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by dmos62 1y ago
Sovereign debtors also knew that them being part of the Eurozone gave them better borrowing rates because creditors perceived Eurozone as low risk. Both the creditors and the debtors believed that they won't chaotically default because
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by dmos62 1y ago
How do you tell how much a topic is being flagged? Don't flagged posts disappear?
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Greece underreported its debt until 2009: i.e. it borrowed too much while lying about how much it's already borrowed. That's the main difference between Greece on the one hand and Italy, Portugal on the other, in my eyes. Italy an
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How is democracy subjective? Because most democracy is indirect?
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Sounds like the guy felt threatened by your business and insecure about his.
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What is unlearning? Is it the removal of knowledge from a trained model?
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That's an admirably down to earth explanation. The only thing I disagree with is that I'd love to hear beyond the human hearing range!
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by dmos62 1y ago
Really cool. Wish I could see more of the system log messages, that's the most interesting part to me. Tangential: do you have insights into viability of mini automated anti-drone turrets? Something you'd place on a truck or pull
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By that logic, all technology that is misused is "a scourge". Metal and plastic technologies build weapons, computer technology controls bombs, pharmaceutical technologies make addictive drugs, food technologies contribute to diab
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Thank you for the chuckle.
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> methane-powered sea spiders on the ocean floor Most steam-punk phrase I've heard in a good while.
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Why do you say that? I generally just sit there alone, listening to music and observing inner processes. There are some other commenters on here that seem to implicitly be talking about what I'd consider hero doses. I don't need h
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by dmos62 1y ago
Might be true for some, but I had a long series of bad experiences when I was a teenager (tension and paranoia), was convinced that it wasn't for me, and only in my 30s I started having very profound and positive experiences. Now I onl
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by dmos62 1y ago
Some countries (Germany, Holland) have (or had ~5 years ago when I was interested in this) legal analogues of LSD that are produced and sold in a fully regulated, safe, precise manner.
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Are you implying that the ban has something to do with blandness and conformity?
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If you obfuscate the naming, you obfuscate the value proposition, and people become easier to mislead into choosing an overly expensive model. Same as with Intel CPUs, or many many other hardware products.
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I did. I initially said that Europeans often struggle to understand other cultures too. Which was an immature way to point out that the cultural dissonance works both ways. I realized that I was obfuscating my point and rewrote my comment t
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by dmos62 1y ago
It is fairly common to struggle to understand why different cultures think the way they do.
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My definition of thinking tends towards functionality rather than mechanics too. I would summarize my experience with LLMs by saying that they think, but a bit differently, for some definition of "a bit".
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Would it be thinking if the brain was modeled in a more "accurate" way? Does this set of criteria for thinkingness come from whether or not the underlying machinery resembles what the corresponding machinery in humans looks like u
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What's your approach?
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We'll be smart enough by the time we get it.
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What would be the goal?
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> how to build systems where the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts A bit tangential, but I look at programming as inherently being that. Every task I try to break down into some smaller tasks that together accomplish something mo
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I misspoke, the right comparison was between it and a commercial automatic hydrometer. Thank you for the sanity check.
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iSpindel is cheaper than a manual hydrometer and it's automatic (and thus safer for the cultures). If you don't want to track/collect data about the fermentation or whatever, then don't, but many find it practical and pl
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I use Breathly. It's great visually and audibly. And, you can use a custom timing. It also has a few other presets, including box breathing. And, it keeps the screen on, though I wish it would work when my android is locked (in my pock
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Interesting point. Then today it could be "@Meta shut [...]".
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The punctuation in "Meta: shut down [...]" implies that meta is saying "shut down". It should be a comma, as in "Meta, shut down your [...]".
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I have many times thought about how scars and tattoos have a lot of similarities. From a certain perspective, a tattoo is simply a bit more intentional. A tattoo is like saying, "I belong to this group and it shows". I think of an

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