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by eru 8d ago
Throughput-wise, they can. Latency-wise, you are right.
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by eru 8d ago
That's website is a great showcase of how to lie with statistics. That very first image uses a different inflation indices for each of the two lines in the graph. They also only post pictures without linking to sources.
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by eru 8d ago
Yes. Unless you have a lawyer or doctor on standby, you have to make the decision whether to contact them. And by definition you have to make that choice without professional help. LLMs can help with that. I don't think they are wor
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by eru 8d ago
> AI is not going to replace layers billing big corporate clients millions a month, [...] On the margin, AI will drop these guys' billable hours.
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by eru 8d ago
> In my experience, it is incredibly hard, practically impossible, to find a lawyer who will even talk to you. Really? I find them quite talkative. But I'm not sure what kinds of questions you are pestering them with? In any case,
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by eru 8d ago
Is that based on personal experience, or just anecdata?
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by eru 8d ago
> There is a reason why interns are made to do grunt work. The "chain of command" is built so they learn on basic stuff, learn to make decisions, etc. Without these basic decisions under their belt, an intern can't take bi
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by eru 8d ago
You can scold Claude. Just doesn't make a difference.
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by eru 8d ago
Yes, but empirically in this case, it seems to be true.
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by eru 8d ago
Yes. And it might not even be worth it, as the AI agents gets cheaper and cheaper. Keep in mind that the task is fixed, so as the frontier of AI advances, you can switch to a cheaper trailing edge system and still get the same or even bette
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by eru 8d ago
Complete speculation: you could instruct Claude to hide one random mistake in every document. And Claude should write down the mistake in a sealed envelope, so it doesn't make into the database. A review that doesn't find the mist
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by eru 8d ago
Agreed. However: That's a factor of 3 to 5 improvement reported on here. If you keep stacking these kinds of improvements, you end up at month to minutes pretty quickly.
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by eru 8d ago
In Singapore we don't have all that many fatal car accidents. More of the damage comes from all of the ways we arrange our lives so that we don't get hit by cars. Eg we don't let the kids out to play in the streets anymore.
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by eru 8d ago
> I don’t think it means the model has internalised the meaning of it (as witness when you talk to an llm how often it forgets what you recently told it was important etc). Humans forget stuff all the time anyway. Would you give them th
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by eru 8d ago
> 1. People will publish so much frontier mathematics, humans won't be able to understand it all That already happened before AI. > 2. Frontier mathematics will all be kept secret Gauss kept lots of frontier mathematics in his dr
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by eru 8d ago
> You may not agree, but some people will argue that knowledge is worth accumulating in itself. Granted for the sake of argument. But our AI overlords are really good at accumulating that knowledge, and very patient in explaining it to
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by eru 8d ago
That's an empirical question. And you also need to justify why your country in particular should finance that. For the kind of research where benefits accrue to the inventor (or her employer) and others can be excluded so that the ben
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by eru 8d ago
Thanks for explaining. Covid was special. We also rented a shop house at the height of Covid (late 2020) and paid as much per square metre as we previously had paid for HDB.
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by eru 8d ago
And a lot closer to the capitalist side than eg Germany or the US.
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by eru 8d ago
We already do something like that: we allow around 1 million cars on the island (with around 6 million people living here). We auction off the rights to operate one of these 1 million cars for ten years at a time (you still need to buy you
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by eru 8d ago
Potential, sure. Is it likely? No. Singapore does pretty well with the CoE system and congestion charge. And eg cars used for Grab and trucks and busses are also privately owned.
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by eru 8d ago
Actually, pretty much all land is owned by the government in Singapore, and leased out for about 30 years for commercial property or up to 99 years for residential property.
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by eru 8d ago
I guess that's a choice you made when you selected that place?
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by eru 8d ago
Singapore is actually pretty good about congestion, what with CoE and congestion charges.
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by eru 8d ago
Humidity is usually between 60% to 70%. Where do you get your 90% figure from?
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by eru 8d ago
I'm not sure that's a good lens to look through: the total number of cars in Singapore is fixed, and ownership cost adjusts (via the CoE auction) to balance supply and demand. So there's no drop in total car ownership to expl
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by eru 8d ago
> Are taxis exempt, but car-sharing like Grab not exempt? Yes!
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by eru 8d ago
The rules differ between Grab (our local Uber-lookalike) and traditional taxis. They are less strict for the latter.
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by eru 8d ago
> Also, COE wasn’t always $100K, many people are still on legacy COE when it was $30-$50K What vintage was that?
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by eru 8d ago
Yes. And the Uber-like services and traditional taxis also need to bid for CoE. I never had a problem with the driver's music in Singapore: usually they just play the bland local radio, or you can ask them to turn it off. Smell: some

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