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by dash2 2mo ago
It’s not quite like a real fifth grader, I guess - more like a fifth grade genius that has read and understood everything in every syllabus.
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by dash2 2mo ago
I think one of the most basic features of any "cooperative venture for mutual advantage" (as Rawls called the state) is who's going to be in the club. If that shouldn't be under democratic control, what should be? Also,
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by dash2 2mo ago
I did say "gross migration", right? That was about a million in the most recent data, IIRC. Net migration was about 250K, sure, and about a million in the Boriswave.
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by dash2 2mo ago
I just wanted to say that I too got the AI vibe. Which doesn't mean I would hate it! I don't care how you code. But it probably does send a slight signal of the level of effort and professionalism. I think part of it is the UI&#x2
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by dash2 2mo ago
The problem with this argument is that for essentially my entire lifetime, the UK population has wanted less migration. And what they have got instead is gross migration running at 1 million per year. If they are just fundamentally wrong on
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by dash2 2mo ago
It is! But not in the direction you think!
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by dash2 2mo ago
I prefer the former version. It sounds like a human.
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by dash2 2mo ago
> One person told me that while they were eating soup, the little people were jumping off their spoon into the bowl and swimming around. As they scooped a bite, the little people remained in their mouth. There’s definitely scope for a ho
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by dash2 2mo ago
> We pay $27/month for Netflix premium and I can say unequivocally that it’s not worth it. I continue paying for it Sounds like a buy signal?
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Chinese censorship is leaking into answers from American AI(wsj.com)
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by dash2 2mo ago
That sounds awful, but also an extremely rare event.
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by dash2 2mo ago
Yeah, I found that quote utterly weird. At 50 I acquired a child and stepchild. I've never felt remotely the love I do for my kid. Not even when I was a child, for my parents. Nothing comes close to the utter joy of holding him tight.
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by dash2 2mo ago
Maybe "readiness" is quite a flexible category? You're mid-training for your next model; a rival releases something; you clear the boards and release the model without completing the training run?
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by dash2 2mo ago
Yes, 1 is 100% of 1, but doesn’t that simply mean they need a bigger sample?
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by dash2 2mo ago
“Stochastic parrot” is going to be the 2020s equivalent of the 1990s’ “end of history”.
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by dash2 2mo ago
“Stochastic parrot” is going to be the 2020s equivalent of the 1990s’ “end of history”.
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by dash2 2mo ago
I like this because it levels the spying gap between the US and China. With Red the CIA can probably penetrate some Chinese government sites.
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by dash2 2mo ago
If most readers of danluu don’t find that, then yes!
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by dash2 2mo ago
What is the evidence that makes you think so?
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by dash2 2mo ago
> The problem is the lack of proper sexual education in schools and open dialogue in society because we're limited by Christian taboos to only ever mentioning abstinence until marriage, so porn becomes the only way men learn about s
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by dash2 2mo ago
Stephen Wolfram has just lost his wife. I'd like to assume the poster did not know that.
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by dash2 2mo ago
I'm fine with regulating AI. I'd note that saying something in a poll is cheap talk whereas paying 20$ a month is not. But I can understand e.g. that people may derive value from their cars, whilst simultaneously being concerned a
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by dash2 2mo ago
This seems like the right place to put https://youtu.be/KfWyo2mqXnw?si=EeYGdpA2BJ_xOzLi
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by dash2 2mo ago
Really? "The benefit to all of humanity from advances in mathematics outweighs the lost jobs of research mathematicians". That's an insane take?
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by dash2 2mo ago
I think it’s widely accepted that most things are bought because they satisfy people’s needs or wants. Sure, there are exceptions, like drugs or gambling. Is there any reason to think AI is one of them?
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by dash2 2mo ago
You'd need this argument to be a lot more concrete as to why AI is like gambling.
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by dash2 2mo ago
If it doesn't help average people, why do millions of them pay for it?
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by dash2 2mo ago
The first link is very sloppy and doesn't actually explain why the "certificate" proves anything about the sphere packing. Or if it did, I couldn't understand it.
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by dash2 2mo ago
It sounds like you think no technological advances will make the world richer in the long run. I politely suggest that the past century of economic growth shows problems with this argument. I also think that, while jobs are important for pr
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by dash2 2mo ago
I find this whole way of looking at things weird. Did maths exist just to entertain and employ mathematicians? Surely maths is, like, useful? Not immediately, not predictably, but in the long run? In which case, whether mathematicians feel

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