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by jprete 3y ago
I think meter, rhythm, rhyme, and larger patterns are primarily ways to anchor a stream of words in memories stored by parts of the brain that process non-linguistic patterns. So there's definitely a function akin to a parity bit, but
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by jprete 3y ago
I think you're making distinctions that artists themselves don't make, and underestimating how much they can be financially motivated. The most surprising example I know is illustrated by this apocryphal story: "...someone vi
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by jprete 3y ago
I understand why you might say that - particularly at a societal level - but individual drivers: * Must be licensed * Must have a minimum level of liability insurance that covers other participants in an accident * Can be fined, get highe
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by jprete 3y ago
It's possible, but that formula is (after a log2 transformation) equivalent in comparison power to log2(mistakes) + blunders. This is almost reducing the mistake term to a tiebreaker, because mistakes and blunders are on the same scale
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by jprete 3y ago
What neighborhood, what decade? That sounds to me either very expensive, very far uptown, or very crime-ridden, but I don't know what your situation was.
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by jprete 3y ago
I think the sports analogy is bad. Using table tennis as an example, a point can look blundered from the outside, but really the opponent hit a very difficult shot to return and the player did their best to do so. There's also the ongo
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by jprete 3y ago
Sell them? To who?
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by jprete 3y ago
ADHD damages one's life in way more contexts than just work.
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by jprete 3y ago
Dogs are also predators. Quite a lot of large dog breeds should not be kept with cats, because they have enough prey drive that the cat will be in very grave danger. Dogs were historically bred for ratting and gophering. I'm thinking t
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by jprete 3y ago
Frankly this sounds very close to rubber-ducking. I'm sure LLMs throw out some creative seeds, but they're much better at coming up with creative ideas than truth. I think people are too used to getting creative ideas from other p
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by jprete 3y ago
The alternative is to see later studies like [1], which finds that several popular heart interventions don't actually improve all-cause mortality in the population of "severe but stable" heart disease patients. If stents and
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by jprete 3y ago
I think there's enough uncertainty in the post where assuming it's an airport would have a significant chance of being wrong. Nobody enjoys being corrected on a mistaken "obvious" assumption.
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by jprete 3y ago
If I had to explain the bar-and-restaurant figure, I would guess that all the methods that are growing (the bar scene and then Internet dating scene) privilege physical attraction over other factors.
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by jprete 3y ago
If you mean nightclubs, I assume they're covered by "bars and restaurants".
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by jprete 3y ago
I think you are right. I also think the Internet magnifies conventional advice, because nobody gets attacked (by anyone they care about) for promoting conventional advice even when it's dead wrong.
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by jprete 3y ago
I've noticed a trend where people are reluctant to allow their friend groups to mix or cross. I've got probably an above-average number of friends, but the number of friends-of-friends I've met in the last three or four years
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by jprete 3y ago
After at least 25 years exposed to various civilizational cycle and "Fall of Western Civilization" memes, I still don't know whether it's bullshit or not. And I'm regrettably far enough from Gen Z that it's har
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by jprete 3y ago
Snowcrash is a dystopian libertarian world cleverly hidden by the viewpoint characters treating it as completely normal.
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by jprete 3y ago
Colonial companies did this all the time, e.g. the British East India Company, and the 1800s American railroads had the Pinkertons. There's also the phenomenon of the company town.
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by jprete 3y ago
Also posted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39751658 .
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by jprete 3y ago
One can't expect much more than that from the UN. I think it does matter since it's a public diplomatic statement and therefore represents a weak public commitment. Anything the US, the EU, and China can all agree on is going to h
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by jprete 3y ago
Source was posted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39768402
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by jprete 3y ago
We don't understand how GenAI systems work, so we can't analytically predict their behavior; I think they're artifacts of synthetic biology, or chaos theory, not engineering or computer science. Giving GenAI goals and the abi
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by jprete 3y ago
That's not a useful description, it's the equivalent of explaining the entire software stack as a pile of logic gates.
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by jprete 3y ago
This is a non sequitur. We know what understanding means well enough for basically any technological object other than neural nets.
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by jprete 3y ago
If people would just stop loading those emails up with bullshit then we wouldn't have any reason to put AI on either end of the transaction.
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by jprete 3y ago
IANAL. I think you'd get copyright on the melody and the recording, but not the sound font that the AI created.
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by jprete 3y ago
Data collection for adversarial training was also my first thought. The same training data used for classifying images as AI-generated can also be used to train the AI to generate images that fool more people.
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by jprete 3y ago
The only places I remember delivering food before 2000 were Chinese-food places and pizzerias. Other restaurants didn't even do takeout except for fast food.
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by jprete 3y ago
The whole purpose of an interview is to talk to the actual person? If the person being interviewed uses an AI teleprompter, then the value of the interview drops to nearly nothing. They may as well craft a press release.

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