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by apantel 2y ago
Wow I never actually thought about what is happening at the hardware level during sleep. The thought of a trickle charge going to RAM to keep the data alive while everything else sleeps is really cool.
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by apantel 2y ago
Yes, it’s called running a “charity”.
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by apantel 2y ago
Slant-drilling no doubt.
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by apantel 2y ago
Just levels upon levels upon levels of complexity.
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by apantel 2y ago
In the era of the atomic bomb, conventional war no longer takes place directly between tier 1 (nuclear) powers because the rulers can’t have that. The rulers on both sides ultimately want to enjoy their wealth and power. They want to go t
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by apantel 2y ago
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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by apantel 2y ago
The Turing test does not prove consciosuness. It doesn’t prove that the thing in the box isn’t just simulating consciousness well enough to fool the observer. In this case we know what is inside the black box: matrix multiplication inside
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by apantel 2y ago
Current AI does not require rights. It is just matrix multiplication inside GPUs. There is no consciousness inside a GPU or a CPU.
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by apantel 2y ago
Asimov should have made it a law that robots must abide by robots.txt
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by apantel 2y ago
One point that stood out to me that I agree with is this: > It is certainly worth knowing what content has been ingested. Mandating transparency about the content and source of training datasets—the generative AI supply chain—would go a
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by apantel 2y ago
Something wasn’t run in a container…
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by apantel 2y ago
I don’t understand #3.
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by apantel 2y ago
Strong disagree. The only way to get to the simplest, truest, most elegant, and most performant solution to a problem is to try a lot of things iteratively, write a ton of code in the process, (and throwing almost all of it away in the pro
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by apantel 2y ago
Science is not like that really. Science is mostly experimental, which is pretty much trial and error. The theories produced through that process can closely fit observed results and yet still be wrong, like Newton’s theory of gravitation
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by apantel 2y ago
> assuming by unbiased we mean something like "has a world model and reasoning that has no systematic deviation from reality" Yeah that’s a way’s off. An LLM is just a reflection of the text that humans write, and humans seem
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by apantel 2y ago
Seeing all this stuff I can’t help but think that if programming doesn’t just come naturally to your brain such that you would need all this stuff, then you’re probably better off pursuing something that does come naturally.
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by apantel 2y ago
Even an LLM couldn’t generate this.
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by apantel 2y ago
Yeah. I don’t think people do much of anything for truly no reward. Most people want to directly impact and be recognized by others.
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by apantel 2y ago
It’s the same with news and media. The traditional media companies (news, television, newspapers), etc all had to be massive brick-and-mortar businesses with huge capex (printing presses, broadcast equipment, etc). Very high barrier to en
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by apantel 2y ago
Because what you’re talking about is the set of standards and norms that people have to play by to avoid being ejected by the group… which they have to be concerned about if they don’t have “fuck you” money and power. Elon is not such a pe
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by apantel 2y ago
Sounds like overreaction to a bit of boyish banter. When boys are like 2-3 years old, as soon as they learn to talk and learn the names of the private parts, they start making penis, fart, butt, and poop jokes, etc. It’s just a basic fasc
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by apantel 2y ago
Market distortion. People don’t want to pay for local news, diverse content.
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by apantel 2y ago
Yeah just forcefully “sieze” things from people. Great “values” to live under.
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by apantel 2y ago
And change.
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by apantel 2y ago
Well said. It’s the same with news. When something big happens in the world, there is an explosion of communication about it on the internet. You can absorb the event from countless sources. So what value is any one news outlet’s covera
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by apantel 2y ago
I’ve been using Firefox for maybe 15 years. It has always been great. But in the past year or so, I’m finding that more and more web experiences are buggy and slow in Firefox, which is really frustrating. I don’t know if it’s that develop
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by apantel 2y ago
More like “Sign in so we can link this view to the profile of real human.”
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by apantel 2y ago
Jeez, what a disaster. More and more it’s becoming clear that you cannot actually trust anyone else’s code unless you audit it yourself.
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by apantel 2y ago
In my experience you need to do ‘the big refactor’ when a codebase has to handle something big that was not part of the original design such that you find yourself having to break the simplicity, elegance, completeness, coherence, etc of th
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by apantel 2y ago
Nobody randomly picks a side. People who can’t make well-informed decisions simply follow the lean of whatever biases they have. Slightly hawkish or conservative? Pro-trump. Bleeding heart? Pro-Palestine.

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