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by blargey 5mo ago
"EPA may impede recovery from repeated concussions" The more pertinent advice would be to avoid getting concussed all the time, but if you're a NFL player, reconsider EPA-heavy supplements (DHA is not implicated).
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by blargey 6mo ago
The framing leads many people to pick blue for its altruistic framing. Enough, in fact, that 50% quorum is honestly not difficult. A lot of red-advocates seem to have a False Consensus Effect going where they're convinced way more pe
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by blargey 6mo ago
> "fully ethical" meat Clams. Clams and oysters and such. Sessile bivalves are the plants of the animal kingdom, the "genetically engineered brainless cow" of nature. They're also environmentally friendly even wh
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by blargey 6mo ago
When the algorithm is for estimating consumer surplus, the line between coordination and independent cost-optimization disappears. Why would you try to one-down on price if an “objective statistical AI algorithm” tells you you’d be leaving
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by blargey 6mo ago
“Listen to the economists about the economy, not us” sounds reasonable on its own, but the names LeCun lists are all in the lower/modest AI capabilities camp (and there are economists modeling under the assumption of higher capabilit
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by blargey 6mo ago
Mildly amusing that "◶NASAFORCE technologists" sounds like a natural enough string in context that it becomes a garden path sentence leading away from that interpretation.
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by blargey 6mo ago
Having looked at https://doublespeed.ai/ out of morbid curiosity, I have to say a simple screenshot would have sent the message more effectively. Well, that and the tagline "a16z funded this".
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by blargey 6mo ago
> The fact you need to work for wealth is a convention of our constraints The current constraint is "you need to produce to have things". If one company's AI takes all the jobs, and thus does all the producing-to-have-thin
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by blargey 6mo ago
All fiber-consuming gut bacteria, yes - but that's basically synonymous with "good"/beneficial gut bacteria, so it's good advice even if it doesn't give people the massive gainz they might have been hoping for.
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by blargey 6mo ago
I remember when people were discussing the “performance-improving” hack of formulating their prompts as panicked pleas to save their job and household and puppy from imminent doom…by coding X. I wonder if the backfiring is a more recent phe
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by blargey 7mo ago
> I strongly suspect that vast majority of the "innovation" in recent years has gone straight to supporting the funding model and institution of the software profession, rather than actual software engineering. Feels like there
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by blargey 7mo ago
Norway switching from ICEs to EVs objectively reduces global oil consumption+burning by exactly that much. Norway exporting oil increases oil supply, but doesn't increase consumption. The world's oil consumers are not supply-const
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by blargey 7mo ago
Because long-term calorie restriction is 100x harder than popping a pill and downing a protein-and-fiber shake, and you can't outrun a burger but you can outlift a calorie deficit, so lumping them all together under "improve diet
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by blargey 7mo ago
“i can ask it to give a text description of a linear logical math process that has been described in text countless times” If you think “the tacit knowledge and conscious/subconscious reasoning mix that caused X to write like X” can be
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by blargey 8mo ago
The poll linked in the article shows even trump voters have <30% approval for the pentagon’s actions here, so if the citizenship tells the military how to do things…
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by blargey 8mo ago
Anti-crawler tarpits and related concepts have existed for decades already; LLM training data is only the latest and most popular of web-scraping goals. Claude is happy and able to provide a laundry list of ways to mitigate the impact of ta
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by blargey 9mo ago
I'm not sure how you could spend 10k/head when ex/ a Claude Team premium plan is $150/mo/head.
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by blargey 9mo ago
The thing is, all these “better than a medieval king” tech niceties still don’t cover the bottom of Maslow’s hierarchy for all, and “poverty” is the state of suffering those gaps for lack of money.
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by blargey 9mo ago
"More reach" seems a valid enough goal/desire in and of itself (even if you deride it as a shallow form of communication, shallow attention is what provides the opportunity for deeper connections); this sets the goal-activity
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by blargey 9mo ago
And the only thing that stopped in Xinjiang is the news coverage and press access. I find it deeply ironic that for some, the vibes have shifted towards "hey maybe the CCP isn't all that bad" just because...what, the solar bu
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by blargey 9mo ago
Don't you think "having a concrete idea of what sort of code change / end behavior you're looking for" affects the prompts and LLM output?
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by blargey 9mo ago
It's also hard to export manufactured goods if they're not price-competitive on their own merits.
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by blargey 9mo ago
They're talking about how recent trends are a departure from the existing trends that got Japan to where it is now (where you seem to like it).
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by blargey 9mo ago
Lack of care is malice, though. Hanlon's razor only applies if they would aspire to do better but lack the awareness/capability, not if they'd happily accept the tradeoff.
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by blargey 10mo ago
> I feel like the people who can't comprehend the difficulties of an AI <thing doer> are people who have never <tried to do that thing really well>. That applies to every call to replace jobs with current-gen AI. But I c
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by blargey 10mo ago
Lurking between the lines in arguments about AI writing/code/art is that whether or not an activity is "gym" or "job" is often in the eye of the beholder. People who never "went to the gym" in a field
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by blargey 10mo ago
Advertising as a source of consumer information is a market for lemons in and of itself. Everyone is free to claim innovation and deliver trash, and internet brands are a dime a dozen. Even just keeping out overt fraud/scams or propaga
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by blargey 10mo ago
The headline argument hinges on the size of infinities to assert that you'll run out of goals to live for eventually, and thus will eventually become vacuous and despondent over an infinite timeline. But this reliance on infinities is
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by blargey 10mo ago
I'm not sure why people have it in their heads that this "making way" requires one to be cast into the formless void instead of, like, a gated community.
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by blargey 10mo ago
> "the creativity of a human" > "the economic demand for digital art" You twisted one "goalpost" into a tangential thing in your first "example", and it still wasn't true, so idk what you&#

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