eutropia

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by eutropia 6d ago
Right after hiring the CEO of character.ai as its new CTO.
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by eutropia 9d ago
standard israeli psyop tactic: use jewish people as human shields from criticism directed at the state of Israel by trying as hard as possible to conflate antisemitism with negative sentiment towards israel.
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by eutropia 10d ago
I'm super excited for all the people saying "lol just point it at a genai photo" to make a blog post later about how they successfully subverted this approach and fooled people into believing their image was verified without
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by eutropia 10d ago
I think the timestamp attestation of the digital negative puts a real hamper on this, because it puts a bounded time window on the photo as part of the cryptographic chain of evidence. So if you're the proud owner of "literally th
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by eutropia 16d ago
The UI looks fun but reminds me of the hours and hours I spent tweaking my linux distro as a younger nerd. It didn't help me get anything done, but it sure did look computery!
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by eutropia 18d ago
If pre-ipo marketing pushes them to train a model capable of resolving a millennium problem in mathematics in a weekend, then, to quote XKCD: "Mission. Fucking. Acccomplished." https://xkcd.com/810/
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by eutropia 24d ago
The mat is the objective (or at least distinct from your own personal judgement) measure of your goal. If your goal is important to you, an objective measure of your progress towards it is more valuable than your own flawed and biased opini
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by eutropia 24d ago
Do his predictions about the datacenters being a risky and unprofitable business suffer the same fate as the others?
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by eutropia 29d ago
I sighed at the pleasant but claude-looking design of the page. idk what's wrong with me. it's a good looking page but I just instantly didn't care the second I saw the close-to-solarized-light color scheme and the typography
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by eutropia 1mo ago
All the parasitic grifters founding these companies seem to be characterized by a uniform lack of human decency. if the best idea you can come up with for a company is is some variation exploiting humanity, you're not a visionary or an
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by eutropia 1mo ago
This is a modest start on an important direction for AI Alignment work; which is, as the authors observe, commonly comprised of tasks which are not readily empirically verifiable and not easily mathematically modeled - so it's hard to
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by eutropia 2mo ago
another firefox on linux user (cachyos), and it loaded up and worked flawlessly for me. anecdata!
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by eutropia 2mo ago
as someone with ADHD who always finished exams first or was the designated spokesperson for group presentations... I have no idea why you'd want to be taking a test a second longer than you already have to. Either you know the material
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by eutropia 2mo ago
Many people set their DNS to 1.1.1.1 -- would be easy for cloudflare to resolve any TLD it feels like
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by eutropia 2mo ago
the person cooking it is Kenji Lopez-Alt, who is an MIT graduate turned professional chef, and his wife is the one who's colombian. He's got several excellent cookbooks (like the Food Lab and Wok) and is a regular contributor to s
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by eutropia 2mo ago
Is there a reality in which a president can be held retroactively accountable for all the crimes and breaches of conduct while in office by a later administration? Because wow, the list of "crimes committed because you know you're
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by eutropia 3mo ago
nit: author lists their pronouns as they/she
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by eutropia 3mo ago
a good doorman would know this about you and tune your greeting into an acknowledgement of a subtle nod, I think
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by eutropia 3mo ago
They've got to find some way to afford those data centers, can you blame them?
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by eutropia 3mo ago
it's because sc2 is usually 1v1. and also it's a lot harder
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by eutropia 3mo ago
You're welcome to stop consuming the products of said "corrupt" science. You can start with clean air, water, and medicine...
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by eutropia 4mo ago
I wonder if they could have transferred it to a separate nonprofit, and then that nonprofit has no restrictions on whom it is transferred or sold to?
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by eutropia 4mo ago
What is run-rate revenue and how is it different than revenue (classic)?
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by eutropia 4mo ago
There are plenty of places to write systems code for a decent paycheck that aren't based in silicon valley or have a top20 web presence, and justine is definitely skilled enough to hold down one of those jobs. Is the ask here to donate
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by eutropia 4mo ago
Seems like a good reason to avoid ever transacting with this business.
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by eutropia 4mo ago
I think you'd still get fraud, for example I'm just imagining some reddit degens sharing the comprehension answers on a wiki or discord so people can skip the time commitment of reading the thing and instead grind as many as possi
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by eutropia 4mo ago
Colossal Biosciences and its goal of resurrecting extinct bird species "bird species"? C'mon. They want to do a Jurassic Park.
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by eutropia 5mo ago
I was surprised by how cleanly our results came together,” said Pan, a neuroimaging expert with the West China Hospital of Sichuan University and the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University in Australia. “We u
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by eutropia 5mo ago
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare... I do love the failure to hide the admin interface of the AI article generator, and the wide open seemingly firebase-style database giving complete edit history of all the AI-generated articles.
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by eutropia 5mo ago
If the AMOC is strong, then closing the strait would cause less fresh water to flow out of the Arctic Ocean and into the Atlantic, they found. That would help keep the North Atlantic salty and the AMOC stable. But if the AMOC is alread

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