jstanley

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by jstanley 3mo ago
> 50¢/m² is 50¢/kWp in a solar concentrator, or 0.05¢/Wp, which is noticeably cheaper than photovoltaic cells, currently around 18¢/Wp, 360 times more expensive. A photovoltaic cell is a solar panel, and a piece of al
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by jstanley 3mo ago
I don't know about corrugated aluminium, but aluminium honeycomb is definitely a thing: https://www.easycomposites.co.uk/aluminium-honeycomb
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by jstanley 3mo ago
On my microwave you can keep pressing the "start" button to add 30 seconds, but if you press it too many times in quick succession it ignores some of your presses. My oven requires you to use button presses to set the desired temp
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by jstanley 3mo ago
What are the best phones/distros to use phosh with?
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Ok but that doesn't come close to the variety of products you can buy online.
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by jstanley 3mo ago
> all the ethical arguments against using it were strong. You may want to restate what you think the ethical arguments are, for those not familiar with your views?
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ProofToken16: My Proposal for Private Decentralised Age Verification(incoherency.co.uk)
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by jstanley 3mo ago
2 consecutive pro-corruption governments
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by jstanley 3mo ago
No, it can't be transformed back because it has lost information. 2025-06 and 2026-05 both have the same digits, for example.
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by jstanley 3mo ago
If it's truly too dangerous to use you'd expect it not to be reversed at all. Why would you expect a typical policy decision to be reversed within 3 weeks? If policies are going to be reversed within 3 weeks just don't do the
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Is this the bottom?
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by jstanley 3mo ago
> "GPUs don't do deterministic matrix multiplications" is the biggest source of randomness in LLMs. But this isn't a fundamental property of LLMs, it's just an implementation detail. It's pretty obvious that
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by jstanley 4mo ago
> Why is it necessary for an agent to upload every bit of data it sees to OpenAI at all? The LLM is running at OpenAI. The agent doesn't see anything that doesn't get sent to OpenAI. It's like running a compiler in the clo
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by jstanley 4mo ago
People who are interested can look at it and use it. People who aren't interested are free to ignore it. What's the downside of open-sourcing this? We should commend bureaucracies on the rare instance that they open-source their s
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by jstanley 4mo ago
This is the is-ought fallacy. I'm not asking you to describe the existing laws. I'm pontificating on how they ought to be.
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by jstanley 4mo ago
Yes. This is the crux. If a person operating a computer wants it to do some benign thing, but (accidentally) it does some terrible thing, are they equally guilty, or less guilty, compared to if they deliberately asked it to do the terrible
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by jstanley 4mo ago
> If a person instructs an LLM to hack a bank Right. This isn't the crux because we all agree that if the person instructs the LLM to hack a bank then the person is culpable. The part we don't agree on is what happens when th
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by jstanley 4mo ago
Maybe something like https://www.nautel.com/products/am-transmitters/nx-series/ ?
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by jstanley 4mo ago
I don't think it's like that at all. I bet you could build a perfectly serviceable replacement at home without needing to spin up any special manufacturing equipment, using off-the-shelf components. For that matter I'd be som
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by jstanley 4mo ago
The table in the article seems to contradict its own headline. The headline says there are not 40k vacant homes, but the table breaks down the reasons for vacancy of just a bit over 40k homes. So it sounds to me like there are in fact 40k v
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by jstanley 4mo ago
This is what Lean is for: https://lean-lang.org/ If you have the LLM generate Lean code, and it compiles, then the proof is correct and you don't need to bother checking its working. (You still need to check that it is
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by jstanley 4mo ago
I think pretty obviously if the user instructs the computer to hack the bank then they are guilty of hacking the bank, I don't think that's the crux of the issue. The crux of the issue is what if the LLM decides on its own to hack
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by jstanley 4mo ago
It's hard to believe that civilisation has lost the ability to build longwave radio transmitters.
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by jstanley 4mo ago
Sure, I think that's fine, that all counts. It counts for open source too, it's not like they're somehow running these benchmarks without any harness. Nobody cares if your AGI is 100% made out of neural networks or if it&#x27
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by jstanley 4mo ago
> We used to ban the undesirable action! The undesirable action is shooting people, right? That's still banned. It seems like you think the undesirable action is publishing plans for machines you don't want people to have.
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by jstanley 4mo ago
This is overly reductive. If your web browser hacks a bank, but you didn't know and didn't expect it to, have you hacked a bank? Why is an LLM different? What happened to mens rea?
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by jstanley 4mo ago
You maybe misunderstood what I meant. I too prefer grass to concrete. Maybe the entire disagreement in this thread is just between people who think a patch of grass constitutes a lawn, and people who think a lawn is something else?
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by jstanley 4mo ago
If you want to be able to walk around the garden, rather than just stare at it from the window, you're going to need gravel, concrete, or a lawn. I know which I prefer.
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by jstanley 4mo ago
> if someone in the store shows me one item and gives me a good story, pretty good chance I'm walking out with it. This is kind of a tragedy of the commons. If people like you didn't fall for these scammy tactics, the people in
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by jstanley 4mo ago
That ship sailed when ".com" was created.

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