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by _yb2s 2y ago
I disagree- presumably if an algorithm or hardware is optimized for a certain class of problem it really is good at it and always will be- which is still useful if you are actually using it for that. It’s just “studying for the test”- somet
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by _yb2s 2y ago
When I was a kid people said “the government might have proof of aliens existing but is keeping it secret to avoid panic.” Recently it has been “the government keeps trying to get everyone to panic over aliens existing, but they appear to b
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by _yb2s 2y ago
The "Save the Children" people have now voted in power the best friend of the worlds most notorious child sex trafficker, who is now building a cabinet of child sex traffickers
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I remember using early plug and play devices- often I had two devices that both worked, but not if installed in the same machine at the same time, and I would have to shut down the machine and swap cards to use the other device. I am still
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Portable, energy dense fuel is incredibly more valuable than grid electricity - especially back when most of it was burned, before modern battery technology. It is not obvious to me that the net thermodynamics are important here. The only t
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by _yb2s 2y ago
See my other post on this thread- this is a legitimately really hard thing to do. You almost certainly will need to use daycare and nannys/babysitters, but that still isn't nearly enough- it is very expensive, open short hours and
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Many people do not have this luxury. My ex-wife became aggressive and abusive, and refused to co-parent, and I needed to keep my job somehow to support my son. My son is also special needs, and has been kicked out of numerous daycares and s
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by _yb2s 2y ago
https://imgur.com/gallery/most-internet-arguments-these-days...
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I was only telling you why people are downvoting you. I was also downvoted in this same discussion for making the point that “fascist” shouldn’t be received as an insult to people that, well, think fascism is good.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I think deporting illegal immigrants will reduce the supply of housing for the middle class: while these immigrants are too poor to live in houses like this- so aren’t part of the demand, they are building and maintaining them for low pay w
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by _yb2s 2y ago
It’s the “name calling” not the actual points people are downvoting you for
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by _yb2s 2y ago
This is one of the most misleading titles I’ve seen on HN because it has a clear meaning that in this context is totally wrong. Almost always with mistakes like this the unclear title is simply unclear.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
We even think other humans are stupid if they have different values or goals that we don’t relate to. I think humans systematically underestimate animal intelligence because their goals are worldview are radically different.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
The reason a “10x developer” can work on whatever they want is because it only takes 10% of their work hours to complete their job requirements- they are then free to experiment and play with a lot of their time.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Although I (and I assume Patrick above) were joking, I will back you up here- having studied and worked with physicists. Some people can visualize, through practice and psychological “tricks” higher dimensional spaces- and different people
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I use a similar technique to swim- one merely flies, while setting their location = underwater.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
There are a huge number of different organelles that evolved independently through events like this- other people mention chloroplasts but there are many others, and probably many yet undiscovered. I would argue that the type of event that
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Eukaryotes generally can’t survive without mitochondria either. It seems silly to discuss if different subsystems in a living organism are independently “alive.” It’s a bit like arguing if just the wings or just the engine of an airplane ar
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Limited how exactly? What limitation are you talking about, and what math proves it?
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I do not think any real systems can ever achieve theoretically perfect Solomonoff Induction- only that increasingly good AI systems can be thought of as increasingly good approximations of this process. I do not know if any particular model
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Really glad to see some academic research on this- it was quite obvious from interacting with LLMs that they form a world model and can, e.g. simulate simple physics experiments correctly that are not in the training set. I found it very fr
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> Women don't understand this, but nearly all men do. I completely agree with you about the purpose and value of banter- but do you actually know any women or interact with any on a regular basis? It's simply not true- women ba
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by _yb2s 2y ago
What is power, if not the ability to do what you want without facing consequences? If other people already support you or are indifferent, no power is needed to do what you want.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
The actual things most people are concerned about aren’t even close to being zero sum- things like economic activity increase with more people and ingenuity. We’re in a time when innovation is rapidly letting us do more with less resources,
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I think this part changes the context: 34 counts of not properly filing business records in order to hide the fact that he paid a porn star to keep quiet about their affair in order to hide this information from voters before an election… B
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> just want a showman to dazzle their softened brains Nietzsche made this case really strongly in his chapter/essay “The Flies in the Marketplace” back in the 1880s, and pretty well predicted how this would emerge play out half a ce
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I don’t see it as name calling, the word Fascist plainly and accurately describes their positions and strategies. If they sincerely believe this is what is best, why would they see it as an insult rather than a compliment? It is true that A
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by _yb2s 2y ago
This is simply the ancient political strategy of blaming our problems on groups of people that are different, and not actually taking responsibility to identify and fix the real causes. It is a formula as old as time for despots to seize po
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by _yb2s 2y ago
As a sailor that uses similar fittings in sailboat rigging… the idea of not treating a cable pullout from a terminal as an emergency is absurd. If that happened on a sailboat rig I’d assume it had a remaining strength of zero and will fall
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Please keep this idea to yourself, or delete it if you can

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