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by antonvs 2mo ago
I’m curious whether you think that civil society, by your definition, still exists in the US today.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Ironically that was almost certainly false, i.e. wildfire smoke is not healthy. With the smoke from Canadian wildfires in the northeastern US, the advice on the worst days has been to stay indoors. Here’s an announcement from the New Jersey
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by antonvs 2mo ago
The Earth is spherical. What do you mean by “straight line” here? The direct line through the Earth?
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by antonvs 2mo ago
In Texas, that’s just Tuesday.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
If they don’t know, showing up and telling them will let them know. If you excuse the effects that people’s actions have because they didn’t realize they were causing them, you guarantee that those effects will never stop.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
I would show up at the competing doctor and make things as awkward as possible. They chose to do that ad.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> Why is there still a single captain Because he beat up all the other captains. > why isnt he rowing Because he’s the Captain and he doesn’t want to. > why are we rowing, and where are we rowing to? The Captain knows. Don’t you tr
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Same here. I just get a blank page.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
You're welcome!
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by antonvs 2mo ago
It's ok, everything except your brain will be protected from radiation!
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> Most of this is self-censorship by people who believe they are being oppressed by all-powerful dark forces, What a ridiculous take. Many platforms and games actually prevent you from posting certain words, or flag or otherwise penalize
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Perhaps the Israeli government should read the UN Convention on Genocide and reconsider its behavior, if it doesn’t want to be observed committing genocide.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
“Virtue signaling” is a term narcissists and psychopaths use when they encounter criticism they don’t like. I’m commenting because the post title was obnoxious and deserved to be called out. “Virtue signaling” has nothing to do with it. Whe
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by antonvs 2mo ago
As soon as anyone starts talking about alignment, my question is why we don’t seem to be paying nearly as much attention to alignment when it comes to CEOs, billionaires, and national politicians. The answer is of course that those people a
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> This has been known a long time. This article predates that first Freakonomics episode by 11 days.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Perhaps you're unfamiliar with the common passive-agressive use of "you're welcome" in exactly the kind of context the OP article uses it. But it's a thing, even if you haven't come across it.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
No, fuzzy logic doesn't change what I said at all. In terms of intelligence, both of those technologies were at best limited and simplistic attempts at achieving what LLMs have actually achieved. Comparing the two in 2026 seems like a
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by antonvs 2mo ago
> By that standard, human brains don't either. Exactly. If LLMs don’t reason, then neither do humans. Functionally, we can analyze LLM output and point to examples of reasoning, and examples that imply understanding. The problem is
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by antonvs 2mo ago
It did have an annular battery layout, with 7 battery pods around the outer edges each containing three batteries. That may have been preferable for weight distribution reasons, if nothing else, but it was probably mainly determined by use
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by antonvs 2mo ago
In the web dev world, I’ve noticed there are a lot of people who think that JSON is the ultimate modern data format. Typically those same people have barely heard of JSON Schema.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Protobuf was never particularly a Java thing. You could more accurately say it was a C++ thing. It was initially developed in C++, and used mainly in C++ services at Google. The implementation and early ecosystem were C++-centric. Later, Go
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by antonvs 2mo ago
What's weird though is how consistent it is, even across models to some extent. Were the RLHF people given a really specific style guide? While I agree that no-one used to write like that as a whole before, all the elements can be fo
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by antonvs 2mo ago
I was referring to the Gowers quote you provided: > A good sign that LLMs have reached human level for a much wider class of problems will be if they start proving theorems using methods that, like much of the very best human mathematics
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by antonvs 2mo ago
I've worked on expert systems. I don't agree that they achieve "simulated intelligence". They're preprogrammed with a set of domain-specific rules that are trivially simple by comparison to even relatively simple an
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Thanks - I'd have to have noticed that I used an unescaped asterisk first... too late now. Did you mean hub gears or hub motors? The Copenhagen had an ungeared hub motor. Comparing it to other hub motors, theirs was only IPX4-rated, wh
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Ad companies need mirror life to create mirror ads that can bypass ad blockers.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Basically, the Copenhagen Wheel moved all the complexity of setting up a hub motor drive system - motor, battery, controller, sensors, computer - into the hub shell itself. Which made it seem neat and clean, but meant it had serious relia
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Given that Google has a single unit that does $76 billion in annual revenue, $100 billion projected, without ads, raises questions about how relevant your knowledge is.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
We don’t have the ability to do that level of analysis of natural language text mathematically. If we did, we probably wouldn’t need LLMs in the first place, i.e. we could just generate text using explicitly programmed algorithms.
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by antonvs 2mo ago
Valid point, it’s why I included the word “traditional”, to try to qualify that. What I meant is something more like explicitly programmed vs. learned. Intelligence can result from learned behavior, but not from explicit programming of rule

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