aeternum

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by aeternum 5d ago
For sure and that doesn't decrease the value of the protection. There seems to be this somewhat quaint idea that the crops belong to the peasant because he/she planted and grew them. That's a very modern concept. In the nat
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by aeternum 5d ago
>By extracting rents and taxes, in return for protection and certain services, perhaps plowing fields. Why use the term extract rather than trade? Protection was quite valuable. Those peasants could have tried their luck planting a fie
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by aeternum 12d ago
My observation isn't that solving a Millennium prize problem is not impressive. It is the mechanism the LLMs use to do it. They seem to accel right now at quantity of work over quality of work. I'd be willing to wager there is
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by aeternum 13d ago
Yes, even many of the proofs seem to be extremely long and complicated. The Navier-Stokes proof is 57 pages of very dense math and a pretty crazy amount of code: https://github.com/openai/NavierStokesAndEuler/tree
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by aeternum 14d ago
Note that their statement could also be true if they record 99% of the time. We need to start calling companies out for meaningless weasel statements like "We don't record continuously". The majority of the problem is also s
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by aeternum 17d ago
Problem is this argument can be leveraged to wipe out any living or non-living thing whos numbers pose a potential threat. Other religious groups, races, even sufficiently different cultures. Who killed the Neanderthals? Were sapiens actu
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by aeternum 17d ago
Except it just happened. Boeing was found to have massive safety issues since they were granted the right to self-certify. It made a lot of news but nothing much changed, they can still self-certify a bunch of stuff. Runway incursions and
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by aeternum 23d ago
How would the avg person know that . .name is different and somehow more trustworthy than . .uk Overall this seems like the right move, either they all are trusted or none.
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by aeternum 25d ago
Sounds like Apple might soon own some Jalapeño
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by aeternum 27d ago
You didn't, but now it has been covered.
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by aeternum 28d ago
OpenAI's models are distilled from your HN posts
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by aeternum 1mo ago
Agreed, but one of the key reasons plants are so expensive is to ensure that power workers are exposed to much less radiation than flight attendants. The fact that even a small amount of discharged radiation can cause damage makes everythin
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by aeternum 1mo ago
This seems like pretty strong evidence that the Linear No-Threshold Model for radiation exposure is the correct model. Not great for the many companies attempting to revive the nuclear power industry.
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by aeternum 1mo ago
IMO each city should have space dedicated for homeless camping with 24h running water and easy to clean stainless steel bathroom facilities. Do any cities do this, especially cities where weather is mild? Would homeless actually use it in
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by aeternum 1mo ago
AI should handle the calls, humans should do in-person. Trying to cure someone over the phone is foolish.
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by aeternum 1mo ago
Any job that can be done without needing to actually touch or be near the product should be done by AI and not with humans.
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by aeternum 1mo ago
The economist is no longer capable of writing unbiased articles unfortunately.
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by aeternum 2mo ago
A cursory search of bluesky web vs. mobile (surprisingly) suggests that the web experience might actually be better and users seems to recommend it over the app. This is rare but does suggest a possible effect where users realize this over
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by aeternum 2mo ago
Yes agreed, but the net result is that living in the countryside was far from romanticized agrarian life people often picture it as. Lords owning land was a very old idea, it's a bit of a leap to say that was due to mechanization.
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by aeternum 2mo ago
This seems obviously wrong as there are many counter examples. Employees in Ford's plants for instance saw huge wage increases and an additional day off. Mining mechanization made mines far less deadly and greatly reduced the human e
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by aeternum 2mo ago
The age of the dark forest is upon us
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by aeternum 2mo ago
At least one benefit is you can now leverage LLMs to basically translate entire math textbooks into your preferred notation. I would be curious whether you find it easier. I kinda think it'll be too many parenthesis.
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by aeternum 2mo ago
I would simply disable windows update. It always seemed insane to me that the solution to preventing RCE was to open an RCE channel to basically every provider that has installed a driver or an application on your machine. Each auto-update
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by aeternum 2mo ago
Math notation ultimately is pseudo code just with mostly single letter variables and many operators that are encoded purely by position thus not even requiring a symbol. Remember that the oft-used e^x is actually an infinite series, even w
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by aeternum 2mo ago
Placebo also works so why aren't healing crystals and essential oils treated like real medicine?
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by aeternum 2mo ago
Both aluminum and iron atoms are heavy and thus make it into the ocean where they both increase the ocean's carbon sink capacity. https://phys.org/news/2021-05-aluminum-affect-climate-ocean-... From an energy PO
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by aeternum 2mo ago
All energy generated on earth contributes to global warming, even solar panels which decrease Earth's albedo. If you care about climate change and the earth you should want the datacenters to be in space. The earth is limited in th
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by aeternum 2mo ago
Agreed, and I'm happy to live in a country where this is likely true. The only thing more deadly than pandemics are governments that gained sufficient power to round up their citizens systematically in the name of the public good.
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by aeternum 2mo ago
Indeed, and it would have saved far more lives if leveraged the app to have hazmat crews come in a forcibly carry the infected to quarantine zones.
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by aeternum 2mo ago
>Apple tried the damnedest at that during their intel era. The story I heard was intel failed to deliver on die shrinks that were supposed to increase thermal efficiency. The fan also had poor routing and basically did nothing. Apple wa

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