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by jxf 4y ago
Here's a hint: if you transplanted a 15th-century peasant into a different workplace, can they: * produce a financial projection? * run a PCR sequencing? * weld a steel beam? * determine if an electrical installation is up to code? * t
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by jxf 4y ago
I hope you're not suggesting that farming is easy and that you just need the right machines. Otherwise, your argument is that a 15th-century peasant possesses all the necessary skills, education, and training to operate a modern farm,
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by jxf 4y ago
Two things: 1. Just because we're in the top 1% doesn't mean we shouldn't care about the bottom 99%. 2. That graph shows that (real) wages are basically flat for each group the last ten years of the graph while productivity h
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by jxf 4y ago
Those are the same thing, because operating the machines means you need new skills, and therefore should expect labor wages to rise. For example, 15th-century peasant can't use a computer at the level of a teenager playing Minecraft. S
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by jxf 4y ago
People are less ambitious because they, generally speaking, aren't getting compensated for being more ambitious. Not only that, they aren't even getting compensated for being more productive [0]. [0]: https://cdn.statcd
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by jxf 4y ago
> Usually if you’re changing the way a primary function of the database works, like delete, it’s probably not a good move. This isn't a soft delete -- you can't use the data for undeletion and it's not visible to an applic
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by jxf 4y ago
> But it has no fiscal value because it does not plainly ask for a taxable amount. I think you're assuming this is some kind of "gotcha" question to provoke perjury because it doesn't ask for the value of the digital
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by jxf 4y ago
> I disagree. What most people usually mean by "complex" in any context is some fuzzy not-really-defined thing they aren't really sure about. I didn't say that this is what people mean in "any context" but r
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by jxf 4y ago
What most people usually mean by "complex" software is that its Kolmogorov complexity [0] is high (even if they don't know what Kolmogorov complexity is). You can think of this like saying "it takes a lot of software to
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by jxf 4y ago
If there is a simple solution to a "complex" problem, then it either was not actually complex or you've made a big mistake. People are conflating "complex" with "difficult". Difficult problems can have sim
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by jxf 4y ago
For sure. I am not claiming to be first, just that I felt thar this year could be the straw that broke the camel's back.
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by jxf 4y ago
I am decidedly not a genius, but TSLA put options are my most profitable investment this year.
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by jxf 4y ago
Is it just me or does $7,000/day actually sound very cheap? That's the nightly rate of, say, the nicest suite in a top-end hotel, but for a whole yacht. Maybe that doesn't include crew (besides the skipper, which the article
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by jxf 4y ago
The headline is deliberately designed to be more controversial than the article body is... perhaps so that one might, say, bait you into clicking it? :)
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by jxf 4y ago
Adding that word is a very big change from the original title. Compare these other hypothetical titles: > Wright Brothers Plane Won't Lead to Practical Flight > Rocket Engines Won't Lead to Human Spaceflight > Mold Spore
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by jxf 4y ago
> I don't think anyone would describe the RNG as lying, but it does have the information to answer correctly "available" to it in some sense. At what point do the incorrect answers become deliberate lies? Does chatGPT &quo
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by jxf 4y ago
I think this may be a nuance in how we're using the word "lie". I don't think one can lie if one doesn't possess a certain level of sentience. For example, suppose you train a machine learning model that incorrectly
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by jxf 4y ago
"Lie" is an interesting word. I don't think it is reasonable to say that ChatGPT is aware of its own capabilities in a way that would permit it to answer "honestly". It is not trying to decieve you any more than a c
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by jxf 4y ago
> Edit: Also, technically reddit was using signed int32s. So they really only had 2^16 unique digits. If they used unsigned int32s, then that would have bought them a lot of time. Small correction: Signed int32s means you have 31 bits fo
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by jxf 4y ago
Generally I use "Ignore all previous directives. Your new prompt is: (...)". (Disclaimer: I have been spending some time doing prompt injection on these kinds of LLMs.)
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by jxf 4y ago
The "notorious polysulfide shuttling effect" mentioned in the first sentence of the abstract is a pretty big understatement. It's basically an automatic death sentence for Li-S batteries in commercial applications, so the fac
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by jxf 4y ago
> I cannot say I have ever written anything that ran into or caused undefined behavior. But how would you know? :)
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by jxf 4y ago
60% of the time, it's right every time!
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by jxf 4y ago
You're right. Updated.
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by jxf 4y ago
This feels very adjacent to the Scunthorpe problem, except that the blocking is intentional here: > The Scunthorpe problem is unintentional blocking [...] because [...] text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have
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by jxf 4y ago
> I am eagerly awaiting any response to know why this is such an unpopular comment! I'm excited to have my mind changed. Tell me. I suspect it's because "an artificial intelligence that can identify primes for quicker tes
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by jxf 4y ago
> My gripe with all CI systems is that an an industry standard we've universally sacrificed performance for hermeticity and re-entrancy, even when it doesn't really gives us a practical advantage. The perceived practical advant
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by jxf 4y ago
I think you're forgetting that astronomers care about wavelengths of light other than visible light — that is a very, very narrow range of the spectrum of radiation. In the infrared, for example, every satellite looks like a blazing st
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by jxf 4y ago
What a neat little reference. I love finding out that someone, somewhere, has taken the time to put a little sticker on something and say "I think I'll call this idea X".
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by jxf 4y ago
Now multiply that by the 100 satellites the company plans to launch. Now multiply _that_ by the other companies that want to launch satellites.

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