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by boothby 7d ago
> reported datacenter usage numbers look big in isolation, but once you relate them to "how much water is there" and "how much is used by other industries", it turns out to be a nothingburger. Water scarcity is a prob
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by boothby 7d ago
I heartily disagree on 1, and you've taken a cheap out on that point. What I said was, the environmental externalities are not in your cost model, and you've said nothing to even acknowledge that. Your point about efficiency is
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by boothby 8d ago
> There's plenty to hate about how AI is transforming the world, but one thing it's not, is "robbery of all of our culture to sell it back to us at a mark-up". There's a way that many people fear this is true: wh
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by boothby 12d ago
Remember to change the location of the marbles in your shoes frequently to avoid adaptive gait recognition
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by boothby 12d ago
Alternative theory: your bubble is small, and you socialize with parents who have similar values to your own. And I'm gonna guess that your income or wealth is in far outlier territory. I've seen kids raised like this; in my gen
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by boothby 12d ago
I'm fairly but not perfectly aphantaiac (I dream without images; I can see briefest flashes of people's faces if I've known them for years). The discussion is often flattened to "can't picture anything" but I
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by boothby 12d ago
You can't AC your way out of climate change anyway: they make heat. In sparsely populated areas that might be okay, but in density, you're never far from the hot exhaust of an AC unit; they exacerbate the problem.
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by boothby 13d ago
The Aibittoir, perhaps
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by boothby 13d ago
"Fuck off that's a waste of my time" is the final moat
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by boothby 14d ago
I enjoy the tickly sensation of a fuzzy kiwi but immensely dislike the crunch of croutons. People are weird.
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by boothby 15d ago
A theory can be "real" in the sense that people believe it, and also controversial because it has little consistent evidence behind it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth Nowhere in my comment did I att
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by boothby 15d ago
Meth is a crystal, and crystals vibrate in synchronous harmonicity. What does this tell us about meth? ... no, the fact that some hallucinogens are derived from fungi does not give rise to consciousness. I accept that you read that somewh
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by boothby 15d ago
It has, but I only learned about it when the drama started hitting HN recently. But since I learned about the guy and the company in the same headline I put two and two together right then and there. I've learned some suspicion of fo
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by boothby 16d ago
I was pretty depressed when I read about what happened with Navier Stokes this morning. The Clay Math prizes were a significant motivation through my math career, and I know a lot of computer scientists and physicists that feel similarly.
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by boothby 16d ago
> - OpenAI invites researchers to use their models, in fact giving at least 100,000 researchers free access[1], but there are also those that pay I've been thinking along exactly these lines... they very well could have a 21st centu
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by boothby 16d ago
I've been pretty disappointed with those mathematicians who I once respected so acutely, embrace the leopards. Now, they are complaining that even mathematicians' faces are getting eaten. They chose to ignore the claims of rampa
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by boothby 17d ago
As far as I know, the fleet of Tesla vehicles is a single OTA away. Hacking individual drones is a highly distributable task. Deployment of prepared hacks could happen in the blink of an eye world 'round. But I hope you're right!
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by boothby 17d ago
The army would be highly heterogeneous, and almost certainly not built to purpose. Consider the fleet of Tesla vehicles to be one source of ready-to-hack kinetic impactor drones and incendiary devices. But also... militaries around the wo
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by boothby 17d ago
You don't need a hyperintelligent "AI" to kill all humans; only a moderately effective targeting system on a sufficiently large drone army.
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by boothby 18d ago
> Edit: YESSSS -4 points; those are rookie numbers! Help me pump them up, HN technofascists! Prove my point for me! Whilst talking about the downvotes is uninteresting I will give in to the urge to observe that -4 is the lowest a comment
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by boothby 19d ago
> It will be the first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics. Well, that's pretty damned ignorant; I was attending William Stein's hackathons on the BSD conjecture and the Sage Math project nearly 2 decades ago.
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by boothby 20d ago
> Today classical music is filled with people who want to pretend to be superior to pop musicians because they keep their repertoire confined to academically acceptable areas. As somebody with classical training and a brother in the indu
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by boothby 22d ago
What are you using them for that consumes them?
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by boothby 24d ago
> Of course any married man can confirm that this only applies to men. My first read of this headline was to observe that people seem to get more comfortable stereotyping people different from them as they age. Thanks for the datum.
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by boothby 24d ago
> No one is happy. My understanding of Google politics is that the small number of search team members who implemented any given 6-month-old feature will be happy as they will have been promoted away from the team and not responsible for
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by boothby 24d ago
> I’m undecided as to whether every rotation should count as one move or whether rotations by 120 or 180 degrees should count as two or three moves respectively, so there are two versions of “God’s number” here. Clearly, it should be the
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by boothby 27d ago
It's a guilty pleasure of mine, spending a few minutes to clean up the aesthetics of docstrings and comments. I justify (heh) it to myself by catching unclear wording on this last cleanup pass -- and not taking it too far, obstrusifyi
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by boothby 27d ago
Your statements appear to be true for one class of models. And if I asked this class of models to spend $1M in tokens generating an alternative history and training corpus regarding fictional society, with a completely different set of val
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by boothby 1mo ago
> They don't lie, because they don't ever have an understanding of truth vs any other language that sounds good. I'm here for this semantic discussion. I think that premature anthropomorphization is a problem. I have a pr
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by boothby 2mo ago
Who's going to intervene on the country with the largest nuclear arsenal in the world?

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