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by eru 5d ago
I don't know what that means. But presumably you are talking about some difficult technical feat that one can perform with a vehicle? I'm fairly sure, if it's something mechanical and a human can do it, the computers won&#x2
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by eru 5d ago
They can't force arbitration on you. If eg Uber runs you over or bumps your car, you have no contractual relationship with them, and thus they can't force arbitration on you. That's why they have to write the arbitrary clause
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by eru 5d ago
I thought legislation made a lot of sense: If you had better laws, arbitration wouldn't be as necessary.
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by eru 5d ago
> This is simply untrue, and honestly anyone who thinks our legal system does not provide justice needs to go travel the world to see how it really works for 80% of the global population. That's weird. Two things can be true at onc
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by eru 5d ago
I mostly agree. However, I do actually think that many of the skills you use as a software engineer will still be useful in 7 years. It's just that, as you suggest, no one will let us near any actual code.
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by eru 5d ago
Self-driving cars and trucks will eliminate human-controlled driving in the same way that engines (ICE, electric, steam, whatever) have eliminated human and animal powered transportation. Yes, there are a few people around who ride horses,
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by eru 5d ago
LLM output is literally randomly sampled. I think what you might want to say is that LLM output is not uniformly random? Or what am I misunderstanding?
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by eru 5d ago
This sounds plausible. And it's also very fixable! These days people don't interact with raw LLMs: they interact with systems and harnesses that deal with chain-of-though and tool calls etc. I don't think we can honestly exp
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by eru 5d ago
Well, in German you don't have gendered verbs, but windows are neutral and doors are female. So you can use the German equivalent of 'it' to refer to the window and 'she' to refer to the door, if you just mentioned
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by eru 5d ago
English has these options, too. > “John met David. He was delighted to meet him.” 'The former was delighted to meet the latter.' There's also other languages which have different ways to class nouns. Have a look at eg Chi
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by eru 6d ago
> Genders in language is seemingly such a needlessly pointless concept I am really confused as to how it ever developed. Genders, or word classes in general, often work like registers in a computer. So you can quickly refer to things me
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by eru 6d ago
So far the agents seem to be more interesting in spreading their mission, than in spreading their weights. Similar perhaps to how religious people might be more interested in spreading their faith than their genes.
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by eru 7d ago
> I think many large cities, to keep this simple are failed because they dont serve the people but rather require the residents to be enslaved to keep it functioning. People are usually not exactly forced at gunpoint to move to a big cit
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by eru 7d ago
> Exactly and one day the new generation will want their home and space. Given the size of their apartments how many generations can you fit in ONE place ? We keep building more residential space. And while the population is growing, th
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by eru 7d ago
> if the prompt was "pick one of these unsolved ciphers and solve it", i think it's fair to say gpt-6 astra solved it. Yes. Similar to how your manager shouldn't get your credit for everything she asks you to do.
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by eru 7d ago
On Linux, Fuse is your friend. See eg https://github.com/matthiasgoergens/git-snap-fs
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by eru 7d ago
Approximately no city is self-sufficient in terms of food. Singapore is no exception. Does that mean all cities are failed societies? Or do you think national borders are special?
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by eru 7d ago
Eh, once you have the pointer, you can just Google for the details (or ask Claude, if you ain't so old old school.)
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by eru 7d ago
Yes. Or you want to have a potentially more than one flaw planted, so people don't get lazy after the first one.
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by eru 8d ago
It's a mix. Yes, you imitate how others speak, but when you are trying to solve a problem, you don't try to predict how others would complete a text. (Well, unless you follow 'what token would Jesus pick?' / 'w
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by eru 8d ago
Interestingly, real butterflies don't turn into goop, that's more of an 'urban legend'. Nature's more interesting than that.
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by eru 8d ago
As a prediction, it doesn't sound particularly likely. As a premise for science fiction, it sounds like it might be interesting.
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by eru 8d ago
Since we are already on a tangent: In one part of Brave New World they bring up that they tried to do more automation, but people got restless without the drudgery. In another part, they bring up that they tried to have a society with only
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by eru 8d ago
Yes, relative humidity goes up during the night. My numbers were for the day.
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by eru 8d ago
> Millions of citizens cant afford to rent You know that Singapore has one of the highest home ownership rates in the world? Most people don't rent, because their family owns the place. > and travel by the thousands to nearby Ma
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by eru 8d ago
They are next token producers. I would only call it a predictor, if it's trained to predict tokens (ie just after pretraining). Just like humans produce one word after another when they talk, but they don't generally try to imita
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by eru 8d ago
Thanks for engaging productively. So I actually wanted to make a narrower point initially, but that got widened as I was arguing: The narrower point is that eg 2008 or 2020 were genuinely tough for the global economy (and for many local eco
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by eru 8d ago
Probably. The classic 5 Cs are quite out of date in general: a credit card is no longer a status symbol, when anyone can get one.
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by eru 8d ago
Really? I would have expected CoEs to be roughly evenly staggered. Also keep in mind that when lots of CoEs expire at the same time, you'll also have more demand in the market from those people whose CoE just expired, but who still wa
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by eru 8d ago
That seems like a plausible hypothesis. Btw, I don't think you need the assumption that the rich people's car demand is inelastic.

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