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by ipnon 1y ago
Where does the slurm come from?
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by ipnon 1y ago
I really struggle to feel the AGI when I read such things. I understand this is all of year old. And that we have superhuman results in mathematics, basic science, game playing, and other well-defined fields. But why is it difficult to impo
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by ipnon 1y ago
This assumes we’re able to build a rare earth processing infrastructure in a reasonable timeframe, let’s say 10 years. I would not bet on it! America struggles to build anything quickly today except for software and capital.
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by ipnon 1y ago
Normal is totally context dependent. It’s normal when you’re a young adult to have lots of transient friendships, sleep in, live with people you aren’t close to. Our behaviors are consequences of our environment more often than not. This id
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by ipnon 1y ago
There is something so horrifying about basic nuclear physics.
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by ipnon 1y ago
A rough but useful estimate is about $1tn. But you start to wonder if another $100bn of tokens is worth more than another $100bn of Amazon warehouses or Saudi Aramco refineries. Or if the demand for $100bn of tokens can even exist without s
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by ipnon 1y ago
Now the question is if this is GPT-2 and we’re a decade away from autonomous androids given some scaling and tweaks, or if autonomous androids is just an extremely hard problem.
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by ipnon 1y ago
In China you expect this because you get 5% GDP growth every year, housing that actually gets more affordable, government-subsidized growth industries and jobs. In Canada you get all the totalitarianism with GDP growth less than inflation,
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by ipnon 1y ago
In Dan Wang’s recent “Breakneck” he makes the case that process knowledge is what really drives technological cultures, not the creation of tools or blueprints. He questions whether blueprints of any specificity, sent back to Roman times, w
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Rebuilding Every 20 Years Renders Sanctuaries Eternal(japanfs.org)
1 points by ipnon 1y ago|0 comments
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by ipnon 1y ago
This is a trick I use: Never release a finished product. All of my releases are WIPs. I feel like Zeno’s Software Engineer.
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Structured Procrastination (1995)(structuredprocrastination.com)
486 points by ipnon 1y ago|162 comments
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by ipnon 1y ago
I believe a core tenant of the American Way is that we should be able to build great things together with people we disagree with.
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by ipnon 1y ago
Don't discount all of the great engineers at SpaceX just because of their boss, they are still pushing the limits of rocket science every day! And who knows, maybe they're just like us, and they think their boss is a jerk just lik
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by ipnon 1y ago
If there were a prediction market for which Mars transit window will see a crewed Mars mission, my money would be on 2033. In Musk chronology that's next week.
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by ipnon 1y ago
In “Radical Markets” by Posner and Weyl they show that for any plot of land, if you run a continuous auction on it, meaning whoever pays the most tax on it gets to own it immediately, including all assets contained within, then you get both
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by ipnon 1y ago
What exactly do you mean by “complicit” in “this stuff”? What are you accusing?
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Cell Biology by the Numbers(book.bionumbers.org)
2 points by ipnon 1y ago|0 comments
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by ipnon 1y ago
You've really struck a nerve, congrats, it's quite the accomplishment.
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by ipnon 1y ago
There is a lot of unmet demand for AI researchers that don't seem completely crazy. The Manhattan Project, people are wearing suits and ties, they're all aligned with the broader goals of the nation, the madmen who are proposing s
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by ipnon 1y ago
I write whatever in my big Org file. The key is to write something different every day. Having a routine topic becomes boring, and, well, routine. So in my big Org file there is everything worth referencing again, and in the morning I’ll ta
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by ipnon 1y ago
Pain relief seems to require some lowering of consciousness generally. For example, we daydream to relieve the pain of boring experiences. And when we undergo general anesthesia we lose all ability to perceive the moment or form memories.
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by ipnon 1y ago
It's true, but the main ingredient of the extract is THC at 5%. You could add 5% THC to acetaminophen, aspirin, or multivitamins, and you'll get the same therapeutic profile and same side effects.
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by ipnon 1y ago
A high-quality study has finally come to a daring conclusion: Weed makes you feel better but it makes you confused and sleepy.
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by ipnon 1y ago
Code has become noticeably more buggy in the age of so-called AI layoffs. I see this in MacOS, iOS, YouTube, Safari … everything has more bugs.
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by ipnon 1y ago
Which means if investors find this compelling, there are massive revaluations in store on the public market.
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by ipnon 1y ago
This is why doctors should recommend drinking and smoking. At a certain point the risk of premature death is greater from being a shut-in than it is from indulging in a pint and a ciggie with some buddies every once in a while.
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by ipnon 1y ago
China is a great place to do business, especially at the cutting edge.
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by ipnon 1y ago
The differences in macroeconomic policy between America and China has been described as a difference between optimizing for GDP growth and optimizing for productivity growth: America will be satisfied with increasing GDP at the expense of p
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by ipnon 1y ago
Reading this at 10 was like when Neo gets the kungfu program loaded into his brain. Completely mind blowing. The wildest music I had heard was Mandy Moore on the radio. And now there is a whole new horizon, with acid and 808s and sampling a

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