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931.
by eru 4mo ago
Seems like a non sequitur? If you want people to be able to live in a place without paying rent, please just outright gift that to them and make that official policy. That may or may not be good policy, but at least it's honest. But i
932.
by eru 4mo ago
Rents and housing prices went down a lot in Singapore during Covid. So them going up again afterwards is just a reversion to the mean.
933.
by eru 4mo ago
> Practically no one is against hard science research, properly conducted. As long as you do that with your own money (or money got freely given from other people), sure. If you use taxpayer money, that's a different game.
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by eru 4mo ago
I think even the benefit for the less fortunate here is at most a short-term one. In the longer one, you need building and renting out shelter to be reasonably profitable, so that people do it. It's basically the same argument that sa
935.
by eru 4mo ago
Well, the brightness of celestial objects is also sometimes negative: > The apparent magnitude of known objects can range from −26.832 for our Sun to about +31.5 for objects in deep space imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.[3] See htt
936.
by eru 4mo ago
> The important properties of the logarithm are structural: we usually do not care about units or bases, except when carrying out an actual numerical computation. Units are important as a sort-of type system, even at the conceptual level
937.
by eru 4mo ago
Another neat application, if a bit simplistic, are these mechanical paper computer that let you figure out your body-mass-index. They are basically two disks with logarithmic scales on them that you rotate relative to each other. Like a s
938.
by eru 4mo ago
Eh, you can't compress truly arbitrary data, sure. But you can compress almost any natural occurring data: reality is very sparse. For some reason.
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by eru 4mo ago
> If you use an LLM just to provide an estimation for the frequencies of tokens in an input data stream, [...] Why would you use an LLM for that? The whole point is to encode contextual probabilities. So basically: given this prefix of
940.
by eru 5mo ago
> Yes, Singapore is great for that. But to be fair with the other cities, it’s very hard _not_ to have abundant vegetation in tropical rainforest climate. Everything grows rapidly and stops at nothing in its way. Eh, have a look at other
941.
by eru 5mo ago
I can't see any trees from my window right now. But that's just because I'm in the groundfloor of a shophouse (in Singapore). Yes, it's pretty green here. Now, if we could ban street parking like Japan did [0], and perh
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by eru 5mo ago
I mostly agree, however: > But for long term archival fragile formats which depend on huge arbitrary extra knowledge isnt a good idea. This doesn't need to be a problem: you can and should layer an error correcting code on top.
943.
by eru 5mo ago
No, it's not for lossy compression only. An LLM can give you a probability distribution for the next token. You can pair that with arithmetic coding to get a lossless compression/decompression algorithm. See https://e
944.
by eru 5mo ago
No, LLMs only do this for language. They don't try to do this for arbitrary data.
945.
by eru 5mo ago
Humans do not have steel skin and can bleed.
946.
by eru 5mo ago
What about those societies that have traditionally replaced themselves via immigrants? Moving to a replacement via kids would be the change for them.
947.
by eru 5mo ago
In the case of Singapore it would be just the opposite: Singapore was and is build on the back of immigrants. Replacing ourselves with kids instead of immigrants would be the big change.
948.
by eru 5mo ago
Yes, some people are irrationally afraid of certain medical procedures.
949.
by eru 5mo ago
Or it could just be that someone vibe coded the worm, and vibe coding is relatively young.
950.
by eru 5mo ago
> Honestly, it's a bit horrifying because you are completely at the mercy of someone else but it's bearable. Probably not as horrifying as brain surgery or getting your eyes lasered.
951.
by eru 5mo ago
Well, there's a small chance anesthesia can affect you negatively. Like all medical interventions, it can have side effects.
952.
by eru 5mo ago
That's exactly why you write your own decision down, so other people don't have to live with making them for you.
953.
by eru 5mo ago
Vatican is the deadest of societies, I guess?
954.
by eru 5mo ago
Big layoffs make the news. Quiet incremental hiring doesn't. Overall employment is limited by how many people of working age there are in the economy. When tech employment grows faster than that population, the 'non-tech' s
955.
by eru 5mo ago
My point was that even with AI driven robots being weaker and slower, they can still kill us, if they are smart enough. > Servers in data centers are not that dangerous to people in the physical world. A stroke of a pen is plenty dangero
956.
by eru 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fer... suggests Chad and Somalia and DR Congo are the most vibrant societies by that metric. You might want to compare Singapore with a city like NYC or London,
957.
by eru 5mo ago
> It's the sort of thing that makes me wish my country was like China. PR China is still pretty poor (around 31k$ gdp per capita adjusted for purchasing power) and its growth has lost a bit of steam recently. You should wish your co
958.
by eru 5mo ago
Battle Royal is nothing. See https://ai.meta.com/research/cicero/diplomacy/
959.
by eru 5mo ago
Why wouldn't he just pay humans? And there's nothing to level up in Quake.
960.
by eru 5mo ago
Humans are slower and weaker than much of the megafauna we drove to extinction all over the world.

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