ViscountPenguin

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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
You could do a two stage process, a blinded text review and an unblinded review that can only be failed if you have a vigorous lack of knowledge about your work. I highly doubt anything like that will be implemented though.
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
I think it's very field dependant. In maths and biology I've seen very few professors that could reasonably be described as maximialists here; computer science really seems to be the outlier. My impression is that impactful CS pro
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
Israel Palestine single-voterism is particularly frustrating to me because of the weird way it has to infect completely irrelevant topics. As a particularly crazy example, I remember people arguing about Israel Palestine in the context of t
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
Petitioning the corrupt head of state to force Anthropic out of business seems to be part of the business model.
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
Nearly everyone I know puts sunscreen on their hands. Here in Australia, the world melanoma capital, sun safety is drilled into you as a kid, to the extent that "no hat no play" used to be official policy in most schools.
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
I think that really depends on which country you live in. My country has only had a few relatively minor spats with China, Vietnam less so.
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
In my experience, US citizens are completely blind to how much stuff like this makes citizens of other countries hate their government (which often, unfortunately, bleeds over to hate for US citizens; not that I condone hating any group of
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
Eh, I've have the exact opposite experience. Way back before instruct models it was pretty difficult, but for the last couple of years I haven't needed anything more complex than the type of text that I might send in a detailed em
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
There's something interesting here, where the very thing that prompted the LLM boom (transformer networks) was the thing that introduced a higher level of information integration into neural networks; under the somewhat mainstream theo
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
Eh, I love blindsight, but I really think it oversold the case against consciousness and for belligerent intelligent life.
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
Oh, fuck
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
You're off by an order of magnitude with those last two.
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
The thing I've never understood about the ai investment model is the upside. What's the point of valuations that only make sense if you've built a digital god, when at that point you've literally got a digital god. I can
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
I find that a lot of arguments against emergent consciousness seem to just come out of an atheist rephrasing of abrhamic priors about the existence of a "soul". In personal chats, I've found people from East Asian countries (
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
That kind of shows what I mean actually. I can get double the tokens per second for a little more, or 10% less for 20% less in price. It's on the pareto frontier, sure, but a kind of shittt point of it
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
The x axis is unlabelled, there's literally no way to know if you're close to the correct probability mass.
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by ViscountPenguin 4mo ago
I don't really get the value proposition of groq as a user, the performance is really poor for the token price. Data centres on the other hand are becoming a commodity, and I don't see any reason a priori to invest in groq specifi
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by ViscountPenguin 5mo ago
Pyro is really cool if you're into probabilistic programming languages, but the Numpyro is significantly faster iirc.
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by ViscountPenguin 5mo ago
Lots of bugs seem to be fundamentally quite local, but potentially with global trigger conditions. Heart bleed for example could've been avoided even if you could only read small segments of the codebase at a time, but could only be tr
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by ViscountPenguin 5mo ago
The biggest difference would be the fact that you can discover video game cheating through some kind of trace. Speed running communities go pretty hardcore on that kind of thing nowadays. It's a lot harder to detect cheating when your
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by ViscountPenguin 5mo ago
Contrarian experts are really important imo, and I don't think their efforts should be devalued just because nuts might be attracted to them. As long as they're properly engaging in the scientific method I reckon that they're
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by ViscountPenguin 5mo ago
If someone has a historical of unethical behaviour it's reasonable to want significantly more evidence for their claims.
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by ViscountPenguin 6mo ago
The kaiji author is a massive riichi fanatic if I recall correctly.
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by ViscountPenguin 6mo ago
I don't think the predominant factor causing pollies to shy away from increasing housing supply is a lack of understanding that supply decreases prices, it's a lack of political will to decrease prices. It's harder than you t
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by ViscountPenguin 6mo ago
Hackernews is at its base a forum for startups. It's hardly surprising that people paid to make a thing might find it cognitively difficult to accepts its flaws.
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by ViscountPenguin 6mo ago
There's some interesting research on the effect of T in mice which has been challenging traditional assumptions of its role in males: https://news.emory.edu/stories/2022/08/esc_testosterone_anim... It&#x
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by ViscountPenguin 6mo ago
It's because big tech is USA based mostly, where there's still a glut of ipv4 available.
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by ViscountPenguin 7mo ago
Call me crazy, but I think if bitcoin is ever broken they're more likely to move to a centralized ledger than a more secure decentralized ledger. Roughly nobody invested in bitcoin cares about the original mission, they just care about
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by ViscountPenguin 7mo ago
I'd expect the US to be the main topic on the English speaking internet far after its global dominance ends. I highly doubt that Canada or Australia (let alone the UK) are going to take English speaking dominance any time soon.
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by ViscountPenguin 7mo ago
Llamas were used for some logistics, but they're not the most sturdy, modern Llamas can carry around ~40kg but I'm unsure if it would've been higher or lower with the breeds they used back then. Either way, better than nothin

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