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by adrianN 4mo ago
Most FSF guys actually have very nuanced views on the topic and you’re doing everyone a disservice by reducing it to an extremist sound bite.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
In many situations you realize that certain behavior is bad yet you are forced into it by game theory. It’s just Moloch’s invisible hand ruining it.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
Moving the problem one layer up is the desired outcome because it makes exploitation much more difficult. Your attack surface becomes much smaller.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
Cooling buildings with air-water heat pumps like you would use to replace an oil or gas furnace doesn't work very well.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
The relevant data is number of days per year with temperature above X degrees. That number has risen quite a bit over the last decades.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
If you rent the place and your landlord doesn’t want it you’re out of luck. If you own the place and your neighbors don’t like the noise of your AC you’re out of luck too. If your building is one of the many buildings protected for historic
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by adrianN 4mo ago
Well, they are, for most reasonable definitions of „solely“.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
Most verification is undecidable, lots of it is pspace complete. That doesn’t mean very much in practice since those are worst case bounds. People regularly solve problems that are undecidable for all practical instances that they care abou
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by adrianN 4mo ago
If the company runs on reputation it’s only a matter of time until a consultant comes in and processes are established to move to a more efficient metric based management style.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
If you can build a product in three months that customers actually want, somebody else can copy it in two after they saw your version. Why should customers pay a lot of money for that?
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by adrianN 4mo ago
The engineer might not be good at sales or at raising money or at doing taxes or doesn’t have the appetite for risk.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
I believe there are tastebuds in your colon too.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
Kessler‘s farm?
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by adrianN 4mo ago
You don’t have to make a nuclear bomb for highly effective terrorism. Just blow up the reactor
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by adrianN 4mo ago
The US has several areas of high population density that have laughably bad rail networks.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
The German rail network is chronically underfunded and Germany is completely incapable of building new lines. Per capita spending on rail pales in comparison to e.g. Switzerland and Austria.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
It depends on how long you can keep those people un- or underemployed. I think engineers are rapidly bleeding experience even while being employed if all they do is prompting.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
VW is large enough that different parts of the company can have very different opinions.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
Figuring out what to produce and how to allocate resources are algorithmically hard problems, even if you know people’s valuation functions. Without some kind of market mechanism to partially reveal valuations it is very difficult indeed. A
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by adrianN 4mo ago
That sounds intuitively true, but I’m not convinced that it is actually the case. I don’t think we know enough about neural network training to say what training and how many parameters are necessary for what kind of performance on which ta
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by adrianN 4mo ago
Why do I want the model I use for coding to know Shakespeare or vice versa?
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by adrianN 4mo ago
Terse and unambiguous seem to be at odds with each other. You might want to look into Lojban and similar constructions.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
I think you should elaborate a bit on that because to me it seems that EU privacy laws are actually fairly good at protecting privacy.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
After a couple of years of this their expertise will be gone too and then nobody is qualified to supervise the clankers.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
For my son poop is literally the funniest thing ever and he never watched YouTube.
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by adrianN 4mo ago
I‘d wager that the correlation is with how exhausting the parent‘s job is. Screens are excellent for keeping children occupied, keeping them happy in healthier ways requires a lot of energy. After working a hard job, running a household and
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by adrianN 5mo ago
Any government can and does regularly throw money at industries to make them flourish. The American propaganda claims that this is less efficient than letting market forces decide which companies win.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
Young people use LLMs extensively. Just ask any educator.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
Having the agents write their plans into text files and iterating on those works reasonably well.
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by adrianN 5mo ago
If every driver abided by traffic laws at all times we would have a lot fewer accidents.

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