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by js8 1y ago
I am leftist of the opinion that being in NATO is against european interest. However, I don't see it (and I don't think I am alone in that view) as an antiamerican position as such, more like internationalist position of rejecting
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by js8 1y ago
Can you support this claim? From cursory reading (and looking at GDP per capita), the failure was of neoliberal policies (which caused several massive crises), not peronism.
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Capitalism already replaces many citizens with consumers, leaving some behind. Citizens have a say in how money are spent, not just how much money they get. Consumers might get nominal choice in how much money they get, but the choice of ho
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When Hinton was asked, what's the solution, he simply said, "socialism". I am a socialist too. But if you believe his thesis (that AI will concentrate power in the hands of few), I think there is hope. Let me outline a positi
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I always thought that business logic, expressed in the language of your domain, should be part of the model. The controller is just a translator from the language of keystrokes and mouseclicks into the domain language, and the view is just
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That's what I call "single vortex principle". The graph of data dependencies (flow of updates) in your application should ideally have only one circle (which includes the user). The minimal circles of data dependencies are wh
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I don't think that is a viable strategy, honestly. Antitrust regulation doesn't really punish anyone for misbehaving (geez this billionaire just got his company broken up, what a terrible thing we have done to him that will surely
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I don't think my post is a non-sequitur. Politicians and thinktanks (and rich incumbents) are still selling laissez-faire (free market) policies as the remedy for the direct incumbent-friendly policies. My point is, they are not the re
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by js8 1y ago
I think your analogy shows why LLMs are useful, despite being kinda bad. We need some programming tool to which we can say, "like this CRUD endpoint, but different in this and that". Our other metaprogramming tools cannot do that,
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If you want a level playing field for competition, you need some mechanism that will level it. Whatever that is, clearly not laissez-faire. (I would also say that capitalism is more than a competition of firms, in fact, private ownership of
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I think many replies understood my comment as "every incumbent-friendly policy is laissez-faire", and argued that. What I really meant was the opposite implication, "laissez-faire policies are incumbent-friendly". (The &
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> Not sure how they would reconcile these two types of mega-storms. Maybe something like free energy in thermodynamics?
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The incumbent-friendly policies are also called laissez-faire. Turns out, the nature favors the incumbent.
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This is what HasanAbi mentioned the other day. Betting on AI to do a job (especially if it fails to replace it) is a double economic whammy. You get rid of original people who did the job, and then you don't have funding for other thin
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> T shirt estimation doesn't make any sense for AI dev It doesn't make sense for NI (natural intelligence) dev, either. Even SCRUM doesn't make much sense. The only Agile thing that really makes sense is Kanban, which is a
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Another good source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/students-trump-ice-det...
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Can you be more specific where Marx advocates for a violent revolution in his writings? I don't think word "revolution" (or even his usage of "dictatorship of proletariat") by itself implies violence (cf. "scie
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Well, I think it was both. He saw the problem (of capital accumulation in capitalism), and predicted a failure of it (due to people wisening up and taking action to fix the problem). Of course he wanted corrective action to happen - he didn
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Plenty of Gen Z caring about freedom, but unfortunately lot of them being deported from the U.S. for defending Palestinians. I mean - Western world is a bit tougher place for protesting than it used to be, due to capital accumulation. Free
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It's actually what Marx was warning about - private property ending in the hands of the few as an endgame of capitalism.
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Yes, humans fail at this, that's why we need technology tnat doesn't simply emulate humans, but tries to be more reliable than us.
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> I feel like anyone talking about the epistemology of AI should spend some time reading the basics I agree, I think the problem with AI is we don't know or haven't formalized enough what epistemology should AGI systems have. I
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I think LLM's chain of thought is reasoning. When trained, LLM sees lot of examples like "All men are mortal. Socrates is a man." followed by "Therefore, Socrates is mortal.". This causes the transformer to learn ru
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No, first you need to make a formulation of the theory that you're trying to falsify. What economic advice would the theory of comparative advantage give to China in the 1960s? If it is "just do the free trade", it would have
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While I agree that labor theory of value is wrong, I believe that theory of value based on utility is even less descriptive of the real world (and in that sense a regress). People are not utility calculating machines. I would say these util
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No, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44866613 . If the theory of comparative advantage is to give any useful advice, it cannot just rely on people doing "the right thing". That will quickly make it into an
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When things are produced locally, you get closer to consumer and feedback loop is shorter. (That's why Shenzen is so great as a HW startup hub - if you can get a part in minutes compared to days, prototyping is faster.) You can underst
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Mark Blyth has some interesting critique of Adam Smith in https://youtu.be/JQuHSQXxsjM
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But South Korea wasn't using pure comparative advantage either. Ha Joon-Chang mentions that LG was originally a textile company, but the government forced them to expand into cables. And 50 years later.. had they followed comparative a
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Comparative advantage somewhat works on international level, but with very specialized stuff. There is no reason every country needs its own space program, its own EUV tooling or its own global positioning system. But for commonly used good

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