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by jjk166 2y ago
> I consider both of those examples to be AI, but not general AI and not particularly strong AI. The original goalpost was AI. You moved the goal post to general/strong AI. No one was claiming to be working on that back in the day e
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by jjk166 2y ago
> while increasing the quality of those left. Debatable. Willingness to put effort into a job application is not necessarily a good proxy for candidate quality. Indeed I would expect that the most desirable candidates can put the least e
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by jjk166 2y ago
Are we living in a world where while only 70% of the working population is employed everyone's needs and material desires are met? If yes then the unemployed have no need to justify their sustenance. If no then there is more meaningful
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by jjk166 2y ago
Yeah, that's moving the goalposts.
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> You don't get to rewrite decades of mathematical literature because it gives you AI vibes. AI as a term was invented to describe exactly this. Any usage of the term AI which does not include this is a misunderstanding of the term.
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by jjk166 2y ago
The US typically helps people afford expensive things, insulating people from rising prices. Other countries typically regulate prices, preventing things from becoming expensive to begin with. This applies to education, health care, housing
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by jjk166 2y ago
People did ask that, and they got back answers like "beating grandmasters at chess" and "being able to hold a conversation with a human," but no one considers chess engines or chatbots to be AI anymore because the goal p
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by jjk166 2y ago
You use teachers to train humans, but that doesn't mean teachers can't also be humans.
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by jjk166 2y ago
Humans have the same vulnerability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
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by jjk166 2y ago
> In this case the code went from bad -> good. That doesn't matter, the code changed. It's not like you can know what effects changes had before checking whether changes occurred. > The bug had existed for a long time bef
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by jjk166 2y ago
I would think the default assumption for a large codebase is that the code changes regularly. And especially if you are looking for a bug that started after a recent push, checking the revision history seems like the very first place you&#x
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That's exactly what I said
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The cost of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has been decreasing year over year when adjusted for inflation since 2021. It was also decreasing when adjusted for inflation from 2013 to 2019. The logic for food stamps does
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by jjk166 2y ago
Inflation refers to the money supply and is one number applied to everything in the economy. It does not account for things getting legitimately more expensive. Rent can go up faster than inflation, indeed we'd expect it to as presumab
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by jjk166 2y ago
Who would be so bold as to kill a Kennedy?
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by jjk166 2y ago
Patents were invented as a way for governments (and really at the time monarchs) to regulate commercial activity and attract skilled craftspeople. Modern patents were a reform of this to stop monarchs from abusing this power as effectively
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by jjk166 2y ago
The patent law definition of obvious is different from the common understanding. Specifically, it only counts if it was obvious before the patent filing to a person of ordinary skill. It's actually really hard for a patent claim to be
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by jjk166 2y ago
> Moore's law is empirical So? > and do you honestly think an asml duv machine could exist with 1980s computing power? I think something comparable could be, yes. The difficulty is in the precision, not the controls. Hell, the co
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by jjk166 2y ago
Well if it's weighted heavily enough towards the perfume side that's still preferable.
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by jjk166 2y ago
This is in line with how I've been using AI in my workflow recently. I give it a summary of my findings thus far and ask it to suggest explanations and recommend further tests I should conduct. About 70% of its ideas are dumb and somet
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by jjk166 2y ago
Generally the "pleasant" odor is meant to cover up some combination of "unpleasant" odors. It's nice when the area around a liter box doesn't smell like cat piss.
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by jjk166 2y ago
There weren't many North American conifers on the African savannah when humans were evolving, and our ancestors' reproductive success was not generally affected by air quality. We haven't evolved immunity to things like volca
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by jjk166 2y ago
Gaming a kpi to make it look like it accomplished a ton of work without doing anything? That's not an AI CUDA engineer, that's an AI middle manager!
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by jjk166 2y ago
The same people who decided the threshold of time where things stop being current and start being past. It's language, it's describing an abstract concept.
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by jjk166 2y ago
Yeah, it's aided by better computational models, but not appreciably by having those models run on chips with smaller feature sizes. If a time traveler from the future gave everyone at ASML and TSMC computers that ran 4 times as quickl
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by jjk166 2y ago
The energy cost to extract deuterium from seawater is about 1/238000th (0.00004%) the energy released from fusing that deuterium. Nuclear fusion breeds its own tritium from lithium. Running a 1 GW thermal fusion reactor for a year woul
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by jjk166 2y ago
Doubtful. While fusion is a fascinating engineering problem and has niche uses, it's unlikely to be competitive in either of the two big energy domains: electricity generation and transport. Fusion requires extremely large, extremely c
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by jjk166 2y ago
If you were transported to the past with the knowledge you currently possess as a result of the work already done, sure. Developing it from scratch is a whole other matter.
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by jjk166 2y ago
Untrue on both counts. Moore's law is not due to improved computing power in the design process, it's due to an incredibly long series of process improvements which become easier to develop because of the increased understanding o
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by jjk166 2y ago
Imagine an app where people list themselves as possessing lots of wealth and inadequate defenses and then asking for anonymous armed people looking for money to come to their location.

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