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by hollerith 4mo ago
That sounds right, but SPF 50 shirts are readily available, and at least the ones made from polyester are cheap.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
FoM == freedom of movement
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Well, there's 2 ways to become a landlord: to buy a house or to build a house. I was focused only on the second way. The cost of the wood and the labor needed to build the house is unaffected by the rent control, so if cost remains the
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by hollerith 4mo ago
It's worrying because it reduces the incentive to build more housing.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
It means only 2% of the harmful rays (UVA) are getting through the shirt or alternatively the skin under the shirt can spend 50 times as long in the sun as it could without any protection.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Yudkowksy gave up on trying to make a god-in-a-box to stop other gods-in-boxes in 2015. Since then his approach to stopping the gods-in-boxes has been to lobby governments.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
It is easier for me to play speed chess with smooth animation of each move rather than when a piece instantly teleports from origin to destination, but I have reason to believe that I'm unusually intolerant to frequent activation of my
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Either that or the only reason they've been releasing the models under permissive licenses is that that the only way they have get any attention in a market dominated by American companies. (Also, they don't need to make a profit
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by hollerith 4mo ago
It remains possible that Altman and Amodei are sincere: they might believe that AI is dangerous like nuclear weapons, but there's no way to stop its development (especially since it would need to be stopped globally, not just in the US
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Most of those researchers would disagree with your statement that the next major breakthrough is probably decades in the future. Many of the insights accumulated in the decades up to now will probably prove useful for creating non-LLM AI, a
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by hollerith 4mo ago
"LLMs can never become out-of-control superintelligence" might be relevant if there weren't many hundreds of researchers working (at OpenAI, Anthropic and elsewhere) on AI designs not based on the transformer (LLM) architectu
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by hollerith 4mo ago
They required me to verify my mobile phone number.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Was WWII a marketing ploy to inflate the value of German and Japanese stocks?
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by hollerith 4mo ago
>Isn't every nuclear bomb an existential threat to all human life? No, of course not. It's a threat to people within 15 miles of the explosion plus people who are outdoors and turn to look at the bright light in the sky. And th
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by hollerith 4mo ago
More than half of US ocean shipping tonnages is to or from ports on the US Gulf Coast, and Cuba is in a position to cut off access to it if it gets helps from a bigger power. The US has legitimate security interests in Cuba.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
I'm doubtful of this idea that the reason the CEO of Anthropic says that AI could end the world is because he "stands to gain huge" by saying it. If he is willing to lie to give his corporation some advantage, he couldn'
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by hollerith 4mo ago
>why is all I hear these industry leaders talking about is the threat of extinction? . . . I would love to see a leading lab release research on the health effects of subaudible sound in datacenters It is straightforward for industry lea
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by hollerith 4mo ago
OK. Here is a kernel developer explaining it recently on this site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448345 // When people escalate privileges on MacOS it's news, when they do it on Linux it's Tues
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by hollerith 4mo ago
D&R == detection and response
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by hollerith 4mo ago
>why they would be required on single-user computers in this scenario? Because the single user does not write all the software running on the system. The proprietary software the user downloads could have its own agenda contrary to the
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Sadly, Linux is much much less secure.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
It's only been a week; right?
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by hollerith 4mo ago
You've got it right. Our normal environment is an accelerating reference frame. The resting frame (i.e., free fall) is easier to analyze using physics, but is unfamiliar (indeed tend to feel alarming) to us.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
>it basically becomes impossible to do it Those of us who want to "unnormalize" porn consider that a feature.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
We need a system that allows people to keep most of what they lawfully earned.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
>For those who may be too young to get the joke... I'm going to continue to assume that GGP is sincere until its author says it was a joke.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
If I'm wrong, Wikipedia is wrong, too: >Financing of railroads provided the basis for a dramatic expansion of the private (non-governmental) financial system. Construction of railroads was far more expensive than factories: in 1860,
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by hollerith 4mo ago
A Chinese person cannot vote for any party except the CCP or if they can, the voting is performative cannot remove the CCP from its position of absolute control.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
I doubt investment in railroads or aviation in the US was anything close to majority-government. I'd be shocked if the government's share of cumulative investment in petroleum production since 1859 (the start of commercial product
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by hollerith 4mo ago
This is very helpful to those of us who never experienced BBSes.

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