you the right to be

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