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by antonvs 3mo ago
Except, their benchmarking shows this can speed up time to first token by up to 10%.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
The purpose could be to connect with others with similar opinions. Like me. Reading this thread, I’m discovering that the point about Dvorak wasn’t his typical wildly off-base opinions but, to many people apparently, the entertainment value
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by antonvs 3mo ago
So that’s why it keeps telling me I’m posting too fast.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
The odd part is that the announcement used the same erroneous date that Wikipedia used to have. Perhaps someone forgot to refresh their cache for a couple of years.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
It’s amusing how nerdy IBM was back then: “Oh we’ve come up with a better bus design! Why isn’t everyone flocking to buy our product?”
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by antonvs 3mo ago
They survive because people want to believe. Look at the history: the phrase “snake oil” exists because people actually sold products by that name as a remedy. There were also tonics based on radium. “There's a sucker born every minute
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by antonvs 3mo ago
It may be minutiae, but olooney’s point is valid: the evidence doesn’t seem to support saying “maybe a little”. Remove that statement from the conclusion and it’s on the right track, aside from the arbitrary IQ point calculation which is no
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> questions about Claude’s moral status, welfare, and consciousness remain deeply uncertain. Which implies that they believe they may be enslaving conscious beings.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
And his favorite food is curry.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> see them as a tool. Yes, a tool for killing. You’re respectful of guns, but where’s your respect for life?
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Two quotes from the link they posted: > The files relating to Epstein include a large volume of images of Epstein, images and videos of victims who are either minors or appear to be minors > Consistent with prior disclosures, this rev
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> Are handgun deaths predominantly murder, or are they mostly accidents? Have you met many humans?
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> coral reefs are responsible for over $10T in annual economic value. Chatgpt’s assessment of this claim: “not well supported by the mainstream literature and is likely misleading.”
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by antonvs 3mo ago
There are plenty of cases where the media, including newspapers, have avoided reporting or other content that would negatively affect their advertisers. So yes, newspaper ads do imply media bias.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> people like being able to say "P" instead of "~~P" because it sounds better It depends on how old an intuitionist/constructionist you are. Back in the day, they were interested in logic as a description of corr
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by antonvs 3mo ago
I'm the OP. In the cases where a proposition can be refuted by a proof that doesn't involve counterexamples, by its nature that proof will tell you something about the reason that the proposition is false. Whereas a counterexample
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> "I'm using technology I know that will get us there" is not the same as treating every problem as a nail. Hammering in a screw is using technology that the hammer-wielder knows will get there. You’ve just rephrased the s
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by antonvs 3mo ago
In a constructive system, it’s often possible to refute a universal proposition without exhibiting a counterexample, by proving that the proposition implies falsehood. The constructivist will still object that you can’t, from that, conclude
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by antonvs 3mo ago
In economics, scarcity applies to almost all goods and services, because they’re not infinitely available - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarcity As such, saying “GPUs are scarce” is an empty statement from a stri
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by antonvs 3mo ago
There are many cases where it's possible to prove that counterexamples must exist, without identifying a specific example. This kind of proof provides more insight into the problem than simply finding a counterexample.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
mRNA vaccines were developed in the 1990s, i.e. last century. None of the other things you mention come close, but I'll detail that at the end. First, I want to point out how inconsistent you're being in mentioning "electrici
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by antonvs 3mo ago
What's your point? That the US hasn't completed its plunge into decline yet?
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> which he pegged to 2012 He picked the date because of the Mayan calendar. Bullshit all the way down.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
It's quite the opposite. When a drug trip conflicts with one's "spiritual practice" is exactly when you have a problem. That seems to be McKenna's problem in this case: he tried to assigning meaning to an experience
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by antonvs 3mo ago
You think asking for explanations and evidence makes someone a "militant atheist"? What do you call yourself? A militant woo-merchant?
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Earlier, you wrote: > It's honestly not that many. I can't identify with this. You see these trucks everywhere. There are far more of them than there's any reason for - other than the whole weird only-in-America "ligh
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by antonvs 3mo ago
To the man with a hammer…
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> But the cost of them limits most people's ability to endulge that. Sounds like you’ve never been to the US. Thanks to cheap credit, every hillbilly and redneck has one of these. Which feels like about 60% of the population sometim
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Sounds communist
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Seems like this consultant needs a consultant to help them adapt to modern technology.

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