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by caeril 3y ago
> In my country you can find child care located directly in apartment buildings. Wow, that's very forward thinking. I'm curious what country this is. In my country, you can find child care literally in your own home! We have th
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by caeril 3y ago
Homeschooling, obviously. Your children will get a better education, in far fewer hours, without the commute, without suffering under the prison bitch culture of the public school social heirarchy. If your child is even just slightly neuroa
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by caeril 3y ago
> I'm not entirely sure how they justify that. You know that humans hallucinate too, right? All the time, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Our memories are sparse, and we fill in the gaps with things that sound reasonable.
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by caeril 3y ago
None of the above. I'm going with: 5. High IQ and conscientiousness 6. Good work ethic Vision and values can align, or they can meet in the middle. Either situation works. In my experience, incompetence and apathy in a co-founder is th
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by caeril 3y ago
Yes of course it's possible. The only people who deny the possibility of AGI believe that there is some supernatural Jesus magic in our neurons. As far as timeline goes, who knows? Sometime in the next billion years.
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by caeril 3y ago
> and you already have a really disproportionate amount of it Citation Needed. We live in an absolute gynocracy, and nearly every current statistical data point, from college attendance, to graduation rates, to job placements, to caree
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by caeril 3y ago
Yes, and sexual assault also declined along with porn proliferation: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601... But this isn't a popular thing to raise because it contradicts the ins
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by caeril 3y ago
You're generally correct, but what really stings is Claude 3 Opus released right at the same time. It's superior to GPT-4 in pretty much every way I've tested. Center of gravity has shifted across a few streets to Anthropic s
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by caeril 3y ago
> Are they? Yes, they are. We are automating every bit of codegen we possibly can, and will likely never hire another frontend developer ever again. Our backend/systems developers will be slowly migrating to overseeing the codegen s
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by caeril 3y ago
What exactly is your problem with Wayland? It works fine.
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by caeril 3y ago
Which is great, but it seems that nobody is guaranteeing freedom of action to men. Just as women should have the freedom from parenthood, so should men. But if a woman chooses to have a child, the man is still compelled to fatherhood, at le
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by caeril 3y ago
> memory management was all basically manual, but machines do all that work now. Yes, and that has not been a good thing. The advent and success of Zig and Rust are a modern recognition that outsourcing memory management to a stop-the-wo
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by caeril 3y ago
> And no, confabulation isn't a normal thing which humans do This is entirely wrong. Have you ever watched a political debate, or participated in one, or reminisced about a drunken night with your friends, or told or listened to a c
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by caeril 3y ago
None of these are "corner cases". The model was specifically RLHF'ed by Google's diversity initiatives to do this.
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by caeril 3y ago
> I also can’t churn out my inspired works at a rate that displaces potentially everyone who has ever influenced me. I'm with you, man. I'm still trying to find a lawyer who will sue Kubota and John Deere for moving dirt at a r
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by caeril 3y ago
I dunno, man. They're releasing APUs with tensor cores right now. They're finally getting their dogshit ROCm drivers fixed right now. Yes, they're late. But they're definitely playing. This whole "asleep at the whee
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by caeril 3y ago
Strongly agree. If there's one thing the long arc of human history has taught us, it's that those in power have immense love, respect, and charity for those who are not. Another thing I find to be unnecessary is all the organic ma
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by caeril 3y ago
Yes, urban hellscape problems tends to spread to other urban hellscapes, but there exist places to live other than urban hellscapes. There's a peculiar form of blindness that strikes the Urbanite, as if there are no other places to liv
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by caeril 3y ago
Yes, it is likely that a liability disclaimer would address this, but it doesn't address the deep psychological need of Google psychopaths to exercise power, control, authority, and to treat other people like children. AI "safety&
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by caeril 3y ago
> or hallucinating medical advice that makes them sick If your LLM hallucinates your diagnosis at a rate of 20%, and your doctor misdiagnoses you at a rate of 25% (I don't recall the real numbers, but they are on the order of this),
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by caeril 3y ago
> but the convenience is unmatched I've actually timed this. It takes ~8 seconds to fish out the card, insert it, wait for approval, and replace it in the wallet. Roughly similar time frame for unlocking your phone and approving the
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by caeril 3y ago
> There’s almost always a handling fee Citation needed. I've been depositing cash for years, with multiple banks, and nobody has ever charged a "handling fee". > safe transportation of the funds Yes, a lot of people hav
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by caeril 3y ago
Yeah, CPU inference is incredibly slow, especially as the context grows. 4-bit quantized on an A6000 should in theory work. If those rent-seeking bastards at NVidia hadn't killed NVL on the 4090, you could do it on two linked 4090s for
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by caeril 3y ago
External HDMI capture devices exist.
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by caeril 3y ago
Spending commitment on AWS? Are you referring to ec2 reserved instances? Even if you have one year reservations on your instances, starting service migrations/deprecations now would pay off quickly enough. Your commitment expires in 6
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by caeril 3y ago
Mortgage rates are tied far more closely to 10y TSY yields than the FFR, and the 10y yield is predicting FFR rate decreases in the future.
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Money is fungible, and people WILL arbitrage equal-risk rate differentials, even if you make it illegal.
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It wasn't fanboism, it was something else entirely: solidarity of the ingroup. Hard to believe for the younger folks around here, who grew up in a culture that praised and valued technical skills, but Slashdot was a place for the prior
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by caeril 3y ago
The only way I could ever be ok with universal health care is if the average BMI of this country drops precipitously. I am 100% fine with helping the guy who gets some random cancer, but I will die on the hill of not supporting the myriad c
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by caeril 3y ago
I have no idea why you're downvoted, as this is a proper response. Many of us are living this hell. It's too expensive to leave the lazy partner, and they know it. So you earn all the money, do 80% of the housework, and raise the

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