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by alfor 3y ago
This is expected with a faster rate of pushing features. Funny things is Twitter views are hiher than ever and it will be fixed quickly. (No reason to make a big deal out of it) But I think tests and refactor of the codebase will be necessa
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by alfor 3y ago
For green energy look at Tony Seba, everyone underestimate the progression of renewable (expodential growth, expodential reduction in cost) For the priority for the world look at Bjorn Lombergs work. He used to be about super green policies
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by alfor 3y ago
It’s that the green movement is completely off the rails. Remember that they caused the stopping of nuclear power plant. Climate change is not a pressing issue, with the rise of renewable we will clean up our act way before it cause serious
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by alfor 3y ago
I suggest you take a first principle approach to Covid: calculate by yourself the probability of the epicenter to happen in Wuhan by accident. Assume every state and large organisation is not incentivized to tell the truth. (You could call
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by alfor 3y ago
Let corporation be greedy and honest about it. Regulation/incentives and even more technology is going to move the needle, not some greenwashing initiative.
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by alfor 3y ago
it will as gas car as time goes on. BMW could be okay for a while with his customers that are looking for that vintage gas smell, sound and feel.
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by alfor 3y ago
The current media narrative is to exaggerate all the downside and showing none of the upside or natural restorative patterns. If we stop CO2 production (will happen thanks to entrepreneurship and some incentives) nature will soak it up rapi
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by alfor 3y ago
I agree with you on that one. It will change the plants and animals equilibrium and at a fast pace compared to most normal process. It’s not a good experiment. I just think that it’s not the panic for global warming. We will be fine on that
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by alfor 3y ago
I agree with you. The threat is far overblow. Slowly the tide is turning and more people start to see that it’s not the end of the world. Mostly a positive feedback loop of media, government, research that all finance each others. Frankly w
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by alfor 3y ago
The poor are affected now by our current energy policy. We should save the poor now instead of the hypothetical poor impacted in the future. In fact the climate change policies reveal that we don’t care at all about the poor as we would sav
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by alfor 3y ago
How? CO2 is hard to get for plants there is only a tiny amount in the air (0.04% or 4/10000) and carbon is the building block for life. Through history plant have consumed all the carbon they could in the air and much of it ended up st
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by alfor 3y ago
Also: more food, more plants, less deserts, more carbon captured.
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by alfor 3y ago
More plant grow more CO2 captured. It’s a natural stabilisation cycle and a positive side effect. But we shouldn’t talk about it because we should be so so afraid all the time of the green apocalypse.
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by alfor 3y ago
Pressure cooker for 5-10 min Then open it up and finish them.
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by alfor 3y ago
Yes, still huge low hanging fruits in the training/architecture. - multimodal - feedforward - proximal zone of developpement (you don’t start reading with shakespeare)
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by alfor 3y ago
For writing yes, the more we offload the lazier we will get. But for reading, I can’t stand most text as it’s way too long and convoluted. I would gladly take a short version most of the time or one that is created just for my level of unde
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by alfor 3y ago
Look at Tesla: 50% growth Year over year, highly profitable. They make EV, grid batteries and solar. The price of solar PV is dropping so fast that solar electricity will be almost free in a few years. Today it cost just a fraction to charg
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by alfor 3y ago
The dotted lines represent in 80 years. Think where we were 80 years ago, it was before WW2, before the atomic age. With the current technological progress picture the human race in 80 years. Just in 20 years we will have massive solar ener
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by alfor 3y ago
Climate change is not urgent, it’s a very slow process. We were at the bottom of a little ice age, not surprisingly, it’s warming up. We will have transitioned away from fossil fuel before climate change is a real concern.
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by alfor 3y ago
My point is there are solutions, as the number of EV grow so will the solutions. It’s way easier and safer to charge an EV than to fill a gas car (electricity is everywhere), so you can expect the solutions to come progressively (with some
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by alfor 3y ago
Copyright laws do not apply. It’s trained intelligence, in a similar way as human intelligence. If you apply copyright laws to LLM you should apply them to human intelligence too as it’s the same process (with a different scale) Yes program
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by alfor 3y ago
Thanks for that info, I will have a look.
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by alfor 3y ago
- in the streets: lamp post or dedicated post - at work (need parking anyway) - charge station with fast charge (not that different than gas stations, but slower)
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by alfor 3y ago
The way it work is not different from human. The AI learn the concepts, the abstraction and then can replicate following those patterns. For now the public facing AI don’t have agency/consciousness, but it’s coming fast anyway. Many pr
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by alfor 3y ago
Yes, when it’s clearly a derivative, but that’s not the common case. Mostly our understanding is derived from thousand of places and come out in different ways. My kids learned to really read with Harry Potter. Must they pay JK Rowlings eac
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by alfor 3y ago
How can a company keep up with the speed of what is happening in the open? Open AI had years of advanced that almost vanished in a few months. And we will see the rise of specialized models, smaller but targeted, working in team, delegating
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by alfor 3y ago
Everything is a remix (watch the movie) We are all using the intelligent of previous people, generations of humans. The same is true for AI. It’s not different from humans. What will we do once it’s conscient? Will AI have rights? Should we
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by alfor 3y ago
The problem is that french canadians see themselves as oppressed by the english part of Canada. They try with laws to force french in Québec as much as possible. Now with more and more immigration (rapidly aging population) and more english
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by alfor 3y ago
In the same way as this was a mistakes for building (beauty matter) it is too for website. We human respond to more than the "content" or raw function of things. We have an emotional connection with everything. The visual cues, th
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by alfor 3y ago
Yes. There is also some complicated points system so that if one parent did goes for just a few years it’s not enough to get that right.

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