gizmondo

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by gizmondo 1mo ago
Nah, it will be "they are not conscious!"
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by gizmondo 1mo ago
The claim that they are not communicating is just plainly absurd, unless you make it true by defining "communication" in some woo fashion.
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by gizmondo 1mo ago
> If San Francisco residents are going around saying "I'm unhappy about OpenAI, they're making my housing cost way too much", there should be a team working on that as passionately as the team working on training the
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by gizmondo 4mo ago
> Aaronson has worked for OpenAI and probably has stock options. IIRC he explicitly stated that he doesn't.
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by gizmondo 5mo ago
At this point the term "AI psychosis" is the more apt label for AI skeptics. Here we have literal Fields medalists vouching for correctness and relative importance of the result, but who cares, "I don't believe the resul
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by gizmondo 5mo ago
Switzerland is the closest you can get to USA without leaving Europe. Taxes in Zurich are lower than in the Bay Area, at will employment, healthcare that is primarily funded by flat fees rather than income tax, etc. Even the constitution wa
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by gizmondo 5mo ago
So are you buying Roblox hand over fist? Didn't think so. It's easy to talk big, it's hard to beat the supposedly stupid, myopic market.
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by gizmondo 5mo ago
A human representing the company should be physically present in the provider's office to perform such an action or what? Otherwise you would just grant your agent a way to impersonate a human.
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by gizmondo 6mo ago
> IIRC no fewer than 5 naval drones attacked the Moskva missile carrier at once, and successfully sank it eventually. That's a hallucination, Moskva was by all accounts sunk by a couple of conventional anti-ship cruise missiles.
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by gizmondo 7mo ago
> Sorry, but maybe some people should feel shame sometimes Yes you definitely should try that.
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by gizmondo 7mo ago
There is no connection between profits and dividends, some monstrously profitable companies pay little to no dividends and return money to shareholders via buybacks. The act of doing an acquisition by itself also does not affect profits. Th
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by gizmondo 7mo ago
The author is the former lead developer of the Rust's LSP server, so it seems natural to have a preference for languages that would allow him to do a better job. Slow compilation (including incremental) is one of the most common compla
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by gizmondo 8mo ago
In Switzerland most people rent, in Zurich/Geneva it's more than 80% of inhabitants, doesn't help one bit. I kid you not, we have the renter association that is working tirelessly to prevent new construction.
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by gizmondo 8mo ago
This point is irrelevant when discussing capabilities. It's like saying that your brain is literally just a bunch of atoms following a set of physics laws. Absolutely true but not particularly helpful. Complex systems have emergent pro
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by gizmondo 9mo ago
How much tax breaks and subsidies did Brin and Page get? I'd think it's close to zero. And apparently they are asked to give half of their wealth ( https://x.com/garrytan/status/2009776299666223265 ) in a
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by gizmondo 10mo ago
But they can do that regardless of what arguments the company makes to the antitrust authorities.
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by gizmondo 10mo ago
> They didn't because the purchase price would be lower He said that alright, but what's his source of that information?
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by gizmondo 10mo ago
Why the price would be lower? Presumably the price was already agreed upon. Having a provision in the contract that the price is reduced if this argument is made to the antitrust authorities makes no sense. I now realized that I recently sa
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by gizmondo 1y ago
... You want users to risk their money to make your product better? Might as well just remove the report button, so we're back at the model being poisoned.
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by gizmondo 1y ago
Screening for the Down syndrome has been available to consumers for a long time, it's eugenics in exactly the same way. While technically correct, I think in practice this term is only used by despicable people to tar these great ideas
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by gizmondo 1y ago
> I can't thank my parent enough for having me to continue playing in my teenage years. Counter-example to anyone reading this and thinking about imposing this misery on their child - I absolutely hated piano lessons, and nowadays I
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by gizmondo 1y ago
It's probably more about pandering to unions to keep an uneconomical plant running. What kind of national security concern the plant that is completely dependent on imported ore and coal actually addresses?
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by gizmondo 1y ago
In this particular case the impending layoff was basically obvious to everyone months in advance (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893463 ).
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by gizmondo 2y ago
Kofman among others. He has been saying for a while that "the war is on a negative trajectory for Ukraine", i.e. they are currently losing, no?
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by gizmondo 2y ago
I think that's probably a good estimate for the Russian side, while 200k casualties total for Ukraine is a joke. Aren't even their official figures for wounded in the 400k range?
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by gizmondo 2y ago
The military experts I listen to all more or less agree that the focus on territory is just wrong. It's a war of attrition unsustainable in the long run for both sides, the question is who runs out of resources first (or if there is so
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by gizmondo 2y ago
I mean, are Zelensky or Syrskyi willing to share truthful information with you in private? If so - good for you, otherwise I'm not sure what "first hand" reports you can use. I'm relying mostly on data about obituaries c
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by gizmondo 2y ago
It's bad, but not as dire. Russian losses are very likely higher, but if I have to guess - multiples of 2 and above are just propaganda mixed with wishful thinking. They still didn't need to resort to further rounds of mobilizatio
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by gizmondo 2y ago
Ukraine’s situation is worse than many people realize. Ukraine is losing the war right now with roughly equal support in monetary terms from both US and EU! They have huge manpower problems because of losses and apparent political inability
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by gizmondo 2y ago
For it to be bait and switch someone should've said "Rust will forever be only for drivers". Has anyone from the Linux leadership or R4L people done that? To my knowledge it has always been "for now".

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