andrewjl

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Apple has made a sample project available for Stable Diffusion that can run on both macOS and iOS.[1] The sample code is here.[2] I'll concede that Stable Diffusion may or may not meet the threshold for SOTA but still think this is ind
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> We are literally at the brink of the multiple major industries being wiped out. > In few short years most humans will not be able to find any employment because machine will be more efficient and cheaper. Extraordinary claims requir
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Find an industry or line of work you are interested in and learn about problems in that area. Then build products to solve those problems. Use ChatGPT, stable diffusion, and others as force multipliers. The funny thing with problems is that
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> Sorry for the bleak comment but this my fear and I feel the genie is already out of the box. The bleakness you feel might be due to a poverty of imagination. > Life will be like a computer game with cheat-codes, whenever we struggle
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Any prediction about AI seems like a naive one. 50 years ago we seemed to have everything backwards, who is to say that we're any better now?
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This confuses AI training with inference. Training a machine learning model is expensive, complex, and requires data. Once trained, inference is cheap in terms of compute. A trained model is trivial to leak so hopefully nobody is putting mu
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There are exceptions[1], at least in urban areas. [1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2020/04/04/food/urban-agri...
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> For some things productivity and time-to-market is more important Who would choose C/C++ and not something like Go in that situation?
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> People have just stopped thinking for themselves. I see the opposite. People are thinking for themselves and are looking at empirical evidence like TFA to boot. Edit: your other comment about needing targets makes me suspect you'd
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I avoid things like Echo, Roomba, and closed ecosystem IOT-type devices for just this reason. And I'd never allow these in my home. To get around this problem, it would be cool to see something like a DIY merged with quality industrial
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> Even something as entry-level as a Starbucks barista In the UK many similar positions use contractors working "zero hour contracts" with no guaranteed hours. In other words "a large pool of workers with elastic hours for
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This isn't a new idea, see Project Cybersyn[1]. A few books / works by Stafford Beer, who architected much of that project, that I recommend reading. - Brain Of The Firm - Designing Freedom, 1973 Massey Lectures[2] [1] https:&#x2
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> However I can see some orthogonal scenario where an "AI" run company I don't think this can be done sustainably. AI can definitely run a company's operations, especially at scale. A fully AI-run company opens itself
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> How will AI figure out how to properly mill a part to spec knowing that failures will end the contract? Can that be solved by using something like an error budget? I can imagine it being a heavy lift to account for measurements and tol
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> How, specifically, will AI be better at that than humans? AI cannot even reliably autocorrect this comment as I’m typing it. How is it going to convince Jack to switch his shift and come in to cover open on Sunday because Jill’s sister
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Out of curiosity do you draw a distinction between something like Newtonian physics and areas farther removed from everyday life such as high energy physics?
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> If using some humans as objects increases profits, their well-being is, well, irrelevant. Do you think it's a necessity to use some humans as objects in order to achieve growth?
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> If people are drinking themselves to death, that is within their rights. Not when they do this while operating heavy machinery or a motor vehicle. What approach besides policy would you take to deal with third party externalities?
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Where do you think human well-being comes from?
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> The other engineer takes his time but when he releases something there are never any bugs. In fairness a good portion of startups do not benefit from this in the beginning. Releasing the right albeit buggy thing is far more important t
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If you're on Wall Street life is good indeed.
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I agree that a ban is ineffective. In lieu of a ban the NHS should raise their staffer's pay and fund the increase with financial asset and land taxes.
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What is the value of standardized tests in todays society? They measure only one thing: how well one can perform on an arbitrary test. They have no meaningful predictive value. Verdicts like this one make them a thing of the past? Good ridd
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Who is doing the rejecting and regarding what path? What specific proposed fixes are you referring to?
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> It's rather bizarre listening to people praise a model which is so unsustainable it produces more 80+ year olds than >30 year olds. What's more bizarre is thinking this model can change. Despite financial incentives and ma
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Can you explain the specific implausibility of what is discussed in the quoted excerpt?
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On your point re market power, from Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox. > These missteps suggest a failure to appreciate two critical aspects of Amazon’s practices: (1) how steep discounting by a firm on a platform-based product creates a higher
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To use an example from TFA: how does Reset make any sense based on the Unix filesystem?
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Interesting point re cerebellum, it may be that a better measure of AI general capabilities, at least from where we're at today, is the ability to make a good cup of tea. An example of an embodied problem. [1] The lack of what you ca
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Have you tried comparing your i5 Mac mini to an M1 Mac?

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