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by adrianN 2mo ago
Plopping down solar panels and big batteries for an of-grid charger for these planes seems like a solvable problem.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
We actually understand quite a bit about the universe and the kinds of computers we can build. People also think about computers in speculative physics scenarios, eg closed timelike curves can be used to solve pspace complete problems. I do
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It is part of the politician's job to educate and form the opinions of the populace. Lately politicians have just figured out that instead of nurturing opinions that are good for society as a whole it is more effective to nurture opini
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by adrianN 2mo ago
There are many people who would claim that passing the Turing test is insufficient to show "understanding" (compare for example the Chinese Room thought experiment).
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by adrianN 2mo ago
Well if the trend that the comment further up in this thread claimed continues and compute requirements keep dropping exponentially then perhaps in a few years you can have today’s frontier performance on the normal laptop you already have
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by adrianN 2mo ago
I'm not aware of a better definition of "understanding" that would allow me to tell whether some system "understands" some other system. Do you happen to know one?
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by adrianN 2mo ago
When efficiency reaches the point where local models on consumer hardware are good enough, demand for cloud tokens could rapidly shrink.
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There are a lot fewer workers per warehouse today than 25 years ago. There is fortunately much less flexible demand for changing nappies in elderly care homes.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
There are many scenarios in which politicians can be legitimately worried about the kids. For example if they want to install crosswalks and enforce speed limits around a school, or if they want to increase funding for social services. I do
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Straight to Franchise-Organized Quasi-National Entities, since more competition between governments must be good for the customers of government-like services!
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If you have a general solution like a robot that can do human tasks, i.e. copying manuscripts with a pen, that is often highly inefficient compared to a specialized solution like a printing press but the R&D effort of applying it is min
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by adrianN 2mo ago
Safety regulations in the EU are pretty strict but pickup trucks are rare.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
All chiropractors are quacks. The whole thing is based on quackery.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
Well somebody is still making things and presumably selling them. So you could tax them and redistribute the money
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by adrianN 2mo ago
It is sufficient to make existing workers more effective to be able to fire some of them. If turning a patient to change a diaper is a two person job and somebody buys a robot that assists to make it a one person job, suddenly you need fewe
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by adrianN 2mo ago
In companies where I worked there were about two dozen developers for every product manager, sometimes more.
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My experience has been that security is mostly treated as some contractual obligation that has little benefit and just costs money so the minimum amount of effort that prevents charges of gross negligence is put in. But I’m glad to hear tha
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by adrianN 2mo ago
I’m very high dimensional spaces as they occur in real life projects with difficult to measure dimensions (eg how much does implementing something cost and how much does not implementing something cost) it seems very difficult to determin
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by adrianN 2mo ago
The article does talk about putting weights on the dimensions to account for different dimensions having different importance.
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It is my understanding that just baking the model itself into silicon only gives moderate gains because memory bandwidth remains a bottleneck.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
I’m certainly no expert in the field but to my knowledge a lot of the LLM science is empirical. I’m not aware of a theory that lets us predict what architecture and what number of parameters is needed to solve a particular set of problems.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
People are literally dying due to the heat.
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I really don’t think we know enough about what „intelligence“ is or how LLMs actually work to confidently say that this is the end of the road for LLM.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
EVs are fine for weekend trips, you just have to spend a little more time taking breaks.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
The problem can be alleviated with more chargers. If every parking spot had a charger you could slow-charge with much lower pressure on the grid. 2kW over night are plenty for most people’s driving needs.
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EV adoption is not uniformly distributed among the population.
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The supply of 10+ year old EVs is rather limited, so that is not a very surprising fact.
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There is also a whole different language used to talk to toddlers and small children that native speakers know but very few adult learners ever pick up. And slang used among teenagers and young adults that often times not even their parents
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Arguably an educated populace is a corner stone of democratic societies. Too much of a focus on economic applicability of education is dangerous imo.
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by adrianN 2mo ago
Trade routes spanned Eurasia before we invented writing. Faster transportation and communication only expanded economic ties. Transportation is something that is fairly easy to do without fossil fuels.

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