jpadkins

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   by jpadkins 9mo ago

   get off reddit. it's bad for your psyche and probably causing brain damage.
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   by jpadkins 9mo ago

   I think it may be the opposite. The mass propaganda techniques that worked for so long (i.e. control of the narrative via the big 3 news networks) no longer work in the social media age. So you have a system that is trying more and more e
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   by jpadkins 9mo ago

   He got into a heated debate with his audience about COVID vaccines and ivermectin (he was pro vaccine and said they were idiots). Later he admitted he was wrong, when more evidence came out.
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   by jpadkins 9mo ago

   I am glad he came to Jesus before the end.
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   by jpadkins 9mo ago

   his posts on that site are fantastic! Also, someone replied "Welcome to Metafilter Scott" on his first post.
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   by jpadkins 9mo ago

   the people who start successful new companies will get paid the most.
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   by jpadkins 9mo ago

   I think it is more accurate to say some skills are declining (or not developing) while a different set of skills are improving (the skill of getting an LLM to produce functional output). Similar to if someone started writing a lot of C, the
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   by jpadkins 9mo ago

   But he didn't say that. He cited the studies that said increased Paracetamol during pregnancy correlates with higher rates of autism, and people should know that and be careful. Whenever we discover a link between two things, it&#x27
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   by jpadkins 10mo ago

   OpenAI is using a page from 2010's Facebook playbook. They know their valuation is hyper inflated, so they are using those crazy valuations to buy stuff with equity (just like Facebook bought WhatsApp with private stock with crazy val
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    by jpadkins 10mo ago

    also if they are not looking to grow, they are probably not hiring.
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    by jpadkins 10mo ago

    A lot of YouTube political influencers have more viewers than CNN.
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    by jpadkins 10mo ago

    Your model of "selling out" is wrong. He did change his values for a holidays or a Winnebago. He has been aligned with a certain set of values for a long time, and has not really changed. He got the position he is in because of
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    by jpadkins 10mo ago

    240M is small time for US lobbying. Just saying, they are gnats compared to pharma, banking, MIC, Unions, or energy.
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    by jpadkins 10mo ago

    Jerome Powell sets the future price of the dollar by setting a goal that is achieved by the Fed creating dollars and buying bonds (or selling bonds). > What is being fixed? A small group of people decide how much currency is circulated a
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    Probably more related to progressive culture, people worried about saying the wrong thing. From the outside, it looks exhausting to try and keep up with the latest dogma of the left.
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    Intel in the 90s-2000s did. I did customer research on them (worked on powerpoint at the time). I was amazed that the CEO gave a mandate to the company that if an agenda was not posted to a meeting 24H before the meeting, you did not have
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    what if more people want to play an action shooter game, and not a slow strategy game?
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    web users make their choice via choice in browsers.
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    This is bad advice. Max out 401k early. Compounding growth is how you get rich / FI. The earlier you start, the more time to compound.
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    I was told that Amish (elders) ban technology that separates you from God. Maybe we should consider that? (depending on your personal take on what God is)
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    > We need a system which allows the earth resources being used as efficient and fair as possible. To what goals? Who gets to decide what is fair?
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    Then why is he allowing it to be exposed right now? If actually useful to his political goals, he would suppress the launch of the location feature, right?
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    there is a reason why they call TV programming.
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    really missed an opportunity to name it micro banana (or milli banana). Personally I can't wait for mega banana next year.
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    checking the checkbox does verify you are human, for the most part.
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    I can wreck stockfish in chess boxing. Mostly because stockfish can't box, and it's easy for me to knock over a computer.
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    Elon Musk specifically gave OAI $150M early on because of the risk of Google being the only Corp that has AGI or super-intelligence. These emails were part of the record in the lawsuit.
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    If you are genuine in your questions, I will give them a shot. AGI applied to the inputs (or supply chain) of what is needed for inference (power, DC space, chips, network equipment, etc) will dramatically reduced costs of inference. Most
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    LLMs help ads efficiency a lot. policy labels, targeting, adaptive creatives, landing page evals, etc.
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    by jpadkins 11mo ago

    parkour has been in fps since quake 2 with CTF and grappling hook.