jpadkins

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by jpadkins 4mo ago
money is just an idea that spreads (a meme).
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by jpadkins 4mo ago
What you are describing applies to all forms of money. It has value because people believe other people will use it as money. If that belief drops, the value drops. People comment on gold and Bitcoin, but don't realize the same princ
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by jpadkins 4mo ago
Brin did not come out of retirement or steer the ship :-) He probably came out of retirement because LLMs were showing promise to a life long dream.
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by jpadkins 4mo ago
okay, but that is not the world that you live in. Many countries are religious and use religion to decide immigration.
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by jpadkins 4mo ago
I don't have any questions for you. Just wanted to thank you for writing Lean Startup, it was very influential to me.
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by jpadkins 4mo ago
why only a few thousand? serious question.
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by jpadkins 4mo ago
local models still need information retrieval.
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
I find this site useful https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
That is the beauty of the Resolution part of prediction markets. If evil DDT Corp bets money to skew the market, then they lose even more money on the Resolution (assuming the resolution is deterministic of harm and has not been manipulate
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
who uses SAT scores as "potential succeed"??
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
Nice try to make a law sound moral.
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
The other question you could be asking: Why does Google want to keep this secret for a period of time?
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
yes it is good in many scenarios. Imagine bad (incorrect and potentially harmful) information is public knowledge. Examples are "X cures cancer" or "Is Y dangerous to consume". A prediction market will be seeded by publ
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
So because Quebec ancestors killed all the people who opposed the conquest of that land, it's okay for Quebec to secede? But because another set of Canadians didn't kill off all the natives that still claimed Alberta's land,
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
What's great about this article is it's a falsifiable hypothesis. Is anyone keeping a list of companies in different sectors not firing due to AI? We can revisit this in 2 years and see how we did.
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
Solar panels on surface get ~70% less energy than in space once you factor in atmosphere absorption, day/night, weather, etc. Solar + battery on the surface is not economically viable versus nat gas generators (excluding externalitie
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
I see the programming was effective on you.
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
> along with everything else Musk has claimed in the past decade * mass produced EVs * Neural links to brain * reusable rockets * more efficient tunnel digging Dude has a pretty good record of taking stuff in R&D and making pretty r
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
Have you calculated the CO2 output of Terran datacenters run on natural gas vs. space datacenters run on solar? The launch CO2 usage is one time, the datacenter energy is for the life of the equipment.
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
ad creative (also just 'creative' for short in an advertising context) has been around since the 1960's. It was used in web banner advertising at its inception in the 1990s. Tribes have their own lingo, and language change
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
One reasoning flaw I've seen in this type of discussion is the assumption that the person has the same value system as you / the experts. In your example, it is assumed that the subject values a very long life. Maybe they don&#x
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
vapor has been used for medicine delivery for a long time, especially for patients who can't swallow pills. Also gov regulation is not the only form of regulation. Fear of getting sued by your customers into bankruptcy is an effective
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed the article felt AI generated.
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
Your comment implies that my post was my own opinion, where I was merely sharing what the USA position on Cuba has been. If your definition of fascism includes the merger of corporate power with gov power, then the USA has met that definiti
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
In the 90s, the business model was bundle the news with classifieds (classifieds were the main profit source for print newspapers, inline ads only covered the cost of paper, ink and distribution). The web unbundled news and classifieds, an
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
can't have communists in the western hemisphere. They give up authoritarian communism, we will be magnanimous.
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
clearly you just need to have your agent review, summarize, and take appropriate actions on the docs being sent to you.
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
It's not that the $2B business isn't interesting, it's competing with GitHub would be a major undertaking and the opportunity cost of doing that is probably more than $2B.
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
someone has to pay for administrators!
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by jpadkins 5mo ago
I mostly stopped using Reddit in 2016, and was site banned in 2019 (for posting "gnews.com" in answer to the question of which site has the Biden laptop leak). I didn't say "signal processing", I stated 'signal

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