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by jl6 2y ago
The paper references the ancient proverb “like father, like son”. I think it’s been obvious for millennia that humans aren’t born as blank slates.
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by jl6 2y ago
And they also put a tag on your ankle identifying you as someone who likes beer, so that beer salesmen can come knock on your door tonight.
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by jl6 2y ago
The universe is actually more like Linux: we got it for free, but we have to figure out how it works on our own.
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by jl6 2y ago
Most homeowners have a mortgage, and that doesn’t go down when the house price goes down. This can result in negative equity and it traps people in their current property until they can pay off the original debt.
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by jl6 2y ago
Is this the kind of problem that is being uncovered because of the extra scrutiny that Boeing is currently under? To put it another way, is this the kind of problem that is endemic across industry and we’re only finding out now because we a
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by jl6 2y ago
Would it be possible to embed a watermark in the generated audio? Many people will use voice changing tech for honest purposes, but there will always be those acting to ruin it for the rest of us. There are just too many scenarios where fak
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by jl6 2y ago
How big a share of Palestinian media consumption does Al Jazeera have? As in, do the residents of Gaza treat it as the main news source? The reason for asking is because a poll[0] of Palestinians says “90% believe that Hamas did not commit
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by jl6 2y ago
There is certainly a market for smaller turbines in remote locations where it’s harder to maintain grid access, or any other scenario where pure $/W is not the only factor.
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by jl6 2y ago
Sure, but capabilities and handles are technical terms of art below the level at which regular users need to understand. The idea that an app is another person using your computer is not a terrible abstraction in terms of helping people ma
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by jl6 2y ago
It's a spectacularly self-destructive joke, because it reinforces all the worst stereotypes about trans people:- transitioning is sudden and capricious, is something to be joked about, is a terrible and embarrassing thing for Andy Ngo
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by jl6 2y ago
3rd party apps are written (controlled) by other people, and you are effectively granting that 3rd party permission to run their code on your device, so the user concept isn’t that far off the mark. Since ~nobody reads the source code of 3r
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by jl6 2y ago
Bear in mind that hypothesized impact is estimated to have occurred around the 4.5Gya mark. That’s still a lot further back than 3.8Gya. And I still wouldn’t categorically rule out microscopic life/life-precursors surviving the event s
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by jl6 2y ago
> Earth was inhospitable until 3.8Gya There is much uncertainty about this. The early Earth was a volatile place with a lot of raw materials and energy available, and a lot of chemistry happening. I wouldn't rule out that some par
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by jl6 2y ago
If you are comparing the energy cost of LLMs, consider that the "training cost" of the human brain is the accumulated evolutionary activity of the last 4 billion years. Human inference is much more efficient though - we run at abo
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by jl6 3y ago
I could certainly do without big budget MCU slop, but Lord of the Rings? I am really glad that exists.
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by jl6 3y ago
Why would they use LMSYS rather than A/B testing with the regular ChatGPT service? Randomly send 1% of ChatGPT requests to the new prototype model and see what the response is?
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by jl6 3y ago
Without copyright we would probably make mostly low-cost/small-scale art, of the type that can be achieved by a single person, and probably would not make big expensive collaborative projects like $100m+ blockbuster movies which are ha
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by jl6 3y ago
They Live... kinda?
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by jl6 3y ago
These Elites... one might describe them as rootless cosmopolitans, perhaps?
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by jl6 3y ago
It’s a personal decision. It’s not for everyone. But “childfree” as an identity is counterproductive, seemingly aiming for the vegan/atheist stereotype for being insufferable about what they’re not doing.
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by jl6 3y ago
So what kind of cool/useful things could we make out of diamond if diamond were suddenly very cheap?
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by jl6 3y ago
True, but those were tiny interventions that hardly affected mainstream USA at all, unlike the brutalizing experience of 9/11, Iraq, and Afghanistan in the following decade.
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by jl6 3y ago
In this thread we see the iron law of 21st century American polarization and the uttermost death of nuance. I’m sure someone will come along to argue how nuance is a luxury we can’t afford in the face of these communist/fascist maniacs
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by jl6 3y ago
It’s not meaningless, it’s near meaningless. That’s what the nm stands for, right?
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by jl6 3y ago
It's the character which may enjoy copyright protection, not the word in isolation. So if you write a story about a bad guy named Sauron who likes rings, you may be infringing, but if you launch a new candy bar named Sauron then it m
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by jl6 3y ago
A single word cannot benefit from copyright protection, but a character can. It may be difficult to argue that Anduril and the Palantíri were characters, and even more difficult to argue that the commercial products named after them were su
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by jl6 3y ago
I really want to see some attempts at closed-loop renewable industry. Power generated from wind turbines built from steel made in direct hydrogen reduction steel plants (and the circuitry made with copper mined using electric mining gear, a
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by jl6 3y ago
Forget the PC, move them to iOS devices, and if it’s really bad, set them up as a child account so you can restrict actions like installing or removing apps.
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by jl6 3y ago
I started with Mandrake (ironically for the game ban, I bought a retail version that came bundled with a copy of The Sims that had been rigged to run with wine), then tried Linux From Scratch (very educational), then a brief spell on Gentoo
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by jl6 3y ago
So, I decided to install Linux on my formerly-Windows-only laptop, and thought it was cool enough to go full time and ditch Windows completely. The downside was the lack of access to top tier games. No problem though, my plan was to take a

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