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by futureshock 2y ago
It’s absolutely temporary, but 4 years feels like an eternity in this field and the m sure the major players would love to have that much time to entrench themselves before they have to battle “AI ban” legislation.
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by futureshock 2y ago
This is speculation because I don’t think any of the key players ever explicitly stated this is their strategy, but this year it feels like there’s some significant foot dragging on things like Sora and GPT-5. The big AI players really don’
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by futureshock 2y ago
I think it’s similar to nukes. It all boils down to game theory. If AGI is within reach, the first country to get it will have a giant economic and military advantage. All other countries will either have to develop their own AGI or ally wi
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by futureshock 2y ago
We don’t work on GMOs, so I haven’t seen any direct research on the topic. I’m guessing it mirrors antivax sentiment though where people on the political extremes are likely to agree with each other but for different reasons.
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by futureshock 2y ago
In marketing and policy advocacy, root psychological causes are not something that we tend to be very interested in. It’s a very behaviorist field.
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by futureshock 2y ago
Yes, this is exactly why climate is such a hard sell to conservatives. The carbon dioxide is not itself toxic (at least not for another century). I think the strongest conservative argument, and the one that I think has already taken root a
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by futureshock 2y ago
Truly, no one was saying this except for obviously wrong people. In 2007 the first iPhone was borderline magic. The core of the user experience has not changed because it never needed to change. They 100% nailed the UX on the first try. Eve
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by futureshock 2y ago
I work for an environmental protection nonprofit and we have done research on which arguments work on people across the political spectrum. People on the left are more easily convinced by scientific studies and by the idea that nature has a
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by futureshock 2y ago
While this is oft repeated, it’s not very relevant. First of all, some weight is kept off, which is a huge win. Secondly, the drug can be taken again. Thirdly, it will be a second chance for millions at a heather lifestyle. Once you get so
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by futureshock 2y ago
This seems like a feature that the Apple Vision Pro should have launched with. If you try to use it on a train, your virtual screens will fly away from the accelerometer input. And while this sounds super socially awkward at the moment, ima
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by futureshock 2y ago
Curious to hear your story. Why take the risk of going to Ukraine? How long did you go for? How much did the war impact your visit?
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by futureshock 2y ago
Imagine a transatlantic Zoom call off your laptop camera and home wifi. Not great. I have seen this Portal in person.
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by futureshock 2y ago
We have one in Lublin, PL for the past several years. I’m not sure if ours will be moved or if they are building a new pair. There’s no audio. Webcam quality isn’t a pretty bad, maybe 720p with lots of compression artifacts. It’s not a 4k s
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by futureshock 2y ago
It’s because the photos are of an existing Portal installation in Lublin, Poland and Vilnius, Lithuania. Lublin is my city and this thing has been running for a few years now. Everyone loves waving at it and seeing if anyone on the other si
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by futureshock 2y ago
That’s not a terrible guess. Together they own 56% of the voting shares and maintain control of the company. A divided puts money in their pocket without needing to sell any of their class B 10x voting shares.
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by futureshock 2y ago
Benchmarks are tricky because it all depends on workload and use case. If you are in a VR headset for example, it’s all about power envelope and GPU flops. If you are in a Desktop used for productivity it might be all about peak CPU perfor
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by futureshock 2y ago
Comments about the marketing driven nm measurements aside, this still looks like another solid advance for TSMC. They are already significantly ahead of Samsung and Intel on transistor density. TSMC is at 197 MTr/mm2 wile Samsung is at
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by futureshock 2y ago
Totally. And it’s interesting to consider what Elo a human would have, if there was some way to account for the extra latency without unblinding the test. I suspect a human control would not be a lot higher ranked. For the most part top LLM
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by futureshock 2y ago
People love this benchmark. And it has a solid idea behind it, but it also seems like it would be trivial to game since it relies on public “blind” rankings. All the models need for an advantage is just to sound more personal and confident
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by futureshock 2y ago
I commented to my partner that it feels like these things will be hunting us down soon. He commented that drones are already hunting people down on the battlefield today. Touché.
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by futureshock 2y ago
It’s unclear to me if people use Uber eats for places like pizza that already specialize in delivery. I know I wouldn’t, but I do use them for lots of other restaurants that don’t do delivery.
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by futureshock 2y ago
> Upscaling for gaming or video. > Already exists on all three major GPU manufacturers, and it definitely makes sense as a GPU workload. These AMD chips are APUs that are often the only GPU, not every user will have a dedicated GPU.
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by futureshock 2y ago
I mean it seems a lot better than driving to get takeout while drunk or high. Seems like a real improvement on the past.
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by futureshock 2y ago
Upscaling for gaming or video. Local context aware search Offline Speech to text and TTS Offline generation of clip art or stock images for document editing Offline LLM that can work with your documents as context and access application and
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by futureshock 2y ago
Seems like a solid business opportunity. Put a good supply of seed on ice, insure it, get the snip, then live carefree till you decide it’s time for children. Sex in the 21st century seems too risky to leave things to chance.
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by futureshock 3y ago
And that would be perfect if you only have to go in once a week. Many of my coworkers are in that situation and had been commuting 4 hours round trip for years before the pandemic.
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by futureshock 3y ago
This one weird trick!
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by futureshock 3y ago
I believe I read it on one of those little plaques describing the painting in a museum. I suppose everything was made up by someone though, including the time when Picasso made up these paintings.
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by futureshock 3y ago
Oh I do believe he thought that! He had this style of portrait he liked to do of women and their distorted faces. It seems so surreal and imaginative, but in a way, it’s not at all. Picasso painted exactly what he saw in bed with these wome
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by futureshock 3y ago
I think that’s incorrect. octopi have camouflage because of natural selection. Incentives are things that humans create, intentionally or unintentionally. There are the selection pressure of the human cultural world but they are the opposit

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