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by computably 5mo ago
> What if they were conscious? Well, they're not. > If they aren’t but still a lifeform, that makes it perfectly okay? According to Jains: No. Violence against plants, insects, and possibly even certain microorganisms is consider
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by computably 5mo ago
I would say this is abstracting the behavior.
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by computably 5mo ago
> How do you do "due diligence" on an API that frequently makes undocumented changes and only publishes acknowledgement of change after users complain? 1. Compute scaling with the length of the sequence is applicable to transfo
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by computably 5mo ago
I said "prompting with the entire context every time," I think it should be clear even to laypersons that the "prompting" cost refers to what the model provider charges you when you send them a prompt.
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by computably 5mo ago
> I was never under the impression that gaps in conversations would increase costs nor reduce quality. Both are surprising and disappointing. You didn't do your due diligence on an expensive API. A naïve implementation of an LLM cha
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by computably 5mo ago
What? Hiring is a contract between employer (company entity) and employee. No individual "you" can hire anybody except through the company's official process. If HR says "no we won't extend an offer," a lowly H
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by computably 6mo ago
> I know many folks who make $500k+ a year in the SF Bay Area and complain about affordability, and to a large extent, it's stuff like that that makes them poorer. You don't have to make absurd extrapolations to make your point
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by computably 6mo ago
> Woe betide our 401(k)s when it happens, though. The stock market crashes once in a while. Shit happens. The long-term outlook is unlikely to change nearly as much, unless you think there will be systemic macroeconomic changes.
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by computably 6mo ago
You're responding to literally 7 words out of context. > Jobs with access to/control over millions of people's data should require some kind of genuine software engineering certification FAANG, Fortune 500, etc., almost un
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by computably 6mo ago
YT would have to start declining in growth pretty substantially for that to be the case. All the 360p video from 2010-2015 probably doesn't take up even 1% of the storage new videos added in 2025.
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by computably 6mo ago
The census data you linked lists unemployment and underemployment for graduates aged 22-27. Assuming nontraditional graduates are a relatively small minority, that's a 5 year window after graduation. I would find it believable, thoug
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by computably 6mo ago
> And the similarities are striking. Now, I dont know whether the recommended novel is the training data, or its actually written by LLM. Or maybe its just how novelist writes. For traditionally published works, it's trivial to excl
73.
by computably 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure their point is Dropbox is better as personal storage than file sharing between users.
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by computably 6mo ago
> A lot of people read things, it changes their life, and their life is better. They may not even remember where they read these things. They don't produce citations all of the time. That's totally fine, and normal. I don'
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by computably 6mo ago
The only thing the doomers have been right about so far is that there's always a user willing to use --dangerously-skip-permissions. But that prediction's far from unique to doomers.
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by computably 6mo ago
> Without going into the specifics of car seats, I do think we overemphasize safety. The article mentions saving 57 children. How much are 57 lives worth? The answer is not infinite - a life has a numeric value, ask any insurance company
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by computably 6mo ago
> We search for outliers yet arbitrarily limit the range of players available. > Gender segregation, weight classes, these are antithetical to the underlying aim of competitive sports. That's a naive, reductive view. Competition
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by computably 6mo ago
Investigating the mechanics of consciousness is addressing the (misleadingly termed) "easy problem." The hard problem is why physical stuff would generate the weird metaphysical thing we call consciousness.
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by computably 6mo ago
> Yes, if you want skilled labour. But that's not at all what ARC-AGI attempts to test for: it's testing for general intelligence as possessed by anyone without a mental incapacity. Humans without a clinically recognized mental
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by computably 6mo ago
What is possible today is one thing. Sure people debate the details, but at this point it's pretty uncontroversial that AI tooling is beneficial in certain use cases. Whether or not selling access to massive frontier models is a viable
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by computably 6mo ago
Fedora also offers immutable distros which are (I've heard) much more user-friendly than Nix. Sure you can make a hacky pseudo-immutable workflow on a mutable distro but that's literally more effort for a worse result.
82.
by computably 6mo ago
Calling somebody a racist is an "adhom," but it's not very controversial to say racists exist and it's bad to be a racist...
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by computably 6mo ago
With git, conflicts interrupt the merge/rebase. And if you end up in a situation with multiple rebases/merges/both, it's easy to get a "bad" state, or be forced to resolve redundant conflict(s) over and over. I
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by computably 7mo ago
It is irrelevant whether consciousness is an "illusion." The hard problem of consciousness is why there's any conscious experience at all . The existence of the illusion, if that's what you choose to label it, is still
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by computably 7mo ago
I sincerely respect your humility, it's refreshing. I doubt I'll have time to try out Ki any time soon, but it's been bumped up the infinite TODO list :)
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by computably 7mo ago
> why not just use x86-64? Uh, because you can't? It's not open in any meaningful sense.
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by computably 7mo ago
I'm pretty sure they were asking for a pinned date for definitions of "economically valuable" and "most (of total economic value)", specifically because, as previous comments noted, the definition and quantity of &q
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by computably 7mo ago
> AST driven (semantic) merge and diff tools? Would you say these are commonly in use, and if so what are some "mainstream" examples? IME most people just use git's built-in diff/merge...
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by computably 7mo ago
You don't have to be good at identifying AI generated text to detect low-effort slop.
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by computably 7mo ago
That's really surprising, I was under the impression that Scandinavian QOL was also quite high. What are the major contributing factors to the 2x QOL?

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