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by kdmccormick 3y ago
I feel the same way about list concatenation! I'm sure some will disagree, but IMO now that Python has "splatting" in list expressions: xs = [2, 3, 4] ys = [1, *xs, 5] the old way feels backwards: xs = [2,
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Because raising children is essential to the survival of human society. If we're going to be brutually economic about it: Are you invested in stocks or bonds at all? If our population collapsed, so would those. Today's investors&#
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Your point was my initial reaction, too. But hey, these people have been raising kids to survive in the freezing cold for hundreds of years, who am I to say they're wrong? I bet there is a certain delicacy to telling the stories as al
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
I think GP means that picking fruit has a direct, meaningful impact on consumers --fresh food--whereas the positive impact of the next saas thing is indirect and often dubious. But yeah, harvesting as a community sounds more meaningful to
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Nothing innately "wrong" but I can see it fueling resentment among working class Japanese towards these foreign, exclusively-wealthy digital nomads.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Agreed it is unsettling. For what it's worth, there's some peace of mind in that this software is probably tested much more thoroughly than the average piece of Web software or whatever. Version control / security best practi
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
You're comparing a situation that happens all the time (opposing traffic) with one that happens extremely rarely (blocked stairwell in a fire). If anything, you're strengthening my point. We should design for situations to a level
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
> I can’t control if my neighbor blocks the stairwell with a couch that gets stuck while he’s moving in and now I have no egress if my other neighbor starts a fire. That is an extremely specific situation! > How is double stair MFH ov
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
If I were Zuck with Zuck's goals or Zuck with my goals?
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
I have had both problems. As it turns out, unsurprisingly, it varies from person to person. It can also vary within a single person. They might, for example, ask questions too quickly when stuck on a technical question that could be solved
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
This is it. The real answer to this whole debate is "it depends" but for some reason that doesn't seem to satisfy people.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
> I don't care about politeness I care about kindness. Your original comment is not kind either, my friend. Genuinely useful feedback is the best, for sure. But hearing a generic "no" still makes it easier to take a deep b
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
FTA: > The effect of getting ghosted for me, and likely others, is impactful. The narrative in my head played out like this: “was I really so bad that they wouldn’t even tell me no?” It was also a chilling effect for my projects that inv
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Driving brings out the worst in people. You're all trying to get somewhere, you're all a danger to one another, and, critically, you can't see faces well. So, you end up receiving offenses against you as if they're perso
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
I think there is a certain skill in being a go-to person in such a way you regularly unblock other people, but also respect your own time and ambitions. Are you constantly being asked how a system works? Take some time to document it, and t
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
> But "Supporting" a browser doesn't really mean very much. As long as the browser is standards compliant and websites continue to build to the standard it will still work. FTFY "This website is best viewed in IE&qu
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Unfortunately, some gyms are now using 5.9+ to mean a grade between 5.9 and 5.10a, which is very different than the traditional meaning of 5.9+.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
> Work to limit the scope and reach of US intellectual property law? Very cool. I don't doubt that it's impactful work. I still think you're way off base with your views on EA :)
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Thank you! I love you. So so excited. Thank you, thanks. Love. Thank you, and you and you. Thank you. Love, Sam.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Hi, I'm pro-EA and also in favor of significantly higher taxes, higher infra spending, medicare for all, UBI, and changes to corporate law that would lessen the power that multinational corporations have over developing countries. A lo
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
The idea is that you can have a belief and derive emotion from it without ever consciously acknowledging the belief. Aaron had some deep-down, partially-formed belief that he worked harder than his partner Jim, without even knowing it. That
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
I am not well versed in any of this, but from reading the counterarguments, I think two good points are being made: * Analogies aside, neurons are quite different than NN nodes, because each neuron has an incredibly complex internal cellula
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
> what this nomenclature gymnastics buys you? ??? Are you writing off all abstract mathematics as nomenclature gymnastics, or is there something about this connection that you think makes it particularly useless?
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
I still find valuable the idea of evaluating charities based on their effectiveness, but I guess you could rely on charity evaluators for that without taking on the entire conceptual burden of EA.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Yup. I give to the extreme poverty and animal welfare funds, because they seem like a great way to give to well-vetted high-impact charities. The longtermism stuff has always struck me oddly alongside those other obviously-beneficial causes
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
Hundreds of examples? Can you name one? As someone who works at a non-profit that partners with various for-profits, I'm skeptical that the IRS would allow such sort of large-scale tax fraud to happen.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
I believe OAI Inc employees and board members have no equity, but OAI LLC employees can have equity.
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
I appreciate your take. I didn't know that was his stated reasoning, so that's good to know. I'm not fully convinced, though... > if you publish a model with scary capabilities you can’t undo that action. This is true of c
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
> "Open"AI (the name is an insult to all those truly working on open models, but I digress) Thank you. I don't see this expressed enough. A true idealist would be committed to working on open models. Anyone who thinks Sam
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by kdmccormick 3y ago
You've got to be kidding. Really, are you kidding? That's an extremely weak litmus test for goodness. Plenty of people maintain extremely close connections with their families while engaging in activies that are terrible for the w

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