ben_w

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by ben_w 3mo ago
I can think of many possible reasons. I suspect the real answer is that between decoys and Russian intel agencies hiding him, and his grip on power that currently means he's going to be in range of useful air defence and a good bunker
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by ben_w 3mo ago
To end all humans with the weapons directly? Indeed not. To break all logistics chains, ending most industrial output, reducing carrying capacity back to the pre-industrial age? That I think is still doable.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> Rainbows End Very good timing, not for walking houses and sharding of consensus reality with ubiquitous AR, but for physical destruction of books to speed up scanning.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
There are many ways this could all end, a nuclear war is still on the list. "Wireheaded by social media so hard you're unemployable" is at least as plausible as a city-scale antipersonel drone strike; even Ukraine's stri
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by ben_w 3mo ago
How rough before even that's not enough, and were typical roads at the time of this quality? Also, consider when vulcanised rubber and inflatable tires were invented.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Thankfully, the ban was walked back. But it did get voted through in some stages: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w5v75deewo
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by ben_w 3mo ago
When rules like this lead to complaints about "veggie burgers", part of me wants to counter that hamburgers neither contain ham nor burgers (etymology: the food is named after the German city of Hamburg, origin of city name lost t
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> What an ode to exceptionalism I've had people criticise me for having had the opportunity to learn in that way, as they did not. > You also think that you are smarter than the people flooding Ceuta streets these days, don'
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Yeah, if you're willing to put in that much effort. I started on this path literally about as soon as I could read thanks to the family having bought a Commodore 64 for my older siblings, but also perfect timing in that when I got to t
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> Isn't the the powerful, unlimited, unopinionated blank LLM text input waiting for your instructions eerily similar to a scary terminal? This is why it has the title (for me currently reading "What can I help with?" but t
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Hmm. I wonder how similar this is to anchoring bias in humans? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_effect
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> I've seen in first hand that people struggle installing Steam. Yes, "people" in the plural. But just because some people struggle with it, it doesn't mean that installing Steam isn't an objectively easy task. Y
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing. > Whereas to me who knows the terminology would have probably just taken a single exchange of messages to get the result she described to me. I would have prompted with something like “Please write to me
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> When I as a German build something for germans, everyone who needs to wait longer than 100 ms for a request, is rightfully mad. Somewhat ironic, given how many contracts here seem to come with 3 months notice periods.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
It really isn't. We're such a long way from this becoming relevant. If we took every artificial satellite around Earth right now and crashed it into the moon at random, they'd have an average separation of about 15-25 km depe
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Indeed. That exponential has renewables being ~100% of electricity in the early to mid 2030s, and approximately ~100% of all power in the late 2030s to early 2040s even without the efficiency improvement from direct electricity use.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> And the slightly different sizes of iPhones are not really that problematic with something like autolayout It can be problematic regardless of the technical solution, though generally I have to agree with the loudest voices on this thr
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> Yes, and we've tried lots of different things. Until Trump came along and discarded those other things, several of those other things were working. > Ok the US is smart enough to also use the right weapons for the conflict. Dem
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by ben_w 3mo ago
IMO that depends on if they're financially dependent on Musk's reality distortion bubble. They're stumbling and wasting a lot of money on Musk's pet project (Optimus), but if you cleared out that rot and put the same tea
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> Yes, but the Model Y remains the single unique best-selling car. VW needs to put together a few vehicle models to get to the same numbers. This is why I'd say Tesla's stagnating. They don't have brands to fill in those
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> Isn’t that all that matters ? Where the ball is vs. where the ball is heading. Musk (and TSLA shareholders keeping the price where it is) is arguing the ball is heading to robotics and AI; I think we're at least a decade from the
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> it astounds me This should cause you to reconsider your beliefs leading up to it. GPT-4 (!) has, in studies comparing multiple models with humans for creativity, beaten the mean human. In comparison, even just the mean of the top 50% o
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Not everyone wants the same thing from a car. Some care most about the price, some about the efficiency, some about the size, some about the comfort, some about the charging speed despite what you say. If Telsa were still innovating, they&#
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by ben_w 3mo ago
The mean human gets a middling score in creative writing tasks at the end of their mandatory education, and most then leave school and forget what little they ever learned outside whatever their career path happened to be. Most humans never
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by ben_w 3mo ago
I've been hearing similar from a while back, but the blame wasn't being directed at AI, it was directed at Unreal's defaults now making random indies look like AAA in the screenshots. (It's been a while since I was in th
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by ben_w 3mo ago
While they are bad at creative work*, this reasoning isn't going to show it. If you took the best, most creative, human writer in the world, and for thought experiment reasons they had amnesia (to mimic AI blank context windows) specif
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> I don’t think I really have a point to make here, other than it just feels like someone’s released a bunch of carnival bumper cars onto the highways. I like the analogy. I guess this is why we got this before cars sold without steering
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> You need better arguments than "you don't like to use it yourself and prefer writing yourself" Nobody needs a better argument than that to explain the title "On the non-use of AI in my writing process" > You
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by ben_w 3mo ago
IIRC, "Buy index funds. The end."
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Reducing bulling isn't the primary goal with this kind of thing, more a secondary benefit. Did you know that heroin (at the time, that was a registered trademark) was originally sold as a "non-addictive morphine substitute" t

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