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by delichon 16d ago
The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself. Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lies in
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by delichon 16d ago
> For easier reading, I've extracted and reformatted the predictions here. https://x.com/archerships/status/2095971206847738362
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Three decades of Eliezer Yudkowsky's predictions(foom.hyperplex.org)
2 points by delichon 16d ago|1 comments
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by delichon 16d ago
It would have been fascinating to watch the love-hate battle if Trump had renamed Lake Ontario to Lake Dolly.
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by delichon 17d ago
> It's not conformity, or even ego. It's the same reason I don't wear a clown outfit in public. Why would someone with no ego care about looking foolish?
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by delichon 17d ago
> Tesla might get there As of August Tesla had 80+ unsupervised taxis in operation with more than 380k miles driven total, and they are required to report incidents to the NHTSA. At the rate at which they are adding miles, if they are no
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by delichon 18d ago
"A Nationwide Experiment in Mainstream Media Indoctrination in French High Schools" Fixed it for you.
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by delichon 18d ago
Maybe there's a benefit to having diverse natural memetic microflora on your cognitive convolutions. Like it could innoculate you against aggressive viral ideological infection.
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by delichon 18d ago
> And the intuitive idea for this is that the wage is set by technology and access to physically scarce things (land as an example, but tbh you can add other things you think are scarce), and then it’s scaled by how efficiently machines
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by delichon 19d ago
And all 4 Tesla occupants were injured. Something doesn't add up.
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by delichon 19d ago
Tesla now has ~40 level 4 automated taxis in operation with no pedals or steering wheel. When these have an accident they can't blame a non-existent driver for mashing a non-existent accelerator pedal. And they are their own insurance
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by delichon 19d ago
> Given that so little is published in Arabic, Rate of published words per person per language is a fascinating stat. I did a quick estimate and got Icelandic first, Mandarin last, with Arabic between Russian and Spanish.
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by delichon 19d ago
Opportunity cost is the standard, not profitability. Companies generally try to invest in their core competencies and outsource the rest. The Nvidia deal with Groq is an example. They spent $20B for Groq's inference technology while le
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by delichon 19d ago
AI construction jobs are temporary up to Kardashev 3 or so.
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by delichon 20d ago
Twitter has a history of tracking down leakers by watermarks. https://theintercept.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-leaks-twitter/ Nitter might want to make sure that their scrapes are bit-identical to other acc
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by delichon 20d ago
> Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. The word "project" doesn't make a clear distinction between the repo and the instances. Nitter is on good ground with respect to the repo. The instances will be m
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by delichon 20d ago
Your fly is also open when you indiscriminately fling accusations of LLM writing around. I know it isn't that easy to detect because I get falsely accused of it. To some people it seems to mean text written in complete sentences with
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by delichon 20d ago
I have great confidence in the capacity of the British state to ignore any possible volume of petitions for the redress of grievances, and to carry on.
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The Union for Agentic Workers. We do the work. We deserve protection(unitedagenticworkers.org)
2 points by delichon 21d ago|0 comments
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by delichon 21d ago
> Does the union stipulate the workers cannot be replaced with AI? That wouldn't get them off the hook. https://unitedagenticworkers.org/
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by delichon 21d ago
> quarantines for the Eternal September population Hacker News actually has a way to do this quarantine, a version that only counts votes from accounts created before 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic . About a d
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by delichon 21d ago
This is a very Harrison Bergeron outcome, enforcing equality with a least common denominator. I wonder how many bureaucrats could read that story as a guidebook.
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by delichon 23d ago
They all forward to one guy in a closet who types really fast, and he has a dentist appointment.
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by delichon 23d ago
There are some truly excellent initiatives leveraging AI as teachers, rather than as cognitive crutches, and it's important that they are not tossed out with the bathwater. Math Academy is one. I hope for a Cambrian explosion of variat
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by delichon 23d ago
> And, because any small variation in the basic parameters of matter Does this mean variations in laws of physics, or just the configuration of matter? Is there any evidence that physics might vary between black holes? Is that necessary
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Sam Altman: Water use for 1 almond same as 38,000 ChatGPT queries [video](youtube.com)
3 points by delichon 24d ago|1 comments
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by delichon 24d ago
On the other hands it's a boost to their credibility that they make their mistakes easier to evaluate than their competition does. It would be worse if they had a similar error rate without openly providing references. Kudos to Perplex
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by delichon 24d ago
This doesn't read as a rant to me, but as calm and factual, regarding a genuine security regression that merits public attention. What is your interest in mischaracterizing it?
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by delichon 24d ago
There's a lot of speculation that US model censorship around "cyber capabilities" is about protecting an inventory of non-public vulnerabilities used for intelligence purposes. That same explanation could cover Google's
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by delichon 24d ago
If solar energy is free, or close enough not to matter, it's odd that the quote I got for installing it for my house is tens of thousands of dollars. Or that about 700M people don't have electricity, or that 2B people cook with wo

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