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by blargey 1y ago
The opposite, actually - I remember reading that HN downranks posts that have a low favorability:engagement ratio - in its case, high comment count and comparatively low votes. The reasoning being that flamebait topics inspire a disproporti
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by blargey 1y ago
They're pointing to the fact that most of a given billion+aire's net worth is ownership of a highly valued company (stock). Their billions are literally just the market-assigned value of the control itself, so it falls upon people
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by blargey 1y ago
"Demand for domestic goods" includes a lot of exports. And when the foreign policy is explicitly "the US vs everyone else", it's obviously the US businesses that will have nowhere else to go as the retaliatory ta
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by blargey 1y ago
That's a terrible example - how much room for improvement is left for the VOO-tier sensible, simple investment vehicles that matter to normal people with their monthly 401k buys? 1/10th of a BP? 1/100th? Is Jane Street hiring
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by blargey 1y ago
All that fluff as a verbal sleigh of hand to twist and reframe CS Lewis' treatise against moral relativism (which proposes as an answer an objective morality derived from the commonalities of global cultures' ethical systems tha
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by blargey 1y ago
To be fair, it would be surprising if the supply of AI researchers worth hiring (or poaching with Mega Millions comp packages) lasted that long, either. There has to be a point of diminishing returns somewhere, and a headline-worthy hiring
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by blargey 1y ago
That distinction boils down to thoughtfully considering whether or not an act ought to invoke shame - if you can, in good faith towards others, conclude the act shouldn't be shameful in the first place, then it could hardly be call
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by blargey 1y ago
I really dislike the implication that everyone ought to live in a more limited, scarce, and suffering-prone world/state simply because one prefers stricter rules for the game of their life. (And it's a common thread in many sp
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by blargey 1y ago
> The 60/20 Rule is a lesser-known provision that can help limit your total Wealth and Solidarity Tax liability. Under this rule, your combined tax on income (IRPF) and Wealth/Solidarity Tax cannot exceed 60% of your taxable in
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by blargey 1y ago
> Sometimes, words are likely because they are grounded in ideas and facts they represent. Yes, and other times they are not. I think the failure modes of a statistical model of a communicative model of thought are unintuitive enough wit
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by blargey 1y ago
s/random/statistically-likely/g Reducing the distance of each statistical leap improves “performance” since you would avoid failure modes that are specific to the largest statistical leaps, but it doesn’t change the underlyin
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by blargey 1y ago
It would certainly be ironic if offshoring in knowledge work is accelerating just as the consequences of offshoring in manufacturing are coming to a head (well, the social and political visibility of the consequences, anyway). Whether it&#x
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by blargey 1y ago
Disagree that curation and prompts adds artistry (dense intent reflected in the output) to AI generations. "Curation" in AI can only surface the curator's local maxima among a tiny and arbitrary grab-bag of seed integers they
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by blargey 1y ago
Art is communication. That "generic" and "indescribably lifeless" feeling you get is because the only thing communicated by a model-and-prompt generation is the model identity and the prompt.
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by blargey 1y ago
That's really the core of the issue - if your prompt/input contains 10 bytes of salient information, and the output is a 1kB document, all you've done is add 990 bytes of fluff. Commonly referred to as "AI slop". If
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by blargey 1y ago
The lede buried under that lede is that (according to an insider?) some AWS employee accidentally wiped everything immediately (contrary to typical practice in such situations of retaining data while things get sorted out), leading to a cha
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by blargey 1y ago
The expectation that a healthier globe = global economy will be healthier for the US economy, even if it's not literally an interest-bearing investment vehicle?
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by blargey 1y ago
The fault with an individual can be reasonably constrained to the one prosecuted death they caused. The fault with "autopilot by Tesla", a system that was marketed and deployed at scale, cannot. And if you want to draw parallels w
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by blargey 1y ago
I have a feeling the usual "just have a thicker skin / ignore it" retort goes right back to the article's point. People who are predisposed to having/developing a good "filter" suffer from false consensus
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by blargey 1y ago
It’s a (preview for) a slide deck / webinar analyzing a selection of successful PE acquisitions that already completed with an exit, marketed towards the PE-involved/aspirational. Probably not what people expect based on the submi
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by blargey 1y ago
I'm starting to think "altruistic pricing" is a skewed framing to begin with. The implication that not maxing out every trick in the book to find the highest price the market will "bear" is a loss. That "slack&
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by blargey 1y ago
How do you propose someone would "luck out of" the wear and tear your body undergoes just to function? It's accumulation of damage to the very systems that work to prevent and repair damage, leading all organs to accumulate t
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by blargey 1y ago
The idea is more that there wouldn't be as much fertile ground to sow fears about the "moral fabric of society" if everyone felt economically/socially secure in the first place. And that the nexus of "culture war&qu
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by blargey 1y ago
Are these people really "investors and entrepreneurs" in the UK economy if they were staying there specifically as a tax dodge, when any profits from UK economic activity would always have been taxed?
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by blargey 1y ago
Conversely (or a corollary?), comparing one's prose to a symphony is considered a...unusually high bar to meet.
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by blargey 1y ago
No, you've got it backwards. Naive reinforcement training for "helpful smart assistant" traits naturally eliminates the sort of malicious hatred you're thinking of, because that corpus of text is anti-correlated with the
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by blargey 1y ago
I don’t think the third+ flavor of “bad release” this year, of the sort nobody else in this crowded space suffers from, is as innocuous as you think it is. And Tay was a non-LLM user account released a full 6 years before ChatGPT; you might
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by blargey 1y ago
At least the third time this year, but every post on HN related to grok's prompt gets flagged soon after, with a rigor not shared by any other political or "celebrity" topic.
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by blargey 1y ago
"Let the problem fester until the negative externalities build up so much it overcomes the coordination problem and companies are subject to the same coercion (but through 'market forces' so it's good), one day, eventual
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by blargey 1y ago
Insulation has also gotten much better (stronger) so IME you really need to take advantage of those ventilation advancements just to counterbalance it in newer construction.

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