advael

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by advael 2y ago
There are lots of very addictive drugs I could never get addicted to. For example, I find most kinds of painkillers range from kind of annoying to godawful for me. Opiates especially make me nauseous. Like can't even keep down food on
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by advael 2y ago
I understand your point and agree that the immediate-term solutions apple is employing are technological However, the environment in which Apple operates is defined by anti-circumvention. Yes you can legally jailbreak your phone. You can&#x
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by advael 2y ago
Hot girl summer is cancelled we got hot GPU trying to bear the weight of humanity's hopes and dreams as they collapse into a single point summer Hot market forces treated as inevitable as the ever-rising tides summer Hot war with nucle
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by advael 2y ago
It's amazing how many nice things we could have if we stopped using criminal law to reinforce the power of OEMs to exert control over what software can be run on the devices they sell
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by advael 2y ago
The balance of evidence seems to suggest that training on model outputs leads to a significant degradation in model accuracy, some have even called this "model collapse." I'm not going to say it's impossible that this si
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by advael 2y ago
Ah, so like a multimodal model you can give like "[picture] this guy but doing a handstand in a penguin suit"? There have been a few attempts at prompt-driven editing (I think it was called Instruct-something) and there's a w
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by advael 2y ago
It seems like their image-tokenization model might be useful for this, but also have you looked into stuff like ControlNet?
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by advael 2y ago
Well, in this paragraph they seem to explain that their public evaluation set is meant to be indicative of the kind of jump in difficulty you can expect from the private test set. This to me implies that my guess is close: They're look
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by advael 2y ago
I think there's variance in people's degree of compositionality, as well as how quickly they can pick up on novel relationships. Testing "intelligence" in humans has always been kind of fraught in the first place, but an
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by advael 2y ago
I've commented here before that I find myself really conflicted on LeCunn's public statements. I think it's really hard to reconcile the fact that he's undeniably a world-leading expert with the fact that he does work fo
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by advael 2y ago
Okay I admit I'm confused and think I probably missed a crucial thing here. You're saying the publicly available problem set isn't indicative of the distribution of the test set? If so, I can see why you object to that. Still
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by advael 2y ago
The formalism that data-driven machine learning leans on is empirical tuning of stochastic search to drive approximation of functions, and despite what Silicon Valley would have you believe, most of the significant advances have been in cre
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by advael 2y ago
You seem to misunderstand why generalization is important for making claims about intelligent systems. To illustrate this, we could really easily design a system that encodes all the test set questions and their answers, puts them in an eno
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by advael 2y ago
God, yea. I've flipped between R&D and product development a few times in my career, sometimes at the same company, and it's a really rough transition even for an individual experienced in both. I can't imagine trying to
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by advael 2y ago
Incredible that he lived so long despite the exposure
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by advael 2y ago
> Ah, so you made it up. Words have meaning. Actually, I used the meaning of the word to arrive at the conclusion I did, whereas your objection seems to be to the fact that you didn't use that specific word > You're changing
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by advael 2y ago
For many substances we consider "obviously" illegal now, yes. Most famously, Coca-Cola used to use cocaine instead of the caffeine it currently has. Even for the "prescription-only" enforcement level, this used to be the
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by advael 2y ago
Absolutely. It's actually hard to disentangle drug enforcement regimes in their current form from pressure exerted by the US, but even if they arrived at doing government overreach independently I would consider it government overreach
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by advael 2y ago
I don't think there's any productive place to put restrictions on what drugs adults are allowed to buy of their own volition. It's not the government's job to make sure I'm making the best decisions for my health, a
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by advael 2y ago
> Nowhere did I mention aesthetics. You mentioned, without further commentary, that you could smell marijuana various places, in the context of harms of the very limited relaxations in drug enforcement that have happened in some states
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by advael 2y ago
In the context of drug legalization? Yes. The USA prior to 1970 We didn't have these "epidemics" of drug deaths to a greater degree than we have now. Why is that?
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by advael 2y ago
Perhaps that seems obvious to you. I don't view it as obvious that anyone's individual health decisions should ever be made and enforced by the state. It is obvious to me that trying to "regulate" these choices through
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by advael 2y ago
"Obvious" is a concept that only makes sense when there is significant shared context. When it is applied to the idea that is directly in dispute , it is about as compelling an argument as "because I said so"
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It really is a "big lie" kind of thing isn't it?
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I would have been shocked if it was otherwise. As a privacy-minded person, I've tried to tell friends and family that this kind of device was likely selling their data for years. People mostly don't care, despite many of them not
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by advael 2y ago
Sure, and tons of people think they can't sleep without melatonin, wake up without caffeine, handle pollen without zirtec, handle stress without nicotine, relax without alcohol, etc Doctors can give good advice about all these things.
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by advael 2y ago
So your line is "Marijuana aesthetically displeases me and we're no longer jailing people for it, therefore drug war is good"? Or is it "Fentanyl deaths exploding has happened despite it still not being legal to purchase
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by advael 2y ago
Absolutely. People should be able to buy and use products they want, and have some reasonable assurances they're getting what the packaging says they're getting, and they can access adequate information to make an informed decisio
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Nonsense. Humans do fine at regulating themselves the vast overwhelming majority of the time, and edge cases worth intervening on generally involve more than one human
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by advael 2y ago
Drug war continues to be an enormous amount of waste and human suffering for no clear public benefit The only "scandal" here is that an adult can't go buy adderall at a grocery store if they need or want it. There is no reaso

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