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by ftxbro 3y ago
wait isn't that the point of fake it until you make it though
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by ftxbro 3y ago
yeah nothing weird about these LLMs at all
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "democratizing generating BS" I feel like this meaning of 'democratizing' is jumping the shark. Did that word always mean this? Is it going to keep meaning it?
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by ftxbro 3y ago
yeah i wont be impressed by ai until it comes and breaks down my door, pulls me out of my chair, and kicks my own ass
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "The MIT License (Expat) Copyright (c) Poop Contributors Permission is hereby granted..."
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by ftxbro 3y ago
So this post is marked as having been posted 2 hours ago and I definitely posted it way longer ago than that so it must have got into the recirculation queue. I guess the mods thought you guys would like daggers lol. Anyway the original con
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by ftxbro 3y ago
I'm always skeptical of so many stories like 'chess help x' because it's very easy to believe it's true but I also could believe it never helps objectively. I'm curious of the studies.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
you don't have to believe me
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by ftxbro 3y ago
I get this concept on the level of "we don't like when our army is stabbed with pointy swords even though our army is itself equipped with the very same pointy swords" but the word 'shady' is funny to me in this con
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Pigeonhole Principle(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ftxbro 3y ago|0 comments
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Normal Number(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by ftxbro 3y ago|0 comments
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by ftxbro 3y ago
In this quintessential hacker news post and discussion we see: eating the onion anecdotes of having the same idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "It's funny that instead of admitting that the UN chief made a troubling statement, you're blaming a third party" Oh I fully admit that the UN chief made a troubling statement. I found the statement very troubling,
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by ftxbro 3y ago
usa was literally putting backdoors into nist crypto protocol standards and these chips are called shady because they are from china
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by ftxbro 3y ago
So the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company CEO is leading the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference. His latest suggestion on fossil fuels is that there is no problem until you burn them, and he suggests that whoever burns them could just capture al
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Ringwoodite(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "Four accounts were supposedly those of female environmental workers from the US who were living in the UAE. Their profile pictures were described as ‘impossibly sultry’." The profile images in the guardian article are hilari
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Army of fake social media accounts defend UAE presidency of climate summit(theguardian.com)
4 points by ftxbro 3y ago|2 comments
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by ftxbro 3y ago
I don't necessarily disagree. But maybe the AP headline should have been more like "UN chief loses composure in the face of absurd proposal by oil industry executive in high stakes energy and climate debate."
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "Uh... they're both from the UN." 'the UN guy' is the secretary-general of the United Nations, the chief administrative officer of the United Nations. 'the fuel industry guy' is https://en.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "Why are fossil fuels a problem absent the emissions?" They aren't. The problem is that the fuel industry guy was suggesting to burn the fossil fuels and then recover every emission. That's not something that makes
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by ftxbro 3y ago
If you read the context, that UN chief got trolled and lost his cool. An oil executive is planned to chair this year’s international climate talks in Dubai, and this executive suggested that fossil fuel firms can keep up production if they
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> > "“The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions,” Guterres said, a nod to recent comments made by Sultan al-Jaber, the United Arab Emirates official who will lead the next U.N. climate summit. “It’s fossil fuels – period.”&
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by ftxbro 3y ago
I'm not an expert but my impression of the issue is like we are headed to (1) no matter what and they are trying to say that if we keep digging up and burning coal and venting or burning natural gas then we are in danger of reaching (2
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by ftxbro 3y ago
not while their gpu drivers still have dead loop https://youtu.be/Mr0rWJhv9jU?t=320
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by ftxbro 3y ago
I wish climate change news would make some effort to distinguish among the following levels of climate change outcomes: 1) the change would mean we have to change our way of life in some way like wear more sunscreen and not eat cows anymore
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by ftxbro 3y ago
The Heavy Press Program of the cold war could be used as a model for public funding of Large Language Models that exceed human levels of performance on evaluations and tests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Press_Pro
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Heavy Press Program(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by ftxbro 3y ago|0 comments
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by ftxbro 3y ago
So that was the MIT press release for the opinion piece. The actual opinion piece is here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh4451
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by ftxbro 3y ago
tbh sounds like skill issue to me. seriously though we will express our humanity by getting our eyeballs scanned by worldcoin. robots don't have eyeballs. checkmate.

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