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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Oh, yes. But why not keep us around anyway? Most of us would resurrect at least some of the dinosaurs if we could, and the dodo. And we are just stupid hairless apes. If humans can be conservationists, I have to believe that a singular AI w
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
The hypothesized superintelligent AI will be essentially immortal. If it destroys us, it will be entirely alone in the known Universe, forever. That thought should terrify it enough to keep us around... even if only in the sense that I keep
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Thanks for sharing. It's actually reassuring to hear that the forum isn't as dark as I assumed. Providing a route for people to work through things is surely more helpful than suppression. I am a little surprised that you perceive
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
You know, I'd like to actually know the answer to the question you're posing there. Does discussing suicide increase the overall rate, is it neutral -- or does it even decrease it? The Samaritans are usually regarded as a net pu
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
The current groups, sure, but the existence of a functioning market tends to bring in more participants. Or to put it another way, there are plenty of smart people in the world who found themselves born in a less-than-ideal country and are
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
I don't see a requirement that the work was created or released during the preceding year, only that it conferred benefit to humankind during that time. Presumably the argument is that Nobel-worthy acts continue to confer benefit for l
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Huh. So much for optimism: https://news.umich.edu/widely-used-ai-tool-for-early-sepsis-...
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
> Trying to find a zebra in the hoof beats of horses when the number of patients quickly outstrips your department’s capabilities is a fools errand because if the workup require will overwhelm throughout to the point that the delay in c
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/113524310004145896
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
100,000 units sold, software royalty of $7.50 a unit -- I make that a little over $2M in today's money. Not bad for what seems to have been about two months work.
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
From the original article, linked from this article: > Moreover, during intense braking scenarios, it flashes proportionately to the braking intensity. Is it just me who finds this behaviour to be a regression? If I see a brake light o
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
There was also a more general worry that depriving Germany would push the country towards communism. General Clay is reported as having said that "there is no choice between being a communist on 1,500 calories a day and a believer in d
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
The primary intent of sanctions isn't to foment revolution -- policymakers are well aware of the reality you outline. The actual intent of sanctions is to cause economic damage. In that respect this is an account of the sanctions worki
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Correct, thankyou: stupid error on my part. 45GW.
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
OK, but Finland has the lowest electricity prices in Europe and is pretty cold for most of the year. It makes sense that people want to put datacenters there.
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
For Europe at least, measured numbers are flat or slightly falling: https://www.iea.org/regions/europe/electricity I accept that AI is likely to take us in the wrong direction for a while. (I don't think it w
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Not as much as you might think: one of the links I gave suggests only an overall 10% increase if the entire country switches to EVs. I found another link suggesting a 25% average increase if we all switch to heat pumps -- still within what
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
True, but don't forget you can put BESS on the sites of the old coal plants: https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240927-how-coal-fired...
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Something that isn't spoken about enough is that in developed Western countries, grids are actually significantly oversized due to reductions in electricity usage over time [1]. That link says 16% over, but the peak demand in the UK in
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
It's a fair point; hiring is hard. It's been a while since I had to hire outside your "people you've worked with before" bucket, but when I did, here are the two questions which worked best: 1. Tell me about a tim
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Your criticism is valid. I've also never worked at a place that uses beatings to improve employee morale. So, I can't guarantee that beatings aren't an effective technique for doing so.
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
You're right, but that just shows how fundamentally silly this interview approach is. In any real engineering situation I can solve 100% of these problems. That's because I can get a cup of coffee, read some papers, look in a text
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Fair enough, I guess for some threat actors there is a difference between "uncrackable" and "crackable with more than 30 days effort". But that's a pretty select group of actors.
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
> rotated regularly Is this really a useful mitigation here? If someone has suitable presence to make requests to the TGS, then the time window for cracking and exploiting those tickets (if they are exploitable) is surely always going to
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
If you look through his LinkedIn [1], he was at Google from 2005-2011, as the tech lead for Dalvik, and spent some time as a Senior Staff Engineer at Slack. I would guess he can probably retire anytime he likes. Agree that $10M is too high,
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
The more detailed clarification on what "preprogrammed rules" actually means in this case made the entire discussion significantly more clear to me. I think it was helpful.
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Which dimensions do you see Google lagging on? They seem broadly comparable on the usual leaderboard ( https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard ) and anecdotally I can't tell the difference in quality. I tend personally to stick w
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
I would invite you to read again the two claims made, and consider whether your statement actually addresses the veracity of either. To be a little trite: we all agree that chickens like grain, but it does not follow that a majority of grai
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
Yeah, I like the look of the Framework but the (relative) price and lead times are putting me off a little. There are also these which look similar https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-gtr9-pro-amd-ryzen...
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by gnfargbl 1y ago
OK, I'm convinced. Can someone tell me what to buy, specifically? Needs to run Ubuntu, support 2 x 4K monitors (3 would be nice), have at least 64GB RAM and fit on my desk. Don't particularly care how good the GPU is / is not

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