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by hiddencost 2mo ago
I'm skeptical that we will have an exchange of power in the next 40 years. The USSR is a great example: it took 65 years to fall, and the collapse didn't bring it to anything particularly good.
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by hiddencost 2mo ago
Linear scaling doesn't make sense, no. There are three ways it's wrong: * better to measure relative reduction in error, which gives you a 30% improvement * improvement tends to become significantly more difficult the closer you c
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by hiddencost 2mo ago
The big tobacco lawsuits hinges on the same things these will: (1) Did they know they were hurting users? (2) Can the harm be shown. The big tobacco companies intentionally suppressed studies that showed harm, and promoted their product whi
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by hiddencost 2mo ago
US military standard for "did we kill civilians" with drone attacks is "do these appear to be combat aged males, based on satellite photos". It's monstrous.
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by hiddencost 2mo ago
You're looking for this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4053
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by hiddencost 2mo ago
These people are all already making 9 figure compensation packages, I think if they thought they could do the work they wanted at Google, they would.
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by hiddencost 2mo ago
Idk, they never struck me as being into eugenics. What the fuck man? I really don't want some tech startup trying to "fix" my neurodivergence.
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by hiddencost 2mo ago
Auatralians are a great case study. Once you control for pensions and similar indirect exposure, Australians have very high stock market exposure.
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by hiddencost 2mo ago
Weird moment for this take. We're seeing some of the fastest and most impressive progress ever right now. Frontier labs have categorically different & better set ups for evaluation, they're fine. It's work but it's n
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by hiddencost 2mo ago
Inflation over a long time horizon is about 3%. Especially if it's going to be a decade or more, just put it in an index fund.
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by hiddencost 2mo ago
3% is roughly inflation.
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by hiddencost 2mo ago
VTSAX, ASAP. Inflation is usually estimated at 3% + annually over a long enough time horizon. You're losing money.
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by hiddencost 2mo ago
(1) there's a lock out, they can't legally (2) Moving that kind of volume at market price is extremely difficult (3) This disclosure was required by law as part of their earnings. They would rather have said nothing and quietly
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by hiddencost 2mo ago
Where the misbehaving misfits are the aggressors, i.e Russia, the USA, and Israel?
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by hiddencost 2mo ago
Have you ever done the math on how much that cost you? I'm guessing at least $20M?
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by hiddencost 3mo ago
That's why the author refused to read a proof from someone he knew until it was formalized in Lean.
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by hiddencost 3mo ago
The entire article seems to rest on their use of an embedding model for clustering garbage science.
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by hiddencost 3mo ago
"Differential privacy" is the technology they are referring to. Their English is fine, you're the one missing something.
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by hiddencost 4mo ago
Companies will never price in externalities unless they are forced to.
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by hiddencost 4mo ago
This was just a long winded way of insulting Sandy but making it look professional, from what I can see. He is saying directly that Sandy was a bad designer with a poor sense of visual aesthetics. Seems pretty gross and catty to me.
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by hiddencost 4mo ago
IDK if you're familiar with Church, but that's the most heavily used third space. And we grant it tax exempt status which it abuses to push bad laws.
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by hiddencost 4mo ago
Defining opposition to genocide as antisemitic is a really bad idea.
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by hiddencost 4mo ago
Scott Aaronson has a really good explainer about complexity theory and physical computing: https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf (Doing my best to ignore his abysmal politics.)
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by hiddencost 4mo ago
... Police in the united states have more than a century of flagrant misconduct under their belts. They protect their own, they almost never face consequences for killing people, they are frequently corrupt, they are frequently biased. Here
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by hiddencost 4mo ago
You really haven't ever encountered someone who believed in anything, have you?
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by hiddencost 4mo ago
Easy question with an easy answer that threatens a lot of bad people: immigrants are good.
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by hiddencost 4mo ago
There's another theory which says that if people have health care, food, shelter, education, and liberty, they won't commit crimes like this. Just a thought.
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by hiddencost 4mo ago
inflation I suspect we'll have our first $10T company in the next 2-3 years. That's only doubling.
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by hiddencost 4mo ago
Separate commercial and residential rates? The first $X dollars are not taxed? We can and have done this.
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by hiddencost 4mo ago
On the countrary, nonprofits need unions more than for profits. They exploit their workers more. They have fewer resources and exploit their mission to get more work from their workers.

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