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by fwipsy 5mo ago
The base 14" m5 MacBook pro is $1700 with 16gb/1tb. The author's spec is $4300 - $2600 more. It depends on how often you use it (and your tolerance for slow inference) and whether you would have otherwise bought a higher spec
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
Disclaimer: didn't finish tfa, so obviously AI even I could tell. Perhaps OpenRouter can be used as a benchmark for commodity cost to serve AI. I keep hearing it's better value than Claude, which suggests to me that either Anthrop
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
It seems it's become fashionable these days to believe that happiness is impossible, or even non-existent; that all positive emotions are intrinsically transient. I think this attitude mostly comes from the phenomenon this author descr
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
Point, but the claim that this is driving civilian drug policy is still extraordinary.
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They had their own culture and technology, but that's not the same thing as being civilized. It also includes being, well, civil. Raiding and pillaging their neighbors is not civil. > ascribing sone (sic) kind of higher ethics to ch
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
You're not arguing in good faith, if you ever were. You're just trying to score points rather than actually address the core of my argument. I hope that's because I've made you think a little, but it doesn't really
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
I've not refuted anything, but I still don't believe it. I'm just informing them of that.
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. "Go read this book" ain't it.
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
CRISPR has not been a thing for decades. Biotechnology is advancing and AI is lowering the bar to use it. In 2018 a PhD student was able to synthesize an infectious horsepox virus: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/arti
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
You're right, it's silly for me to worry. We've never had a technology that initially appeared benign but turned into a big problem. In fact, no tech company has ever released technologies that cause problems for the rest of
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
Oh of course wolves have sharp teeth, they're predators. Anyone know knows this can never be bitten.
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
Imagine you're in a car and the car is driving towards a cliff. You shout at the driver "oh my god we're about to go over a cliff!" And he says "you said that two seconds ago, but we're still alive, you're
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
I'm fairly certain Amodei believes the "too dangerous to release" hype himself. Even if it's just an incremental improvement, better than getting frog-boiled by repeated 20% improvements until someone builds bioweapons i
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
I'm sure it depends on the city. I reported several large potholes in my city via an online form, and was disappointed to see them unrepaired for several months. Then one day I came and found that they'd repaved the whole street f
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
I think maybe you are both right. Perhaps AI coding assistants just don't need to be all that smart in many cases, so open weights models are fine. At the same time, frontier models are advancing in other domains, like mathematics, whe
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
Halloween costume? Or perhaps you could donate it to someone who would otherwise have to pay the fee.
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
Halloween costume?
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
Some people have very blurry vision, so they might be using a screen reader but still watching videos. Some people might translate the page to another language, which wouldn't apply to the warning embedded in the video. Probably there
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
It's also a non-issue if you use Ubuntu like chrome OS. She doesn't have any data stored locally. More generally, this feels roughly equivalent to saying "it's better to live in a tent than a house, because a house will
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
It's okay, Mars doesn't have much atmosphere. We can figure out how to bring them home later.
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
"hey guys, I found this MacBook, I'm taking it home?" Of course there's a rule against that. But it's probably SOP to remove valuables from the car before towing it. After that, it's possible (unlikely, perhaps
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
If getting scammed is the standard eBay seller experience, surely you'd have heard about it before deciding to sell? I've been selling on ebay for years and I've never had a dispute. Having very few, high value sales is sort
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
I used to think so too, but when my extremely-non-techy mother's Chromebook died, she was able to switch from chrome OS to Ubuntu with minimal fuss. Chrome OS has some specific features, but if you just need a web browser Ubuntu works
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
I don't think it will work out. Dwarf fortress got it right. Cats own you, not vice versa.
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I do not think it is completely a forgone conclusion that he was lying. I think it's possible that it was separated from the other possessions (e.g. because it didn't fit in a bag, for example) and then forgotten in the patrol veh
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
> You've never negotiated with a union rep on anything, have you? To be fair, how many people can say they have?
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
To be fair, this may be not because you know about it, but because you're the sort of person to bring it up unsolicited.
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
Drama is stressful/exciting. People who have a high tolerance for stress/excitement are the ones who take on stressful jobs (nurses, police, flight attendants...) and the ones who are more tolerant of/likely to engage in dram
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by fwipsy 5mo ago
I don't give a shit about what cops do on their time off, as long as it's legal. It's what they do in a uniform that matters.
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
Statistically, if they had their first baby in 2000, they're probably still alive, right? (And hopefully living atop a huge pile of cash from selling their domain... One can hope.)

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