anon7725

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by anon7725 6mo ago
Do you think the root cause of social/civic failures has been an inadequate policy repository and lack of a map between policy representations? If so, I have a bridge in Alaska for you to encode into your representation scheme.
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by anon7725 6mo ago
> Higher taxes go to the government, and therefore the interests that have captured the government. There is at least a chance for it to be redistributed, unlike private wealth.
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by anon7725 6mo ago
Age + years of service >= 70. 61 + 51 in your example.
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by anon7725 6mo ago
> I think it is important to distinguish talk intended to appease the public, that currently is very anti-US, from real policies. It's pretty clear that governments engage in such two-sided talk at their peril going forward. This is
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by anon7725 7mo ago
Everything is written in the voice of a terminally online Twitter troll. Every single communication from the U.S. federal government should be assumed to be a lie until proven otherwise.
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by anon7725 7mo ago
From the article: > You're part of a team, you're contributing, you're also (measurably) pulling less hard than you would if the rope were yours alone There’s a perfectly rational reason for this. Success is collective, bu
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by anon7725 7mo ago
As someone who once spent two months reworking a system because a 4GB Oracle instance was okay, but 8GB was verboten, I agree.
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by anon7725 7mo ago
This is the most insightful comment in the thread.
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by anon7725 7mo ago
> That doesn't make sense for America to care about this much, given that Iran has no way to deliver nuclear weapons to it. A nuclear armed Iran could hold oil and gas shipments in the Straight of Hormuz hostage indefinitely. It cou
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by anon7725 7mo ago
> If anyone does it'll be China giving them missiles to hit a US boat. > That would make the US turn tail. Not start a war with China. The right kind of missiles hitting the right kind of boat could lead to a very grave escalatio
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by anon7725 8mo ago
“Represented in the training data” does not mean “represented as a whole in the training data”. If A and B are separately in the training data, the model can provide a result when A and B occur in the input because the model has made a conn
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by anon7725 8mo ago
Energy use goes up as civilization advances, and Jevon’s paradox suggests that we’ll use more energy as its cost goes down. Couple that with the need to replace some portion of the installed base of solar capacity over time and I think sola
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by anon7725 8mo ago
> America used to build things too Indeed. “Used to” is the key observation. In the wake of WW2, the U.S. had both dynamism and the ability and will to act collectively. This combination led to rising standards of living, the space progr
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by anon7725 9mo ago
The civil rights acts had firm constitutional grounding in the 14th and 15th amendments.
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by anon7725 9mo ago
The corollary is that literally everything that the US government communicates should be assumed to be a lie. Even normal, boring announcements from the USDA and such are communicated in the voice of a terminally-online twitter troll.
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by anon7725 9mo ago
Since many people are primed for this video to confirm their worldview, it doesn't even need to be that good. It will spread like wildfire, and its debunking won't. Technically, there is no reason why this can't be done today
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by anon7725 9mo ago
> How do you cult de-program 40% of the population of the most powerful country on the planet? If history is any guide, that doesn't happen without a substantial - existential, perhaps - exogenous shock.
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by anon7725 9mo ago
> I can tell you personally that the action which most seriously affected my performance at a workplace was being denied a bereavement day because the official policy was to only allow one. One of the things I remember most from my caree
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by anon7725 9mo ago
> HN is doing the equivalent of (a) denying Venezuelans appreciate this, and when that fails (b) claiming they know better than Venezuelans wrt whether this is good or bad for them. It’s very dangerous to do the “right thing” for the wro
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by anon7725 10mo ago
Inflation risk.
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by anon7725 10mo ago
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
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by anon7725 10mo ago
> My multinational big corporation employer has reporting about how much each employee uses AI, with a naughty list of employees who aren't meeting their quota of AI usage. “Why don’t you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flAIr?”
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by anon7725 10mo ago
> the prompt is now the source that needs to be maintained The inference response to the prompt is not deterministic. In fact, it’s probably chaotic since small changes to the prompt can produce large changes to the inference.
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by anon7725 10mo ago
> I expect actual writing of code "by hand" to be the same sort of activity as doing integrals by hand - something you may do either to advance the state of the art, or recreationally, but not something you would try to do &quo
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by anon7725 11mo ago
how much of this usage is replacing a web search or spelling/grammar checks with something orders of magnitude more costly?
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by anon7725 11mo ago
Growth in the PC market and internet usage had a substantial bottom-up component. The PC, even without connectivity, was useful for word processing, games, etc. Families stretched their budgets to buy one in the 80's and 90's. The
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by anon7725 11mo ago
I use AnyList for recipes, grocery/shopping lists and checklists. It’s a great app!
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by anon7725 11mo ago
I don’t know how you work, but I spend a good portion of my day in a terminal while working on AI-type projects. The terminal never left.
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by anon7725 11mo ago
It is a “joke” insofar as it’s an asinine undertaking. It’s not a “joke” in the sense of being lighthearted or unserious: there was a press conference at the White House. Official US maps have been updated. Google Maps has been updated.
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by anon7725 1y ago
> Techies are angsty because they are the small minority who will be disrupted. But let's not pretend most of the economy is even amenable to this technology. Think of all the jobs that do not involve putting your hands on something

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