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by hirundo 4y ago
Did the CDC audit their own performance? If so I'd like to see that report. If not, that's their biggest error.
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by hirundo 4y ago
> They are propaganda. "Systemic bias" is the polite term.
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by hirundo 4y ago
> If you’re at any real risk of acting on that thought, call professional help, or immediately commit yourself to professional care. Resistant to that idea? Then you’re not seriously considering suicide ... Bullshit. Most suicides, inclu
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by hirundo 4y ago
If a stranger calls you up and tells you to go run around the block ten times at a full sprint, and you do it, and collapse with heat stroke ... it's not the stranger's fault. Though they can still be an asshat, like Amazon is whe
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by hirundo 4y ago
It is humbling, if not humiliating, that a stochastic parrot can reproduce such a significant chunk of human intelligence. The association elevates stochastic parrots more than it denigrates LLMs.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I keep seeing scripts to block a particular word or phrase, like another for "Kardashian," rather than just any old word. I get that it's more of an editorial act than an attempt at an optimal architecture. But it's like
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by hirundo 4y ago
I feel that I have the right to be friendly to every person I see in almost every situation I'm in, including starting to chat with them. If they seem receptive I would feel that I have the right to escalate to flirting ... and then st
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by hirundo 4y ago
That website only works on Chrome for me, it doesn't let me login on Brave ... which is a flavor of Chromium, right?
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by hirundo 4y ago
> We got extremely lucky Or the strong anthropic principle is valid.
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by hirundo 4y ago
The most productive human writer in history couldn't begin to compete with the GPT steam-hammer on quantity of coherent output. It would be John Henry versus a modern tunnel boring machine.
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by hirundo 4y ago
They are lowering the long term risk of too little short term risk, an unsafe excess of safety. This is a kind of behavioral hormesis. The dose/response curve of a potential toxin is seldom linear, including for jungle gyms.
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by hirundo 4y ago
This demonstrates a quantum leap in sentiment analysis. Very soon we'll be able to filter and prioritize arbitrary content accurately by sentiment, by topic. How about a prosthesis app for Asperger's that reveals the emotional pay
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by hirundo 4y ago
Back in the 90's I lost 120 pounds on a multi-month protein shake "fast" ... and then gained it all back plus more. In total, despite the wonderful if brief relief from morbid obesity, it was a highly negative experience that
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by hirundo 4y ago
> I believe next step in furthering our insignificance The next step seems to be coming from the computer science department rather than astronomy or biology, with the growing demonstrations that intelligence can emerge from simple mecha
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by hirundo 4y ago
I keep hearing stories like this so I'm sure it's a common experience. But the one time I fasted for a week, the last 36 hours were a torture of continuous hunger, and my body has been highly resistant to more fasting since. I use
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by hirundo 4y ago
It's getting harder to credit the perspective that GPT is just a wildly efficient Mad Libs generator. Or alternatively, another way to describe intelligence is the ability of a template-filling algorithm to work effectively in a templa
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Large Libel Models: ChatGPT-4 erroneously reporting supposed felony pleas(reason.com)
3 points by hirundo 4y ago|0 comments
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by hirundo 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials : > The trials targeted 177 defendants and obtained 142 convictions, including 25 death sentences > On 11 December 1946, the United Nations General Assembly unanimous
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by hirundo 4y ago
> there’s not actually a significant amount of genetic divergence between racial groups. Does skin color not diverge between racial groups, or is it not a significant genetic divergence? If skin color seems too trivial to be genetically
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by hirundo 4y ago
I moved from a pressure cooker to an air fryer and a sous vide cooker. They work together nicely, the air fryer crisping up my sous vide cooked food. Instant has nicely designed offerings in all three categories and I've owned several
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Higher protein consumption is associated with lower levels of depression(psypost.org)
3 points by hirundo 4y ago|1 comments
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by hirundo 4y ago
A corollary is that the policing of microaggressions, as a form of catastrophizing, works against its own aim of protecting sensitive people. A healthier response would be the stoic sentiment that "sticks and stones may break my bones
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by hirundo 4y ago
If you don't at least occasionally arrive at heterodox conclusions ... and disappoint someone ... then you don't think for yourself. Therefore if the people you respect don't occasionally say disapointing things then you shou
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Court blocks NY law mandating “hateful conduct” policies by social media(reason.com)
104 points by hirundo 4y ago|75 comments
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by hirundo 4y ago
I read Breakfast of Champions, around age 14, only because I saw that it was not kept with the general library collection, and was told that children needed permission to read it. My mom was reluctant but agreed, and that was my introductio
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by hirundo 4y ago
Ditto. I'm more than two years into it an honesty I'd be dead without it. And eating this way I naturally fall into an "intermittent fasting" schedule, because that's all I want to eat.
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by hirundo 4y ago
> The new "Public Spaces Incubator" (PSI) initiative will develop and test innovative solutions that encourage accessible and meaningful online conversations on issues of public interest, free from harassment or bullying — incl
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by hirundo 4y ago
The woodstove is my primary heat source, it isn't modern, and it works regardless of the weather. But it isn't difficult to image circumstances where it fails, since it almost happened to me. I had a gout attack that made it very
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by hirundo 4y ago
> It's still half as slow as modern ARM desktops like Apple's M1 mini Wouldn't half as slow be twice as fast?
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by hirundo 4y ago
The ethics could flow in the other direction. If we wiped out homo neanderthalensis, de-extincting a breeding community of them could be restorative justice.

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