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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
You think Amazon shouldn’t get in trouble for this because someone else did it first?
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by bigmadshoe 2mo ago
The downside is that it causes people to buy phones they can’t afford because it seems cheaper. People don’t reason about $50 per month the same way they do about $1200. The mistake in your comparison is assuming the target customers were g
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
It looks awful on mobile too. Barely readable in many parts.
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
Sure, but none of this would be profitable in the context of a private enterprise.
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
The Apollo program wasn’t for profit and if it was it never would have yielded a return on investment.
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
I would hate to work on that codebase. We learn to parse code more quickly over years of looking at code written with the same conventions and style. There’s a reason why Google are so serious about following their style guides.
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
I don’t think it’s morally consistent to “warn” about the consequences while devoting your life to bringing about those consequences as quickly as possible. If I was in that position of power and truly believed what I was saying, I would de
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
It’s the same thing as always: with the wind of years of unlimited VC money in their sails, people at major AI organizations genuinely believe they’re smarter than everyone else. “Why do we need to do things ‘by the book’ if we’re so smart?
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
One of the parent comments specifically mentioned “space engines”, not MMOs.
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
The improved token efficiency would only account for the output and reasoning tokens occupying context, right? What about the user messages and other context like file contents? I’m not sure how these measure up in a long conversation
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
My bad, apparently it's prescription-only for children in particular.
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
It's worth keeping in mind that melatonin is also prescription-only in many countries e.g. UK, Canada, Japan, Australia.
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
The problem with that take is that the evidence for melatonin is quite poor outside of jet-lag and certain more serious sleep disorders, and there can be unexpected effects elsewhere in the body when supplementing hormones, e.g. increased r
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
Note the “but free from unnecessary inductive biases” part of my comment. By that I meant a decision to make each expert good at a human-defined thing.
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
Good point! I thought you meant splitting them and then doing inference with some kind of learned router while keeping all the split models loaded at once. What you're suggesting is pretty sensible.
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
Bitter lesson is knocking. Mixture of experts is essentially what you’re describing but free from unnecessary inductive biases.
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
Interesting. I guess I don’t see corporations as people, and thus I don’t see this as a violation of free speech.
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
Conversely it isn't very cool seeing the person who grew up as a McLaren fan dying prematurely due to being influenced to start a deadly habit from a young age. And I say this as someone who enjoys smoking.
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
What is the cost-benefit analysis that led you to that conclusion? I ask as someone who enjoys smoking but struggles to see any good argument for the return of tobacco advertising.
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
We can decide to pass laws to protect people from addictive behaviors. Do you support bringing cigarette advertising back for example?
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
Just use cursor based pagination. How is this any different whether it’s infinite scroll or separate pages?
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
Are you confusing 20th century with 2000s?
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
Aren’t we just donating the PFAS to potentially sicker patients?
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by bigmadshoe 3mo ago
Kerbal Space Program at a minimum
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by bigmadshoe 4mo ago
Absolutely. These things are inherently pointless - what makes them cool is the human ingenuity required to achieve them. Remove that and it’s totally uninteresting.
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by bigmadshoe 4mo ago
30k-60k out of >3m births doesn’t seem like a massive problem to me. Maybe the energy spent fighting this could be better spent elsewhere.
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by bigmadshoe 4mo ago
Do you have much evidence that this is a real problem on the scale of the US population? I would imagine a tiny percentage of citizens were anchor children (i.e. people whose parents came to the US purely to give birth to them, then left ag
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by bigmadshoe 4mo ago
British Columbia is far from the equator and just removed DST (permanent summer time).
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by bigmadshoe 4mo ago
They aren’t able to control whether the important facts people want to be updated on are positive or negative. But I find it less addictive to read the news with minimal colors and no images.
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by bigmadshoe 4mo ago
For US-centric news, I really like the text only https://text.npr.org/1001

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