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by feoren 3y ago
> I also had a restaurant charge my debit card for my bill and another customer's bill (honest mistake, not fraud). The restaurant wouldn't refund the transaction, I know this wasn't the point of your story, but refusing t
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by feoren 3y ago
> We live in times were non-problems are turned into problems. This is exactly what everyone who benefits from the status quo always says. > Most software engineers and CEOs are white and male 55% of Software Engineers are white; 80%
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by feoren 3y ago
> You're trying very hard to justify this with a very limited use case A very limited use case? These are cherry-picked examples. I'm responding to the specific cherry-picking they're doing. > This universe, in which th
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by feoren 3y ago
People are not understanding what Gemini is for . This is partly Google's fault, of course. But clearly historical accuracy is not the point of generative AI (or at least this particular model). If you want an accurate picture of th
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by feoren 3y ago
I was going to say the same thing: this sounds just like early Markov N-gram generators.
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by feoren 3y ago
> because they were used in inputs, the whole model is infringing That is a nonsense argument on its face, but: > because the model can be coerced into producing a copyrighted output That is an extremely good argument. In fact it&#x27
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by feoren 3y ago
I use boring architectures: JS/TS hitting a single C# server hitting a single database. I have had to (and gotten the opportunity to) learn about: - Environmental chemistry - Mass balance simulations - Wastewater treatment processes -
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by feoren 3y ago
100% agree in principle, but the unfortunate answer to your question is: because the people who already own everything won't allow that to happen. Or, at least, not without a huge fight.
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by feoren 3y ago
> the computer can prove it easily just by counting a finite number of bits Did you miss the infinite sum there? How would you prove an infinite sum equals a transcendental number by counting finite bits? You'd have to count infini
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by feoren 3y ago
Because the vast majority of people are neither Elon haters nor Elon simps. They're just people doing what they were already doing because changing habits is hard and there's no easy alternative.
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by feoren 3y ago
I am absolutely not comparing AGI to sewing machines and cars. I am comparing ChatGPT and Sora to sewing machines and cars. My claim is that these are incredibly disruptive technologies to a limited scope. ChatGPT and SORA are closer to s
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by feoren 3y ago
I'm sure people felt similarly when the first sewing machines were invented. And of course, sewing machines did completely irreversibly change the course of humanity and altered (and even destroyed) many lives. But ultimately, most hum
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by feoren 3y ago
> We could as well say that proton has 3 and electron is -3 charge? Absolutely! In fact that would have been much more convenient, since the "quantum of charge" appears to be 1/3 of the charge of the proton. All units of c
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by feoren 3y ago
No. These are not numbers physicists just pulled out of their asses. You act like the mathematical model could have been anything else. That's not just wrong, but decidedly anti-science. We can test your theory: if the entire purpose o
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by feoren 3y ago
> The fact that it refers to proton decay ... You don't need spontaneous proton decay for the answer to work, just positron emission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission
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by feoren 3y ago
"Decay" is an unfortunate historical word for what are essentially bidirectional pathways between groups of particles. It usually just means "transform". We know a proton can transform into a neutron, positron, and (elec
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by feoren 3y ago
> Thank goodness I'm not inebriated near an all-night tattoo parlor. Speaking of brand new sentences ...
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by feoren 3y ago
> It is not exactly a "hit piece" but it is in fact, a disagreement with one side trying to settle the matter as an authority. Those are different worlds. The latter is someone arguing in good faith, albeit wrongly and stubborn
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by feoren 3y ago
Can you give a single example of the oddly scare-quoted "medical profession" soliciting a hit piece on anything, ever?
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by feoren 3y ago
> Rather than just trying various policies in simulation, we argue about them dogmatically until the end of time. That may be because what people argue about is very often not what they actually care about, because what they care abo
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by feoren 3y ago
Yikes, that is a terrible ratio. A single emission source is considered an "insignificant" CO2 emitter if it emits less than 100,000 metric tons of CO2 per year. People don't realize just how much CO2 is being emitted; it&#x2
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by feoren 3y ago
Has anyone else experienced that perverse incentives are extremely hard to get anyone to listen to you about? I find myself saying the words "but then people will be incentivized to ..." surprisingly often, and it's almost
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by feoren 3y ago
I think the possible outcomes of climate change (especially if we continue on our current trend) are unthinkably catastrophic, at worst including the potential deaths of a significant percentage of humanity. But there's still an enorm
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by feoren 3y ago
Saying "it's not too late to do something " is more likely to effect change than saying "it's too late, climate change already happened, we're all fucked, good bye." I think you agree with GP here.
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by feoren 3y ago
Other benefits of reporting it, other than insurance, is that it makes these kinds of statistics more accurate, and that in the unlikely event that they "accidentally" solve the case, it'll be easier for you to get your stuff
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by feoren 3y ago
That sounds like a feel-good system that would be very difficult to implement in practice. It's very different for different kinds of crimes, and nitpicking over level of victimhood is not something the law seems very concerned about.
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by feoren 3y ago
You're missing a 4th group: people who would enjoy watching content X, but simply won't bother if it's too annoying. The alternative isn't piracy, it's just doing something else with your time. There's not tha
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by feoren 3y ago
Lots of others have addressed the fact that Humans did in fact teach each other how to raise kids, but there's another point not yet addressed: why are you assuming parents haven't been terrible for millions of years? Raising
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by feoren 3y ago
Which part is not how life works? Quick Google searches say that the average lifetime expense for a dog is $20k to $55k; for a child it's $240k. I'm sure these numbers could be argued endlessly, but the rough order of magnitude is
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by feoren 3y ago
You're being condescending, telling me to "learn the theory". We've clearly had different experiences and work with different kinds of systems. You're automatically discounting what I say by assuming I must be a new

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