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by khafra 2y ago
It should be like a physicist studying Carnot Engines not knowing what neutral is; but for some reason Computer Science degrees are also expected to be developer certificate programs.
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I guess you could just write the program in Python, then have ChatGPT automatically translate it into a strongly-typed language.
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In organizations where only HID USB devices are allowed, not mass storage? I'm not aware of any reported successes in that environment, although it's theoretically possible (Heck, you could even have your evil HID-presenting SOC U
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Launch while parking with an unfamiliar trailer or in an unfamiliar area.
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by khafra 2y ago
Reality has now corrected my error, which was amongst the funniest possible outcomes.
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Yes, that's why we need a new 80,000 person agency to work out the details of enforcement. It's not like it's hard to pick out many, many instances of this. Licensing requirement for hairdressers? Rent-seeking. Blocking the d
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by khafra 2y ago
That's the best steelman of the fire official's position that I've seen, but it still sounds like it was a decent general rule, being overapplied when it was inappropriate for the situation (per the pilot's testimony, th
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by khafra 2y ago
Wikipedia: growing one's existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth. Obviously, we have to also tax people who are free-riding on the social or political manipulations of others--not
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by khafra 2y ago
Lotta proposed solutions to the patent troll problem in this comment section, and they all have bad unintended consequences. So here's mine: Institute a new tax on rent-seeking. Tax rent-seekers for close to 100% of the value they extr
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by khafra 2y ago
> Gish gallopers are gonna Gish gallop, and no amount of good faith is going to stop them if they don't want to stop. The rhetorical flourish "it's not my job to educate you" gets overused, and misused as the first fo
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by khafra 2y ago
This Quanta Magazine article is mostly non-bunk history and uncontroversial physics; it lets us bask in the warm glow of confirming what we thought we knew, while filling in a conformant few facts we didn't know around the edges. And w
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by khafra 2y ago
It doesn't quite have the same ring to it: "If a young, distinguished business executive says something is possible, when that something greatly effects his bottom line..."
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So, you should build your castle in someone else's kingdom iff that kingdom either 1. Has strong norms against castle seizure or abandonment of the king's duties in kingdom upkeep 2. Has a federation of non-king castle owners stro
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> superintelligence is still 20 years away, and even then he only gives his prediction a 50% chance I don't know the details of Hinton's probability distribution. If his prediction is normally distributed with a mean of 20 yea
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Thanks for the correction; I am undistinguished and getting more elderly by the minute.
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> If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right - Arthur C. Clarke Geoffrey Hinton is a 76 year old Turing Award* winner. What more do you want? *Corrected by kranner
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> There are no unsolvable problems with undecidability or busy beaver numbers. Actually, if you encode the axioms of ZF into a TM, it's impossible to prove the machine will ever halt: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2
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by khafra 2y ago
It's a strong sign of our overall civilizational inadequacy that betting on events where the discovered probability would actually be useful--like economic policy outcomes, natural disaster frequency and magnitude, etc.--is still illeg
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I'm not sure how useful that question is in exploring capabilities--"ask the user clarifying questions if the answer is ambiguous" is more of a rlhf or fine tune thing than a base model thing.
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Of course, in many contexts, it is correct to put 9.11 after 9.9--software versioning does it that way, for example.
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> They are also using it to word the questions they ask in class This seems like a straightforward upgrade of the school experience. There truly are dumb questions; many of them get asked in class because speaking to a rubber duck firs
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by khafra 2y ago
The device may have failed to do what you anticipated, but the only way the haptic feedback failed is if you have peripheral nerve damage.
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by khafra 2y ago
This is a cool step toward Tabarrok's Dominant Assurance Contracts; and as a game theory enjoyer, I approve of it. However, I'm not certain it's a minimum viable product, as it is now. If I were considering whether to join in
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by khafra 2y ago
Some pop culture has changed in the interim. A couple times a decade, I find myself using the "Ordinary conformists / Non-conformists / MAD non-conformists" article I saw in my grandparent's collection as a child.
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by khafra 2y ago
I thought this was going to be about generating x-rays by peeling scotch tape ( https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/10/23/217918/x-rays-ma... )
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I'd say that, for people just starting a career who need to develop the illegible/intangible skills, in-person mentoring has no replacement. But after that, it's a real tradeoff. You can't just expect people to create an
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Recommending Gwern on any technical topic is practically cheating; he always has in-depth, impeccably referenced overviews, complete with experiments he has done. For deep learning in particular, I will add Neel Nanda's interpretabilit
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After doing a WFH job for 2 years, and then going back to the office for a different job, what strikes me is how terribly everything is documented here--because when someone walks over and asks someone else how something works, that doesn&#
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The game may be flawed, but at least the worldbuilding is on-point. https://x.com/shenanigansen/status/1615876096674926597
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The US has a very large voting bloc composed of people who want their state and municipality to be free from restrictions imposed by the federal government. In practice, this leads to many places with a significantly larger amount of actual

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