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by derektank 3mo ago
>European countries didn’t flip some magic switch where they saved a bunch of money by just “cutting out the profit.” They sort of have with pharmaceuticals (which to be clear is only maybe 10-15% of overall healthcare spending) by havin
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by derektank 3mo ago
Yeah, I'm not sure about the efficacy of those, my understanding is that blocking blue and green light is more important than exposure to red light, but not an expert. I do still use my phone, and more importantly for me my computer, b
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by derektank 3mo ago
I wouldn’t say cutting out all caffeine is conventional wisdom. Every sleep specialist (sample size of 3) I have spoken to has basically said, while they don't recommend caffeine, if you only drink it early in the day it’s probably fin
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by derektank 3mo ago
I have had a similar experience. I would find my sleep schedule constantly drifting later and later, which made it harder to wake up in the morning, so I would self medicate with caffeine which made me anxious, which contributed to the same
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Attending department faculty meetings
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Data centers pay taxes don’t they? That money presumably goes into funding government services which would necessarily raise the local GDP
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The electricity supply is probably a lot less elastic than the gas and oil supply at this point. Also, there’s no global price of electricity like there (more or less) is for oil. Residents suffer a localized cost when a large electricity c
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by derektank 3mo ago
Atomization of the individual seems much more driven by a cultural valorization of liberalism and personal freedom than market dynamics per se. If the individual is free to act on their own, without obligation to their family or higher soci
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by derektank 3mo ago
>It suggests someone is a little more comfortable with their own thoughts Maybe. There’s been a significant backlash against popular fiction authors for writing in anything but the first person, single fixed POV recently which sort of su
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By vastly more complex problems, I think the parent is referring to engineering problems, not mathematical problems. And in this case quantity has a quality all its own. Yes, 1000 people in a bunker could in theory do the calculations neces
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by derektank 3mo ago
I understand that lifting heavy isn’t an option for everybody, but why would you buy this suit instead of just increasing resistance/weight? It sounds like that would have basically the same effect.
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by derektank 3mo ago
Every time I read stories about people trying to optimize their social lives, I get the distinct sense that it’s a zero sum game they (and necessarily we, as part of the same society) are all playing, not a positive sum one. Violating norms
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by derektank 3mo ago
As someone who has gone in to doctors for issues with fatigue, it’s incredibly draining (both emotionally and financially) to be batted around between a PCP and specialists that are unable to provide you with a diagnosis. I don’t blame anyo
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There are tradeoffs to make between those six items. Money spent on stable housing is money not spent on safe drinking water is money not spent on education. There is a limited amount of money spent on charitable giving every year, and we o
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by derektank 3mo ago
I don’t agree with Doctorow on this point, but there’s nothing inherently unreasonable about predicting an economic phenomenon is a bubble and having to wait several years to be proven correct. Michael Burry first purchased credit default s
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by derektank 3mo ago
You think someone should be made a permanent pariah for suggesting medical gloves be manufactured in Malaysia or Thailand, rather than the US? Why?
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To be maximally charitable, while creating large language models has been ruled to be transformative and thus fair use under current copyright law, Anthropic did separately violate copyright law when procuring copyrighted text from LibGen a
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by derektank 3mo ago
>My critique of the EA community is that it’s myopic and unregularized. If you really think AGI is make-or-break for civilization, it’s completely rational to deprioritize side bets. I’d be curious to hear you expand on this. What binds
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by derektank 3mo ago
As early as the late 19th century, Louis Pasteur’s work had inspired a belief in the scientific community that it must, in principle be possible to selectively exterminate bacteria. The German physician Paul Ehrlich expounded on this in gre
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by derektank 3mo ago
>Reject the false and self-serving narratives that empathy doesn't matter, that altruism isn't "effective". You can change a person's whole life in a moment. You can change more people’s lives, more substantially
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Exactly. Central Europe is one of the most densely populated regions on the planet outside of Asia. High population density makes fiber more economical, and low population density, the inverse. As other la have pointed out, India actually h
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by derektank 3mo ago
>they aren't obligated to open them up when they no longer feel it's worth supporting them. Creating a legal obligation to release the weights of discontinued models doesn’t seem absurd. These models are built on existing publi
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by derektank 3mo ago
Presumably, a “Stop Killing AI” movement, mirroring the Stop Killing Games movement, would require a provider that revokes access a previously available model to make it open weights at the time of death.
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>In the airline industry big airlines don’t go everywhere for this reasons but small local airlines fill the gap due to market opportunity. You’re not wrong, but small and rural airports would not be able to maintain even these routes wi
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Yeah, Frederick the Great is the closest thing I can think of to a European analogue to Lee Kwan Yew. Maybe Napoleon to a lesser extent.
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This is strong “criticism of the man in the arena” energy on my part, but I’m kind of disappointed the text just wipes across, rather than the ink sort of “emerging” from the page like in the movie, with the heavier parts of the font appear
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by derektank 3mo ago
Incidentally, have any of the major AI provider's solved this problem for voice chats yet? It feels like even something like a simple keyword like “stop” would make having a conversation with an LLM a much better experience than a chat
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> The B2B SaaS Consultant patron saint: Matt Yglesias AI will quietly boost total factor productivity by some single-digit percentage and you think that's actually a huge deal, wonkily speaking. You're bullish in a spreadsheet
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If I had to guess, this is also the appeal of many video games.
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He’s involved in the effective altruism movement and Hollywood AI policy

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