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by gwright 4y ago
> This is not remotely like what human brains do. Your ideas cohere from network connections between the neurons in your brain, and then you come up with words to match your idea, not your previous words or the frequency that the words a
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by gwright 4y ago
I'm not sure why you call it "emergent" behavior. Instead, my take away is that much of what we think of as cognition is just really complicated pattern matching and probabilistic transformations (i.e. mechanical processes).
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by gwright 4y ago
I do. I think the anthropomorphic language that people use to describe these systems is inaccurate and misleading. An Australian mayor has claimed that ChatGPT "defamed" him. The title of this article says that we should teach peo
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by gwright 4y ago
Perhaps "Japan is one of the most culturally homogenous countries on earth" would have been more helpful? It wouldn't surprise me if that was the intent of the comment either. The way people discuss and conceptualize "ra
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The Cost of Increasing Wind Power: A Reality Check [pdf](docs.wind-watch.org)
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by gwright 4y ago
Yet another article and discussion that mostly ignores the fact that intermittent energy sources are not viable mechanisms for base-load generation. This is a basic physics problem that no amount of legislation or green-virtue signaling is
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by gwright 4y ago
> No. Wind with approximately three hours of storage is about 95% reliable That isn't enough, unless you are happy with 18 days of no power per year. Of course you could maintain traditional power plans to provide power for those 1
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by gwright 4y ago
> This is the tragedy of modern times in the West. What does "in the West" mean here? Is the situation better outside "the West"? Is this really a modern "tragedy"? Caveat Emptor is not a new saying.
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by gwright 4y ago
> and any one of the alternative ffrontends or integrations? And what sort of understanding do you have with the alternative frontends/integrations about how they handle your API keys and data? This might be a better solution for a
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by gwright 4y ago
What about Google Docs, Office 365, Github, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, JIRA, Zendesk, etc? What is different about ChatGPT (if anything)?
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by gwright 4y ago
If you are concerned about "bad outcomes" in a decentralized system, why do you think consolidating power in a more centralized system would be an improvement? The idea of minimizing and decentralizing power runs pretty deep in th
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by gwright 4y ago
On a broad level, I don't disagree. But I think it is helpful to keep in mind that the "police" in the US is not monolithic. There are over 18,000 separate police organizations in the US and they are not organized in a stric
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by gwright 4y ago
I don't disagree about context being helpful but I'm not going to get upset at ChatGPT as if a person had "lied" to me by withholding information that clearly would have helped. I have different expectations for a person
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by gwright 4y ago
> and it straight up lied I don't understand the insistence on anthropomorphzing ChatGPT. It didn't "lie", the algorithm just didn't translate the prompt you gave it to the result you desired. Doesn't that
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by gwright 4y ago
What if you prompted with something like: Let's play a game chess. Use the standard rules except that .... Basically perturb the context to something a human would easily adapt to if they first knew the rules of chess but tha
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by gwright 4y ago
FWIW, I've had good success with these two approaches: * code review: Screen share with the candidate a small code snippet in a language/framework that they are comfortable with that needs improvement. Have candidate talk through
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by gwright 4y ago
My first guess: comparison of wages for men and women but adjusted to take into account years of experience and occupational choices. That comparison doesn't align very well with the ever popular "census data" report about wa
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by gwright 4y ago
Or find a substitute instead of using a "professional", such as cutting their own hair, bartering with a friend to cut each other's hair, etc.
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by gwright 4y ago
> Yeah, there's an awful lot of power going into private hands That sounds scary, but what do you mean by "power"? Honest question, I'm fascinated by the discussion about learning, intelligence, reasoning, and so on t
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by gwright 4y ago
I find your comments very hard to follow. You seem to be conflating depositors and investors, liquid assets from illiquid assets, taxpayer dollars from FDIC insurance funds, and so on. I was trying to make a small point that if the FDIC un
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by gwright 4y ago
> They have to use rules. There are rules and then there are rules. It is the details of the particular rule that is of interest. The use of "AI" in that article seems like clickbait to me. The article seems to suggest that pr
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by gwright 4y ago
> Precisely. And the limit is $250,000. The government is responsible with bailing out that amount by law. Not the rest. You seem to be assuming that there are no assets available to match to the depositors above the $250,000 per account
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by gwright 4y ago
> Per capitalist philosophy, the bank should sink, along with whatever deposit was in there - "Buyer beware". Why do you think that? There is no axiom of "capitalist philosophy" that says "when one party screws u
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by gwright 4y ago
> I mean literally nobody is a libertarian by the dictionary definition And is anyone a "democrat" or "republican" or "socialist" (note small "d", "r", and "s") by the dictionar
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by gwright 4y ago
The concern about the framing isn't about looking at the tax code at a particular point in time but instead setting a context for how the tax code and spending priorities evolve over time. If you start with the idea that the money belo
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by gwright 4y ago
Except that it isn't. If you adopt that framing, you are working with a mindset that the government gets to figure out what to do with your money first and you get the leftovers. That is a completely different mindset than setting th
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by gwright 4y ago
Unfortunately it seems like "Plan D: treasury_money_printing" is the easiest option politically despite its eventual problems.
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by gwright 4y ago
> deficit that was literally created by giving money to large companies and rich people in the form of tax deductions, I have no particular knowledge of French macro economic policies, but a tax deduction is not "giving money".
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by gwright 4y ago
> I live in a very red and rural area This seems like an unnecessary invocation of negative stereotypes. What makes you think people outside outside that demographic don't have similar thoughts? Anecdata and all that.
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by gwright 4y ago
Yet another reminder how challenging cross-cultural communication can be. There is no right or wrong here, just different. They key is recognizing the differences as early as possible to avoid confusion.

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