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by jstanley 1y ago
Rice isn't exactly a staple food in the UK. And you can still have efficient food production in the UK, it's just that small artisanal "under 100 food-miles" farming is inefficient.
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by jstanley 1y ago
> unless it gets built-into the browser DuckDuckGo is built in to the browser! Google is still unfortunately the default, but it's just Settings -> Search -> Default Search Engine, and DuckDuckGo is already in the list. >
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by jstanley 1y ago
The post doesn't say anything about worrying about it being stolen.
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by jstanley 1y ago
But it's a CI system! It is literally running code you provide. You could put Node 20 in there if you wanted anyway.
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by jstanley 1y ago
I've done some work for a telco and I was surprised to find that emergency calls are routed over completely different infrastructure to ordinary calls, and it is not routinely tested. There wasn't an automated way to test it, and
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by jstanley 1y ago
> "The purpose of a system is what it does" Conversely, https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo...
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by jstanley 1y ago
> Which kind of computer system is most ideal to run a very branchy and recursive workload? An analogue one, possibly?
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by jstanley 1y ago
I thought I recognised the name - Bourbon Moth is the guy who faked a video of oily rags self-igniting to make a video to advertise fireproof bins for woodworking. This one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gqi2cNCKQY Debunki
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by jstanley 1y ago
The four books discussed in that passage are: AI Snake Oil – by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor Nexus – by Yuval Noah Harari Genesis – by Henry Kissinger, Craig Mundie, and Eric Schmidt The Singularity Is Nearer – by Ray Kurzweil
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Arms – Magic Castle [video](youtube.com)
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by jstanley 1y ago
You mean contrary to: > PM2.5 peaks at 11 ug / m^3 and then comes down once I stop frying. ? Just saying "Contrary" doesn't give away much information. It doesn't come down when you stop frying? It peaks at a dif
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by jstanley 1y ago
What are your observations?
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by jstanley 1y ago
I'm not in the US and have never seen a self-driving car. Can you explain how a human intervenes in person? Do you mean these cars have a human driver on board? Or the passenger drives? Or another car drops off a driver? Or your car pa
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by jstanley 1y ago
That shows that your predictions are well calibrated in the aggregate. There is no way to know whether any one particular prediction was accurate.
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by jstanley 1y ago
To say that polls are accurate in general is fine! To say that a specific probability given by a poll was accurate is meaningless, there is no way to know.
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by jstanley 1y ago
That's circular reasoning. My model says there's a 70% chance of Foo, and that is actually accurate. How do you know it's accurate? Because my model said so. It might have been accurate! 30% probability events happen 3 time
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by jstanley 1y ago
But how do you check that it was actually taken by a camera and not just tagged as such? Secondly, even if you solve that, how do you know it's not a photograph of an AI-generated scene? I think this is very obviously not the right app
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by jstanley 1y ago
> 70% probability Hillary would win was actually accurate. Based on what?
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by jstanley 1y ago
And keys on the keyboard.
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by jstanley 1y ago
JSON has the major annoyance that grep doesn't work well on it. You need tooling to work with JSON.
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by jstanley 1y ago
Fwiw, electric cars are more efficient the slower you're going because inefficiency mostly comes from air resistance.
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by jstanley 1y ago
> CADAM uses ngrok to send image URLs to Anthropic FYI you can send base64 encoded PNGs, no need to mess about with ngrok.
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by jstanley 1y ago
> Kelly variants: Betting full Kelly can be psychologically draining, especially with volatile outcomes. Many find that betting half or quarter Kelly reduces emotional swings while still capturing significant long-term growth. Betting le
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by jstanley 1y ago
How does leasing save you from depreciation? Surely the company leasing you the car has a good idea of what the depreciation will be, and they want to make money.
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by jstanley 1y ago
> I suspect we (conscious selves) are just witnessing those functions like we are witnessing anything, "from the outside" Do you imagine the self being split into an "actor" who makes all the decisions, and an "o
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by jstanley 1y ago
Thanks, and do we know if the humans are average people off the street, or unusually-intelligent people? EDIT: OK, I see there are 3 types of humans: "Avg. Mturker" does worst. "Stem Grad" and "Human Panel" are
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by jstanley 1y ago
I scrolled down but didn't find a chart comparing average human performance to AI performance. The only chart I found was comparing the costs of different models.
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by jstanley 1y ago
Another example: is Firefox explained by electronics? The computer is made out of electronics, and Firefox exists in the computer and is in a way part of the computer, but electronics is not the right level to understand Firefox, and in pri
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by jstanley 1y ago
Replace the word "physics" with "God" and see if it sounds substantially different. See also https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/L22jhyY9ocXQNLqyE/science-as...
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by jstanley 1y ago
Why?

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