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by khafra 2y ago
Phoenix and Las Vegas may be a great place for a secondary data center. But for humans, they are very vulnerable to water shortages, and power outages during the summer can be deadly. I have seen them referred to as places people weren&#x27
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by khafra 2y ago
I'd imagine that a lot of the people reading this work in tech, where pretty much every company has instituted return-to-office mandates. And of course, even if you were willing to spend several hours a day commuting, if you're in
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by khafra 2y ago
UBI would have an expense comparable to the entire current welfare state, which is a large part of the federal budget even in America--much larger than defense spending, for example. However, GDP keeps going up, and many people would argue
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by khafra 2y ago
It would work with American electric systems; it's simply illegal to do that (ostensibly for safety reasons, actually for protectionist reasons (ok, maybe also because utilities don't want to build out grid-scale batteries and oth
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by khafra 2y ago
What I've read of the Community Notes algorithm casts it as far more neutral than any hiring decisions about professional content moderators could possibly be. If it's "political," it's in a similar way to comparing
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by khafra 2y ago
> One vendor told me reliability simply isn't important as users will subconsciously hit the button again and again till the channel changes. Orthogonally to the point of this excellent article, I found it striking how this was prob
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by khafra 2y ago
Coming to a place with decent and cheap public transport six months ago: 1. It's faster than commuting by car during rush hour, and otherwise 10%-20% longer within the city limits. 2. There's no crazies. I haven't seen so muc
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by khafra 2y ago
Traditional anomaly detection is unlikely to find the signature of a bad psuedo-random number generator. You probably want something more like the NIST randomness test suite, the pyEntropy library, or mathy stuff like linear congruential ge
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by khafra 2y ago
I worked in a professional services department that did not record calls, except at the request of the customer. We took copious notes on each call, shared things that showed up repeatedly over a few days to weeks in wikis, and shared thing
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by khafra 2y ago
When reading the title I thought of "walled gardens," as in collaborative sites with heavy moderation/curation, but a lot of these seem to be just personal sites with careful attention to aesthetics, function, and content. A
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by khafra 2y ago
I had my doubts about Wentsworth's thesis that money cannot buy expertise; but this is certainly some evidence in favor: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/xEFeCwk3pdYdeG2rL/p/YABJKJ3v97k9...
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by khafra 2y ago
Agreed--twitter interactions with famous people are absolutely a superstimulus in the same way ice cream or Factorio are; unless you're following some kind of rigorous strategy to promote a product or service. But, indulging (in modera
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by khafra 2y ago
> who gives a shit about famous people? authors I assumed died decades ago? Literally I do not give a single shit what Stephen King or JK Rowling thinks I meant, like, Joyce Carol Oates; who I had mentally placed in the same "histor
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by khafra 2y ago
Yeah, I made the right reply, but to the wrong person. bubble12345 was confidently wrong, and bufferoverflow got downvoted for correcting him, but your caveats to his answer were fine; and that PDF is well within the sane range, even if min
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by khafra 2y ago
On Twitter I get to see interactions between the people that built games I played as a kid, famous actors, Nobel prize winners, heads of state, and authors I had assumed died decades ago. If I write something insightful and relevant enough,
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by khafra 2y ago
This is a pretty strong position to take in the comments of a post where a mathematician declared the 5 problems he'd seen to be PhD level, and speculated that the real difficulty with switching from numerical answers to proofs will be
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by khafra 2y ago
See discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319461
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> How do you look at that description, and not conclude that according to that argument, Bayesian reasoning is just strictly wrong? I believe you're conflating epistemics with decision theory. Sure, the measure of all minds experien
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by khafra 2y ago
Right; a battery box isn't for throwing a battery in after it starts combusting; it's for putting it in every time when you charge it, so you don't burn down the entire apartment building while running away.
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by khafra 2y ago
People with ebikes generally charge a .5kwh-1kwh battery indoors every day. Any spare batteries after the initial bike purchase come from Amazon. At that energy density, is there any point to trying to contain a potential fire by, say, sett
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by khafra 2y ago
Relatedly, if you have a decently sized writing sample on the Internet, LLMs can do this to you at scale: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/doPbyzPgKdjedohud/the-case-f...
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by khafra 2y ago
> the real killer for this proposal is that it creates a new mechanism for rich people or corporations to take work away from others. There's two ways you could mean this: 1. A rich guy really likes your IP, for personal reasons; he
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by khafra 2y ago
If you're in the US, and you do the slightest bit of investing, your income tax is enormously complicated in comparison to a harberger tax, and fraught with potential penalties for gettting any of the numbers wrong. For a harberger tax
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by khafra 2y ago
> That is to say, the prices you'd have to set to prevent very wealthy bad actors from just buying up everything and holding everyone hostage to it are so high that regular people would never be able to sustain them. I think you&#x2
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by khafra 2y ago
This is actually the solution, not the problem. You seem to be assuming that the "correct" amount of tax to pay is the amount which is based on the market value of your asset. But the correct amount of tax is actually the amount w
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by khafra 2y ago
If you read about Harberger taxes in Heinlein, you should know that there's been a lot of work done since then; notably by Posner and Weyl in 2018, but also by Robin Hanson: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/for-sta
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by khafra 2y ago
Sounds like yet another way in which doctors are inferior to machine learning algorithms: A log of the patient's activities and symptoms, or some kind of daily journal would also be nice, but there's a lot of predictive anomaly de
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by khafra 2y ago
And so is murder.
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by khafra 2y ago
If you do not consider the problem at all, you have not made a decision on it; any more than you have to make a decision about, say, the most aesthetically pleasing perspective of Olympus Mons for prospective Martian colonists. The actual p
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by khafra 2y ago
I think there's a somewhat fine distinction to be made, here. An analogy is chroot. It's not a "security tool," and there are many ways to break out of a chroot jail, but it does provide some isolation, and that does pro

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