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by directevolve 11mo ago
The practice of effective altruism, as distinct from the EA movement, is good for our culture. If you have a lot of money or talent, please think critically about how to leverage it efficiently to make the world a better place. Doing that d
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by directevolve 11mo ago
There are explanations for the equal happiness stats other than the validity of IQ tests. People’s top goal might be something other than happiness. Happiness and other goals might trade off. Happiness reports may be relative to an expected
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by directevolve 1y ago
We should factor medical tasks into a larger number of specialized roles akin to phlebotomists and dental techs. These roles should perform highly in-demand, relatively straightforward and repetitive tasks that don’t require complex medical
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by directevolve 1y ago
I make 1-2 flash cards on the topic and main advance of papers I read. It’s a nice sweet spot, and I find that I retain much more than what’s on the cards. Without them, I forget the whole thing.
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by directevolve 1y ago
Lack of understanding would mean you haven’t decided meaning from the words on the page. He gives the example of memorizing a German textbook without speaking German. Memorization without learning means that you don’t know the relationships
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by directevolve 1y ago
Does insincerity, cruelty, unfriendliness, and impatience make a community less likely to be a cult?
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by directevolve 1y ago
It depends. If I was also trying to invent a lightbulb, or maybe develop new materials for you to try as filament, I might be very interested to know what you’ve already tried.
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by directevolve 1y ago
Updates as marketing? Makes sense, but not well-executed by OP. The update titles are good, but try focusing on the feature, not the “toil.” If I’m using your product and want the feature, you’re telling me what I already know. Keep text to
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by directevolve 1y ago
Conservatives don’t seem happier than liberals. I’m quite confident the conservatives I know are fairly unhappy and unstable people, so is there a population of well-adjusted conservatives I never meet, or is this self-report bias? I’m wait
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by directevolve 1y ago
What HN has for the rationalist movement isn’t just annoyance - it’s deep contempt and hatred.
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by directevolve 1y ago
True, but then terrorists need to have access to AI bombs, drones and AI targeting systems.
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by directevolve 1y ago
Counterpoints and questions: - Non-wired drones can be jammed. It’s early days for building defenses against these attacks. - Non-state actors have far less access to the sophisticated intelligence needed to strike hard targets or secure ag
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by directevolve 1y ago
For me, the keys are: Break down tasks into micro-tasks. Doesn’t have to be written down. Get my body involved. Take handwritten notes when reading. Create micro-deadlines. Have short meetings with colleagues to share progress. Inject mini-
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by directevolve 1y ago
The article’s not titled precisely - it’s specifically about LLM disasters, not AI disasters in general.
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by directevolve 1y ago
One option is to put your thoughts down in great detail on paper, then feed it into AI and ask it to design you a slideshow with text and suggestions for visuals.
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by directevolve 1y ago
The reason we use animal models is that we don’t know enough about animal biology to be confident we can simulate it accurately. However, computational tools that help biologists “replace, reduce, and refine” animal experiments are helpful.
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by directevolve 1y ago
It’s not “group blame” - it’s accurately naming the specific wealthy people who put this kleptocrat in office for a tax break.
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by directevolve 1y ago
I did this for a summer in a beautiful spot in rural Oregon as I was contemplating a career change, living out of my Prius compact. It was a special time, though not something I would do long term.
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by directevolve 1y ago
Why do you think there’s an ethical problem with this type of blood transfusion?
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by directevolve 1y ago
They can’t be fired, but if they stop bringing in grants, they can face steep pay cuts and lab closure.
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by directevolve 1y ago
Interesting, what type of dev work do you do? Performance does vary widely across languages and domains.
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by directevolve 1y ago
We’re already heading toward the sigmoid plateau. The GPT 3 to 4 shift was massive. Nothing since had touched that. I could easily go back to the models I was using 1-2 years ago with little impact on my work. I don’t use RAG, and have no d
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by directevolve 1y ago
You definitely don’t have the intelligence of the entire human race on Claude. You have a generative model of most of the published, digitized text the human race has produced. I’m happy to call it intelligent, and, as a daily user of the m
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by directevolve 1y ago
For fast, physically intuitive, flow-of-thought expression, there’s nothing like pen and paper, for me. I throw away almost all my handwritten notes, because of the downsides: illegibility, unsearchability, physical bulk. But the qualitativ
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by directevolve 1y ago
I live in Portland. Walk around certain neighborhoods, and you’ll see items out on the street - mostly garbage. Broken couches, broken tables, broken appliances, that sort of thing. Typically, items with remaining utility are exchanged via
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by directevolve 1y ago
> I expect the system will only catch a small fraction of the cheating that occurs. The main kind of cheating we need them to prevent is effective cheating - the kind that can meaningfully improve the cheater's score. Requiring ch
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by directevolve 1y ago
You can try to pull them out, but they’ll hop back in. At least in my family, having been severely abused as a child appears to have been the major risk factor for growing up into a conspiratorial adult. And no wonder. However, asking quest
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by directevolve 1y ago
If a kid achieves a great 8th grade test score at age 18, is that a success or a failure of the system? What we care about is the level of achievement by a given age. To determine that, we need to be comparing states using standardized test
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by directevolve 1y ago
Doctors were using Google to diagnose patients before. The thing is, it's still the doctor delivering the diagnosis, the doctor writing the prescription, and the doctor billing insurance. Unless and until patients or hospitals are will
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by directevolve 1y ago
> As a result, there is no risk to any sexual or urinary functionalities. You can say "based on [X], we believe the risk of [Y] is insignificant." Saying there is "no risk" is far too sweeping a claim given the level

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