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by kaibee 8mo ago
Well, a terabyte of text is... quite a lot of text.
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by kaibee 8mo ago
In some way, the US won the cold war by spending so much on military that the USSR, in trying to keep up, collapsed. I don't see any parallels between that and China providing infinite free compute to their AI labs, why do you ask?
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by kaibee 8mo ago
The problem with this example is scale. A person is rational, but systems of people, sharing essentially gossip, at scale, is... complicated. You might also consider what happened in China during the last time there was a leader who riled
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by kaibee 9mo ago
"Ex-post facto? No, you see, the message was still in the Discord chat history and you did not delete it, despite having years to do so."
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by kaibee 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%932026_Iranian_prot... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by kaibee 9mo ago
> On a long timescale gold is way more stable than the dollar. This is a nonsense claim. How many flat screen TVs could you buy for a pound of gold over a 'long time scale'? Cancer treatments? Acres of land in midwest? Hour
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by kaibee 9mo ago
> We obviously haven't and won't do this to a nuclear-armed country. Right... which means that every regime knows they have to become a nuclear-armed country.
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by kaibee 10mo ago
> Does Claude itself use them instead of e.g. grepping? Struggling to understand how it helps. That would be the idea.
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by kaibee 10mo ago
ijk are standard in linear algebra for vector components. > (And i and j? Which look so similar at a glance? Never. Never!) This I agree with.
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by kaibee 10mo ago
The thing about this kind of 'just so' story causal mechanism is that we still have to actually do the science to find out. Your body does filter and kill potentially cancerous cells all the time already. And cancer cells aren&#
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by kaibee 11mo ago
I mean... probably not but? https://youtu.be/ach9JLGs2Yc
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by kaibee 11mo ago
Anonymous voting means that you can't sell your vote. Like, if I pay you $5 to vote for X, but I can't actually verify that you voted for X and not Y, then I wouldn't bother trying. Or if I'm your boss and I want you t
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by kaibee 1y ago
If you suddenly had to do all your mental math in base-7, do you think you'd be just as fast and accurate as you are at math in base-10? Is that because you don't have an internal world-model of mathematics? or is it because lan
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by kaibee 1y ago
Aye yea, the war will be over by Christmas! I've heard this one before.
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by kaibee 1y ago
> Your claim is that the local governments shouldn't be allowed to collect this data period. Not OP but that is obviously not his claim..? The cyclist data doesn't identify specific people. How are you missing the distinction
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by kaibee 1y ago
Didn't you get the memo that crime is legal now? Sure, maybe some admin in 2028, might start proceedings against them in 2029, that would be decided against them by ~2035. But you see, _this time_ forced bundling will work!
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by kaibee 1y ago
I feel like you're kinda proving too much. By the same reasoning, humans/programmers aren't generally intelligent either, because we can only mentally simulate relatively small state spaces of programs, and when my boss tells
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by kaibee 1y ago
> Politics is (if systematically grounded, which for many individuals it probably isn't-and this isn't a statement about one faction or another, it is true across factions) Yeah, I agree with this. > necessarily downstream o
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by kaibee 1y ago
> Yes everyone with my political beliefs has a well-structured world model As nice as that would be, its only marginally less true. > everyone without my political beliefs is a model-free slop machine that just goes by vibes. Nah, som
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by kaibee 1y ago
> If we were all smarter Its not really an intelligence thing. You could have the most intelligent agent, but if the structural incentives for that agent are for example, "build and promote your own library for X for optimal career
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by kaibee 1y ago
Your mouse pos -> map coords transform is wrong when the page is wider than the canvas is tall. Pretty neat otherwise.
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by kaibee 1y ago
> We have a problem where regulators are bad at their jobs most of the time, and then people develop the heuristic that all regulation is bad. No, we have a problem where 95% of regulations work so well that no one even remembers that th
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by kaibee 1y ago
> wealth inequality does not make the economy worse anyway. economies are always better where more wealth is created, and wealth is never created "evenly" across the population; however, the rising tide does lift all boats, tha
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by kaibee 1y ago
> They are worried about how LGBTQ/trans athletes are destroying the moral fabric of their society. Those concerns aren't going to evaporate just because everyone is fed and housed. If anything if they're more economically
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by kaibee 1y ago
> Therefore, by induction, One grain of sand is a small amount of sand. Two grains of sand is a small amount of sand. Therefore, by induction, any amount of grains of sand is a small amount of sand. The Sahara contains a small amount
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by kaibee 1y ago
I'm commiting the faux paus of providing a chat-gpt answer, but I've worked in fintech (annuities though) and I can confirm that this answer is broadly correct. https://chatgpt.com/share/687bbde1-4ba8-800c-92
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by kaibee 1y ago
> At some point syntax became kind of a vague sense of color on top of the data flow Thank you for this analogy.
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by kaibee 1y ago
> You'll have to explain that more. Ship builders aren't competing with plumbers. Sure, on any given year. But the current economic organization of society wasn't born yesterday. On a longer timescale? Absolutely are. &
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by kaibee 1y ago
https://iquilezles.org/articles/ Also recommend this as a resource, immensely useful and full of examples.
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by kaibee 1y ago
> "Consume" labor hours? What does that even mean? Those laborers get paid, and then they spend the money they get. That money is circulating through the economy. Money isn't stuff. Yes, those craftsmen get paid, but when

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