harpersealtako

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by harpersealtako 5y ago
>I'm not saying who's worse, I'm saying we need to do better before we critic others. But you ARE saying they are morally equivalent . In your own words, "the pot calling the kettle black". And...one of them i
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Interned prisoners in Xinjiang, China are detained with no due process without having ever committed a crime. They are systematically forced to abandon their religion, their culture, and their identity. They are tortured physically and me
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
It IS a federation, and regardless of what you call it, the fact is that the EU has the ability to control and limit its rogue members to protect human rights, and chooses not to exercise this power in many cases. The EU is to blame for th
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I would consider it as such already. Federations are ultimately responsible for the failures and flaws of their constituent states if they have the power to prevent them. Nobody considers the US federal government entirely free of blame w
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I don't think there's any practical limit (I could probably paste in the entire text of the Bible and see what it generates next), but for the most part you want to use it as a writing companion , not an auto-writer. The general
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Actually that story was really funny, the AI constantly kept having my character have this irrational hatred of kobolds, like "they're pests to be exterminated" even though I included descriptions of their vibrant art and tap
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
NovelAI is literally built by disgruntled AI Dungeon fans after the censorship scandal who wanted a better, more privacy-focused AI Dungeon for story generation. If you think AI dungeon has some cool features, you ain't seen nothing y
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I've been using AIDungeon (and its successors like NovelAI which are more for advanced users) for years now and have been involved in a lot of the community around it. You are definitely using it wrong, but you are forgiven because AI
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
AI Dungeon (and its successors like novelai [1] and holoAI [2] following its infamous censorship purges and mutinies) is basically designed entirely around that problem and has a lot of clever solutions that let writers keep relevant contex
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Calling zvi's blog "useful" is an understatement, he's practically a lesser deity of covid-19 modeling.
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I would like you to consider the possibility that the evidence in favor of masks is probably overwhelming as you might believe. The studies that have been done have so many cofounders as to be flawed at best, useless at worst. The "o
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I knew I had to listen to the Malone one yesterday once I saw that it got banned everywhere (thank you Streisand effect). I was surprised by how lucid it was considering my preconceptions. A lot of Malone's main points, especially th
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I consider a detached home with a private, wooded yard (which is still near enough to urban amenities and utilities to not be a "country estate") to be my ideal home, and don't see how this kind of home and lifestyle can fit
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I see the "surgeons use masks in operating rooms, this proves public masking prevents the spread of COVID" argument nearly every time a mask debate appears on this site or others, and it just seems so...obviously fallacious and ab
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
They implemented some really heavy handed content filters that (un)intentionally gimped their AI even more than it already was (while also announcing that they were retroactively banning anybody who had violated the filters that didn't
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
NovelAI is already a hosted service you pay for. It is specifically used for fiction writing, though it's got a ridiculous amount of neat experimental features, from prefix tuning (a lightweight ad-hoc fine-tuning method which can mak
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
If you count DeepL translations as "ML-generated", I bet it's actually higher.
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Code is actually one of the things the GPT-J-6B handily beats base GPT3 on, as far as I've heard: https://tharunaithink.medium.com/eleutherais-gpt-j-vs-openai...
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I know that at least on most common performance benchmarks these claims are measurably false (gpt-j has a number of key performance improvements to the equivalently sized models), and in particular code generation for 6B is very clearly a s
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
To me the chance of a future superintelligent AI being "catastrophic" is pretty much unknowable (we don't even have a concrete idea of how a superintelligent AI would even work yet!). It could be 99.999%, it could be 0.0001%
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I've always strongly disagreed with this particular threat model of AI safety. To me, the biggest threat of AI isn't autogenerated spammy fake news or social media posts (how much cheaper is it really than just hiring a 5-cent ar
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
If an overabundance of detergent brands are the "canonical example" of the future-present dystopia, I think we're gonna be fine.
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Assuming you're looking for quaint walkable towns (and not stressing over the fact that they're surrounded by miles of car-dependent suburbs and rural areas), you can find them anywhere and everywhere. Most small/medium size
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I find this is true nearly anywhere you go in the world, even in countries with excellent public transit (e.g. Korea, Japan, Taiwan). The moment people have the money to afford a car, they buy one. The only places I've seen that this
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
This is the crux of the issue. I've said it before in HN, but urban density advocates need to focus more on why denser urban neighborhoods are good, rather than focusing on why car-centric suburbs are bad. New urbanists need the supp
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
The problem is that positive rights vary WILDLY in practicality. For example, China has the positive right to protest ("citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Well, in this case the difference is between two statements: * The state grants citizens the right to encrypt data * The state cannot infringe upon the right of people to encrypt data. These two statements have important differences. Philo
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Generalizations like this are kind of ridiculous, given the existence of hunting dogs, police dogs, herding dogs, livestock guardian dogs, and even many ordinary family/companionship dogs that are specifically bred to be docile, long-l
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I've always been under the strong impression that raw-egg-eggnog is overwhelmingly the default, and the only eggnog that is cooked/pasteurized is the store-bought stuff. After all, what's the point of making your own eggnog
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I don't know who that is, the reason I'm skeptical is the sheer amount of cofounders in most observational studies. My pre-pandemic prior was slightly positive towards masking, strongly negative towards government mask mandates.

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