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by klipt 6d ago
Sometimes constraints lead to new inventions. Like haikus. The crockpot was allegedly inspired by sabbath stewing techniques.
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by klipt 6d ago
"Sabbath" is just the anglicized version of the ancestral Hebrew word "Shabbat", meaning rest. See also: sabbatical
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by klipt 14d ago
Citation needed that people are thinking "therefore we must commit genocide against others" Attempted genocide better describes Hamas, who slaughtered a 1/4 of the civilians in the first villages they got their hands on, befo
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by klipt 16d ago
So the AI equivalent of the socially stunted but brilliant researcher?
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by klipt 16d ago
What is the obsession with equating the Holocaust with a war whose death toll is roughly 1/100th of the Holocaust (and that only if you include combatant deaths, which the Holocaust numbers do not?)
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by klipt 1mo ago
But the harness still matters. In the case of stockfish, the harness is a tree search around the neural network evaluations.
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by klipt 1mo ago
Malaria tropica (the disease) maps 1:1 to Plasmodium falciparum (the parasite that causes this disease)
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by klipt 1mo ago
Dr: I have good news and bad news Patient: What's the good news? Dr: We have a two step treatment to improve your social-emotional life. Patient: What's the bad news? Dr: The first step is, we have to turn you into a frog...
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by klipt 1mo ago
If you're just talking about security bugs. There are also non security bugs that don't have exploits but just make the user experience worse.
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by klipt 1mo ago
Perhaps an analogy to Moore's law? Bitter lesson #1: don't waste time optimizing code when a faster processor is around the corner. What countered it: Moore's law stopped working. Bitter lesson #2 similarly relies on scaling
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by klipt 1mo ago
Exactly what problem does it solve that food stamps cannot solve more simply?
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by klipt 1mo ago
Government subsidized groceries seems like something that was already solved by food stamps. Having the government run entire grocery stores at a loss seems like a worse implementation of the same thing. I guess it's nice for the voter
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by klipt 2mo ago
There are evolutionary benefits to groups that cooperate and improve fairness internally. But if an AI surpasses humans in every way, is there any evolutionary benefit for the AI to cooperate with humans?
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by klipt 2mo ago
Welp, that's enough internet for me today! Warning for the squeamish: I only made it partway through the article before deciding it would probably make me nauseous if I continued.
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by klipt 3mo ago
> the world's dominant power by virtue of having roughly half the total world population If human+ level AI takes off one would expect to see a great decoupling of power from population.
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by klipt 3mo ago
New Zealand does have the advantage of an ocean border and thus near total control on entries and exits. Compared to the very porous land borders of the US.
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by klipt 3mo ago
Of course the easiest solution to the problem is money. You sell the games you don't want for money. You buy the games you want with money. Much simpler than algorithms for bartering.
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by klipt 3mo ago
You're using "high interest rate" to mean "biotech has great returns right now". Everyone else is using it to mean "the Federal Reserve has set the interest rate high right now" Very different situations.
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by klipt 3mo ago
Of course that situation may be reversed for people with a Chinese grandma instead of an Italian grandma.
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by klipt 4mo ago
AoE may be Turing complete but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
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by klipt 4mo ago
The difference is mostly heart disease not "risky behavior". If anything the average software engineer is more likely to die of heart disease due to our sedentary lifestyles. Sitting on chairs is the real "risky behavior&qu
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by klipt 4mo ago
Your CDC figure is an average over all genders. Assuming hacker news readers are disproportionately men, the mortality rate is even higher, since men die younger than women on average.
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by klipt 4mo ago
Everyone remembers Malcolm X, but does anyone remember the names of the thousands of civilians who protested the Iranian regime and got summarily executed? Resistance doesn't work very well against highly militarized autocratic regimes
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by klipt 4mo ago
Maybe the m dash?
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by klipt 5mo ago
The Arab States post-1948 genocide of indigenous middle eastern Jews has been far more complete than Israel's genocide of Muslims. There are almost zero indigenous middle eastern Jews left in the Arab states, vs two million Muslims liv
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by klipt 5mo ago
> long COVID is probably more accepted as a real thing by practitioners at this point than CFS Isn't long covid just CFS that can be attributed to Covid? If you accept that multiple viruses can cause "long <virus>" s
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by klipt 6mo ago
At which point the bitcoin in legacy wallets is clearly worthless
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by klipt 6mo ago
> the cheapest and least disruptive option is to cut consumption And good for the environment!
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by klipt 6mo ago
> price to pay for the damage the us and Israel have inflicted on Iran Well if we're talking reparations, shouldn't Iran pay for the damage Hezbollah inflicted on Israel with Iranian supplied weapons for decades?
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by klipt 6mo ago
Israel withdrew fully from Lebanon in 2000, and this was certified by the UN, yet Hezbollah kept attacking them anyway. If Hezbollah offered Israel a choice between: peace with Hezbollah OR occupy land in Lebanon, I think Israel would ratio

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