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by energy123 2mo ago
A similar thing is going to happen to young graduates and young scientists, or is already happening. Most new technical accomplishments are now devalued because they can plausibly be AI. There's an increasingly narrow path to establish
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by energy123 2mo ago
> I don’t think this comes from actual parents. The polling I have seen from Germany and Australia of a social media ban for children was quite in favor of it. Sentiment here on HN and on Reddit was the polar opposite. We are in a bubble
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by energy123 2mo ago
I see it as a strategy to increase capital costs for American frontier labs. By eroding the expected ROI of frontier labs, you deter private investment into them, which slows OpenAI and Anthropic in particular, giving space for the laggards
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by energy123 2mo ago
Can you explain why freelance writing and translation is being destroyed: > https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/publications/winners-and-l... Surely, AI helps them do stuff even cheaper, and cheap is good, so the
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by energy123 2mo ago
Can't it write `/tmp/test.sh` or `./test.sh` and execute it under my approach? This is what I've been doing as my status quo workflow with Codex, and I make sure I run Codex from a place where `.` happens to be a fo
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by energy123 2mo ago
Why not let it delete stuff in the current working folder and in tmp, but give it read-only access elsewhere?
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by energy123 2mo ago
Subheading and dot point spam, low density writing (the opposite of standard technical english), including useless detail (like enumerating stats on Shopify's scale), using contrastive parallelism, and other llm-isms. Even if it's
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by energy123 2mo ago
His rhetorical "Who could disagree that incentives causes bad behavior?" resolves, in reality, to a shockingly large number of real people. This is fundamentally why I do not share the author's gripe, even if it might be tech
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by energy123 2mo ago
It makes sense for China because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacca_dilemma The modern coal plants they're building support faster changes, and they have enough indigenous coal but they don't have gas.
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by energy123 2mo ago
I haven't read the paper but did they propose reduction in social anxiety/awkwardness associated with putting yourself as the center of attention when someone else is being much more visible and awkward in the same space?
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by energy123 2mo ago
Private sector gained jobs. Public sector lost more jobs than the private sector gained. News reports a negative number.
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by energy123 2mo ago
You can look at current levels, or look at trends. China has stopped increasing coal. They're building a small number of new coal plants, but this is outstripped by the coal plants being underutilized or decommissioned China is really
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by energy123 2mo ago
I don't have much to discuss about the movement (although I am sceptical due to the repeated historical pattern of Mensheviks making way for Bolsheviks), but the subject we are discussing are democratic socialist countries , not move
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by energy123 2mo ago
> Apple keyboards are near-horrific IMO I visited a mechanical keyboard shop, tried about 20 of them including low profile variants, then visited an Apple shop. Both shops allowed me to sit down and measure my typing speeds on a computer
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by energy123 2mo ago
The cognitive load of having to press two keys takes its toll and breaks flow, even though it doesn't seem like it should make a difference, at least in my experience. I'm back to TKL or larger.
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by energy123 2mo ago
Those would be social democracies.
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by energy123 2mo ago
From a profitable prediction markets trader: > "Prediction: in 1-2 years, almost everyone will agree that open sourcing the best AIs is totally crazy as the AIs become capable of autonomous hacking of most humans and institutions, s
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by energy123 2mo ago
I would argue we're crossed that point recently. This is a comment from twitter that I appreciated: > "Already, there are very few mathematicians qualified to verify OpenAI’s new results. As progress continues, that number will
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by energy123 2mo ago
What is the y-axis in this claim about logarithmic improvements? Any exponential curve can be trivially turned into a logarithmic and vice-versa, and the y-axis redefined as "progress", with no loss of accuracy. One example that a
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by energy123 2mo ago
The breakthroughs are coming from simple prompts, some made by people with no math training: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2580932-extremely-basic... The referenced Terence Tao chat did not lead to new breakthro
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by energy123 2mo ago
That's a false binary. The right binary is whether it's a convergent function or a divergent function. A sigmoid is convergent, which is not well substantiated and more farfetched than a divergent function, even if it's true
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by energy123 2mo ago
No they were not. These were his 5 predictions in 2022: """ 1. By 2029, AI will still be unable to watch a movie and accurately explain the characters, events, conflicts, and motivations. 2. By 2029, AI will still be unable t
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by energy123 2mo ago
SpaceX is selling compute to a willing buyer. You can't point to one side of the trade as evidence for under/over capacity. The way we usually judge such things is the price. If the price for compute is going up, which it is, then
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by energy123 2mo ago
> infrastructure that looks increasingly unneeded This is the crux that needs to be substantiated. Without substantiation none of your other arguments hold up.
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by energy123 2mo ago
Someone should have sent Claude's output, which spotted the trivial bug behind the recent bitcoin heist, to the Coldcard developers. It might be rude to send LLM output. It's also rude not to check basic things with an LLM before
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by energy123 2mo ago
IQ gets manually recalibrated downwards when people get stupider so it's mean 100 by construction.
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by energy123 2mo ago
More job opportunities due to better grades. It's not mutually exclusive with learning the material, it's just an additional bump.
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by energy123 2mo ago
In one of my college courses, 100% of my fellow students cheated, including me. This is when I learned that virtually every person is deep down a liar and a cheat if they think they won't face consequences and it's in their benefi
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by energy123 3mo ago
Countries compete for FDI but they also compete for labor. Canada has high taxes, high costs and lower opportunities. They deserve to lose talent to countries who offer them a better deal.
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by energy123 3mo ago
Many less important Erdos problems have been solved by amateurs prompting ChatGPT 5.{3,4,5,6} Pro using their $200 subscription.

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