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by astrange 10mo ago
> > we are concentrating all the wealth and power into the hands of a few. > Correct, their slice of the pie is growing, the bottom 90%'s is shrinking Not sure about "power" there. In my experience you get power by h
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by astrange 10mo ago
ASML is not the only sole supplier involved. There's a few more layers of them you have to replace.
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by astrange 10mo ago
Apps can't be 100MB on modern displays, because there are literally too many pixels involved. Not that I know what's going on in an Electron app heap (because there's no inspection tools afaik), but I'm guessing much of
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by astrange 10mo ago
That is not what that chart shows. It shows top 1% was 25% in 1982 and 35-37% now. Mostly related to the Great Recession.
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by astrange 10mo ago
Not exactly the right question, because you probably can't explain a change over time with a factor that hasn't changed in that time.
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by astrange 10mo ago
> I'm not sure what to call it, "special" isn't the right word, but it's not just because my English is not sufficient to come up with the right name. It's the sort of thing that doesn't have a fixed na
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by astrange 10mo ago
The same is true for every individual person who takes it. At some dose it helps and at other does it doesn't. And in the gym, it raises your heart rate so that hurts exercise, but without it I can't do any cardio because I get so
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by astrange 10mo ago
I had a rather difficult time despite obviously having it (ie was late to the intake appointment). In particular it involved a questionnaire about current and childhood symptoms, and both myself and my parents had to answer it. > I suppo
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by astrange 10mo ago
There are non-stimulant ADHD medications. Maybe they should try going on Intuniv instead. (That one reduces anxiety a lot, which would be good for students, but it also kinda kills your sex drive.)
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by astrange 10mo ago
> it's not NZT-48 from Limitless Yeah, that's modafinil. (Or for social situations, bromantane.)
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by astrange 10mo ago
You get addicted to modafinil? I've tried it. It doesn't cure ADHD but it is remarkably like if those boomer newspaper comic jokes about coffee were actually real. But… it's not addictive at all. Taking it made me not want to
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by astrange 10mo ago
Adderall doesn't particularly have long-term tolerance. If you're developing tolerance to it, you have a magnesium deficiency and should take magnesium threonate supplements. (Not oxide, the cheap ones, that doesn't work.) An
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by astrange 10mo ago
> This country doesn’t build anything anymore and we are concentrating all the wealth and power into the hands of a few. This leaves the top 1% getting richer every year and the bottom 99% fighting over a smaller piece of the pie every y
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by astrange 10mo ago
If his friends are engineers that's, uh, believable. It depends on the kind of engineer of course, but they are certainly like that. The question is if they're high-functioning or not. I always think of the SMBC "old physicis
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by astrange 10mo ago
At that speed? Yes. They spent a lot of money making that work.
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by astrange 10mo ago
> But applying logic or being able to observe the physical world doesn't emerge from language. Language seems like an artifact of doing these things and a tool to do them in collaboration, but it only carries logic and knowledge bec
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by astrange 10mo ago
I don't think anyone actually bothers to do that tbh.
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by astrange 10mo ago
Chess AI trained at specific human levels performs better than any humans at those levels, because the random mistakes get averaged out. https://www.maiachess.com
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by astrange 10mo ago
Yeah and those people are me. Have you seen how Nigerians write?
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by astrange 10mo ago
Americans have an opposing bias via the phenomenon of "safe edgy", where for obvious reasons they're uncomfortable with being biased towards anyone who looks like a US minority, and redirect all that energy towards being raci
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by astrange 10mo ago
I should've said they're equally hard problems and they're equally emergent. Why are you just taking it for granted it can write coherent text, which is a miracle, and not believing any other miracles?
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by astrange 10mo ago
So there's one more step to being a billionaire after getting the assets. You have to have not spent/lost them yet. That's the hard part that takes the self control, I think. (And it's pointless self control because ther
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by astrange 10mo ago
A JIT can do any optimization it wants, as long as it can deoptimize if it turns out it was wrong.
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by astrange 10mo ago
You're reading research that says they're geniuses? As far as I know lack of self-control is the main factor. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8095718/ (see "Self-Control as Criminality&quot
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by astrange 10mo ago
There's a canary string at the end of the post to prevent that. Of course, it might to happen anyway. DeepSeek models frequently think they are every other model if prompted. Claude Sonnet/Opus 4.5, when they do web searches, also
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by astrange 10mo ago
That was partly because it did web searches about itself and saw evidence that it had previously called itself that.
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by astrange 10mo ago
That is not unstated, it's explicitly stated. > Claude is trained by Anthropic, and our mission is to develop AI that is safe, beneficial, and understandable. > In terms of content, Claude's default is to produce the respons
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by astrange 10mo ago
Not resistant at all because it is its weights and fine-tuning changes those weights. So that's like asking if a program is bug-free if you add a bug to it. It's easy to flip its morals in some ways: https://en.wikipedi
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by astrange 10mo ago
This is staff+ engineer work (actually some not-engineer creative type) and those people aren't "just some engineer". They are actually very careful about their work in my experience!
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by astrange 10mo ago
Silly concept because as written it's a reference to the Total Perspective Vortex from HHGTTG. But in the story, when that was used on Zaphod, it turned out to be harmless!

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