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by allemagne 3y ago
Ted Chiang's piece here is great: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-... I think he underrates ChatGPT and LLMs a little too much, but it's the best counterpoint to AI hype/
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by allemagne 3y ago
Now that the US made that choice, more density and more walkability has to necessarily come at the expense of drivers. Some of whom can handle it and some of whom who largely can't afford to restructure their lives around super dense a
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by allemagne 3y ago
A core, dense walkable and expensive area (where a bike might be viable) surrounded by miles and miles of cheaper suburban sprawl (where it's not) is how every major American city is structured. I live next to commuter rail in a mid-si
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by allemagne 3y ago
"God is dead" is beyond passé in the 2020s, but in the 19th century nobody really needed a "god of the gaps." If a Friedrich Nietzsche equivalent was active today, and let's just say was convinced that AGI was possi
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by allemagne 3y ago
If we're talking a security firm paying minimum wage hired by the HOA to do rounds at a gated townhouse complex, that's not some unattainable luxury for someone making "just" $100K.
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by allemagne 3y ago
The actual "Scorpio." Unless I'm missing something crucial, this seems pretty absurd and probably shouldn't be mentioned by the wiki page at all. From the first wiki source here https://www.space.com/2458
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by allemagne 3y ago
I think everyone else is puzzled why you're asking a question about the scientific method here when clearly the topic at hand is whether Pingliangtai proves or disproves your favorite political ideology.
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by allemagne 3y ago
Is it particularly jarring to realize that central banks issuing a carbon-backed cryptocurrency will probably not save us from climate change?
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by allemagne 3y ago
There was about paragraph or so spent on that realistic response, and then huge swathes dedicated to India switching to collectivized farming (a la early Soviet Union), the world's central banks putting carbon offsets onto a blockchain
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by allemagne 3y ago
Can't agree more. The wet bulb event chapter is definitely worth a read, though. The sad reality is that the world's actual response to something like that happening will probably be about as disappointing and anticlimactic as the
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by allemagne 3y ago
Sure, yet we have picture evidence of any variety of bird you can think of.
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by allemagne 3y ago
>We need to remember that five minutes invested in reading an article – even a mediocre one – will almost always offer a better payout of emotional energy than five minutes of gambling on a slot machine with only one reel. This is not tr
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by allemagne 3y ago
Sounds like he won a moral victory over the US Government and the Fascists, and then the US Government (ever full of contradictions) later helped depose the actual Fascists through the war he wanted to avoid.
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by allemagne 3y ago
Sure, but I don't need layers of bureaucracy and multiple branches of government to ok the change in my diet. Let alone an international community who will hate me for it.
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by allemagne 3y ago
>The problem is that human benevolence is fickle, and subject to interpretation Basically, the "benevolent" half of the "benevolent dictatorship" is a long-shot at best and a total fantasy at worst. I think this is we
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by allemagne 3y ago
Sounds like researchers just need to issue bonds with a 500 year maturity. Invest in curiosity for curiosity's sake and then be guaranteed a stake in the inevitable profit on every future notable advance of humanity. It's free mon
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by allemagne 3y ago
Every politician from the midwest, every meat industry lobbyist, and every livestock farmer will make damn sure that won't happen without a fight.
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by allemagne 3y ago
If you can ignore all the bad examples then you can definitely confirmation bias your way into any type of government. The reality is that if you're looking for government to solve all your problems then you're going to always end
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by allemagne 3y ago
It's immediately clear to me that I'd rather not have to storm the bastille every time the Baron's nephew embezzles money from the city government. My neighbors and I just want someone competent in charge of local zoning poli
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by allemagne 3y ago
As a power fantasy, I heavily relate to this. I would love to be that archetype of writing amazing cathedrals of code with absolutely no tradeoffs with testability, readability, or (amazingly) time spent on development. To be a misunderstoo
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by allemagne 3y ago
The average person concerned about the climate is probably not too far away from this, realistically. Everyone doesn't have to be an activist or even perform outrage (for whatever marginal benefit that has to the cause), but if you&#x2
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by allemagne 4y ago
>When I am dreaming, I am receiving images/stories that are produced for me, not really by me This can really only be partially true for lucid dreaming, though, right? Maybe all dreaming is really just lucid dreaming. We're all
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by allemagne 4y ago
That entirely depends on what suggestions are being made, no?
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by allemagne 4y ago
Makes sense to me. Until we get diminishing returns from LLMs it seems like we're on track to get something like that sooner rather than later. I mean at some point if we can make an AI that actually understands computer science, softw
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by allemagne 4y ago
One task that ChatGPT-3.5 is hilariously bad at is reversing strings (both words and pseudorandom input). It seems to have only a vague concept of what that means, even if I try to hold its hand through the process. Maybe some prompt engine
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by allemagne 4y ago
The "virus mentality" of having more than 2 kids and then providing them with a more comfortable life than you had?
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by allemagne 4y ago
If you take the comments in every HN thread about Tesla seriously then it would absolutely have been priced in.
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by allemagne 4y ago
Sure I think there are senses in which Tim Cook is accountable to customers, or maybe his own moral compass (as might be the case here), but in a specific and direct sense the board that controls whether he keeps his job or not is legally b
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by allemagne 4y ago
The author has two points that continually distract from each other. They have a specific critique of worker conditions within tech companies, but also a broad skepticism that AI can really be all that effective or innovative, rather than a
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by allemagne 4y ago
Full quote: >The narrative: Apple uses the green bubbles as a PR tactic to make Android users seem inferior. >I can’t say Apple doesn’t enjoy that dynamic. But by now, you know there’s a lot more to the green vs. blue bubbles than per

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