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721.
by dTal 3y ago
>Without alluding to any particular nationality/race/ethnicity, he was speaking a non-English language in that demonstration video. That video has since been removed. Language is not mentioned at any other point in this essay,
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by dTal 3y ago
It has nothing to do with iPhone vs Android, it's just a symptom of Apple pushing people into using an iPhone-only messaging app which they refuse to port to Android, specifically to create vendor lockin! Totally different!
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by dTal 3y ago
I would say that 24/7 power you can have using real technology that actually exists today makes up for any claims you might make about "6x more expensive". More expensive than what? Magic non-existent grid storage? It'
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by dTal 3y ago
Your cost comparison does not factor in the grid storage required to convert unreliable solar+wind into 24/7 power. You can only directly compare $/MWHr when the proportion of unreliable energy is small, and offsetting reliable s
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by dTal 3y ago
Some interesting examples predating the 1950s: In the far-future world of The Machine Stops (1909), the Earth's surface is uninhabitable and respirators are required to even breathe outside. I don't think it's explained why,
726.
by dTal 3y ago
I've lived in rural areas and while there was some messed up stuff, your blanket statement wasn't entirely my experience. I would suggest that, while you might find less cosmopolitan people in rural areas, they're also more
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by dTal 3y ago
I mean, what is on them? If I saw a James Bond film where someone broke into someone's house to steal a framed decommissioned 8-inch floppy off the wall in order to obtain valuable nuclear secrets, I would call it far fetched.
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by dTal 3y ago
They're careful not to say the quiet part out loud but it's utterly damning the way they suddenly and without segue switch tracks to talking about the birth rates of foreign borns.
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by dTal 3y ago
It's not all bad - at least they can still Tell Computers And Humans Apart!
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by dTal 3y ago
I find the visual system an unconvincing example of EMR having unexpected effects on biological systems - it's an organ specifically designed to amplify tiny amounts of EMR, with a very small sensitivity bandwidth.
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by dTal 3y ago
This is a weird comment. There is no reason to expect that a hypothetical economically viable fusion power plant would have an unusually good "power generation to physical footprint ratio". At the same time - you really don't
732.
by dTal 3y ago
Numpy is something close to APL semantics with Python syntax. There's no doubt it was heavily inspired by APL. One could argue that numpy's popularity vindicates the array model pioneered by APL, while driving a nail in the coffin
733.
by dTal 3y ago
Not-that-unpopular opinion: Some form of soft gatekeeping is required to keep a healthy signal/noise ratio, in a lot of contexts. The issue is, what sort of gatekeeping, and how aligned is it with the desired effect? Even simply crudel
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by dTal 3y ago
Crippled, yes, but I would disagree that it is fundamentally limited, or that an input stream of human language is inadequate to bootstrap "meaning", or in some way philosophically inferior to native biological senses. It's
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by dTal 3y ago
Wow. Indeed my country was not set to USA. It seems that they do filter the results for USA customers, and researching further suggests that the FDA's position is that they not be used without a prescription. But is it illegal to sel
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by dTal 3y ago
Bit of an unfair comparison when humans also have a bunch of senses that LLMs don't have. They might be trained on orders of magnitude more words , but more data? Doubtful.
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by dTal 3y ago
All you need is zeolite crystals and a compressor. Zeolite fixes nitrogen under pressure, so you can use it to separate nitrogen from oxygen. This is how those "oxygen concentrators" work. I'm sure you get can hold of a relat
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by dTal 3y ago
I don't disagree that GDP fails to capture much that is important, and appears to count as positives things that are negative. However, is it true that the OJ Simpson trial caused GDP to go up? It caused a lot of visible consumption, s
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by dTal 3y ago
Some code. "You can get the code for Veilid Chat at https://gitlab.com/veilid/veilidchat " Visiting that link gives me a GitLab signup page. Not a good onboarding experience for someone who cares about secur
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by dTal 3y ago
It seems possibly counterproductive to equate "exercise" with "stress". I find I am invariably much less stressed, emotionally, during and after exercise. I am not convinced that any amount of "stress" is goo
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by dTal 3y ago
>Also, he3 is plentiful on the surface of the moon, so mining the surface of the moon will be performed to obtain the required fuel, which is the fundamental premise of the movie "Moon". This is repeated a lot, but the practica
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by dTal 3y ago
I can't believe I've gone my entire life without noticing the obvious wordplay... even after seeing the Futurama parody with "Welshy"!
743.
by dTal 3y ago
Not at all, "Pascal's mugging" was exactly the term I would have used, had I remembered it :) That video is a very good reply. One response that comes to mind is that there is an implicit subtext behind any discussion of AI s
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by dTal 3y ago
It's true, I was imagining some something more sophisticated than HTTP. But I guess the article wasn't.
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by dTal 3y ago
The argument is that control can't be taken away from you, I suppose. I argue in another comment[0] that peer-caching could mitigate unreliability, but that still leaves the question of how you maintain ownership if other entities are
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by dTal 3y ago
We've had networks composed of unreliable nodes before - indeed, this assumption is baked into some of our oldest protocols, like email and usenet. All that is required is for at least 2 equally unreliable peers to act as temporary cac
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by dTal 3y ago
This has a Pascal's wager sort of feel. The possible negative consequences of a rampant AI are infinite , so we all ought to take it Very Seriously. The trouble is that there are lots of other scenarios with unbounded negative value -
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by dTal 3y ago
That's entirely fair. It definitely feels like some sort of threshold has been crossed, and the only term we have for this performance axis is "the Turing test", but you're absolutely right that LLMs are very far from pe
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by dTal 3y ago
This is a bit like saying that none of our current crop of computers are Turing complete, because their tape isn't infinite. We will never achieve a theoretically perfect Turing machine, or a program indistinguishable from a real hum
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by dTal 3y ago
Wait, this sounds oddly familiar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19516868

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