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by calf 3y ago
I paid $60 to see a shopping mall optometrist in Richmond to diagnose my sudden vision problem. It was a co-pay for the service. I went home without having to go to the ER that day. It was a wise suggestion by my mother, in that going to th
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by calf 3y ago
I see, I'm in the Vancouver area and my family doctor's clinic doesn't seem to offer that, at least on their website.
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by calf 3y ago
I live in BC, personally went through this ordeal this year involving two medical issues. One was during the holidays so access to specialists was even worse. I did not know about "case management plans". That's a lot of mone
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by calf 3y ago
I'm Canadian, immigrated as a child from Taiwan. It's pretty scary that the powers that be want more immigration yet don't actually have a real implementation for it. This goes against everything engineers value, obviously fo
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by calf 3y ago
You're missing the point and context. Person above me says this analysis is quite telling, then points out the counterfactual historical hypothetical, which makes no sense. Yann thinks supersonic flight is not worthy of precautionary p
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by calf 3y ago
But is general uncomputability the OP's argument? They were just saying they had a gut feeling there is some "information-theoretic barrier" preventing AGI construction. Yet we can understand a lot about Earth's weather,
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by calf 3y ago
I was thinking one reason Yann LeCun would make such a terrible analogy is because he knows something the rest of us don't.
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by calf 3y ago
Hardware is interesting now that Moore's Law (or Dennard scaling) has flatlined 10 years ago--are college courses now taught any differently because of this? It's a significant issue of computational resources in that we can'
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by calf 3y ago
It's not a rational reaction to stop flying on 737 Max, despite the daily news headlines in the New York Times over the last 3 days. Or, it is a perfectly rational reaction for many people, it's just your theory of rationalism—b
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by calf 3y ago
Other people don't just care about themselves, they care that 400 people might randomly die in the future for no valid reason. It's a sophisticated form of empathy, not everyone growing up learns it.
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by calf 3y ago
There is no actual argument that distributed greediness via profit signaling leads to the right social system, either. At best you have a heuristic, just like how many algorithms are heuristics. You can't argue heuristics as if they ar
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by calf 3y ago
To the first point, I get the heuristic of a cost-benefit analysis of buying vs renting, with hidden costs being things like maintenance (liabiliities), opportunity cost, transactional convenience (friction). But this heuristic is just th
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by calf 3y ago
So you think that the failure of industry regulation is not due to capitalism as it actually exists? What then causes regulatory failure over time?
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by calf 3y ago
A320 is the smaller plane, right? I've heard passengers love the A350 as well.
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by calf 3y ago
It's not obvious that buying the frequent item and renting the infrequent item is the reasonable thing to for all situations and contexts. I don't see a complete argument where doing so is strictly more rational than doing the pol
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by calf 3y ago
Yeah but what about continents other than Europe?
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by calf 3y ago
The point is a restaurant party would have to taste a lot better than home cooked food to be equivalent in value. And I am a good cook, when the example above was given I was thinking it would have to be dinner somewhere like Chez Panisse f
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by calf 3y ago
Who is PBS guy?
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by calf 3y ago
But this is my pet peeve when people claim this; the only reason is because the AI code is small and constrained in scope. Otherwise the very claim that humans can easily verify AI code quickly would, like, violate Rice's Theorem.
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by calf 3y ago
By funeral are you saying the field is currently moribund? Is it going through some kind of crisis? I had a few control/systems professors in the past, what appealed to me about it was it was a kind of "theoretical engineering&quo
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by calf 3y ago
In EECS every undergrad does learn a bit of control/systems theory in their sophomore and junior requirements. I loved it but it was mathematically challenging and unfortunately the better background a student already had, the better a
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by calf 3y ago
Aren't there ongoing debates about the cause? I recall a Chinese government project to add sunlight to primary school classrooms. So it seems there is controversy still about what the actual cause is.
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by calf 3y ago
Being rude and grumpy a) tilts everyone else, b) everybody's cortisol levels to up, c) cortisol stress impairs cognition especially problem solving and interpersonal skills, d) thus INCREASING the risk of mistakes and accidents. Modern
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by calf 3y ago
Whether Schmidhuber is a bad actor taking advantage of the "system" in general is separate from the specific case I was responding to (not sure if that was your comment or somebody else's.) But as I said before, we should tak
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by calf 3y ago
Is that quote from something? It's funny. I couldn't find any Google result for it.
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by calf 3y ago
But if other people identify and further develop one or two out of his models, he should still be cited. If they did not use his work at all, coming ith one or two models independently, then that's a different situation. It's a bi
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by calf 3y ago
But it is possible that he ought to have been cited as well? It doesn't matter if he's a hypocrite. The justification ultimately has to be, "Our paper did not use your work in any substantial way therefore a citation is not n
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by calf 3y ago
I think that's a technicality if the expressed concern was this piece was just non-answers. It's a regurgitated answer but still new information to many of us.
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by calf 3y ago
Article does give context as to what "inconsistently candid" meant: Altman allegedly went to each board member to say some negative things about Toner, but when board members got together to verify consistency they found out Altma
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by calf 3y ago
I think you've confused the concept of leadership for demagoguery. Your line of reasoning fulfills the stereotype that tech people are sorely lacking in a well-rounded education.

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