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by asdfman123 2mo ago
> we could significantly cut energy use globally by limiting data center build outs? No, we couldn't, because degrowth solutions aren't really an option.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
The good news for gulf coast residents is El Nino wind shear will do a lot to disrupt hurricane formation this year. The bad news is that if it's hot again next year, La Nina will actually help hurricanes form.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Yes. There's a lot of demand for elite talent, and no demand for slightly sub-elite talent.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
I believe we're getting the hackernews hug of death.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
I think people using LLMs the right way is great and will democratize information. However, most of us have experienced people wasting our time, sending us AI slop. People need to learn how to use the tools properly and respect other peopl
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
I find it really amusing that there's a sort of standardized Hacker News style that we all follow to some degree or another. It's very polite and academic.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Experiments demonstrate that increasing web search latency 100 to 400 ms reduces the daily number of searches per user by 0.2% to 0.6% It obviously depends a lot on what you do, but often that doesn't matter.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
What about these reasons? - Your boss/most of the market doesn't care if your software is slightly slow - Your boss/the market wants new features It's easier now to slip in fun optimization features when no one's lo
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
That's why you see the split in outcomes. The fraction of kids who value self improvement are going to get smarter, and the ones who just want to slide by will fall behind.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
It's that you know it's a waste of time. If I sent you emails that were full of nonsense every day, you'd start tuning me out too.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Personally in my own work it's pretty obvious how it's an amplifier. You waste far less time trying to find an answer to something that confuses you. You might say "it's good to learn research skills" and that'
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
I feel like a reversal of authoritarianism is coming but we can't take it for granted.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
If they'd run out of investor money early on, there'd be no company to investigate.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
In their defense, their only competitive advantage over, say, Google is to move fast and break things. It allows them ship faster in a way that big tech can't. Google was being very careful about releasing LLMs until OpenAI yeeted the
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
I think the purpose isn't to make people more ethical, which is impossible, but to make ethical people more effective. It ideally makes people better at identifying when something bad is happening and gives them tools to handle it. If
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
They're not confessing, they're bragging
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
My working theory is that in many cases, it's one of those absurdities that are actually necessary because the world isn't always rational. If you're the CEO, maybe you know exactly how your org should be restructured. But ma
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
What is this? A picture book for adults?
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Making things 10x more expensive to reduce legal liability is what hospitals are all about
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
GCP exists, friend. Right now industries are locked out of AI tools due to privacy laws. If Google Cloud can offer FHE-powered tools, a hospital can run Google’s AI diagnostic models on encrypted brain scans without violating privacy laws.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
These hedge fund guys aren't dumb. They're just milking the boom while they can, even if they won't admit it to themselves. Hedge funds often get 20% of the upside. Pocket it, and then when it goes bust just walk away with th
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Maybe it's a way to kick people off the old models. "If you still want to keep using the old model you can, but you'd better pay a premium." I work for Google and their free, internal Gemini API isn't quite as grace
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
I feel like the meta debate is that we're in an era where AI is capable but doesn't always have good taste. It will write really dumb code or work on the wrong things. However, we have to remember AI is as bad as it ever will be.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Same. I've never had a problem finding what books to read next. That decision was made by past Dan, 1-5 years ago, by putting it into my reading backlog.
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Zuckerberg: "I don't understand why people would build something harmful to society just for money" Interviewer: "What if they pretended to have noble motivations in order to disguise their greed from both themselves and
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Orphanages are always an option
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
There's no master plan, it's just that technology is making life more efficient, and more productive. It's also the downside of freedom: you're free to make bad choices too. Should we ban cars to force people to hike uph
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
IMO developing good sleep hygiene is by far the most important habit to cultivate. It has lots of benefits, but the most important one is it replenishes your willpower. If you're trying to develop other healthy habits, it's 10x ha
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Yes. The time to fix your health is now. Any unhealthy habits put time on the biological clock, and they'll just get harder to undo later. This is true if you're 20, 40, or 60. Plaque even starts building up on the arteries of hea
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by asdfman123 2mo ago
Honestly it just reveals a poor theory of mind regarding the average consumer.

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