allemagne

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by allemagne 4mo ago
I don't know that I'd throw a whole field under the bus like that (I'm reminded of similar accusations against students of sociology and gender studies) but I acknowledge this author isn't doing his profession any favors
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by allemagne 4mo ago
Wow, I was 100% convinced this was written by AI. I maintain that this article is eerily similar to something produced by an LLM, but maybe I need to reexamine my priors. - The "contrastive negation" with em-dashes in: "But t
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by allemagne 6mo ago
It certainly seems probable this was the case for some groups. In general though, this just seems like a view that oversimplifies human history to critique the present rather than a detached description of what we can know. A few things AFA
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by allemagne 6mo ago
The version of the claim I believed is that Sub-Saharan Africans (especially as of ~2000 years ago) basically don't have any Neanderthal DNA. Your follow-up doesn't appear to contradict that (of course this wouldn't hold when
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by allemagne 7mo ago
https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/ Of course, any AI smart enough to apocalypse us would also know about these.
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by allemagne 11mo ago
It was nice of you to add that stable era to the submission URL. It was good while it lasted. Oh well, Time to DEHYDRATE
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by allemagne 11mo ago
>The modern American self is best defined by two Enlightenment thinkers who never met but have been arguing in our heads ever since. This reads to me a little like: "The distracted boyfriend meme can be found at the helm of the West
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by allemagne 1y ago
I don't see your points as necessarily in conflict with the article at all. The diminishing power differential between regional/great powers seems to be exactly in line with what's being said about the shrinking incentives fo
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by allemagne 1y ago
> Our vision is simple: we want to create a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week. If a tenth of this happens, and we don't build a new power plant every ten weeks... then what?
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by allemagne 1y ago
Let's ignore the headline itself for a moment and try to take the rest of the article at face value. The idea that is being plainly communicated here is that there's a single system of symbols that is so well-understood that it ge
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by allemagne 1y ago
I read through this book relatively recently and agree with the praise here for the core idea that legacy code is code that is untested. The first few chapters are full of pretty sharp insights that you will nod along to if you've spen
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by allemagne 1y ago
The OP did ask that first question, but to me it read as being more rhetorical so that we could maybe get specific answers about what in the DSM-5 would have been written differently otherwise.
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by allemagne 1y ago
True, and sure their ways of life were largely alien to us, but I'm confident that our more modern static assumptions can and should outlive us THIS time.
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by allemagne 1y ago
The paper explicitly states that global population decline is not being projected. Obviously that can't be true "forever" assuming that trends never reverse, but their scope is just the "long-term."
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by allemagne 1y ago
It's a fair ask, my honest considerations: - Tiktok: "I don't want or need this" -> Delete forever. - Pixelfed: "I don't want or need this" -> Don't install. - Instagram: "Still get a ton o
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by allemagne 1y ago
So then the only theoretical limit on black hole mass would just be how fast you can put matter in black holes and/or merge existing black holes versus how fast the universe expands?
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by allemagne 1y ago
Sure, but assuming humans are just "naturally" polygynous doesn't explain the actual observed range of human behavior or the Y-chromasome bottleneck I just mentioned.
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by allemagne 1y ago
Baseless wild speculation time: I don't think the timing quite matches up, but the Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck is a little close to this. What if radiation from the sun actually sterilized something like 90% of neolithic men? Is
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by allemagne 1y ago
That's a good framing to explain a possible state of mind I hadn't considered, but I would say that this isn't even close to the caliber of question that would prompt the average human to give that kind of response.
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by allemagne 1y ago
It's not the initial mistake that tends to read as inhuman to me, it's the follow-up responses where the model doesn't seem to be able to understand or articulate the mistake it has made. A human or an LLM accurately predicti
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by allemagne 1y ago
I don't know about it being a feature, but humans can definitely make the same mistake, and the follow-up here admittedly doesn't seem too egregious. To me it's still a little "off" considering that your conversatio
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by allemagne 1y ago
Yeah this is the issue with the prompt, it also slips up humans who gloss over "cousin". I'm assuming that pointing this out leads you the human to reread the prompt and then go "ah ok" and adjust the way you'r
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by allemagne 1y ago
>A man and his cousin are in a car crash. The man dies, but the cousin is taken to the emergency room. At the OR, the surgeon looks at the patient and says: “I cannot operate on him. He’s my son.” How is this possible? This could probabl
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by allemagne 1y ago
The article does say "precisely 21cm" in the subtitle, repeats it in the "key takeaways" section, and then close to the end of the article these's this: >By measuring light of precisely the needed wavelength — pe
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by allemagne 1y ago
Is it possible that Elon and Orange man have made mistakes? Even pretty bad mistakes? Is it possible there could be "objective" facts about these mistakes that make Elon and Orange man look bad, even when reported fairly? Is it po
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by allemagne 2y ago
> Expecting our users to write a pitch-perfect prompt is like asking the average person to control their computer via the command line. I admit I lean more on the "command line pilled" side of things, but to me this analogy imp
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by allemagne 2y ago
It was liberalization in addition to strong and relatively benevolent enforcement of the market. Just allowing the existence of private enterprise doesn't mean much when institutions are weak or corrupt. If you know everyone isn't
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by allemagne 2y ago
I'm happy to hear that you agree that we must fearlessly follow the science no matter where it leads us. Unfortunately in this case, this news item deals with epigenetics that affects gene expression, not changes in actual genes. The s
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by allemagne 2y ago
He could have chosen a different word besides "complexity" but I don't really think it would have affected much. The subjective easy/hard is specifically what Ousterhout is trying to talk about. Ultimately the problem he
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by allemagne 2y ago
A genius architect/Formula 1 engineer can design a building/engine that fits all the requirements astonishingly perfectly, but if the builders have difficulties understanding it, or later contractors can't figure out how to m

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