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by azan_ 6mo ago
> I agree with you but Ozempic is a bad example here. Part of the reason it is so valuable is that patients usually must take it for the rest of their lives. Its actually the perfect example of “evil” pharma since patients slmost akways
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by azan_ 6mo ago
"Access this article for 1 day for: £50 / $60/ €56 (excludes VAT)" Man, the scientific publishing cartel is something else. Note that author will generally get exactly £0 / $0 / €0 for his text.
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by azan_ 6mo ago
> That's a wild statement to put into your announcement. Are LLM providers now openly bragging about our collective dependency on their models? It's normal that company brags how good their product is, I really don't see w
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by azan_ 6mo ago
Why?
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Average person in US reducing his/her meat intake by 1/4 would do much, much more for environment compared with completely scrapping entire AI infrastructure worldwide. For some reason people concerned with environmental impact of
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by azan_ 6mo ago
And the number of things you can prove using Yoneda lemma just proves how powerful category theory is.
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by azan_ 6mo ago
> The best design is original, groundbreaking and often counterintuitive. I guess that kind of thinking got us liquid glass - which everyone hates.
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by azan_ 6mo ago
I think autism (mild one) is not a bad area for this discussion either. But Down's syndrome? Absolutely not.
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by azan_ 6mo ago
I'm sorry but if elimination of crippling disease sounds like eugenics to you, then you should deeply think about your moral compass. Comparing autism (I guess some mild form since you put it next to ADHD) and ADHD to Down's syndr
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by azan_ 6mo ago
So it’s bad that now apart from high quality expensive option (which is still available!) you can also get cheaper, lower quality one?
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by azan_ 6mo ago
I'm sure people working in customer support or tax advisors would have different take of what should be killed by AI and what should be spared.
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by azan_ 6mo ago
> Once capitalists rig the system for themselves, the only way to get ahead is just pure luck or connections. Don't you consider millionaires as ones getting ahead? If not then I've got to say - it's absolutely spectacular
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by azan_ 6mo ago
There's not enough liquidity on polymarket for that. However there's enough liquidity on stock market and indeed it appears that there was a lot of insider trading around start of the war and ceasefire. Polymarket is really pennie
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by azan_ 6mo ago
Yeah, that’s definitely corrupt. Doesn’t contradict the fact that people are generally richer than ever nowadays and that capitalism enables that, I don’t mind ultra rich getting richer as long as everyone else is also getting richer.
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by azan_ 6mo ago
It’s interesting take for sure. However it appears that in real life nowadays most millionaires are self made. I was surprised when I found out about it too. Seems to contradict your thesis.
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by azan_ 6mo ago
It actually did prevent lots of famines.
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by azan_ 6mo ago
How?
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by azan_ 6mo ago
Could you explain what do you mean? What's the plan and execution here? Planning and executing invasion? If so, there are much better markets than polymarket for making such bets.
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by azan_ 7mo ago
> To your question I'm not ok with either. Then you must be ok with mass food production, there's no third way.
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by azan_ 7mo ago
Do YOU want to die of starvation? Or are you ok with just others dying?
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by azan_ 7mo ago
What's interesting is that scaling appears to continue to pay off. Gwern was right - as always.
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by azan_ 7mo ago
Yes, Europe did not have dark ages, it only had period of population decline, of less emissions, less building, less inventions, less records and severed trade networks.
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by azan_ 7mo ago
> Mass food production supposedly nourished more people: veggies today have 20% the minerals content they had 70y ago..the list go on and on. I suggest you should have a look at malnutrition rates 100 years ago vs now. Without mass food
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by azan_ 7mo ago
Compare emissions between France and Germany during dunkelflaute. Germany is frequently at the Polish levels of emissions and Poland is famous for huge emissions. Sunsetting would make sense if they could already generate enough green elect
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by azan_ 7mo ago
I wonder what prices would they have if they did not implement sunsetting of nuclear energy. Has to be the worst energy policy decision ever.
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by azan_ 7mo ago
> Because the rich are by definition a tiny group of outliers? Not in the context of this discussion. Here both rich and poor have to be group large enough to actually introduce significant bias to the sauna study. Top 1% is unlikely to
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by azan_ 7mo ago
Well, that's what entire discussion is about.
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Yeah, sure…
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by azan_ 7mo ago
What's innovative in the site idea or implementation? There's nothing there, it's just rehash of 20 years old idea.
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by azan_ 7mo ago
It's not like people do not make this kind of websites because it's challenging technically (it's trivial) or because they did not think of it. They don't because it's shitty idea.

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