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by ajuc 10mo ago
The motivation is irrelevant TBH, what matters is the action. Maybe Trump just wants USA to be "Russia but Better". Maybe he's imagining himself saving the world from "leftism" or whatever. Maybe he just wants money
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by ajuc 10mo ago
> It’s interesting how rhetoric about “liberty” seems to practically serve oligarchy. It's the typical pattern. If you don't have rules attenuating the runaway feedback loop - some people get a little more initially (talent, mo
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by ajuc 10mo ago
Yeah deterministic LLMs just hallucinate the same way every time.
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by ajuc 10mo ago
You misunderstood. Example: "am I correct that water is wet?" - 91% positive responses "am I correct that water is not wet?" - 90% negative responses 91-90 = 1 percentage point which is less than margin so it's OK,
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by ajuc 10mo ago
Media without regulation = oligarchy.
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by ajuc 10mo ago
As a starting point: Percentage of positive responses to "am I correct that X" should be about the same as the percentage of negative responses to "am I correct that ~X". If the percentages are significantly different, f
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by ajuc 10mo ago
> This is like suggesting a bar should help solve alcoholism by serving non-alcoholic beer to people who order too much. It won’t solve alcoholism, it will just make the bar go out of business. Solving such common coordination problems i
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by ajuc 10mo ago
I like asking it about my great great grandparents (without mentioning they were my great great grandparents just saying their names, jobs, places of birth). It hallucinates whole lives out of nothing but stereotypes.
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by ajuc 10mo ago
Bayesian vs frequentist in a nutshell :) If a student was tasked with determining some physical constant with an experiment and they got it exactly right to 20th decimal place - I'll check their data twice or thrice. Just saying. You c
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by ajuc 11mo ago
Why?
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by ajuc 11mo ago
And that's why the proverb about scientific progress goes "science advances one funeral at a time" :)
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by ajuc 11mo ago
Which means if we get discovered by an alien probe it will look a lot like getting on the wrong end of a nuclear war. I remember there was a quote from some sci-fi universe that there's "no such thing as an unarmed space ship&quot
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by ajuc 11mo ago
Long stick and radiation shield between you and the bombs
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by ajuc 11mo ago
According to these stats Poland has 41% as much homelessness as US.
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by ajuc 11mo ago
The way to prevent addiction is to help people before they get addicted (and/or become homeless). What caused the opioid crisis? Doctors prescribing opioids for no good reason. Why wasn't it happening in EU? Because in EU doctors
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by ajuc 11mo ago
I'm from Poland. Homelessness is not solved maybe, but it's nowhere near to the level of US. The solution seems to be public healthcare, education, transport, safety net and cheap housing. Addiction and mental illness are excuses.
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by ajuc 11mo ago
> The left love to imagine that homeless people are just down-on-their-luck people who just missed out on a mortgage payment or a rent payment. > No. They are 98% drug addicts or mentally ill people. Drug addicts and mentally ill peop
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by ajuc 11mo ago
> but then, for example, an oppressive government can (physically) take over a subversive website and punish everyone who accesses it. Already happens. Oppressive governments already punish people for visiting "wrong" websites.
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by ajuc 11mo ago
Art existed before IP rights. Artists did get paid.
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by ajuc 11mo ago
What's the benefit of protecting monetary IP rights to art? We'll only get the art that artists really wanted to make? Great!
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by ajuc 11mo ago
It's why chip tunes are so great. Different constraints force people to rethink basic assumptions.
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by ajuc 11mo ago
Social media like all addictions fulfill needs that you can't satisfy other ways in your current state. Mostly human contact and validation. If you start getting out there and communicating with real people on intimate level - most add
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by ajuc 11mo ago
car weight / min(number of seats, number of people in the family)
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by ajuc 11mo ago
yeah, the tax should be based on car weight per passanger
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by ajuc 11mo ago
Tax SUVs out of existence.
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by ajuc 11mo ago
It takes basically the same amount of resources and energy to build a house in the city centre and in the suburbs. The reason it's more expansive in the city centre is that more people want to put different stuff there. Because almost
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by ajuc 11mo ago
Living in a city takes inherently less resources than living in the countryside. You don't need to commute far, your water, electricity, gas, savage, road, telecommunication etc infrastructure is shared by many more people per 1 mile.
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by ajuc 11mo ago
The time isn't wasted, it's saving you time in gym and hospital and prolonging your life.
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by ajuc 1y ago
constantly = once
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by ajuc 1y ago
Every breakthrough in information technology caused disruption in the historical sense (i.e. millions of deaths). From the writing, through organized religion, printing press, radio and tv, internet and now ai. Printing press and reformatio

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