advael

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by advael 10mo ago
This statement is, while true, quite vacuous. What's your point?
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by advael 10mo ago
This is a phenomenon that, like many social phenomena, seems to scale superlinearly, and you've described a gradient of economic advantage along which this will tend to accelerate. These properties suggest to me that an attitude like &
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by advael 10mo ago
I don't think I'm completely oblivious to social status, but I've never understood at a deep level the way most people seem to process concepts like "fame" and "celebrity". I have never had the experience
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by advael 10mo ago
Dang, the author never got to C++, and I was curious. Guess I'll have to dig into that one myself
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by advael 10mo ago
There's a pretty stark difference between medical science, medical practitioners, and medical institutions. Medical science has done a lot to earn credibility over the last couple hundred years. It fully eliminated a disease that was a
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by advael 11mo ago
I don't know if the balance of evidence supports significant changes in sexuality and eroticism or not, but I think the way you've made the case that it doesn't here is unconvincing. Consumption of erotic content on the inter
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by advael 11mo ago
"From nothing" is a fairly suspect claim, but your overall point is a good one
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by advael 11mo ago
There is no sustainable future without repair and maintenance, and there are significant barriers to repair and maintenance imposed by governments in the name of "Intellectual property".
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by advael 11mo ago
I don't think (from a sci-fi reader's perspective) this is a particularly new idea, and with all due respect to Hinton as a machine learning pioneer, my disinterest in this topic is not going to be alleviated by saying some names
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by advael 11mo ago
You can get pretty far by mostly just claiming to use it "when it makes sense" but you do meet people who are very pushy about it. Hoping that calms down as knowledge of the downsides becomes more widespread
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by advael 1y ago
With all due respect, "wow this is cool, I wonder what it'll turn into" is basically the mandatory baseline stance to take. I'm lucky that's where I'm still basically at, because anyone in a technical position
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by advael 1y ago
For all the advancement in machine learning that's happened in just the decade I've been doing it, this whole AGI debate's been remarkably stagnant, with the same factions making essentially the same handwavey arguments. &quo
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by advael 1y ago
I mean, even if that's true, being based in the EU might matter a lot given how keen that bloc is on becoming more technologically sovereign from America and China right now
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by advael 1y ago
We have an impossibly pervasive network of sensor blisters littered throughout our lives, to the point where I don't feel comfortable discussing certain sensitive topics in most other people's homes, but every step of the way most
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by advael 1y ago
People heavily invested in AI, obviously. We have an economy that's heavily driven by investor perception, and while "AI is taking jobs" sounds bad for workers or humanity as a whole, it can still be a sales pitch for investi
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by advael 1y ago
The 2022 drop for SWE is easy for me to explain, and it's not on these analysts' list of factors (though I'm not an economic quant, I don't know how you could really control for it): In 2017, a tax bill was passed that c
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by advael 1y ago
This places a lot of faith in the following assumptions: 1. Efficiency measures as written to benchmark this coupling with economic productivity overall 2. Monetary assessments of value in the context of businesses spending money correspond
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by advael 1y ago
It's crazy to me that people will reference Keynes' prediction of leisure without acknowledging that we chose not to do that. The dystopian way in which work has become more competitive, intensive, and ill-compensated even as econ
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by advael 1y ago
This is honestly why I love C++ ranges right now. The "pipe" syntax is a "left-to-right" of writing very powerful map/filter operations in contexts where I'd want a list comprehension but in a much more sensica
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by advael 1y ago
This view of social interaction seems symptomatic of internet socialization, specifically social media. Since engagement is often driven better by controversy, the overall incentives in that context make an experience like yours more likely
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by advael 1y ago
Yea. It's kind of the same error, in a way, as people who assume that there were no old people in the middle ages. The overwhelming majority of the increase in expected lifespan between then and now comes from drastic decreases in the
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by advael 1y ago
Mostly the principle that direct, tangible, and irreparable harm is being done by the speech. I called these "hairy" exactly because they are less clear-cut than most cases. The line between satire or speculation and slander, for
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by advael 1y ago
It's crazy to me that people can simultaneously understand that censorship is bad and still think we can allow for exceptions for things like "obscenity/pornography" or "hate speech" Free expression means that
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by advael 1y ago
I mean recurrence is an attempt to allow approximation of recursive processes, no?
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by advael 1y ago
I really like this usage of recurrent modules to augment attention-based models, and I think this is a really cool result and a fruitful avenue for future work
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by advael 1y ago
This exact kind of sloppy equivocation does seem to be one of the major PR strategies that tries to justify the massive investment in and sloppy rollout of transformer-based language models when large swaths of the public have turned agains
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by advael 1y ago
The effects of wealth on outcomes meaningful to most humans look mostly like a step functions, with some continuous-lookin' bits here and there. Anecdotally my assumption is that partying x wealth is bimodal, with peaks near the top an
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by advael 1y ago
I like that this delves into the relationship between "helicopter parenting" and this trend, and maybe I missed it, but I find that it conspicuously lacks economic precarity and the decline of real wages over this time period as a
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by advael 1y ago
Nah, I don't buy that at all Every industry in America, and especially tech players, work to lock in their customers, paid or not. People who are dependent on their phones don't make choices like that, and anticompetitive behavior
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by advael 1y ago
You've got a shocking amount of faith in the honest economy for this moment in time

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