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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
> but I can't be bothered at the moment to find them a token & misguided attempt to surface relevant lit might incite you to shove the obviousness down my throat :) Here's one for disentangling reps in LLMs https:/&
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
Sorry to go off on what may seem to be a tangent (equivocating only bcos i struggle to get the pt across succinctly?) This too could form the basis of a productive skepticism towards the usefulness of coding agents, unlike what has caught a
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
It is indeed hard to assess from the video at 19s? (Relatively impressive thru-the-glass perspective ntheless!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6w5kAA22TsP&t=19s Is it me or is there some dynamic here that could/s
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
> For instance, tardigrades are known to undergo intracellular vitrification when faced with harsh conditions as a self-preserving mechanism Yes, ductile to brittle, but not the expected use-case haha
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Why common climate messaging backfires(phys.org)
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
If crypto is an unambiguous public bad, quadratic defunding would be a worthwhile experiment?
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
Maybe author would also be interested in the (unstable) fixed-point better known as "the brotherhood of schizos". (because Sz prefer isolation :) More earnestly.. the essay (fortuitously) elaborates a recent take of mine.. the for
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
Quadrants are fine when they point to more productive re-framings of the "public X" problem. As implied by you & maybe the article you mentioned, the boundaries of the quadrants are where the theory is likely to fail.. So, if
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
Software is a special kind of white-collar work which promises to simultaneously provide a sense of entitlement as well as an equal measure of frustration. Lately (since 1971?), the balance has tilted over to the other side, so I welcomed a
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
May I quote the same Hayek (last page): > instead we must show how a solution is produced by the interactions of people each of whom possesses only partial knowledge. (In the same spirit, I'm trying to move beyond dissfests towards
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
Delving into the paper: Al has defo been used for deoxidizing Ti but they claim it's "inadequate" The stability of al oxyhalide with respect to al oxide and al halide is the key here? Not sure if that has been "adequatel
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
Ahh I finally get it: you were claiming you only hang out with nuts (when it comes to AI) --the link itself says "you", but that's also addressing your friends I presume? Edit: the politicians too? > To the consternation o
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
> anything that helps the US “win” That is, "the ends justifies the means"? Yep, seems like we are already at war. What happened to the project of adapting nonzero sum games to reality??
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
I was more terrified by the yttrium fluoride. That rings a pancreatic cancer bell very loudly. Additionally, you can be sure that people who understand much more chemistry than biology (or who might have accepted their own deaths) are going
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
Hypothetical you ask for? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1757501/ To preempt accusations that the automotive endproduct isn't represented by this study, I'll concede it's next to impossibl
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
For these above reasons, I like the "don't editorialize" rule by itself . BUT it seems especially suboptimal in comparison to its combination with the "let people flag stories without justification " rule. No
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
How about 2 5-word signs? https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F7... In "reality", the tradeoffs aren't so stark.. (e.g. procrastination & distractions whilst on the path of "w
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
Apparently it's because the original headline had the unfortunate juxtaposition of "homelessness" & "experimentation"? I wouldn't be so quick to call delusion/dissent when designers of our spaces have
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
I want to be able to upvote this comment just to show everyone how rules like "don't change the headline as originally given by website" or "let randos (with unpredictable emotional structure) flag stuff" lead to su
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
More specifically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21535498 (The HN just for completeness; didn't see any remarkable dismissals there.. ntheless some (schizoid?) comments seemed worthy of being kept in my backgrou
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
WSJ more sober than (the) Economist now? ( Oct 2024 ) https://archive.ph/GOE7D I tried to search for chart of inflation US 1960-2025 (if that makes sense), and goog returned this as the top result
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
(...I just think you haven't channeled enough of your schizotypy here :) (I suspect one can find under-interpreted arguments in Graeber that support your unpopular claim but...) In contrast, what seems really interesting (to me, &
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
Defo not heard of one that tests national economies :)
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
It makes a falsifiable prediction tho: compared to the other BRICS China is gonna tank
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
I'm saying it's due to NZs very clean air and water compared to even OZ, did you even click (Don't get me started on BRICS)
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
According to a study promoted by Financial Times, it's a known downside of this one weird effect https://archive.ph/YjX1w
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
The question of whether these developments are a net positive for meritocracy seems unclear. It's tho, nothing compared to crypto-- many got propelled into a different class whom I have trouble wanting to give my precious attention to.
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
Do you remember purple smoke?
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
My attempt at less offensive analogies: "Efficiency of hw arithmetic is not the bottleneck, lack of a poly time algo to factor prime numbers is" &, the closely related "Ability to reduce everything to HSP is not the bottl
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by gsf_emergency 1y ago
PF?? Intuition says our immune system isn't equipped to detect them (note how odourless/tasteless) but you make me wonder if we might evolve bacteria/archae to sense them, as a first milestone..

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