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by feoren 1y ago
The word "essential" is lifting your entire argument for you. If "essential" means whatever bdauvergne on Hacker News decides humans deserve to have in their lives, and nothing else, then sure, GPUs are non-essential. Bu
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by feoren 1y ago
> These tech stacks are mainstream because so many use them That's a tautology. No, those tech stacks are mainstream because it is easy to get something that looks OK up and running quickly. That's it. That's what makes a
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by feoren 1y ago
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by feoren 1y ago
Have you seen the list of books fascists want to ban? I think GP's point was exactly to emphasize that when we're talking about "dangerous books", we're talking about books that indicate you might not be a toe-linin
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by feoren 1y ago
You're giving company executives way too much credit in general. I'm sure there are unicorns out there where conscientious stewards of the company's long-term health are making measured, rational choices that may pay off in
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by feoren 1y ago
This ignores the obvious solution of not cutting all the way through. If every other radial cut is only through half the layers, you avoid making the inner pieces too small. It's funny how common it is for people to claim some sort of
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by feoren 1y ago
What makes you so confident that you can tell that a 3-line function is AI? Especially given that the author denies it, with evidence.
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by feoren 1y ago
We imagined a utopian future where robots did our menial work so we were free to be creative. Instead we got a dystopian future where we do more and more menial work so our robots can poorly emulate creativity. It's not too late to tur
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by feoren 1y ago
None of that is new, but there were ways for the genuinely new, inspired, and genius to actually shine through before. It was hard, but possible. Humanity is making decisions that make that even harder: AI music, Spotify's revenue mode
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by feoren 1y ago
Nobody "created" a narrative that blames the FDA. The FDA is factually complicit in these deaths. Three review teams and two senior officials voted unanimously against approval, but the (then) head of FDA's CBER was buddies w
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by feoren 1y ago
Can I take a guess and say that you and your colleagues are all pretty inexperienced? I'll wager less than 4 years experience max, working in a regimented structure, mostly closing tickets for well-understood features? Because I do not
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by feoren 1y ago
Yes, let's all just change our career specialty every time the fascist cultists set their goldfish-level attention on another anti-intellectual "evil" that some lead-poisoned radio personality told them to get their anger fi
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by feoren 1y ago
Yes, corruption pays. Although if "doing remarkably well" means being addicted to ketamine, having many exes and children who refuse to speak with you, tanking multiple businesses to the point that your products get sabotaged just
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by feoren 1y ago
"It's important that you must die, so that the rich can also die" -- you. Can you really not come up with better solutions to psychopaths having too much power than everyone must die ? One intuition pump that always works we
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by feoren 1y ago
Virtually every single advancement in science, engineering, and technology disproportionately benefits the wealthy, because they already own everything. That's a great reason to fight against the massive imbalance of wealth distributio
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by feoren 1y ago
> Whatever comes out of any LLM will directly depend on the data you feed it Right, and whatever comes out of Conway's Game of Life will directly depend on its initial setup as well. Show me a configuration of Conway's Game of
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by feoren 1y ago
I try not to litter. I even pick up litter when I see it. Does the existence of serial rapists mean I shouldn't bother? Should we never worry about moderating our own behavior if anyone else out there is worse?
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by feoren 1y ago
Ok, so you're agreeing that it is "plain racism". > A paper signed by someone in the government doesn’t make you Japanese. You claim that the government of Japan does not have the power to bestow citizenship on individuals
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by feoren 1y ago
You are assuming there is no such thing as emergent complexity. I would argue the opposite. I would argue that almost every researcher working on neural networks before ~2020 would be (and was) very surprised at what LLMs were able to becom
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by feoren 1y ago
> And yes, I know, not HN approved content Because you're holding back: "THIS" communicates that you strongly agree, but we the readers don't know why. You have some reason(s) for agreeing so strongly, so just tell us
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by feoren 1y ago
> Professors don't have managers. The dean of their department, and other administrative staff who don't have any clue what they do. Trust me that the clueless sociopathic administrative layer can absolutely interfere with prof
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by feoren 1y ago
The government is not allowed to build anything, because that would interfere with the rent-seeking of private entities. This is why Digital Services was destroyed by Musk.
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by feoren 1y ago
> I don’t know any group who intentionally acts against their interests. I do. I know a group of people that would happily let you shatter every window in their home if you also agreed to burn down the house of their brown-skinned neighb
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by feoren 1y ago
I'm impressed so much thought went into how to colorize the image! Sometimes it seems like space photos are just colorized thoughtlessly, or to increase the "wow" factor, so it's great to hear how careful and thoughtful
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by feoren 1y ago
No, discrete math is exactly the same regardless of your definition of "object". It is completely independent of that. Discrete math is important to any theoretical beings that have any concept of "objects" whatsoever.
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by feoren 1y ago
Despite the other comments, the landing spot is clearly the same as where it took off. Take a screenshot at 0:09 and one at 0:48 and you can see that it's most certainly the same pad. The camera has moved slightly to the left on the la
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by feoren 1y ago
> Then I became a manager So it bothered you when you had actual work to do, but once you moved to a position where everyone else was doing the actual work and you just sat around benefiting from their labor, you didn't mind minor i
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by feoren 1y ago
> r² is not useful People want so badly to have an "objective" measure of truth that they can just pump data into and get a numeric result that "doesn't lie". r², p < 0.05, χ2, etc. It's too far to say th
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by feoren 1y ago
It's pretty hard to imagine what an "uncountable group of points" could possibly be, or how anyone could ever test for the existence of such a thing, but we're talking about any possible universe so I can't exactl
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by feoren 1y ago
> "exactly like ours, except the truth of the continuum hypothesis is flipped" We can and do create two alternate models of math with CH and ~CH as axioms, in this universe, right now. No need for alternate universes. There&#x2

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