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by geye1234 3mo ago
I think this is one reason people like asking LLMs things. They have many downsides, but they're never rude or belittling.
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by geye1234 4mo ago
Once you see it, you can't unsee it: https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html And if you have more time: https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/kupdf.net_bernays-et...
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by geye1234 4mo ago
Curious to hear if anyone has tried running the 2-bit or 3-bit quantization of this. With a bit of investment I may just be able to swing it locally. I already have 96GB VRAM, so with 192GB RAM, which seems to be the most one can find these
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by geye1234 4mo ago
How far would you take this? Let's grant that the difference between murder and a just killing is what someone (maybe the guy in power) says it is, nothing more. Would you say the same about robbery? Is it only robbery to point a gun a
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by geye1234 4mo ago
Yes. A full-recourse loan and a non-recourse loan are different: in the way a cat and a dog are different, not in the way a small dog and a big dog are different. It's most unfortunate (and probably deliberate) that they both go by the
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by geye1234 4mo ago
For those of us who have read Paul Graham's submarine essay, should the last paragraph be a giveaway? The "AI theoretician's" quote seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the article.
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by geye1234 4mo ago
It's astonishing to me that advertising and marketing is accepted as normal. The majority of B2C marketing is designed to manipulate people's emotions so that they act against their interests, in order to make you money. It's
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by geye1234 5mo ago
Someone posted these photos a while back which seem to capture the spirit: https://issung.com/posts/lanphotosarchive/
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by geye1234 5mo ago
> During the Middle Ages, Western civilization described humans as composed of two distinct entities: body and soul. This is absolutely, completely, demonstrably false. Soul-body dualism was largely a 17th-century innovation, although Pl
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by geye1234 6mo ago
I was seriously considering investing in an RTX 6000 rig, and I think this is just enough to tip me over the edge. I know it's not as good as CC, but at least I know it'll be there tomorrow.
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by geye1234 8mo ago
I am interested in hearing how to get hard drives to last longer. Should you keep them locked away in the closet? Spin them up occasionally but not too much? Keep them always-on? I understand the less reading and writing, the better. How do
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by geye1234 8mo ago
Yes, I'm grateful I run Linux. You can get quite a bit done with 4GB RAM and a 6th generation (or even earlier) CPU. All 64-bit. I don't think such ancient hardware will be affected by AI demand to the same degree (though I think
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by geye1234 1y ago
Peter Hitchens had a hell of a time trying to fix Wikipedia's appalling biases: https://hitchensblogarchive.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/goodbye... Search the site for other examples of the fun he had with i
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by geye1234 1y ago
Potentially-ignoramus comment here, apologies in advance, but amazon.com itself appears to be fine right now. Perhaps slower to load pages, by about half a second. Are they not eating (much of) their own dog food?
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by geye1234 1y ago
Worth remembering that the Venerable Bede was writing The Ecclesiastical History of the English People two centuries before Athelstan, so clearly there was some notion of unity as early as that.
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by geye1234 1y ago
This will have a big effect on those in passive index funds I think? Tech made up about a third of the S&P last time I checked, but the AI hype is also affecting non-tech sectors.
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by geye1234 1y ago
I recommend "The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science" by E.A. Burtt if you're interested in that period. It discusses both the science, and the different philosophies of physics that were informing and perhaps influenc
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by geye1234 1y ago
Fine, so there are some that fall below the O-1 bar. Nonetheless, those are a drop in the ocean compared to the regular $150k jobs being lost to H1Bs.
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by geye1234 1y ago
There's the O-1 for that.
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by geye1234 1y ago
Immigration benefits capital and hurts labor, but big business has hypnotized the left into supporting it.
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by geye1234 1y ago
That's not what's happening though.
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by geye1234 1y ago
Sure, but the 2025 equivalent of that GM job -- if you can find it -- is not going to pay enough to support a family and pay a mortgage on one income.
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by geye1234 1y ago
> Even if it's implemented, how do you rise tariffs on intangible works? If you are an American company (or a subsidiary thereof), and you have an employee resident in another country who does IT work, then you pay a tax to the US T
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by geye1234 1y ago
> The only effect this is going to have is accelerating the offshoring of jobs through more hiring in India, Europe and Canada, which is a net loss for the US. Offshoring can, and ought to be, heavily tariffed.
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by geye1234 1y ago
In the 1970s, a single-income family on a factory worker's wage could buy a 3-bedroom house with a 3x mortgage.
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by geye1234 1y ago
> It's always baffled me how the same candidates that claim to be pro labor and pro environment are also pro globalization. The way it plays out is that the jobs are just offshore to jurisdictions that lack the same labor and enviro
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by geye1234 1y ago
The UK has a much more intelligent (though far from perfect) approach to land use. It has public rights of way (if on foot, horse or bicycle) crossing the whole country. You can walk from one end of Britain to the other without trespassing,
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by geye1234 1y ago
Yep, makes sense, and looks like they still have it: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co40509...
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by geye1234 1y ago
I don't remember the big Kensington museums being like that when I was a kid. There was a kids' section or two, but the rest was clearly for adults (and has stuck in my memory just as much, if not more than, the kids' section
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by geye1234 1y ago
I agree that when I see the word "tiger" on paper and a screen, I am looking at something that refers to a tiger. And the same is true, mutatis mutandis, for spectograms, oscilliscopes, photos on screens, etc etc. But the word &qu

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