epistasis

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by epistasis 1mo ago
> Do you have kids? This right here, the absolutely preposterous idea that giving up kids is somehow climate action, is exactly the nonsense that a climate activist should never tolerate. You think climate action is everybody stopping ha
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by epistasis 1mo ago
The person I'm responding to is the one who brought it up. I live in a very leftist place, and there were always those at climate events demanding "strict vegan diets" however I didn't see these people out in the general
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by epistasis 1mo ago
> You're assuming that we keep the same system and that no sacrificing can be made. No. I am not. I'm saying that unless the incentive system is aligned with our goals, then it's not actually climate action. Technologists
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by epistasis 1mo ago
What you point out here is a major weakness in the typical US citizen's understanding of where US wealth and power comes from. The US prints two kinds of dollars, the regular kind, then the T-bills. T-bills get exchanged like dollars,
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by epistasis 1mo ago
Yes, policy does change things!! You give examples where a community got together, changed policy, affecting all of society. This is precisely the opposite of the disastrous 2020s action, which had no concrete policy demands, which leaned
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by epistasis 1mo ago
No it isn't, the idea that strict vegan diets would have stoped climate change is just nonsense. Run the numbers. "Strict vegan diets" is the attitude of US activists telling the developing world that they need to change thei
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by epistasis 1mo ago
It is quite ironic that capitalism and the profit motive are now the best hope for staving off climate change, all thanks to the technologists and entrepreneurs that have mad renewables and storage so cheap. The 2020s climate action movemen
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by epistasis 1mo ago
This is a very out of date option. Look at any recent data, and you'll find that renewables scale fantastically well, are super cheap, and even today as they are the cheapest source of energy, they continue to get cheaper. Meanwhile nu
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by epistasis 1mo ago
Yes, switching energy sources takes a while, but the energy system is being completely rebuilt anyway as equipment ages out, so you need to be continually doing this anyway. None of the actions that countries are taking to decouple from the
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by epistasis 1mo ago
Is it "level headed" to ignore the concerns of somebody pulling their gold out, even if they are a small country? Your figures do point out that the Netherlands's amount of gold is small, but it is not level headed to think t
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by epistasis 1mo ago
Argh, what I wrote was obviously wrong. What I meant was to refer to the simple n-state Markov models as used past decades. Anything that's sequential, like language is, will exhibit Markovian properties, and be somewhat a "Markov
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by epistasis 1mo ago
I wouldn't necessarily say that. Anybody who's playing a chess game is predicting their next move, whether or not they're inventing new moves. LLMs are not simple things like a Markov model, there's a lot going on in the
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by epistasis 1mo ago
Yep, I cut out Claude, and though ChatGPT seems less capable, at least I haven't had it decoherr into unintelligible babble that it can not explain. But the "open" models are right there too, and I'll be using them more
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by epistasis 1mo ago
A proxy only catches stuff going forward and it doesn't provide me chat search and chat viewing. What I'm doing instead: syncing coding agent sessions to a central backup location, and for cloud LLM chat providers I'm occasio
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by epistasis 1mo ago
The LLM produces a probability distribution over the likelihood of all possible next tokens. So whatever the tokens are, "ch", "ex", etc. the next one gets a probability. During training, real life text is fed through th
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by epistasis 1mo ago
This is very confused, first the world does not turn a blind eye, and by having US purchasers of these products the US is actually forcing a big change in the standards for the better due to purchasing power. In particular the US has avoide
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by epistasis 1mo ago
Sorry, how does running a local model hand over my data? You are very confused about the security and what can happen here.
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by epistasis 1mo ago
Post-IPO I'd trust the American models far far less than the Chinese models. The most insidious advertising in the world is about to be surfaced as people use LLMs to look for product recommendations.
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by epistasis 1mo ago
Or ready to get a divorce... The load-bearing seam of the relationship is affection versus annoyance.
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by epistasis 1mo ago
This is exactly true, I get annoyed by Claude one day and switch to something else, and the only thing that's ever keeping me tied towards Claude is the ability to search my old chats easily. But Claude also makes it really hard to do
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by epistasis 1mo ago
And just like that, plan cancelled same day. Started with Gemini Business, tried to get Gemini to tell me how to configure it, all the information was wrong. Tried to get it to tell me how to do the consumer Google One AI Pro or whatever (i
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by epistasis 1mo ago
> Conservatives will come out to say that you can't force JK Rowling to be pro (or even neutral) on the trans issue. "Come out and say" something completely uncontroversial and universally accepted? The idea that JK Rowlin
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by epistasis 1mo ago
Of all the days to sign up for Gemini, boy did I pick the right one! (Had some rare front end work to do and wanted to see how well the new Gemini 3.8 Flash compared to my other experiences)
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by epistasis 1mo ago
One of the best freedoms out there is freedom of association. I don't need to associate with people I don't like or find distasteful. I don't need to join hands with the Tankies. I don't need to read JK Rowling's wo
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by epistasis 1mo ago
Never believe the citations in Google summaries, I can count on a single hand the time I have found a correct citation. It's not 2/3 correct, it's <1% correct, in my experience. Maybe it's because I check things that
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by epistasis 1mo ago
I hit the safety feature when I ask something I saw that blocked other biologists: "why did the chicken cross the road?" Due to my standard cancer research work I'm blocked from Fable. That said, with how execrable all the 5
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by epistasis 1mo ago
There's a great visualization of this at 28:45 in this video (starting at 23:45 may give good context) https://youtu.be/QgH9sr7G13Q?is=aHe-eSHUkqQPNuJd I've been trying to bet my models to use a directory of notes
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by epistasis 1mo ago
I am filled with both a deep admiration and horror at this. It's shockingly impressive.
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by epistasis 1mo ago
The bipartisan opinion shift towards absolute hate for data centers was extremely fast. Just adding more fuel to one of the brightest fires out there in politics right now. Expect it to continue and grow as people feel even less heard, and
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De-slop the text you shouldn't be writing anyway(blog.stephenturner.us)
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