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by adamisom 2y ago
>Snark is a signal of cheap argument: They have nothing more serious to say They may well have something more serious to say, and it doesn't imply a weak argument in itself. I think it's fair to say the author does have somethi
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by adamisom 2y ago
I understand but reject their presumption.
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by adamisom 2y ago
Yes, the one I did. Launch School (their Capstone program) is 1 year 18%ish ISA. Since, when I did it, 100% of my cohort got real-Dev jobs averaging 120k+, the school still got 20k+/student. They're the anti-lambda school in my b
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by adamisom 2y ago
>Maybe we just need higher taxes for the biggest corporations. Seems to me that'd exacerbate the problem. We need more efficient business, not less. (An evergreen need, while !utopia.)
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by adamisom 3y ago
>whether those children are going to lead a life worth living or not' >so that only life that is worth living ends up reproducing But... most people's lives are worth living, per their own revealed or even stated preferenc
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by adamisom 3y ago
Because innovation will likely decrease simultaneously with needing to support a far greater fraction of unproductive retirees. I also always wonder if folks with your view see no moral issue with humanity disappearing, or with mass populat
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by adamisom 3y ago
I may have not been clear that someone begged me inside the Panda Express. Likewise, someone recently begged me inside a favorite cafe. These were both first-time incidents. I assume--no, hope--people misread me, and thought I meant &#x
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by adamisom 3y ago
I just went to Panda Express for lunch--yeah yeah, it's not fancy at all, but it's a step above McDonald's--and someone begged me for food. Cue a bunch of online warriors on their high horses implying I'm a bad person fo
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by adamisom 3y ago
I find this comment interesting in the context of having read a lot of brain-dead takes on "capitalism", some of which it liken it to feudalism. I find it interesting because it shows how different those two are. Under feudal zero
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by adamisom 3y ago
median disposable income is another measure, on which the US leads the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
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by adamisom 3y ago
you could even say that the USA founders’ vision is the worst ever tried—except for all those others.
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by adamisom 3y ago
Parents with 3-4+ kids can’t get a “decent sized” car. (And, I’d point out that given how % childlessness has skyrocketed, we do need some larger families to balance them out.)
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by adamisom 3y ago
AGI x-risk was popularized there, it was always an attractor for the new AI alignment field
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by adamisom 3y ago
Well, (so far) there's an upper bound on how destructive one of those agi's can be.
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by adamisom 3y ago
or (also) Yoshua Bengio? https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/05/22/how-rogue-ais-may-arise/ https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/06/24/faq-on-catastrophic-ai-r... unfortunately for par
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by adamisom 3y ago
"the collective subsidizing the very personal choice of procreating" I support massive subsidies because the sum of these personal choices is equivalent to the next generation's collective
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by adamisom 3y ago
if you find "a site for intellectual curiosity" to be "jerk each other off"-worthy, your pretention-meter is way miscalibrated
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by adamisom 3y ago
> But the cost of flying had already been falling before deregulation, and it kept falling after at about the same rate. What a bizarre argument, that absolutely demands more examination than a throwaway line upon which the entire premis
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by adamisom 3y ago
Do you mean they’re more likely to become managers and thus no longer write great code, or something else?
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by adamisom 3y ago
It's also unfortunate that someone cool enough to make their own instruments would ever feel like a weirdo/outcast for it. The opposite should be true in the median high school.
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by adamisom 3y ago
those who believe we will hit a discontinuous tipping point are precisely those who should be advocating for geoengineering now , despite its unknowns and downsides… yet the voices to do so are curiously absent
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by adamisom 3y ago
Makes me wonder why we don’t see deployed models that keep learning during inference.
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by adamisom 3y ago
Yeah, if climate change really was an “emergency”, mitigation would be extremely cheap. With big side effects. Nevertheless if it really were an emergency … in real emergencies, triage happens, and downsides are taken for granted. Thankful
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by adamisom 3y ago
That would be https://htdp.org/2023-5-12/Book/index.html (see https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/htdp-si... ) which also uses Racket
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by adamisom 3y ago
I subscribe, print is gorgeous. It’s a new mag but right up my alley.
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by adamisom 3y ago
Nice. Yours costs but I've always been baffled by people with money (HN) who think that's like a super big deal- the absolute difference between $0 and $22 is still only $22...
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by adamisom 3y ago
Infact I learned that word in my postpostdoc at HarvPrinceYalefordbridge Iam sorry you dontknow it
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by adamisom 3y ago
If that’s really going to happen, I guess I’ll switch careers. If that happens to every career, I guess I’ll become one of the managers making those decisions. Stay on top of change, don’t be victimized by it.
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by adamisom 3y ago
I’d be willing to bet money at 5-1 against that they didn’t. since that’s impossible to prove, I guess also on running an llm a lot of times and getting anything close to it.
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by adamisom 3y ago
I think it's fair to say that obviously, anybody who explores 'breaking' the simulation is also aware of this and all their hopes are pinned on the admittedly infinitesemal chance that we're in a simulation that can be b

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