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by chimprich 2y ago
> Remember the "leaks" from Google about an engineer trying to get the word out that they had created a sentient intelligence? I presume you are referring to this Google engineer, who was sacked for making the claim. Hardly an
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> what we have right now are LLMs, not AI LLMs are a subset of AI. The field has been called AI for over 70 years. Let's try to at least keep the terminology correct on HN.
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That is possible, but the evidence doesn't suggest that. E.g. if I am reading the paper correctly, they say that there is evidence of two distinct spillover lineages, which wouldn't be consistent with a simple visit from a lab wor
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The CIA is not a neutral party in this. Discrediting China may well be their goal here. A lab leak is not impossible, but there are good reasons to suspect a natural spillover event. There have been a number of studies that point in that di
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> Suppose that a person feels that Black people aren't being helped to succeed in our society, and are actually being harmed, by the way they are being told they are always victims > The idea that people can be harmed by hearing
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"Community belief", or the appearance of it, can be engineered by a bad actor with sufficient resources: an authoritarian state, a think-tank with sufficiently rich sponsors, or the platform itself.
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> When you suppress ideas in this way, they become more attractive to a large number of people. That sounds superficially reasonable, but I don't think that it's true. Turn the sentence around: "when you spread ideas more
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by chimprich 2y ago
> You do realize [...], right? You are correct, but I don't like this idiom. Your point would come across better if it wasn't delivered in a patronisation sandwich.
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> autocomplete word salad generators People get very hung up on this "autocomplete" idea, but language is a linear stream. How else are you going to generate text except for one token at a time, building on what you have produc
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> There still isn't. Bsky is no competition in that regard. There's nothing of value for 'normal' people there. I'm finding Bluesky a perfect Twitter replacement so far. Twitter was becoming a cesspool; an increa
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> It is patently false that the loss of sovereignty is fictional. It is not "patently" false. That is an absolutist view of the type you are complaining about. UK law still had priority: demonstrated by the fact that the UK was
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Meanwhile, Trump: "Crazy do-nothing democrats", "horrendous people", "the Dems are vicious"... and about 10,000 other insults whilst seizing on one offhand comment from Biden.
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> This is the real, dangerous divide between the well-offs in and around London and the rest of the country. Above you said "It disparages those who voted for Brexit instead of trying to understand them". Why are you disparagin
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by chimprich 2y ago
> which may be easier with the truth but is also much harder when insulting half the electorate I'm not sure this is correct. In both the Brexit campaign and the Trump election, the winning side spread insults freely, whilst meanwhi
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> Obama was chastising black men Can you quote what Obama said that seems relevant to my post? I doubt he outright insulted anyone. > And what a surprise that they went hard for Trump instead According to an exit poll, Black voters vo
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It was a single remark by the outgoing president who wasn't standing for election, and something he quickly rowed back on. It was clearly something he didn't intend to say, but at some point in an election campaign someone is goin
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> calling half the country racist sexist fascist inbred stupid genocidal monsters The Democratic campaign did no such thing. Can you point to any examples? As far as I can see they went to great lengths to avoid saying anything like that
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> instead of insulting the people they were supposed to convince (as the Remain campaign did) Can you point to any examples of this? I don't think the official Remain campaign did anything of the sort. Insulting the people you are t
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by chimprich 2y ago
> It disparages those who voted for Brexit instead of trying to understand them, But why? Why is it the job of the people who are on the side of established truth who have to understand the views of the fantasists? I saw more "dispa
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It's pretty hard to define what populism is; it's kind of a "know it when I see it" kind of definition for most commentators. My best attempt at a definition would be a platform that denies known truths in favour of supe
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> That government was founded on an entirely different principle, the principle of individual rights. This principle says that man, due to his nature, has rights that no one else, not even his government, is allowed to violate. That&#x27
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> I recall one such poster getting upset over the word 'Chinaman'. Something this Englishman, sharing an office with two Irishman, a Frenchman and a Dane, found rather bizarre, particularly as the chap complaining was not Chine
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Your first graph shows diminishing returns for both battery storage and solar. It's also not clear whether that's the marginal cost or includes the capital cost to build the structures and all the infrastructure. To compare nuclea
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It's been a long time since I've read TENM but I don't think Penrose argued that AGI was impossible, just that consciousness was not computable by a Turing machine. Presumably you could create AGI by utilising these quantum e
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What is CDIC? How have you judged that you managed to do better testing than them? There have been a lot of tests of the efficacy of masks, not just from one organisation. Especially during the pandemic; there were many organisations across
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This is correct but I find it very confusing why this information (that masks prevent respiratory droplets rather than virus particles) wasn't more widely known during the pandemic. It felt like it was reported in thousands of news art
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From your article: "The beneficial impacts of carbon dioxide on plants may also be limited, said co-author Dr. Philippe Ciais, associate director of the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences, Gif-suv-Yvette, France. “Studies
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If you want to go with that analogy, it's more like opening a community cafe and hanging a sign on the wall saying "please bring a dish for our free communal meal - we'd be happy to add it (when we get around to it, if we lik
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The oceans have broken temperature records every day over the past year(bbc.co.uk)
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by chimprich 2y ago
> What I've observed is that nutrition, including nutrition research, has become as religious - meaning, following faith rather than data Most of the people who make comments like this sound more religious than most. > Maybe baco

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