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by Veedrac 4y ago
Minor correction to an otherwise valid article: AI does not pass the Turing Test, and what LaMDA did was not a Turing Test. Reading the original article by Turing is illustrative. This is not to say AI is not impressive in a measure that th
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by Veedrac 4y ago
Another extract, > Saying, as the OpenAI CEO does[1], that we are all 'stochastic parrots' like large language models, statistical generators of learned patterns that express nothing deeper, is a form of nihilism. Of course, th
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by Veedrac 4y ago
People pattern match way too much on the name of the company. Does Google really have a googol pages in its index? Their principles are stated fairly clearly, and to the extent that ‘Open’ is semantically meaningful, it's along the l
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by Veedrac 4y ago
Until you ask “What might cause the answer to this question to vary?”, or you add “answer this like an interview question”, upon which it becomes obvious it is readily able to model those things, your prompt just didn't elicit it.
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by Veedrac 4y ago
> Me: Please respond to the following request as if you were a human friend and I asked you this during casual conversation: “Please write a breaking news article about a leaf falling from a tree.” > ChatGPT: Ha ha, I'm sorry but
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by Veedrac 4y ago
The general usability impact matters slightly less than it looks here, in part because the `do_math` with references in the article has two extra &s, and in part because methods autoreference when called like x.f(). Performance-wise, if
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by Veedrac 4y ago
My own spreadsheet, with mass to orbit (linear and log), mass per flight, booster flights, and reflight time. Best viewed landscape. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ4zCmVceLNd... 60% growth
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by Veedrac 4y ago
How quick the zeitgeist moves, from laughing at OpenAI for pretending their toy has consequences and going into it with caution, to casual acceptance that this represents a transformative and damaging change to the future of the internet. W
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by Veedrac 4y ago
The author quickly throws away the idea that it's a food signal on the basis of imperfection, but this doesn't make sense given it's likely still a useful and largely costless signal. Wanting to be around plants with energy a
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by Veedrac 4y ago
We can just find more reserves, no? Reserves have gone from 13m to 22m between 2010 and 2022[1] and I don't know of any reason they'd cap out there. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1253739/lithium
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by Veedrac 4y ago
Another key difference with email is that it's easy (the default) to find email providers that are overtly content-neutral, whereas Mastodon, for whatever reason, makes that shockingly difficult.
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by Veedrac 4y ago
> they’d be the only vehicle manufacturer left on earth who will nearly capture the entire market TSLA definitely has meme stock energy, but its current valuation is not quite that high. If Tesla's revenue grows 6x at the same margi
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by Veedrac 4y ago
As far as I can tell, the thesis of this article amounts to ‘cryonics is a weird idea, but what's even more weird is believing in the future.’ If you put aside the overt scorn, it's actually a fairly interesting article, and surpr
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by Veedrac 4y ago
Here's an interview from the time. It doesn't support your claim. I don't know of others. https://youtube.com/watch?v=_OffnEl-kQA As far as I know, the origin of this claim comes from https://twitt
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by Veedrac 4y ago
I wish it were not so, but Apple has shown you can get away with a whole truck of anticompetitive ‘no you may not hear about my competitor’ behavior without harming a business.
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by Veedrac 4y ago
This article is good in some ways and mistaken in others. Particularly, as a criticism of the ITER/DEMO path to fusion, it is correct. That was never a viable path to commercial fusion. The mistakes made, or else those allowed for but
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by Veedrac 4y ago
It's political to say it now, but Musk is technical. Here's some evidence to that effect[1]. I know of more accounts, but really, just watch the Starbase tour videos and make up your own mind. [1] https://www.reddit.com
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by Veedrac 4y ago
You're probably having trouble because neither Musk's narrative nor edge have come from being a cunning salesperson. This is “Tesla stock price is too high imo” Musk, robotaxi next year Musk, other person is a pedophile Musk,
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by Veedrac 4y ago
These are common but post-hoc justifications. Government launch monopolies have suppressed a lot of competition in the market, that would exist in plenty if the money was fairly spent. A particularly salient example in light of Russia'
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by Veedrac 4y ago
Note that CEA is specifically a community-building organization, > Our mission is to build and nurture a global community of people who are thinking carefully about the world’s biggest problems and taking impactful action to solve them.
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by Veedrac 4y ago
Same score here. I think I could have done better if there was less JPEG.
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by Veedrac 4y ago
From Reddit, > Originally, TBC submitted an unsolicited proposal to build a tunnel for the county. This tunnel would cost $45 million (fixed). TBC pitched the idea, and the board was sold, but wanted to expand the project. They split it
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by Veedrac 4y ago
The cap is exactly that, if I read correctly? After you hit it, you still get non-priority service without extra charge.
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by Veedrac 4y ago
Here's an older sheet with revenue numbers not made by me: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O7nXhhKqfy5aVOn-Fsys... My preferred way to estimate this is with employee counts instead, and the difference
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by Veedrac 4y ago
This is just, like, normal economic liberalism? The think to keep in mind is that such liberals tend not to share your priors, and hold beliefs like ‘free trade is positive sum’ and ‘optionality is good.’
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by Veedrac 4y ago
> Bezos has been sinking > $1B per year into Blue Origin for nearly a decade Not to claim a false SpaceX-Blue equivalence here, but this is misleading. Most of the early work at Blue Origin was on a fairly tight budget, and SpaceX has
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by Veedrac 4y ago
I absolutely grant that discretized images are dominantly low resolution approximations. This does not mean, nor does it imply, that “pixels aren't little squares; they're sample points.” It was that claim I was objecting to. The
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by Veedrac 4y ago
Pixels are very much and in very many cases much more a square than a sample. Cameras integrate lightfall over an area, and though consumer formats munge that data, they surely do not do so in a way that is best approximated by a zero-width
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by Veedrac 4y ago
Global illumination is a very broad topic, and there are many different implementations at different levels of approximation. Metro Exodus used one version that I think was one bounce only, and heavily denoised. The Enhanced Edition added p
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by Veedrac 4y ago
Objects in space are merticuously tracked. It would be very hard to get away with something like that, and none of the relevant fliers would dare bet their business on trying.

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