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by bumby 2y ago
Ignoring the fact that “central” planning is a nebulous and uninformative term, what do you propose when those “economic and physical” constraints are insufficient to mitigate the negative externalities of a collective action problem?
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by bumby 2y ago
That's a fair critique of a bad analogy. But it still misses the point of the collective action problem. Consider a different analogy: you are free to burn as much fuel as you want, and individually it doesn't make much difference
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by bumby 2y ago
You seem to be missing the collective action aspect. You’re saying the equivalent of “it doesn’t matter if I dump my car oil in the river, because it’s a negligible impact on the environment.” It can be marginal at the individual level but
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by bumby 2y ago
That’s a good point. I’m definitely biased by thinking about it in terms of mechanical work. Some work is getting done, even if it’s just electrons being pushed around in transistor junctions. Maybe sometime with a better background can cla
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by bumby 2y ago
Are we really going to go down this road of bad-faith arguing? I could easily say “what’s more important, a learning a hobby or having shelter and food?” (Besides, this goes against the HN guidelines of assuming the strongest position of th
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by bumby 2y ago
Help me understand. The article claims 20MM users with an average of 24 prompts per day. Do we have any information on the average number of prompts per user? I suspect it would follow a Pareto distribution, with a small subset consuming mu
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by bumby 2y ago
For me? The tea. To my point above, it adds a lot more to my quality of life. For someone else, it may be completely different. I’m not saying one has to be valued over the other, just that the issue should be framed more appropriately. (Yo
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by bumby 2y ago
Are you claiming externalities are unimportant?
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by bumby 2y ago
> Is it energy waste if it does something productive? To the extent that it’s not a 100% efficient system, yes. A quick search says about 60%-80% of CPU energy is waste heat. On top of that, it’s usually required to be removed by air-co
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by bumby 2y ago
Try putting it in a different context because I think you are weighing both “AI” and “household operation” the same. For the use case you mentioned (image generation) what do you think has a bigger impact on someone’s quality of life: 1) op
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by bumby 2y ago
> strong vibes of manual j In the simplest terms, they're all derived from the heat transfer equation of Q=U*A*deltaT so all load calculation models will seem similar to an extent. It ultimately comes down to how nuanced you want t
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by bumby 2y ago
100% agree that HVAC techs are not going to do energy modeling. That's not really their role and I'd expect you to have to contract it to someone else. It's like asking a transport pilot to sign FAA certification paperwork. D
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by bumby 2y ago
Like I think you are alluding to in your own response, manual J is just a design load calculation. It won't give you the annual energy usage so it probably isn't suitable for estimating annual energy costs. You want something that
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by bumby 2y ago
You can energy model it if you have the time.
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by bumby 2y ago
> you are a eugenicist. Is it possible to say “were a eugenicist”? Your info is about him decades before the equal rights quote from the GP. It’s possible he changed his mind over the prevailing four decades (I hope)
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by bumby 2y ago
Care to explain your perspective? "Engineering" can be a bit of a fuzzy definition. To some it means "building something". To others, it requires the application (and understanding!) of mathematic and scientific principl
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by bumby 2y ago
Tbf- most of [any] engineering is like this.
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by bumby 2y ago
> Rolling eyes. Please review and adhere to the HN guidelines before replying again. > why do you invent they are not sharing the data? Because you advocated that very point. You: "some data is better not to share too" T
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by bumby 2y ago
> What people don't realize is that reproducing from scratch the algorithm is also very very efficient. This is where we differ. Especially if the author shares neither the data or the code, because you can never truly be sure it&#
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by bumby 2y ago
> I'm not sure what you are saying. I'm saying the peer review process is largely broken, both in the quality and quantity of publications. You have taken a somewhat condescending tone a couple times now to indicate you think
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by bumby 2y ago
I think this is all true, with an added nuance: We typically make decisions with our emotional mind, and justify it with our rational mind after the fact. I believe Bloom is in the camp that we can override that initial emotional impulse, b
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by bumby 2y ago
An economists perspective would be that your utility function can be whatever you want. According to what you said above, you would be minimizing regret, which is an optimization goal (although it sounds overly dry in that context). Blooms
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by bumby 2y ago
> I've been accused of having "pathological empathy" before [1], and to this day I refuse to accept that empathy is a weakness. To put it in a different context, the psychologist Paul Bloom wrote an interesting book title
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by bumby 2y ago
If you are changing you metabolic rate, you are changing the "calories-out" so it's not like it's an entirely different approach.
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by bumby 2y ago
Sometimes people treat the problem as just a simple “decide and act” type of discipline, but in reality it has psychological, environmental, and social components that often act under the surface to influence our behavior. Unconsciously gra
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by bumby 2y ago
You cut out the part that said the diets improved people’s health at 6 mo. But they were hard to maintain for 12 months. I think a lack of consistency is the issue. From your link: > What if they'd lasted 12 months, or two years, or
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by bumby 2y ago
If calories remained constant, I predict the problem would persist.
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by bumby 2y ago
Well I guess I'm one, if you expand the consideration between a single arbitrary paper. The operative word in my previous comment is “quality”. Since we operate in the real world with constraints on resources like time and labor, maki
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by bumby 2y ago
It seems you are conflating concepts, maybe because you take it personally which it shouldn’t be. The process can be broken, but that doesn’t mean the academic is bad, just that they are part of a broken process. Likewise if a scrum is a br
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by bumby 2y ago
There are plenty of PhDs doing science outside of academia

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