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by dash2 1y ago
Absolutely super to meet my first bona fide moon conspiracy theorist, but on Hacker News of all places? Do you have any others? I guess not flat earth - I mean, those guys are crazy, right?
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by dash2 1y ago
Going to the moon isn't like weightlifting! If you need to preserve the technical knowledge, write it down. (Or record it in other ways if you think writing is limited.)
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by dash2 1y ago
I think there's more to it. When you're dominant, you make money whatever. Think of Amazon et al. as huge spigots of money. Now, it becomes optimal to fight for more of that money coming your way. It's like the resource curse
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by dash2 1y ago
I mean, it'll move people on the margin! If the money margin is what matters.
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by dash2 1y ago
I'm afraid I'm not convinced. In particular, there's an obvious objection to your first claim: if language were primarily designed to fool people, then it would be useless, because other people would ignore it. As for the res
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by dash2 1y ago
Although there's research along these lines, chatgpt points out that individual effects are swiftly reversed by moving to a lower-CO2 environment. So you could simply walk outdoors or open a window.
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by dash2 1y ago
It wasn't a made-up graph. It just looked at academic articles and citations on the topic. That's not an entirely stupid approach.
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by dash2 1y ago
Are poor people more likely than rich people to use smartphones for literacy and education? My wife comes from a poor household in a developing country and the kids there are mostly playing games on them.
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by dash2 1y ago
The obvious question: why are you so relaxed about revealing your whole DNA to the world?
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by dash2 1y ago
This really reads to me like an example of pseudo-profound bullshit, and yet I'm sure you do mean something - could you explain what?
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by dash2 1y ago
The Norman invasion pretty much did collapse society - there were years of rebellions and the old Saxon order was brutally wiped out. (There's a nice Rest Is History series on this, centred on 1066.)
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by dash2 1y ago
When I see opinions like this, I run, not walk, away from the community in question.
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by dash2 1y ago
That's not quite accurate. Quoting chatGPT, since it may have more credible neutrality than my own opinion: """ Does Tommy Robinson call himself a "fascist" or "white nationalist"? No — Tommy Robinson
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by dash2 1y ago
Celan is great, get his collected poems translated by Michael Hamburger and check out Die Engführung.
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Training AI will take longer than you think(wyclif.substack.com)
2 points by dash2 1y ago|0 comments
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by dash2 1y ago
Everyone understands that some monozygotic twins have very similar IQs, and some have very different IQs. This is just natural variation, and not news at all. If schools make twins have very different IQs , that's important evidence f
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by dash2 1y ago
I haven't read the actual research, but as described this has the problem that maybe the IQ differences cause the educational differences. In other words, the researchers find that identical twins reared apart with different levels o
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by dash2 1y ago
Actually about half of the top comments there are positive. Opinion was clearly divided. Not now though!
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by dash2 1y ago
> One of the lesser spoken truths of working productively with LLMs as a software engineer on non-toy-projects is that it’s difficult. I mean, the AI companies have an incentive to make it easier, right? The next iteration of coding agen
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by dash2 1y ago
What does "num=100 removal" mean? I have no clue.
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by dash2 1y ago
Direct link: https://archive.org/details/angelsspaceships0000fred/page/36...
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The Answer (1954)(sfshortstories.com)
37 points by dash2 1y ago|23 comments
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by dash2 1y ago
Wasn't there a version of this with the yin and yang symbol posted recently? (Also there's a 2 year old hn post of this same thing)
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by dash2 1y ago
Maybe if an AI can be as good as you, you are not producing very innovative or original art? Maybe you're within the distribution of the millions of other bands the AI trained on?
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by dash2 1y ago
> Systematic rape, torture, murder, of non-Jews has been their policy for decades now. I'd like some evidence for each of these three. I'm aware of the policy of interrogation which might count as "a policy of systematic t
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by dash2 1y ago
Can anyone explain why creating features with QC might be a good idea?
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by dash2 1y ago
I read through this and got to this bit. The first paragraph is DHH. The second paragraph is the author's interpretation. >> “First-world problems” shouldn’t be seen as an insult, but a celebration! Hurraaaay, I have ascended fro
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by dash2 1y ago
This comment is mistaken. Many countries, including Japan from 1964, and eventually the US and UK, sanctioned SA officially. I doubt whether any boycott from individual US citizens had a serious economic effect compared to this. https:&#x2
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by dash2 1y ago
On the whole, I’m inclined to agree, but didn’t South Africa eventually end apartheid because of sanctions?
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by dash2 1y ago
If you call cheating, lying and working for criminals a “good life” then yeah, sure.

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