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> If you don't know much, you don't even know the right questions to ask your AI assistant, or the right tasks to have it perform It sounds like you are agreeing with me here. We should not be making life-changing assessments o
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How long is it going to take universities and companies to face the reality that we should not be assessing people's capabilities in a vacuum where they can't access the tools that they will be using in the real world. If knowledg
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Yes. Software naturally declines unless it is maintained.
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Careful with using postgres as a blob store. That can go bad fast...
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Some options: 1. (Sum of total output) / (Count of engineers) 2. CS grad with a "B" GPA, 3 years experience, 1 year on the team 3. 50th percentile of all engineers 4. <- Me (or whoever the reader is)
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> live well below your means for decades I know a few who have pulled this off, and they all follow the same plan: - Right out of high school start a 3/4 year, low-debt, in-demand college/university program. Finish on time, don
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Am I missing something? You're saying that you bought a device 9 years ago with the exact same specs(8gb ram, 256 disk) that are currently being sold for about the exact same price. And you are saying that macs last a long time? How is
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> more construction - and to do so, we need deregulation, density, training and innovation. Doesn't even need to be that complex: land value tax would do it(and solve many other issues as economists have been saying for decades). La
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Totally agree. However, I think that this current generation is fundamentally different because of a different balance between culture and counterculture driven by demographic changes. The 50s through to the 90s were all time periods when t
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I always find it interesting to think about bicycles and just how recently they were invented. Compare bicycles with steel making, for example. Steel making happened thousands of years ago. The modern bicycle was what - under 200 years ago?
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Context is everything. 1. How important is it that we get an estimate? Things take the same amount of work with or without the estimate, so how bad is it actually if we don't know how long something will take? And no - a feeling of gen
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I find it interesting that we have a single word for creativity in the context of novel work. These systems are incredible at generating novel art or poetry. But when it comes to problem solving, they struggle adapting to a novel problem. W
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How is this not for the purposes of fixing prices? Isn't the intent here to prevent the competitor bank from needing to sell their assets and driving down prices, leading to contagion?
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I think having a better understanding about the underlying statistical model of how these AIs are trained is helping me keep back the wave of fear and anxiety associated with AI risks. The singularity requires AIs to be very good at doing t
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Dougie Hofstadter has a great bit of work on superrationality about this line of thinking: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality
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Seriously! If the content of your email could have been generated using an AI trained on publicly available information, it necessarily must not include anything private. Which means you are spam messaging your new hires with messages that
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Isn't that still missing a massive piece of context? What about costs?
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TBH, looks like they went belly up because of buying too many long term low yield bonds... Sort of the opposite of excessive risk really...
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Not the same argument. There is a massive difference between "a smaller piece of the pie" and "cut out entirely".
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You misunderstood my point... f in this example is the function which computes the first number that does not show up in the first X samples of OEIS sequences(so in the paper cited, OEIS stores only the first 180, so when x is 180, f(x) = 2
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Based on what you're describing, I suppose you could have any number of pieces. Imagine you've got a 2D sheet of paper and you just fold it in half many times, and then cut through all the folds. You could have as many pieces as y
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> Super weird to me that the OEIS only stores "first 180 or so characters of a number sequence" I agree! Another opportunity for a paper though! If f(180) = y = 20067, what does the graph of f(x) look like? How quickly would f(
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> Makes me wonder if there's some forth dimension that humans are quantized to ignore Interesting that your mind went to dimensionality - because the way to get 8 instead of "7" is to cut in 3D! Do a + on the top, and then
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If by "something like that", you mean "at a tax rate so low that it's irrelevant"...
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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Georgism(LVT) would fix so many things. I'd literally vote for a single issue party to get it passed at this point.
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Gonna have to keep commenting this on housing posts until it becomes the top comment: land value tax
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> 200k LoC of handwritten ASM! He's not the hero we deserve, but he's the hero we need. I'm sure you get this a lot, but thank you so much for your sacrifice!
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I've lost multiple phones to dead charging ports.
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Are you me? I have 3 refurb linux laptops strewn around the house, and my last 3 workplaces have always provided a macbook of some sort. One difference: For gaming/GPU heavy stuff, I still have the good old windows, full-tower desktop
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Not sure you've got the right angle on that... Did openai replace the associate dean here, or did the associate dean replace their secretary and writer. I think the latter. No way they would send anything without high level approval. T

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