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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> It is, however, useful for determining that something came from a specific provider, which could be valuable to Google in all sorts of ways. Oh crap, knowing Google it probably means they will put articles generated using their AI hi
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> In reality, the dependency does 80–90% of what you want, plus 27 other things you don’t need or want. Some of those 27 things introduce security vulnerabilities, so you better study them thoroughly even if you never intend to actually
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> Did someone prove mice have souls that go to heaven or hell while I wasn't looking? Yep, here is the documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3804810/
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
By the way, China is for all practical purposes a capitalist country. > go back and build your own country once you have a name and expertise I agree that this would be a great outcome. But whether your country allows it or not, that dep
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> I’d much rather see Romania adapt a system which educates everyone, rather than the world be better at filtering. Be careful what you wish for. I understand the sentiment, and I wish we could make education as good as possible for ever
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> But surprisingly many participants come from Transylvania. Makes sense, vampires have enough time to learn advanced math.
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid... Von Neumann, Wigner, and possibly Teller all went to the same central Budapest high school at about the same time, leading a friend to joke abou
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
So what you suggest instead is that smart people from poor countries should stay where they are, even if it means they won't get the opportunity to fully use their talent (because that would be expensive, and the country does not have
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
The easiest way to understand why it works is to imagine the opposite strategy: put the best students in the same classrooms as the worst one so the entire class advances very slowly, make the school system centered on success at sport. (I
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
I suspect that an important factor was that math was sufficiently abstract so that the smart people could go there and do their thing without risk of saying something that would offend the regime. If you said something carelessly in econo
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> More seriously, though, good and bad parents exist everywhere. Yes. And if makes a great difference which ones decide what the educational system will look like.
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
I haven't played it for decades. Actually pausing would be cheating, because most of the time is spent thinking. But it would make sense to stop counting time when the app is minimized. I guess, unless the player made a screenshot befo
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
Looking at their comment history, it's practically the only thing they ever write, over and over again.
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
I agree. It is better to finish a small project than start a big one and never finish it. I have seen a few people, and a few groups of people, who had big impressive plans... and never delivered. It is easy to imagine big: this game should
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
Hopefully you could refactor it automatically into 1024 functions and then find out that 1009 of them are never called in the project, so you can remove them.
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
Two words: many-world interpretation. More seriously, this is not a fair comparison. Adding LLM output to your source code is not analogical to quantum physics; it is analogical to letting your 5 years old child transcribe the experimentall
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
Exactly. If the AI can multiply everyone's power by hundred or thousand, you want to keep all people who make a positive contribution (and only get rid of those who are actively harmful). With sufficiently good AI, perhaps the group of
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
There will always be a gap between kids who are rich and smart (if school won't teach them, a tutor will) and kids who are stupid (no one can teach them). We can only choose which side of this gap will the smart poor kids stand on. T
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
If everyone can't get a Nobel prize, no one should! The so-called intelligent kids selfishly try to get ahead and build rockets or cure cancer, but they don't care about the feelings of those who can't build rockets or cure c
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
Yes, I am definitely plainly incompetent for not noticing a trivially recognizable pattern... > This article attempts to establish disjoint categories "good rationalist" and "cultist." ...that you have denied in anoth
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> My point is just that, insofar as this is true, it means what the article is saying is more about cults in general and less about anything specific to rationalism. The lesson I took from it was how tiny cults can appear inside of a l
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> There is no conspiracy against rationalists, they’re being reported on with the same methods as everything else No conspiracy, I agree. Only clickbait, and one obsessed Wikipedia admin. However, different newspapers have different qual
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
There are entire books written by former cult members. Some examples (I just copied the list, didn't check each one of them): "Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape" by Jenna Miscavige Hill
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> it seems to sidestep the issue that a major feature distinguishing the "good" rationalists from the "bad" is that the bad ones are willing to take very extreme actions in support of their beliefs. What is a "ve
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> I imagine having premises and thinking it through has a better track record of reaching conclusions consistent with reality. You only need to make one mistake in the entire chain of reasoning to get a wrong result. Mathematically spe
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> I don't know how you can call yourself a "rationalist" and base your worldview on a fantasy game. Most rationalists wouldn't know either, except for the five members of the cult.
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
> the discipline of Philosophy is rooted in the Platonic/Socratic notion that "I know that I know nothing." I can see how that applies to Socrates, but I wouldn't guess it also applies to e.g. Hegel.
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One problem is, making $300k annually and donating $200k of it to charitable causes such as curing malaria does not make an interesting story. Maybe it saved thousands of lives, maybe not, but we can't even point at specific people who
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
Funny how the comment making a factual correction gets downvoted. For me, that is the crucial information in the article: Yes, multiple people have succeeded to create a cult within the rationality community, but it always involved isolatin
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by Viliam1234 1y ago
You mean like this? https://www.readthesequences.com/Zero-And-One-Are-Not-Probab...

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