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by aeternum 8mo ago
Who wants to bet one of his 'agents' wrote and posted this article? Agents work but still mostly produce slop.
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by aeternum 9mo ago
Earth does have plenty of sand and iron. Literally all you have to do is grow the sand into a crystal, slice it up, etch some patterns onto it, then add some metal. Making only 1TW of pv cells per year is a skill issue.
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by aeternum 9mo ago
The witch trials never end, they are simply renamed.
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by aeternum 9mo ago
How about a chemical causing a flagellum motor to change direction, would you consider that making a decision? and what if there is indirection, IE light triggers some sensor molecule that then triggers the flagellum motor. I guess it all c
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by aeternum 9mo ago
For those on Medicare, the cost will be $50/month. Maybe it should be free but it's quite affordable at 50, that is relatively easy to make up in saved junk-food/snack costs.
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by aeternum 9mo ago
If you exclude obese individuals US life expectancy is quite high. Health is the ultimate marginal good so exorbitant expenditure is relatively logical. You can't take the money with you so it often makes sense to spend on health eve
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by aeternum 9mo ago
Yet another "trust the science" statistic. This isn't actual science, it's tabloid news.
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by aeternum 9mo ago
Did you remember to consider commute times, context-switching costs, office overhead and facilities staff overhead in your efficiency calculation?
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by aeternum 9mo ago
Both. First make the product work, then optimize cost.
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by aeternum 9mo ago
Not your keys not your {thing}
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by aeternum 9mo ago
Scarcity mindset is not the way
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by aeternum 9mo ago
Disappointing. These are so poorly defined they are useless. Broadly safe - Slaves were often told it was safer for them to remain illiterate (and to remain slaves). Safety can justify just about anything. Broadly ethical - The cultural r
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by aeternum 9mo ago
Sam Walton would argue for taking it from margin and making it up with volume.
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by aeternum 9mo ago
So do buyers also pay for 96% of the advertising, 96% of the manufacturing, etc.?
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by aeternum 9mo ago
I read it, seems like an ad for some Afghan e-learning NGO (of course only for girls). Think of the children, LLMs are not safe for kids, use our wrapper instead!
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by aeternum 9mo ago
Cybercab? It's already been unveiled and will be start production in Q2.
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by aeternum 9mo ago
Makes it even more impressive that Model Y is the best selling car worldwide. If you sell enough, I guess by definition you achieve mediocrity. You eventually become the average simply numerically.
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by aeternum 9mo ago
Fred Lambert (Electrek founder) was pro-tesla and was using his site to get a huge number of referral credits. Then Tesla changed the rules on that referral program. That's what triggered the beef. Fred sold all shares, took down all
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by aeternum 9mo ago
Perhaps humanoids or robodogs will be so cheap in the future that we can send a few to sit at the meeting and listen.
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by aeternum 9mo ago
The real reporting now comes from individual creators often with a gopro or cellphone camera and a youtube/tiktok channel. It's cheap to make, doesn't require state/institutional funding. It's also quite hard to bu
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by aeternum 9mo ago
Isn't the whole idea of freedom of the press to act as a check to governmental power? With state-run media you tend to get lots of propaganda and little actual news. Personally, I support a ban on public (taxpayer) funding of journalis
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by aeternum 9mo ago
The answer is never to have government pay, obviously it then becomes biased as you point it. If it doesn't justify a human salary then the right answer is usually to eliminate the need for a full salary with tech. Current LLM models
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by aeternum 9mo ago
We could start health insurance companies that monitor everyone's gait and how often they exercise vs eat fast food to adjust prices. Or credit monitoring companies that watch how often you attend the casino vs. work. Or boyfriend mo
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by aeternum 9mo ago
It's doubtful that there is currently a backdoor or anything that would fail an audit. The problem is the software updates. Whoever controls those keys has an entire domestic fleet a single firmware update away. Probably won't e
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by aeternum 9mo ago
Ah yes I'm sure it has nothing to do with the drones running closed proprietary software via OTA updates, with encrypted data connections back to China, while being outfitted with 8k cameras, gps, lidar, etc.
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by aeternum 9mo ago
China has invested heavily in all forms of energy including coal and oil, not just green energy. It's pretty biased to highlight only the increases in renewable energy.
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by aeternum 9mo ago
It seems one should not always "trust the science"
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by aeternum 9mo ago
In my experience, LLMs perform significantly better on readable maintainable code. It's what they were trained on after-all. However what they produce is often highly readable but not very maintainable due to the verbosity and obvious
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by aeternum 10mo ago
All I'm saying is that if a society wants true equality, it cannot have property laws because some individuals will inevitably own more than others. We must decide which is more important.
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by aeternum 10mo ago
In the current age, can something be both unequal and good?

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