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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Pursuit of the truth can also be a distraction from what’s actually truly happening in this moment. Emotions aren’t arbitrary — they contain immense amounts of information. I’ve found that “controlling” emotions doesn’t work for me. What wo
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Amazing! You’ve solved it. We need to get some journalists on the phone.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
A “referral bonus” or such would do the trick.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Yeah it’s a way to feel like making progress without doing the hard work of practicing and developing your skills. Easy trap to fall into. With most hobbies, a beginner will benefit far more from just doing projects / practicing than b
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
The downvotes are probably because of the framing of DEI as “pork”. You are surprised people disagree about what qualifies as government waste? I find that surprising :)
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
My brother works in a grocery warehouse in CA. Their union seems very seniority focused. He’s worried about being laid off but doesn’t want to look for a new job as he said his seniority clock would start over at the new place.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Fair enough, although I’d say it’s rare to need 100% determinism. The reliability of models on longer, more complex chains of reasoning is the biggest issue with the current gen AI wave, in my view. Very interested to see how and if this ch
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
I think the sentiment was common across the board, e.g. business, academia, and so on, not just in personal computing.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
The words aren’t the problem, it’s the authenticity of the speaker. Which is why marketing sucks. The person is literally being paid to say the words. As fake as it gets.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Contrary to some of the comments here, I found the article quite interesting. It, along with a paper it links to, describes a very cool study of rapid speciation (over a few generations) observed in the wild. Nice to see the guardian actual
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
I don’t think this is a real concern. Regular people living their lives like to make arbitrary changes to their houses, which is why HOA rules are contentious. Regular people aren’t paid to advertise as they go about their day. It’s not ver
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
One could argue the chaos and uncertainty from upending his currently functional administration is not worth the upsides, while allowing for a natural transition via the standard election and end of term process is worth it.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Getting the eyeballs correct will correlate with other very useful improvements. They won’t train a better model just for that reason. It will just happen along the way as they seek to broadly improve performance and usefulness.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Math is one of the least specific fields of all… I’m struggling to think of a field that is more general. Information theory? Oh wait, that’s a sub-field of math. Communications? Eh it’s pretty general but math has it beat handily I think.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
That sounds very interesting, can you provide any more details?
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
How does one cheat at the SAT? I get that there is a huge cottage industry of SAT prep, and while a little bit analogous, it definitely isn’t the same as cheating.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
I’m sure he cares very little what you think he should do.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
SC?
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Beautiful comment, thank you for sharing
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Uh, laws exist?
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
> LLM performance is plateauing It’s a wee bit early to call this. Let’s see what the top labs release in the next year or two, yeah? GPT-4 was released only 15 months ago, which was about 3 years after GPT-3 was released. These things d
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
I’m sorry your friends and family look down on you for expressing joy. If I was guessing, they don’t actually disrespect you less. They are actually jealous, but don’t feel comfortable expressing their own joy, so they take it out on you, t
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
This is the way. Far easier to understand (and maintain!) than any of the other examples. Temporary variables are abstractions, must use them with care.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Interesting analysis, makes sense. I wonder how we should account for the “pre-built” knowledge that is transferred to a newborn genetically and from the environment at conception and during gestation. Of course things like epi-genetics als
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
This doesn’t match my experience of the world. Also, who gives a fuck if someone else looks down on you for being happy? Let them wallow in their own misery and judgment. You don’t need their approval. Live for yourself and not for others.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Going back to the root comment of this thread… Most of the guests on Dwarkesh’s podcast are working full-time in the industry, many of them in extremely senior.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
There'll be a lot more once it is actually possible and economical to put it in space.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Hey, I’m only saying this on the off chance that it is helpful. I’m not sure if you are aware, but your question comes off as a little aggressive. Partly because it’s such a diversion from the topic on hand. In my experience, such diversion
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
I don’t think this is correct. Most of the stars we see in the night sky are close by in our neighborhood of the Milky Way. Being in the void between galaxies, there wouldn’t be many neighboring stars close to the orphan stars. This would m
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
With edibles, taking the right dosage is notoriously difficult. They are very prone to accidental over-consumption (e.g. becoming "higher" than desired). The feedback loop is very slow. It can easily take 30-60 minutes after inges

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