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by api 3mo ago
Kenya influenced the entire English language by being an outsourcing site for AI RLHF. Sounds like a world detail from Snow Crash.
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by api 3mo ago
Honestly these days even the MCOL (medium cost of living) interior cities like Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Charlotte, etc. would be tight on 85K especially with any dependents. Our family lived in HCOL places like Boston and LA befo
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by api 3mo ago
Short form video is disturbingly addictive. I generally refuse to engage with it. A while back I started scrolling some YouTube shorts. Hours later my brain felt fried and… it was hours later? It was kind of shocking and frightening. It fel
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by api 3mo ago
Rationalism and EA is Scientology for the Bay Area.
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by api 3mo ago
All of it is addiction engineered.
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by api 3mo ago
I don't disagree, but history shows that people (and businesses!) can and will make such trades. Look at the privacy nightmare, and it's not just individuals. Large companies put all their Crown Jewels into things like Google Driv
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by api 3mo ago
This belongs to a class of thing I've been predicting for a while: as non-volatile storage (not RAM but flash etc.) gets cheaper and cheaper, offline snapshots of quantities of information that used to require an Internet connection to
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by api 3mo ago
I'd say I generally agree that the privacy problem has no techno-fix and must be solved by regulation. For example, we could extend HIPAA-style fines for leaked personal data to other forms of intimate data like location, biometrics, l
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by api 3mo ago
Imagine someone comes to you and says: "You must remove your door locks. Anyone can come into your house any time. You also need cameras across most of your house. But in exchange, magic elves will do all of your home chores: washing
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by api 3mo ago
Unfortunately when your power source black hole got smaller it would get hotter, finally reaching runaway at the end and detonating with hundreds of times the power of the Tsar Bomba.
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by api 3mo ago
“Anti” is a kind of super-meme that took over discourse in a lot of spheres, especially anywhere near academia, starting in the 1970s. If I had to trace it to one source it would probably be the Club of Rome and Limits to Growth. Paul Erl
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by api 3mo ago
It's a very strong consensus among physicists, but has not been observed. My understanding is it pops right out of the math. If it doesn't exist it means some new fundamental physics is in play, like quantum gravitational effects
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by api 3mo ago
There's a few obvious things. What you've got is an almost "vertical" gravity well near the object. A smaller black hole would actually have a steeper gravity well than a large one. (1) See how gravity behaves at those s
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by api 3mo ago
I believe it does, due to PBHs forming seeds for early accretion, but ask a non-armchair physicist (or a good LLM).
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by api 3mo ago
Not much. A black hole isn't a magic cosmic vacuum cleaner. It's a dense piece of mass. An asteroid mass black hole the size of a hydrogen atom would be... an object the size of a hydrogen atom with the mass of an asteroid. You co
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by api 3mo ago
“Dark” matter and energy are placeholder names. “Dark” means “we don’t know” which either means we can’t see or detect it or there is an alternate explanation for the effect. It’s like a comment in your code like \\ TODO… I don’t see why th
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by api 3mo ago
The most exciting idea to me that JWST has bolstered is primordial black holes. Many models already predict them but JWST has provided the first good indirect evidence in the form of too-early galaxies. The models that predict PBHs predict
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by api 3mo ago
"Housing cannot simultaneously be affordable and a good investment."
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by api 3mo ago
Housing inflation cascades down into everything else too, since people require higher wages to afford housing... which drives up housing costs... which requires higher wages to afford housing... Basically real estate is the thirsty sponge t
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by api 3mo ago
That means buyers have basically purchased options. If the price falls, they're underwater a little, but if the price spikes it protects them. People do that all the time, and sometimes it doesn't pay off.
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by api 3mo ago
It'll probably take a few years. There's many fabs under construction. One thing holding back capacity expansion is that a lot of people are concerned this is a bubble. They're worried it'll pop and leave them with orpha
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by api 3mo ago
Apple M series chips deserve a mention as another option, especially since you get a whole Mac laptop or desktop workstation too. They have unified memory and respectable inference performance, and for some variations can be cheaper than vi
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by api 3mo ago
If markets were perfectly efficient, entrepreneurship would not exist. An entrepreneur is, at this level, someone who looks for an arbitrage opportunity in correcting a market inefficiency, usually of the form "there is a market for X,
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by api 3mo ago
In the last few years I keep seeing interviews with these guys and they are obviously on speed. Too much speed. I’ve seen a tweaker before. Not gonna name names but look them up. It’s not hard to tell.
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by api 3mo ago
Just like with writing, any kind of AI detection is going to be inaccurate to the point of snake oil. LLM detection in writing is basically today's polygraph test pseudoscience. There was a blog a while ago where someone fed classic li
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by api 3mo ago
Oh boy. This edgelord. Where to start. Everything he says about AI companies charging a subscription and then possibly extracting value from customer data is true for every single cloud hosted SaaS since the dawn of that model. If you put y
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by api 3mo ago
“I won’t put chemicals from big pharma in my body!” Proceeds to raw dog a bunch of “research chemicals” cause some roided up bro talked about it on a podcast… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7gbFMWZWlo They’re not vaccines
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by api 3mo ago
The potential for the technology in cancer treatment is what I find most exciting.
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by api 3mo ago
The biggest single success from Trump’s first term is the thing his base hates to the point that they booed him over it.
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by api 3mo ago
People think I’m AI! Yay! It’s hopeless. You won’t be able to tell at all. Probably can’t already.

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