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by grey-area 3mo ago
Well I think there is a definite pattern to sociopaths using a movement that seems externally good and has many true believers - like say an open foundation to promote AI, or effective altruism. Then twisting it to their own ends to gain po
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Not all light is absorbed and turned to heat, much is reflected, for PV some turned to electricity. I think we can agree energy is conserved. Extra heating effect OUTSIDE. AC moves heat from inside to outside, ergo outside is hotter than it
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by grey-area 3mo ago
They think things will be better for them in 2027? This is the pattern I’d expect for their IPOs too, give their current fantasy valuations.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Nobody said there was free energy, but heat is not the only energy available. Here if you like in your analogy visible light is turned to outside heat and inside cool. But it’s simpler just to think about the heat inside the house - heat is
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by grey-area 3mo ago
You’re talking about machine learning, that’s not what all this money has been ploughed into, and not what people mean when they say ‘AI’ today but you’re right that it’s much more clearly effective and profitable than LLMs.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Solar energy is not just infrared, and infrared is not what is used by PV solar. So not it’s not equivalent and anyway doesn’t in any way impact the extra heating effect of a new heat source on the ground. Instead of generate heat you could
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by grey-area 3mo ago
No the solar panels do not absorb only infrared or even mostly infrared.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
No, air conditioning units generate heat (that is how they cool!) and do contribute to local warming. Without AC the house reaches equilibrium with outside. With AC the house is cooled and that heat has to go somewhere.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Schemes like the Paris central cooling one are interesting here - there are other possible solutions in cities too. And sure yes combined with other measures AC can be a net good.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Sure if building density is low in your area and you have no nearby neighbours it probably doesn’t matter, you’d just be heating your surroundings a little.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
I imagine that absorption by the roof or panels is around the same - however the aircon moves heat from inside to outside, so you are moving heat outside for other people to deal with. In an isolated house it makes little difference. If eve
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Sorry autocorrect changed heat pollution to ‘what pollution’, I’ve fixed that now. There is some impact on others, particularly those without ac.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
You should still feel some guilt for the heat pollution your air conditioning causes for those outside your house, esp. in an urban area.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Are we all heading in that direction? I know it may seem like that reading HN but LLMs are not necessary for writing software, they might be a useful adjunct to it, but they do not have to be central to it (and Id argue they shouldn’t be).
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Effective altruism is also very attractive to manipulative sociopaths who want to maximise their power over others whilst appearing virtuous and hoarding wealth and power. Poster boy for this movement is the convicted fraudster SBF. I belie
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by grey-area 3mo ago
> The only thing that matters is if LLMs with sufficient scaling can become frontier AI researchers kicking off the exponential. I think we know the answer to that already - LLMs show no sign of improving intelligence and instead provide
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by grey-area 4mo ago
For these particular characters, the evidence is heavily against your panglossian take. All have collaborated with the current US regime. All have shown signs of being quite willing to compromise their principles in order to make money.
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by grey-area 4mo ago
These are word generators, not agents, I’m really not sure why people think they could be capable agents (ie independent) when they consistently ignore instructions, generate the wrong things and then double down when questioned, etc etc.
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by grey-area 4mo ago
Yes, a lot of it involves denigrating women and an entitled and very rigid attitude towards the male place in society (alphas etc). This is incredibly toxic for young men growing up and the women they interact with. Some of the more promine
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by grey-area 4mo ago
They were the ruling class of half of England for a significant period. That is not marginal. It influenced laws, culture and language, though later displaced by the Normans who also had a profound impact. Were the Normans also marginal as
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by grey-area 4mo ago
You're now arguing about something which isn't even in the proposal from the EU, it's a hypothetical from the article which attempts to draw a parallel with existing physical id (I guess to demonstrate to people that this alr
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by grey-area 4mo ago
Untraceable is your invention and obviously absurd and unworkable. No scheme is going to issue cards/tokens that can be traded between people, that's obviously unworkable. Untraceable is for the consumers of the cards obviously, b
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by grey-area 4mo ago
If you understood the change, writing a short description of the problem and the fix yourself would be trivial.
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by grey-area 4mo ago
The Danes colonised England. They never left but merged with the existing population. https://www.britannica.com/place/Danelaw
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by grey-area 4mo ago
They came to serve man.
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by grey-area 4mo ago
> Many shelves have little else to offer Go into any western supermarket and there are massive aisles of fruit and veg, along with various types of protein. None of these eating disorders are new. If anything it is far easier to be healt
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by grey-area 4mo ago
Yes it is.
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by grey-area 4mo ago
> Eating disorders are mental health condition. Agreed, and often the root cause is something else in a person’s life (stress, feelings of losing control etc ). Adding new labels related to food doesn’t do anything to fix the underlying
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by grey-area 4mo ago
The latest fad promoted by companies to sell you something?
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by grey-area 4mo ago
I’m just pointing out that it is in fact technically possible to lock things down. Whether we should or not is a separate discussion.

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