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by keenmaster 3y ago
All the grumbling about too much screening doesn’t pass my sniff test. No one can convince me that detecting cancer earlier isn’t, on average, a good thing. The real problem is how expensive our healthcare system is - the cost of even basic
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by keenmaster 3y ago
That intuitively makes sense to me for everything except higher-level goal selection. If someone works at an NGO instead of FAANG because they want to do good for the world, how can that be explained in terms of prediction? If someone minim
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by keenmaster 3y ago
“Far better driving dynamics than gas cars”? No way. Go throw a BMW 3-series around some corners and compare to the Model 3 - you will feel the weight of the batteries. I would have said compare to a Porsche but that’s a different price ran
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by keenmaster 3y ago
True, but the difference here is that the second battery isn’t even used most of the time, and if it was it would die quickly.
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by keenmaster 3y ago
I had a Philips Hue switch that works like that. It worked perfectly but it’s not aesthetic (chunky, clicky, and oddly shaped), so it’s for bachelors only. Lol
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Sure, but it’s compatible with smart devices without any jerry-rigging for backward compatibility, not to mention labor savings. You can probably use the transmitter to power other low energy IOT devices too.
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by keenmaster 3y ago
You need more LFP to carry the weight of the manganese battery though (increasing cost), and all the extra weight can affect driving dynamics. Maybe both the cost and weight increase are minimal but that’s what came to mind. It’s a great id
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by keenmaster 3y ago
The printing press was banned as a cynical ploy by Ottoman rulers to suppress the Arab peoples. They knew this would reduce innovation, which Arabs were adept at - maybe even reduce Arab innovation for centuries - but hey, you can’t make an
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Maybe Internet cafes will become more of a thing again. The manager will verify you as a real human using their computers, and the Internet cafe itself gets audited. Or imagine a Costco Metaverse Verification Center. You can play in a VR me
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by keenmaster 3y ago
It’s not different, the two are tied. See my comments above, including my response to you related to epigenetic changes from stress. The person you are responding to likely has notable epigenetic modifications that have lasted way past the
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by keenmaster 3y ago
See the following study in Nature and scroll down to “Epigenetic reprogramming by ELS: the current landscape” -it gives an overview with citations and links included: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-022-02076-9 T
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by keenmaster 3y ago
I went down a rabbit hole about this while reading The Telomere Effect (recommended reading). The book goes into the good stress vs. bad stress paradigm and how it has a biological basis - literally at the RNA level. There’s a Goldilocks zo
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Absolutely not. If your brain is molded in a stressful environment, it’ll optimize for reaction to and preemption of threats, with all the anti-social behavior that entails, rather than creativity, cooperation, high-level learning, and cons
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by keenmaster 3y ago
“Burden for the user” - why not make this a burden for the AI instead? Have the AI do some web-crawling.
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by keenmaster 3y ago
They won’t have trouble getting capital. It’s open checkbooks for them all around.
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by keenmaster 3y ago
I bet OpenAI is trying to figure out how to have self-improving AI which suggests modifications to the hardware that runs it. You’d need some hardware expertise in-house for that (in addition to software of course), though not necessarily a
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by keenmaster 3y ago
There are topics where GPT-4 is more likely to be right than wrong. So when it is occasionally wrong and you happen to know to correct it, it has a more correct foundation upon which to provide further answers. This only really works when y
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Which LLM does radiantai use?
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Because Hacker News users respect paywalls and pay for content and totally would never click on the archive links that inevitably show up
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Totally agreed, “American” is interchangeable here
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by keenmaster 3y ago
I’m sure diet also plays a role. I want a tool where I can ask “if an American man is not obese, doesn’t smoke/do drugs/drink alcohol, and is not predisposed to violent early death, what is the average lifespan for people with his
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by keenmaster 3y ago
I actually agree when it comes to vehicles. I personally would not use self-driving until it is further refined. On the other hand, I haven’t seen LLMs used in safety critical applications or otherwise dangerous integration of LLMs into a p
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by keenmaster 3y ago
True, but there is a wide range of use-cases where “failure” of an LLM is tolerated, and it’s almost never safety-critical like driving is.
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by keenmaster 3y ago
You’re dunking on a fictional hyper-woke straw man in response to someone sharing a wholesome anecdote about doing something nice for their wife. Lol.
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Consider that this is just the beginning for LLMs, and GPT-4 is already somewhat magical. There’s no reason to believe that this already magical program can’t get exponentially better. Magic ^ X It’s going to be a wild ride. Also consider t
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by keenmaster 3y ago
I was going to expand on this point. “Moving images” abstracts away a lot of large improvements in both the technology for producing and for consuming movies. Same with “interactive electronic entertainment” for video games. And the more l
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Crime and Punishment, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein, Lord of the Rings, 1984, The Great Gatsby, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Odyssey (by Homer) are all books that I enjoyed that are varying degrees of old. I think comparing old
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Agreed. Citizen Kane was insanely boring even though it’s supposed to be the best movie ever. I need to pull a Wittgenstein and ask: what does the word “best” mean here? I care mostly about movies that are incredible to me now in 2023. That
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Viewing this website from my iPhone, it asked to use my precise location. That’s frightening given the capabilities of CISA lol. Cool resource though
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by keenmaster 3y ago
> What is new is the subscription to things you already own, the “heated seat” debacle for example. Yep, and that is what’s going away. BMW recently decided to stop offering heated seat subscriptions.

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