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by bbor 1y ago
Do you have any... sources? > the whole federal government pissed off a good chunk of the country with DEI initiatives, codified by affirmative action, extra grant requirements, and ideological purity statements Certainly there were affi
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by bbor 1y ago
Really great stuff, this is the best wordle-like I've seen since the original, hands down! The UI is great, and the premise flawless -- unlike some other commenters, I think I prefer this gamemode to any similar implementation (all at
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by bbor 1y ago
Do we as a society want to wade into the morass of telling people what kinds of activities they can use energy for? I mean, yeah, that's just basic civil regulation. Energy generation has massive negative externalities, and pre
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by bbor 1y ago
I agree with the general sentiment, but it’s worth pointing out that this is a drop in the bucket compared to the tax cuts, AFAIK :(
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by bbor 1y ago
As I said, this is literally the only thing I can be 100% sure exists. How can you be 100% confident something exists if you don't even know what it is? That's literally impossible, on a logical level. You can't hold
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by bbor 1y ago
But what are you experiencing? Something that cannot be defined? If so, do you see the issue there?
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by bbor 1y ago
Thanks :) I always take the opportunity to crush souls when I can, since they don't exist in Reality nor Actuality. FWIW I'm a hardcore idealist, but in the way it was originally posed, not in the quasi-mystical way the Hegelians
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by bbor 1y ago
The point is that you believe you have something called consciousness, but when pressed no one can define it in a scientific (i.e. thorough+consistent) way. In comparison, I can absolutely define hands, and thus prove to myself that I (
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by bbor 1y ago
> Consciousness just doesn't fit with anything else we know about the world. It's a fundamental mystery as things currently stand, and there's no explanation that makes a bit of sense yet. Well put. I think there's on
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by bbor 1y ago
Yes, if you take a dead persons brain and run current through it continuously so that it can direct a body and produce novel thoughts then that is equivalent to a living human being. Your brain is ultimately just numbers represented in neur
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by bbor 1y ago
They're not ascribing consciousness, they're investigating the possibility. We all agreed with Turing 75 years ago that deciding whether a machine is "truly thinking" or not is a meaningless, unscientific question -- wha
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by bbor 1y ago
1. It'd be for the scientific community (broadly-construed). Converting media that is currently completely un-indexed into plaintext and offering a suite of search features for finding content within it would be a game-changer, IMO! If
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by bbor 1y ago
> This is IMO a typical mistake that comes mostly from our Western metaphysical sense of seeing the body as specialized pieces that make up a whole, and not as a complete unit. But this is the case! All the parts influence each other, su
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by bbor 1y ago
Ok I’m behind the times in terms of MCP implementation, so would appreciate a check: the appeal of this feature is that you can pass off the “when to call which MCP endpoint and with what” logic to Mistral, rather than implementing it yours
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by bbor 1y ago
Turns out Opus 4 starts at their $40/mo ("Pro+") plan which is sad, and they serve o4-mini and Gemini as well so it's a bit less exclusive than this announcement implies. That said, I have a random question for any Anthr
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by bbor 1y ago
Only in silicon valley would $6,500,000,000 for a single designer seem like a sensible move...
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by bbor 1y ago
Google already invests a tremendous amount of resources into identifying and preventing fraudulent ad impressions -- I don't see that changing much until AI is so cheap that it makes sense to run a full agent for pennies per hour. Sadl
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by bbor 1y ago
Oh god, there's a medrxiv?? TIL... Don't forget chemrXiv!
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by bbor 1y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing! I share some concerns others have about this piece, but I’m most shocked about their finding that image generation is cheaper than text. As someone who’s gone down this rabbit hole multiple times, this runs
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/ :-(
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by bbor 1y ago
Cool idea, if it works! That said, small nit: > If you've ever used an AI coding assistant (like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or others powered by Large Language Models - LLMs), you've likely encountered situations where they don&#x
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by bbor 1y ago
In the interest of staying within the rules of the site, I'll just say that this is a clueless, offensive, harmful comment. No, you don't know more than a 125+ years of psychologists studying mental health disorders because you ma
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by bbor 1y ago
I mean, this is supposedly the logic of the electing cardinals, not randos. They intentionally were avoiding an American pope until now, and this was (again, supposedly) a mitigating factor! Personally I don’t believe in nationalism, so he’
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by bbor 1y ago
For what it’s worth, I was just reading that Leo wasn’t seen as “completely” American due to his many years in Peru — he’s even a citizen. Take that as you will.
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by bbor 1y ago
Well I think the point being made is an instrumental one: it’s general enough to matter, so we should use the word “general” to communicate that to laypeople. Re:”traits we associate with general intelligence”, I think the exact issue is th
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by bbor 1y ago
The critical discovery was a way to crack the “Frame Problem”, which roughly comes down to colloquial notions of common sense or intuition. For the first time ever, we have models that know if you jump off a stool, you will (likely!) be sta
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by bbor 2y ago
…more hands-on work unrelated to safety.
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by bbor 2y ago
If this is indeed the case, then OAI is lying and Sam Altman in particular is extremely convincing, going to the extent to write an off-putting blog on the topic of achieving AGI. There is no AGI that does not have safety risks, catastrophi
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by bbor 2y ago
I mean, that’s kinda the whole issue — they used to respect safety work, but now don’t. Namely: The Financial Times reported last week that "OpenAI slash[ed] AI model safety testing time" from months to days. The direction
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by bbor 2y ago
Well, that's the meta-rub: if they're abusing, block abuse. Rate limits are far simpler, anyway! In the interest of bringing the AI bickering to HN: I think one could accurately characterize "block bots just in case they choo

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