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by dash2 3mo ago
Yeah, as a scientist I can read most Science or Nature articles in most fields, and get a rough idea. Not every piece of jargon, but I can understand roughly what they did, read the graphs and figure out the result. A friend sent me his mat
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by dash2 3mo ago
Compute would have to be very expensive not to be cheaper than a junior lawyer.
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by dash2 3mo ago
In Amodei’s Dwarkesh podcast he says that they are constantly estimating the increase in demand for the next leg up, then going out to raise money to build for it. So it’s not necessarily that they are raising money because they are unprofi
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by dash2 3mo ago
I think the feminine rhyme sounds unintentionally comic.
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by dash2 3mo ago
> Checking out a parallel copy of our Go repository and telling the AI to rewrite the whole thing in Zig while I work on something else just so I can keep my job. > Was it just sales fluff? The answer was a lot more interesting.... Ex
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by dash2 3mo ago
The difference is that a tax can be per-item, and doesn't need as much regulatory and legal machinery.
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by dash2 3mo ago
Fair enough, but now I would "solve for the equilibrium" and assume that any large clothing company will have a friendly charity to reject its clothes for it.
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by dash2 3mo ago
I don't think the government knows if a given random IP connection has kids, or is you.
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by dash2 3mo ago
> And the moment that happens, Taiwan will instantly vote to rejoin china. Sounds inflammatory, and also extremely unlikely and has no evidence for it, and also the hyperlinked article, that is supposed to back it up, absolutely does not
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by dash2 3mo ago
You're assuming there is such a price! Charity shops throw out the majority of clothes they are given: some things just will never sell.[1] [1] https://theclothingbank.org.uk/what-happens-to-the-clothes-y...
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by dash2 3mo ago
Obviously if the government knew that you had no kids, they wouldn't need to check it. How do you propose they find out, without asking you to prove it?
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by dash2 3mo ago
If you can't sell clothes to anyone, then it may be more socially efficient to destroy them than (a) keep them in a warehouse or (b) ship them overseas. Both (a) and (b) can have substantial environmental costs. I don't think it s
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by dash2 3mo ago
A tax would also promote recycling, since that would avoid the tax?
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by dash2 3mo ago
How do we know that Chinese models would not do the same? What makes you so sure that China is less likely to abuse my data?
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by dash2 3mo ago
I don't understand the force of that argument. Where is the "so" coming from?
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by dash2 3mo ago
I don’t understand why they would ban this rather than charge for it. It seems very likely that destroying unsold clothes is sometimes the socially efficient thing to do, even after taking into account the environmental externalities.
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by dash2 3mo ago
I think the children alone are enough of an explanation…
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by dash2 3mo ago
I keep hearing this but lots of maths problems are practically important! We want to know the answer because it will be useful for applied science, or statistics, or engineering. It’s not all just about knowledge for its own sake.
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by dash2 3mo ago
Wouldn’t solutions be in the training data? The game is quite old.
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by dash2 3mo ago
It seems unusually tone deaf to call it a place for writers, and then let AI write the blurb.
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by dash2 3mo ago
I mean did the locals think of the two species as separate? If not then the discovery of a separate species is what’s important, not the knowledge of the physical population. Or was the population previously unknown to researchers?
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by dash2 3mo ago
Honour is not the relevant point. What's relevant is that breaking your TOS would give many large individual companies (a) a clear case to sue you and make a lot of money (b) a reason to avoid using you ever again, because who wants th
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by dash2 3mo ago
But a smallish firm could?
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by dash2 3mo ago
A game rather like this is described in Gwen Raverat’s Edwardian memoir, Period Piece. There you have to keep finding new words one letter longer, and they get ridiculous combos like TRUMPET, STRUMPET, (thou) TRUMPETST, STRUMPETST…
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by dash2 3mo ago
This is beyond silly. The guy who wrote Down and Out… and Road to Wigan Pier, and actually fought fascists in Spain, couldn’t imagine proles as anything but brainless subhumans? Orwell in 1948 didn’t predict computers? Have I been trolled?
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by dash2 3mo ago
By this logic we should also enjoy every time someone puts a motorway through woodland. Just look at the human achievement embodied in all that concrete!
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by dash2 3mo ago
Maybe handcuffs, hee hee
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by dash2 3mo ago
What would be different in developing countries?
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by dash2 3mo ago
You are mistaken and gp is correct: civil disobedience is usually thought of as done in public. "My conscience tells me it's fine to steal from this rich bastard because property is theft" is not civil disobedience.
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by dash2 3mo ago
We can look this up empirically: https://ourworldindata.org/trust . It shows US is a medium-high trust society; lower than parts of Europe, and lower than China (assuming people answered honestly there!) but higher than most

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