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by fwipsy 3mo ago
No, we're not talking about defunding engineering degrees. We're talking about defunding (mostly) liberal arts degrees whose economic value, at least, does not justify their cost. If those few liberal arts degrees you took in co
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by fwipsy 3mo ago
Individuals may rationally avoid the downside risk of a college degree, even if the expected value is positive. As a toy example, suppose college costs $200k and increases lifetime earnings by $2m 90% of the time, or by $0 10% of the time.
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by fwipsy 3mo ago
I think certain titles do well because they become a sort of unintentional clickbait. I absolutely expected this to be about marine biology. The original title, "World's First Undersea Roundabout," is much clearer. </
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by fwipsy 3mo ago
This is also a straw-man. You don't just need to establish that students should learn history, literature, etc -- you need to establish that 12 years of that is not enough, and they need to take an additional 4 years at a much higher c
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by fwipsy 3mo ago
I agree with the value of studying arts, social sciences, etc. But why should taxpayers cover that? There are lots of online courses which could provide the same education for free. Community colleges also show that it's possible to pr
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by fwipsy 3mo ago
Now this is an unserious comment, just throwing insults without explaining your reasoning at all. Do you believe that AI itself is worthless? Or that it's just incapable of causing harm? Do you resent the safeguards placed on AI becaus
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by fwipsy 3mo ago
I'm not seeing any claims to exclusivity. I'm seeing people actively encouraging more people to enter the field of AI safety/security and openness to robust debate, etc. I agree that there seems to be a huge problem with valu
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by fwipsy 3mo ago
Please don't confuse AI researchers and AI safety researchers (although there is some overlap.) That's like confusing the people from the Manhattan project with the people who protested 3 Mile Island, because they're both foc
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by fwipsy 3mo ago
I remember thinking exactly the same thing around 5-7 years ago, in the GPT-2/GPT-3 era. "Oh sure they can produce semi-coherent output, but truly intelligent behavior is still far away. This isn't science fiction, they'
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by fwipsy 3mo ago
I was really curious about it - looks like the extra drive slots are NOT wired to the GPU's VRAM, they're just using PCIE bifurcation to free up some extra lanes for people who plug an x8 GPU into an x16 slot.
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by fwipsy 3mo ago
I don't think parent commenter means tech in the modern sense. Seems like they're describing a transition to democracy which started centuries ago, not decades.
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by fwipsy 3mo ago
Does it have to be DDR5? Is the limit RAM speed, or SSD speed?
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
Yeah I remember kid pix! All the computer labs in school had it.
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
People who grow up using these sorts of bespoke software are gonna have some pretty weird nostalgia. "Hey when you were a toddler did you ever play with a paint app where the fill tool created flashing swirly patterns? ...no?"
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
Neat project. I just wrapped up a somewhat similar, but very limited project to rip assets from Multimedia Fusion 1.5 (.cca) files. I'll throw it up on Github one of these days... The writeup and even your comment also scan as AI-writt
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
"That we have rules for the inclusion of material does not mean Wikipedians have no respect for truth and accuracy." Verifiable, in addition to accurate. Not "not accurate."
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
> Wikipedia editors are just Reddit mods with delusions of grandeur Reddit mods act on their own discretion most of the time, unless they attract the attention of Reddit admins or staff. Anyone can edit Wikipedia and the editing/mod
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
The point of Wikipedia is to be accurate, not complete. Wikipedia does not want to just trust the developers of $ObscureLang to maintain their own wikipedia page. So, the existence of the $ObscureLang page (and, in the aggregate, many simil
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
"Aren't those dead as dodos, by virtue of not having any customer to pay the bill ?" Not if they're building inverting ovens for another big corporation. If you do one truly worthwhile thing better than everyone else, do
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
Did this actually happen? That's pretty wholesome lmao.
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
Scientists and the government were also unaware of vaccine side effects. These vaccine injuries and deaths were also unintentional. "Living one's normal life" seems to unreasonably privilege the status quo. I am sure many dru
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
If someone refuses a vaccine and then passes on a virus to someone else, who dies, isn't that morally equivalent to "forcing" a vaccine on someone, who then dies? Your argument seems to be "people who choose to put other
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
Just because you survived it doesn't mean that it's "not real harm." I am sympathetic to privacy concerns, but the downsides also need to be taken seriously and mitigated where it's possible to do so without critica
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
This reactor was decommissioned in 1994. Since we're discussing the safety of 30-year-old reactors, it seems to me to be appropriate to compare to 30-year-old alternatives.
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
The Chinese ecosystem has not caught up; in fact, it's falling further behind, due to export restrictions on semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Even if America sold China all the chips Nvidia wants to, the CCP would still develop c
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
Funny coincidence, I just read this morning about how the risk of cancer from radiation is massively exaggerated[1]. I'm not convinced that the overall health risk from nuclear power is worse than the health risk from coal plants. [1]
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
Decommissioned, not abandoned. I imagine in order to offer it as a filming site, they need to make sure it's still safe.
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
Fudging benchmarks is a cheap way to get attention. If the model is really that good, it will have plenty of attention soon enough.
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
Thanks, corrected.
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by fwipsy 4mo ago
The article mentions: > But I think they've decided that this is a price worth paying, because: > a) They've done even worse things since Wynn-Williams parted ways with the company; and > b) They're laying off thousa

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