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by danlitt 1y ago
My solution for this has been to leave a machine running in the office (in order to back up my home machine). It doesn't really need to be on 24/7, it's enough to turn it on every few days just to pull the last few backups.
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by danlitt 1y ago
If you actually try to flesh out the reasoning behind the distance estimation strategy it will turn out 100x more convincing than the analogous argument for bayesian probability estimates. (and for any bayesians reading this, please don&#x2
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by danlitt 1y ago
> If the variance (uncertainty) in a number is large, correct thing to do is to just also report the variance I really wonder what you mean by this. If I put my finger in the air and estimate the emergence of AGI as 13%, how do I get at
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by danlitt 1y ago
No, you are right, this hyper-numericalism is just astrology for nerds.
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by danlitt 1y ago
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by danlitt 1y ago
Not everyone :)
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by danlitt 1y ago
Oh cool, thanks, I didn't know
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by danlitt 1y ago
Found the fascist
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by danlitt 1y ago
Is visa overstay not a crime?
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by danlitt 1y ago
I actually think this highlights an important point: the majority of "criminals" in the statistics are likely not to be criminals in any serious sense, and would pose no serious harm to any community whatsoever. After all, the US
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by danlitt 1y ago
Yes, certainly. The economic effect of forced labour, and its impact on the motivations of people, is historically important. I only intended to question the highlighting. A statement like "people went along with the evils of the holoc
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by danlitt 1y ago
My reply seems at face value to contradict this one, but I don't actually disagree, depending on what you mean by neutral. Certainly any comment should be based in facts, but I would be hard-pressed to describe what the admin is doing
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by danlitt 1y ago
I think the lost-revenue number is important and relevant, it underlines the hypocrisy of US fascism to be claiming on the one hand to balance the books while spending billions of dollars on performative cruelty. But I do think only prese
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by danlitt 1y ago
Examples would be good - I'm not going to run all that locally just to check whether it's useful. (LLM helpers rarely are)
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by danlitt 1y ago
Seems over-focussed on the economic impact. I have never seen a museum of concentration camp victims that highlighted how much they could have made number go up.
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by danlitt 1y ago
> If you don't agree to the creators terms, you're free to not partake. What I am trying to get you to understand is that I am also free to petition for the laws to change. > You're dictating that you either have to giv
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by danlitt 1y ago
I mean, what you describe sounds pretty good. It sounds like you think it's not feasible for some reason (other than political will). Do you want to elaborate on that?
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by danlitt 1y ago
That's very gracious of you to admit! Obviously "the creator should dictate ..." part I just disagree with. Incidentally note that what you say is actually much stronger than the real situation - in the real world, copyright
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by danlitt 1y ago
It isn't a dichotomy! You are trying to argue that cloud storage is a bad choice on pure ideological grounds, but you haven't justified it with any data. It is a matter of fact that you are more likely to misconfigure, lose, destr
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by danlitt 1y ago
Unfinished works are a slightly different matter. I still disagree by and large with destroying them, but I can see the argument for it, especially when it is the explicit wish of the author. Published works are different: you released it,
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by danlitt 1y ago
> This is the thing people should learn to accept > People need to vote with their wallet. Seriously: why? If you think this practice is wrong, and you wouldn't participate in it, and you think voting with your wallet isn't
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by danlitt 1y ago
I agree with you that it's a silly semantic argument. I would not be satisfied by replacing all the "buy" button by "rent". But I vehemently disagree with everything else you say: > the core issue is people/
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by danlitt 1y ago
Anything you own can go black at any time too. The question is how likely is it.
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by danlitt 1y ago
I'm not sure what you mean now. Did you intend your quote from the WCAG to support OP's point, or to indicate that the screen reader has a bug?
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by danlitt 1y ago
Note that all of these would fail the criteria in TFA - either as verb phrases, or not clearly describing the link target.
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by danlitt 1y ago
together with its programmatically determined link context really is the operative phrase in this quote. I would encourage you to actually read the examples on the page you link to - several of them announce just one or two words.
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by danlitt 1y ago
Make is in POSIX, so it's generally available. Same reason people write shell scripts (even if the scripts are not generally POSIX-only).
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by danlitt 1y ago
This came up in a discussion between Stephen Wolfram and Eliezer Yudkowsky I saw recently. I generally think Wolfram is a bit of a hack but it was one of his first points that there is no single "smartness" metric and that LLMs ar
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by danlitt 1y ago
There is a lot of misinformation about these experiments. There is no evidence of LLMs sabotaging their shutdown without being explicitly prompted to do so. They do not (probably cannot) take actions of this kind on their own.
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by danlitt 1y ago
Humans do not have a continuous stream of thought when they are asleep, even if their brain is still doing things. Your original example (the LLM can't take actions between problems) is literally the same as the fact that the human can

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