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by kalkin 4y ago
ChatGPT is more comparable to what Quora/Poe calls Claude+ - slower/more expensive/smarter. Claude-instant is closer to GPT-turbo in that tradeoff space.
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by kalkin 4y ago
Not really. The point of the philosophical zombie idea is that they'd be indistinguishable in behavior from conscious people. Part of the point of the stochastic parrots is that supposedly they can't accomplish the same things as
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by kalkin 4y ago
A makefile can run arbitrary shell commands.
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by kalkin 4y ago
Do you mean that the chapter on priming has been debunked (as I believe Kahneman acknowledges) or is there more wrong than that?
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by kalkin 4y ago
This is cool. I'm surprised that compiling a partial Zig backend to WASM and then compressing that ends up meaningfully smaller than compiling to C and compressing the C, when you include also the C partial WASM implementation and zstd
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by kalkin 4y ago
Right. I've seen this parodically phrased as "I just make the rockets go up, it's the Luftwaffe's business where they come down" and I don't get that attitude at a gut level but it's clearly common (even
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by kalkin 4y ago
I used to try to do that and yet I found it was net negative for my mental health in practice, with infinite scroll etc.
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by kalkin 4y ago
"Everyone was kind, smart, dedicated, thoughtful, generous with their time and knowledge, and a genuine pleasure to work with." I know this is what everyone says after leaving a company if they don't want to burn bridges, and
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by kalkin 4y ago
Ah good point re the inequality, over thought it. If there weren't good reasons for making the assumptions that modern compilers do, I'd have expected users of C and C++ to have converged on a more conservative compiler, at least
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by kalkin 4y ago
The inequality argument would seem to apply only to for loops with constant iteration counts, yeah? The compiler can't know that "i < n; i++" won't overflow if "i" could start out higher than "n".
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by kalkin 4y ago
Should loop-invariant code motion be an allowed optimization only when the compiler can statically prove that a for loop's increment won't overflow?
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by kalkin 4y ago
I agree that a single data point like this doesn't provide useful intuition about whether the police are overfunded; I believe they generally are but that's based on what they do (and don't do) with the funding they have. If
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by kalkin 4y ago
I don't know the specific numbers for LA, but the city discretionary budget doesn't seem like an unreasonable choice for the denominator here. That's the budget from which the mayor or city council can either allocate more to
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by kalkin 4y ago
If "traditional nuclear family" is a euphemism for anti gay marriage, that's closer to the opposite of 85% in the US these days. Even so I've never heard that given as a sufficient reason to identify someone as alt right
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by kalkin 4y ago
Do you have examples of "actual" alt righters reacting this way? Or are you speaking for yourself?
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by kalkin 4y ago
Elon has interacted frequently and positively on Twitter in the last few weeks with alt-right figures like Ian Miles Cheong and Andy Ngo, e.g. agreeing that the slogan "hands up, don't shoot" is somehow a "lie", and
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by kalkin 4y ago
I'm curious what you think it's possible to buy that replaces the need to invest on top of Bazel. Have you worked on a comparably sized codebase that used a simpler solution?
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by kalkin 4y ago
"rational, reasoned and thoughtful" are unusual terms for an article that's fundamentally dishonest about where promotion of plastic recycling has come from: it's never been something environmentalists advocated (as anyt
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by kalkin 4y ago
What you call entitlement sounds to me something more like self-respect. If I was asked to show the last 30 days of my code to a random engineer from another company to prove I deserved my job, I'm pretty sure I'd quit on the spot
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by kalkin 4y ago
I don't see muggings, burglaries, or car break-ins in that quote. Not that you were asserting otherwise but it doesn't seem like support for disinterest in theft being a prosecutor choice rather than a cop choice.
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by kalkin 4y ago
Can you provide a link to these statements? How old are they? FWIW I don't live in SF but I've had a couple of car break-ins and I don't even remember if I reported them; it was a formality for insurance purposes if so and I
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by kalkin 4y ago
HN should refrain from moderating this thread in compliance with the spirit of the ruling. Would be educational probably!
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by kalkin 4y ago
That principle would have Einstein laughing off Szilard instead of sending him along to FDR. But sure, if AGI were on the order of five centuries away, dismissal would be the right take. I don't see much reason for your confidence in t
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by kalkin 4y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by an AGI equivalent to a cockroach, but let's take it for granted that cockroaches can do things AIs still can't. AIs can also do a lot of things that cockroaches can't, including plenty that
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by kalkin 4y ago
"We won’t waste your time arguing with these claims" Err, actually, if you have something substantive to say, please do? I would really love to be persuaded that unaligned AGI is not something I need to worry about in my kids&#x27
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by kalkin 4y ago
Depends on the question. I agree that the argument for a random person giving money to try to reduce AI risk seems dubious, and touched on this in another comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32394429 - although I
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by kalkin 4y ago
It does feel like more of a sociological than a philosophical overlap, aside maybe from consequentialism. The best argument for GiveDirectly and mosquito nets over structural change is that nobody honestly knows how to move the likelihood o
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by kalkin 4y ago
Did so in my comment to which you originally replied. To be clear, I have no idea what argument you believe Bostrom is most famous for and hold no particular brief for him as a thinker. But, repeating myself, the AI risk argument that he ma
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by kalkin 4y ago
I'm uncertain where I stand on this but I'm going to give a shot at a less dismissive answer than most of the replies so far. There's a very abstract argument that goes like this: * "Orthogonality thesis": an arbitr
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by kalkin 4y ago
You are not doing yourself a service if you decide that "every available mechanism at your disposal" ought to include just completely misstating what the opinion actually is, as with the Pascal's Wager analogy.

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