cornholio

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by cornholio 11mo ago
Sure, if the common denominator user is at least as savvy as the entire marketing and strategy departments of these trillion dollar companies, then sure, users will identify products that are not designed according to their best interests a
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by cornholio 11mo ago
> no longer building software for their users but as vehicles to push some agenda All companies push an agenda all the time, and their agenda always is: market dominance, profitability, monopoly and rent extraction, rinse and repeat into
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by cornholio 11mo ago
Great passion for the subject, definitely doesn't get discouraged by their less than perfect command of English and didn't use an LLM to butcher the text's authentic character. I find that in my own writing I no longer strive
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by cornholio 1y ago
They don't care about the resell value since they don't earn a commission on those sales. The point is that, for as long as items can be transferred in game, they are always convertible to cash in the real world. Inserting artific
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by cornholio 1y ago
The purpose of the update is certainly not to reduce the cost of these items, but to better position Valve to earn this revenue steam, as opposed to third party scalpers. Looks like it's working.
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by cornholio 1y ago
The trait of caring and providing for other injured or vulnerable members of the group is widespread in the animal kingdom, there is even a name for it, allocare. Since social groups usually form based on family kinship, it can be explained
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by cornholio 1y ago
We've got our best spike sharpeners working on improvements.
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by cornholio 1y ago
I wonder when we will see generative AI codecs in production. The concept seems simple enough, the encoder knows the exact model the decoder will use to generate the final image starting from a handful of pixels, and optimizes towards lowes
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by cornholio 1y ago
The economic notion is called marginal profitability. Better sales are a good thing if the marginal profit is positive, ie, each extra unit sold still increases the overall profit, so in your example it's still profitable if the new mo
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by cornholio 1y ago
Sure, but the herd can still be right from time to time. While it's impossible to accurately predict the future course of AI progress, we can at least agree that the rapid take-off scenario is at least plausible, and that, if it happen
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by cornholio 1y ago
Because it lowers the threshold for a total informational compromise attack from "exfiltrate 34PB of data from secure govt infrastructure" down to "exfiltrate 100KB of key material". You can get that out over a few days
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by cornholio 1y ago
Interesting. The drawbacks you describe seem to be limitations of the sensor and image processing technology available almost 30 years ago. For example, my Epson inkjet printer can do about 10ppm at it's lowest print quality, so it can
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by cornholio 1y ago
I wonder why the system didn't caught on and why it's not used today by manufacturers of multi-functional printers. Seems like a huge opportunity to use the existing paper handling mechanism - with an autofeeder, a feature most fl
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by cornholio 1y ago
So all those CEOs and CTOs are wrong, and you along with the skeptic camp see the true nature of AI. But let's assume for the sake of argument that you are wrong. What are the logical implications? Can your worldview allow for the pos
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by cornholio 1y ago
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of power struggles.
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by cornholio 1y ago
That's the entire economic premise of AI: labor automation. The end game is more returns to financial capital and less (or no) returns to human capital.
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by cornholio 1y ago
The global employment in software development and adjacent is in the tens of millions. To say the impact of AI code automation will be, at max, a rounding error of just 1-2% of that is just silly; currently, the junior pipeline is almost fr
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by cornholio 1y ago
I don't think I follow. 1 trillion total investment divided by 100k yields 10 million man years, or 300k man-careers. Just the disruption we can already see in the software industry are easily of that magnitude.
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by cornholio 1y ago
No, that's not the claim. The claim is that we will create a hypothetical LLM that, when tasked with a problem at the scientific frontier of molecular biology will, about 10% of the time, correctly reason about existing literature and
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by cornholio 1y ago
It's silly to say that the only objective that will vindicate AI investments is AGI. Current batch of deep learning models are fundamentally a technology for labor automation. This is immensely useful in itself, without the need to do
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by cornholio 1y ago
30PB / 100Gbps comes down to about a month, 4 links would give you a week, so that seems pretty quite acceptable for a training run, especially since you can overlap the initial loading of the array with the first training, i.e train a
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by cornholio 1y ago
> nothing making passing organisms more "efficient". You can clearly observe it with flightless birds on small islands. I'm not sure I follow this argument. Flightless birds happen on small island when those habitats are f
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by cornholio 1y ago
The key words here are "a basic" level of housing. A house in the most exclusive area of town will always be an investment (not necessarily a good one), because it primarily offers exclusion of other poorer members of the society
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by cornholio 1y ago
> Adding "resilience" usually adds to the per-unit cost. In this case, the cost is much less than a dollar (say, a varistor that blows the existing fuse) and it prevents a catastrophic failure.
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by cornholio 1y ago
Panels are not standardized and are themselves series-parallel constructions with wildly diverse specs.
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by cornholio 1y ago
It probably depends a lot on the ecological niche. For example, for a herbivore species, the marginal benefit from the high energy thinking mutation is low, it took millions of years of thinking in humans before we could reach the levels wh
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by cornholio 1y ago
This is clearly not true: once thinking emerges in a species, it can be applied for an infinite number of situations that can't be codified into instincts because they are unique. Each battle site is unique, it has a certain topology,
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by cornholio 1y ago
Social ties correlate with all kinds of beneficial traits, outcomes and privileges, in a very complex and bidirectional causal relation: sociable people have much better economic and career prospects, healthy middle class people have the op
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by cornholio 1y ago
Naturalistic fallacies will only carry you so far. For example, my 12 year old car has none of the incredibly adapted limbs and muscles of a cheetah, but can still easily exceed the animal land speed. The article makes a compelling case tha
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by cornholio 1y ago
In any case, it seems like a "simple" problem to solve. An accelerometer chip costs a few cents and the data rates can be handled by a very light wiring harness, ex I2C. So embedding such a sensor in every rigid component, wirin

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