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by keenmaster 3y ago
I don’t see how this is supposed to be meaningful. Ancient Greece was incredible for its time, and modern Greece is relative poor. I hope we both agree that doesn’t diminish Greece’s past in any way.
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Janissaries were a uniquely Ottoman practice, and evoke something completely different than Muslim Andalucia. Also, I don’t believe that the Ottomans mutilated Janissaries in the way you described - that would be counterproductive, since st
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Lol. I should have said AI rather than LLM because it would look at product images too - GPT-4 is already multi-modal. GPT-5 (and equivalents) is probably where services like this will start trickling out, and by then the model should have
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by keenmaster 3y ago
LLMs with access to real-time data and reviews should be able to simplify this process a lot. “Show me a white and gold sectional in the art deco style for under $2500.” “Actually none of these look comfortable but I like the vertical lines
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Sure but the spirit of my comment stands and it’s a small adjustment to the math. Needless to say pedestrian safety is paramount.
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by keenmaster 3y ago
If a couple drives 10,000 miles each for 50 years, that’s 1 million miles. In a neighborhood with 75 houses, each inhabited by such a couple, 1 person will die from driving in those 50 years. And when they die, they usually had many more ye
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Hey man, that’s never worth it. Please don’t. There are so many levers you can pull to get to a better place and you might just not be seeing that clearly now.
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by keenmaster 3y ago
With tons of cheap energy, you can make better use of the land you have. The entirety of humanity can technically fit in Southern California. I’m imagining a swarm of construction robots running on dirt cheap power, excavating land and buil
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Emotions can be rational in many different ways, sometimes more on the group rather than individual level. Whatever emotionality cannot be superceded by something better, will presumably be replicated by AGI. This is especially true for AGI
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Not OP, but I thought FedNow will do this on day one for participating banks. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. FedNow will also settle faster than Venmo currently does (unless you pay for Venmo’s instant settlement) because it’s instantaneo
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by keenmaster 3y ago
>CTRL+F GPT4, GPT 4, GPT-4 Disappointing. I cannot evaluate claims about GPT when people say ChatGPT instead of GPT4, if they actually mean the latter. And if someone really is discussing the usefulness of AI while only having used ChatG
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by keenmaster 3y ago
That’s wild and unfortunate. Just curious: don’t you hit your deductible far before paying the full 12k? Or is there an exception for hearing aids. Also, isn’t the prescription requirement for hearing aids being waved?
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by keenmaster 3y ago
So literally a vibrating pill box that stays lit and sends smart reminders until someone takes their pill would be 10,000x more effective and cost vastly less than the appointments+opportunity cost+lifestyle cost forced on women by profitee
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Empirically, how much does visiting a doctor change people’s understanding of “once daily”? Measured in percentage terms. Because that’s the important question here.
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Advances in the harder spheres will come. It’s just a matter of time. Their transformation will happen in a step-wise fashion, unlike the curvy exponential growth you’re seeing in pure software. AI cannot safely and cheaply be used to drive
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Ya there isn’t enough talk of the more medium-term, practical uses of AI. I don’t care about mind uploading or AI doom risk. Will AI make stuff cheaper and better? Will it incrementally improve my life? I think the answers are yes and yes.
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Reality is biased towards the fast-moving scenario, so long as we aren’t running into the bounds of physics, which as far as I can tell we’re not. Kurzweil was much more right than he was wrong. The opposite is true of people who strongly d
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by keenmaster 3y ago
He was probably referring to Disney Star which you can get with Disney+ in some countries outside the U.S. https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/10/22165950/disney-star-str...
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by keenmaster 3y ago
“Our brains are composed of many models, some heuristic, some optimizers, some solvers, some constrainers, and some generative.” We need an AI that iteratively tweaks its own architecture (to recreate and surpass those modules which are nec
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Why not both? Accept federal funds and increase class size by the # of legacy admits. This is the obvious solution if there’s an impasse with the government. Want to accept another legacy student? Then take in one more student on merit. The
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Metabolism is remarkably stable (relative to popular belief) after your teenage years and until you approach 60. The myth of fast-slowing metabolism in your 30s can be damaging. It reduces people’s sense that they can reverse their weight
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Interesting that topping placement was their barrier to full automation. You’d think dropping stuff on a bounded circle is a solved problem for robots.
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by keenmaster 3y ago
If Blaze Pizza couldn’t beat Dominos in flavor and texture when I’m right there picking all the ingredients and eating the pizza fresh out the oven, then Zume had no chance. The fundamental issue is that these pizzas are made expediently. T
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Soon many companies will not renew their lease, and there won’t be much office to return to. Those that invested a lot in their office space will try to make the best use of it, but in the long run it’s more profitable to downsize offices.
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Maybe, but that’s easier to do when winning/losing is binary and possibilities are more bounded within the rigidly defined rules and spaces of a chess match.
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by keenmaster 3y ago
I don’t find it disgusting, but I can see that being a valid reaction to space-based solar radiation management (actually doing it, not the research). We probably know more about the consequences of inadvertent man-made global warming than
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by keenmaster 3y ago
Yes, it really is a bad thing. All dictatorships suck except for a narrow class of people favored by or directly benefiting from the regime. Period. Any other view is either cope or Orientalism (“maybe democracy doesn’t work for X people”).
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by keenmaster 3y ago
As true and as insidious as that is, the problem is much worse in allegedly “socialist” countries historically. Note that I am not really including Western Europe in my definition of socialist, even though they have larger social programs t
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by keenmaster 3y ago
More like “socialism” air quotes wink wink: Success at achieving surreptitious, non-explicit goals (e.g. funnel wealth to government cronies) => budget increase It’s for the people ;) :D
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AI has infiltrated the hiring process(businessinsider.com)
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