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by joegibbs 1y ago
That's not that much better - 12.5% stopped working and didn't do anything at all. I think that would also massively increase if the money was guaranteed to keep coming in for the rest of their lives. And even if the percentage st
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by joegibbs 1y ago
I don't deny that people love to do creative things like that. But society can't survive off creatives and gardeners and the other fun things. Those activities are nice for the people who do them but they don't help support t
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by joegibbs 1y ago
The problem with UBI is that not only does it give people an incentive to not work (as 25% of people in the study stopped working, even when they presume that the money would stop coming at some point) but, at a national level, it also requ
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by joegibbs 1y ago
That's because the kinds of people who make those huge amounts of money usually have that ambition and lack of satisfaction. But what about the parts of society that aren't go-getting yuppie strivers? There is a vast majority of p
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by joegibbs 1y ago
Every year, the complexity of software increases. First you’re running everything yourself, it’s a few thousand lines of code that handles everything on bare metal. Then it’s in an operating system, and that only becomes more complex as tim
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by joegibbs 1y ago
I'm not so sure that if we were to take all the wealth of the ultra-rich and redistribute it, that it would make that much of a direct positive impact on the rest of society. For one, most of their wealth is tied up in intangible asset
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by joegibbs 1y ago
20 years ago though, I think our teachers had the right idea when they said Wikipedia wasn't a reliable source and couldn't be counted. It's much better these days but I checked an old revision (the article on 9/11) the
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by joegibbs 1y ago
https://archive.is/zLkor
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RBA keeps rates on hold at 3.85pc in shock decision(afr.com)
3 points by joegibbs 1y ago|1 comments
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by joegibbs 1y ago
More importantly than this, George Hotz is very influential (has a self-driving startup and made the news for a Twitter internship) and presumably quite rich as well, there’s probably easier ways than swiping through Hinge like everyone els
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by joegibbs 1y ago
I think the thing a lot of people don't realise when trying to make the next runaway hit game is that most of the games they're trying to emulate weren't produced with that intent, and didn't get their popularity with
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by joegibbs 1y ago
Could there be any possible negative effects from an 81 gigaton nuke exploding though? A 100 megaton Tsar Bomba would wipe out all of New York, a thousands times more than that might have some adverse impact.
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by joegibbs 1y ago
Is Musqueamview not good enough? Or at least transliterate it into the Latin alphabet, or have Musqueamview as the main name and the other one on signs but not the actual name. I get they want to be inclusive and all that but what do they e
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by joegibbs 1y ago
I don’t understand why people use international law as their reasoning for why something is wrong or right. Law and morality are only indirectly connected - something can be entirely lawful yet completely immoral, or illegal yet moral. And
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by joegibbs 1y ago
Ten years of development with 40 employees is basically a guarantee of failure. A lot of the time, putting more people and money into the team makes it less likely to succeed because all those extra resources need to be doing something. You
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by joegibbs 1y ago
Some of this AI criticism is ridiculously hyperbolic. Sure, sometimes it makes mistakes and I don't believe that simply making a bigger LLM will somehow result in a godlike superintelligence in the near future. I don't think that
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by joegibbs 1y ago
Isn't that the whole point? It wouldn't be any use for anyone if a new technology did the same thing as before but made it harder rather than easier.
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by joegibbs 1y ago
I think I’ve mostly gotten used to it. At the start, definitely, but now my method is to have 3 or 4 agent tasks running o3 to perform smaller actions than I was previously trying to do. There is a second where I have to remember what each
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This company has never sold anything. Its founder is now worth $51B(smh.com.au)
14 points by joegibbs 1y ago|4 comments
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by joegibbs 1y ago
I think UBI is something that can only work in small trials. The people on the trial - whether that’s a random sample or the population of a geographical area - all get an economic privilege over the people who aren’t receiving the UBI, and
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by joegibbs 1y ago
Complete tinfoil conspiracy nonsense. Musk and Thiel hacked the election with Starlink? How is that meant to work? Maybe next you can say that Trump used spirit cooking or fluoride mind control or something to win. It's literally the s
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by joegibbs 1y ago
Most non-technical people have an inaccurate mental model of how LLMs work, based mostly on sci-fi movies like 2001 or Terminator, where they anthromorphise the model and assume that since it gives more accurate responses to most questions
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by joegibbs 1y ago
Isn't defence just a euphemism for war? I don't think many people assume they actually mean strict defensive efforts when countries talk about Defence Forces etc.
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by joegibbs 1y ago
You might just not like big-budget movies - there's definitely a correlation between the size of the budget and a lack of novelty. Take a look at Wikipedia's list of most expensive films, almost every single one on there is a big
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by joegibbs 1y ago
The water argument is way overblown. Even based on the worst figures from the article "OpenAI’s older model would be using 31 million liters of water per day, or 8.18 million gallons" - this is 2 billion gallons of water per year.
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by joegibbs 1y ago
I think subliminal advertising is banned in quite a few countries - not sure about the US - so it might be a problem internationally. I know that here in Australia there was a big scare about it in the mid 2000s, some station was cutting 10
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by joegibbs 1y ago
200 years ago you would have ten children, a few would survive until adulthood, and you needed to have children or nobody would look after you in old age, help you out when they're grown or take over your farm when you became infirm -
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by joegibbs 1y ago
The problem with using AI for writing is that most of the time you're trying to convey some kind of information that the AI doesn't know. If your business has outperformed some metric, the AI doesn't know until you tell it. S
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by joegibbs 1y ago
What if it just gets scaled down with nearest neighbour? Then the pixels would be forced on to a grid of a particular size. Maybe some kind of algorithm that compares the % difference to the full scale image to see what scale makes the most
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by joegibbs 1y ago
What do you mean by fake plugin?

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