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by ftxbro 3y ago
I still try to use + but I guess that hasn't worked since before Google Plus. I never thought I'd want altavista back.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
This is an ad by a company that sells billing systems. This is what ads look like now.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
probably they just read the title and thought it was an interesting question so they upvoted
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by ftxbro 3y ago
i just thought it was funny that their opinion was in their facts section
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> I think developing AI for diplomacy would be a better net use of resources for humanity they did it! https://ai.meta.com/research/cicero/diplomacy/
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> 4.3. Facts § > - NixOS / Guix are doing it right in my opinion
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by ftxbro 3y ago
this is peak hacker news 'solve human conflict by using technology'
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by ftxbro 3y ago
it's like asking why farm simulator hasn't replaced real farm
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by ftxbro 3y ago
bernie: "workers should reap ..." capitalism: let me stop you right there boss
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by ftxbro 3y ago
roman empire is interesting because it almost seems like they could have done the industrial revolution more than a thousand years earlier than it happened irl Edit: other interesting ones like this are Song dynasty in China, and Islamic go
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by ftxbro 3y ago
we got so much garbage on the moon it look like mount everest up there smh
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by ftxbro 3y ago
when you see the taklamakan desert on the map for the first time, and you are a tolkien nerd so you think it looks like mordor
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin considered much of the data and equipment on the LCS proprietary — a problem that the GAO has identified throughout the military. As a result, only their employees were allowed to do certain repairs
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by ftxbro 3y ago
i wonder does the mother get any phenotype if she has a lot of dna in her bloodstream that has too many chromosomes
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by ftxbro 3y ago
it's only a model
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by ftxbro 3y ago
tfw a connotation is more powerful than a definition
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by ftxbro 3y ago
Yes those are good analogies, but I don't know the name for the general idea. Probably it's the same phenomenon that makes some people refuse on principle to discuss anything involving a hypothetical or counterfactual premise.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
Some people will keep saying it even after the jobs have been 'taken away'. Also it's hard to objectively say that a job was taken away by AI except in some edge cases. If one person in an apartment can be a whole tech compan
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by ftxbro 3y ago
In the near or medium future they will screen/crispr the germline so no one will ever have it. Yes it's eugenics but it will happen. Edit: the ones downvoting me is it because you don't think it will happen, or because you do
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> Readers of this Substack will know I am not exactly a conservative. His substack: Why is the leader of the UK Labour party so untrustworthy? Proportional representation just isn’t worth the hassle. Universities should dis
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by ftxbro 3y ago
the new algorithms are llms, and llms have intuition
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by ftxbro 3y ago
This is wrong because skills are correlated. People who are good at things are usually good at a lot of things. Also 'correlation' is a term of art in statistics that doesn't mean 'exactly equal 100% of the time'.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
me after thirty years in school
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by ftxbro 3y ago
yikes we got some pitchforks in this comment section
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> I would have done it the other way around - connected Excel to the data output by the model so the "city teams" could continue to use real excel. Yeah except: “When you click in the cells of the spreadsheet you can see the fo
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by ftxbro 3y ago
This kind of title is one that causes normal people to have contempt for science as an institution.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
Most people will never agree that an AI system is conscious, as a matter of principle.
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by ftxbro 3y ago
this is just a brag
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by ftxbro 3y ago
I heard this is also why people started saying 'space' instead of 'market'
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by ftxbro 3y ago
Misaligned!

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