datsci_est_2015

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by datsci_est_2015 17d ago
E.g. the concepts of “keystone species”, or even just the concept of a “species” in general is a lot more gray and continuous than something computationally tractable.
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by datsci_est_2015 18d ago
> It sounds like you're arguing for a human being to die to preserve a human being to blame. God I hate technocracy. There’s a reason we elect politicians and not technologists who think everything is simple and we just aren’t makin
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by datsci_est_2015 18d ago
Ah yes, I believe one of those models was called the Strawman Model, generated by Elliot F. Strawman during his tenure at MIT. He was forced into retirement due to his deep embarrassment over his model’s inaccuracies. Anyway, Illinois is ab
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by datsci_est_2015 18d ago
As someone with a scientific background, and the word scientist in my title I guess this comes as a “no duh” to me. Prior art is table stakes. There should be nothing more embarrassing to a researcher than learning that they’ve failed to re
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by datsci_est_2015 18d ago
“Who to blame” turns out to be one of the most important facets of humanity, and it turns out we structure our entire society around it: assigning liability and pursuing justice. That’s not something that can be handwaved away to technocrat
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by datsci_est_2015 20d ago
> If you won't try and understand why people are the way they are, and instead are going with "they're all too stupid to know they're being fooled, unlike me" Unfortunately, being more aware than - and immune to
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by datsci_est_2015 21d ago
Just use git add -p and review your code as you place it into staged-for-commit. Your colleagues will thank you for proofreading the slop before pushing it and opening a PR. Only add files after you’ve read them one-by-one as well. git add
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by datsci_est_2015 21d ago
When you vaguepost, you shouldn't be surprised when you receive follow-up comments asking for clarification, which was what I was doing. The most charitable interpretation, as another commenter noted, was that you were essentially sayi
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by datsci_est_2015 21d ago
What’s the implication here? Trump actually isn’t corrupt? Or Biden was actually secretly as corrupt as Trump is? Or more generally, the current state of affairs is somehow justifiable?
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by datsci_est_2015 22d ago
It always comes back to taste. It’s not that they’re incapable of creativity, it’s that LLM-driven creativity is terrible, and nothing makes me cringe more than when it uses a word in a “novel” way. But monkeys-with-typewriters, they someti
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by datsci_est_2015 24d ago
This cuts both ways: you can interpret any word to be whatever you want and thus have linguistically correct criticisms for predictions that are functionally useless.
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by datsci_est_2015 24d ago
> If AI turns out to be a short-lived fad, a bubble that pops and we all laugh at in a few year's time I think you can be even more precise here, because “AI” can be a wild success, and the Anthropic and OpenAI product strategy can
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by datsci_est_2015 25d ago
> You would think at a minimum AA would want to hire a journalist or similar simply to shadow him for a year, get him to dictate everything (so that he has to do as little extra effort as possible), and publish a sort-of manual from the
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by datsci_est_2015 29d ago
100%. Literally just started writing a sentence in my previous comment and realized I was using a “It’s not X, it’s Y” (not verbatim) rhetorical structure and cringed internally.
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by datsci_est_2015 29d ago
Literally the purpose of the House of Representatives, if I understand correctly. So it requires a critical mass of very local reps to care about executive accountability. Which is exactly why Project 2025 / Trumpism plays the endorsem
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
> cash-pay clinic I’ve never heard of this. Private practice? If so, count your blessings until they get hoovered up by PE and quadruple their prices overnight.
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
> Gambling has regulations all the companies have to abide by. Social media and content platforms have nothing like that. Ah, then I’m sure Meta will be quite happy to support legislation that requires a message to be displayed every tim
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
The truly heinous stuff is usually green users, at least.
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
Already succeeded in the US. Now it’s a project of whether it can be used to maintain power. Right wing populist movements ebb and flow quite readily: - ebb: people realize that promises of change are empty and only enrich the few elite
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
Related, this result on statistics comprehension is another stepping stone on my path away from believing in technocracy - a journey I’ve been on for the past 10 years and have felt more passionately about over the past 2 years. I was recen
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
Doesn’t sound like it leaves much room for error. How do you address PR / MR comments? Force push?
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
Well are we talking about commits pre- or post-merge? I don’t care how many commits you put into the PR / MR as long as they squash down to a single commit upon merge.
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
Let us bow and pray to the LORD of technological progress, for HE, in all HIS infinite might and glory will save us. Sometimes shit just doesn't happen. To prime your brain for the empathy required, imagine the sensation that you feel
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
Which makes it all the more remarkable given the century+ headstart fossil fuels had in entrenching itself in our political process and power structures. Texas is doing something right, that’s for sure. But it’s not so clear what that thing
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
> It’s not a cabal of super geniuses. We are literally in the Wright Brothers era of AI. You can trivially outpace what big companies are doing it’s insane Not my core competence and I’m not interested in making it a core competence whil
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
> I have a design principles + tech preferences doc I force llms "lint" their approach against. It's not perfect but it helps. I’ve done the same but it’s a moving target as models advance and I find half of my points are
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
I’m reminded of the recent study claiming that British imperial activities had a negligible impact on the quality of life for non-elites, but was enormously enriching for the elites. Tough to take entirely seriously due to no perfect contro
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
Depends on your product strategy. If you only care about how your model will be used in the context of a harness (perhaps, specifically the harness that you designed), then the incentive is plainly there to optimize the weights within the c
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
Yeah I was thinking more on the scale of nation-state level actors. Most leaders would not consider a bio weapon due to potential blowback on their own population, as they generally don’t want to be the leader of a nation of corpses and ash
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by datsci_est_2015 1mo ago
Digression, but this is the real Great Filter imo, not AI. I think technology advances to a point where it only takes one or two bad actors to type the right prompt to get a recipe for civilization-destroying bioweapons before you get anywh

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