landryraccoon

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by landryraccoon 4mo ago
Do you hate joy? People like things. I’m more suspicious of someone who judges people for liking things.
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by landryraccoon 4mo ago
Seems fine to me. If people like it why be a curmudgeon about it? The old company made a mistake by not rebuilding, there was demand for ice cream at that location and somebody met that demand. Now people can eat ice cream under an old time
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by landryraccoon 5mo ago
That’s already backfiring because high housing costs drive down the birth rate. If the next generation is smaller than the previous generation, housing prices will collapse.
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by landryraccoon 5mo ago
We're talking about gaming here. What other goal is there than maximizing your subjective enjoyment of the game? Sure if you're a professional streamer, your feels are maybe less important than engagement metrics but if you'r
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by landryraccoon 5mo ago
China has surpassed the US in total energy generation, and the gap is growing in their favor every year. Japan never surpassed the US in power or industrial output. China is different. They’ve clearly surpassed the US in some key areas.
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by landryraccoon 8mo ago
Teenagers and people in their 20 don’t need these drugs anyway, and they’re the ones who should be most concerned about long term effects. But people in their 50s and older? What long term effect is going to show up before they die? At age
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by landryraccoon 8mo ago
> The counter extermination was only 5% of Athens total population, or so historians say, so it seems like a lot of nuance was shown. That fact alone doesn't demonstrate nuance. It's possible that 5% of the population was innoc
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by landryraccoon 8mo ago
If one civilization is taking revenge on another I don’t think they would show that much nuance. For one thing, wouldn’t everyone claim they were against their old polis? How would the invaders have any idea who was an idiote? I just don’t
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by landryraccoon 9mo ago
This blog post feels really fishy to me. It's quite light on specifics. It should have been straightforward for the author to excerpt some of the prompts he was submitting, to show how innocent they are. For all I know, the author was
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by landryraccoon 10mo ago
It depends on the county of course, but in my experience service workers at many “touristy” countries seem to benefit directly from tourism. For example, some of the workers at resorts in Thailand went to college and studied Tourism, a majo
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by landryraccoon 11mo ago
I'm sorry to say you're very out of touch. This rosy picture is objectively wrong when it comes to housing. Start with the fundamentals - construction has gotten more expensive. Unlike virtually every other industry in the US, it
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by landryraccoon 11mo ago
Are you counting rent as a subscription fee? If yes, then conceptually we're on the same page, if no, then I think this is wildly off base. If rent is not a subscription fee, then you're probably talking about virtual goods like e
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by landryraccoon 1y ago
It seems unlikely to me that they'll never have to retrain their model to account for new data. Is the assumption that their power usage drastically drops after 3 years? Unless they go out of business in 3 years that seems unlikely to
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by landryraccoon 1y ago
Their electricity costs are $10K per month or about $120K per year. At an interest rate of 7% that's $1.7M of capital tied up in power bills. At that rate I wonder if it makes sense to do a massive solar panel and battery installation.
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by landryraccoon 1y ago
Many human beings don’t match “human intelligence” in all areas. I think any definition of AGI has to be a test that 95% of humans pass (or you admit your definition is biased and isn’t based on an objective standard).
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by landryraccoon 1y ago
That's moving the goalposts. ChatGPT would easily have passed any test in 1995 that programmers / philosophers would have set for AGI at that time. There was definitely no assumption that a computer would need to equal humans in m
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by landryraccoon 1y ago
Can you be more specific? Which politician is using this fund in a corrupt fashion, to help which friend? Please provide names. Or are you simply expressing the same meaningless general cynicism that is so predictably and boringly parroted
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
Sounds like a very strong incentive for us to find a way to leave the planet and settle elsewhere.
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
For physical materials, like gold, this applies because gold is useful other than as a medium of exchange. But ETH is a mathematical construct. It should be true in the limit up until the very last measurable quantum of ETH is erased, and t
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
Just to clarify, it’s good for cryptocurrency when a portion of that finite currency is irreversibly removed from circulation forever? In that case I assume it’s best if all ETH were to cease to exist completely. I can’t really argue agains
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
Japan has said AI can train on copyrighted materials. https://www.privacyworld.blog/2024/03/japans-new-draft-guide... I imagine if copyright is a big issue for AI, Japanese startups will have an advantage.
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
> no sane nation ever will buy a US weapon I don’t think the US defense industry is worried. Do you know any sane nations around here? In general it’s not like war is about who’s right or moral. It’s more about who can bring more and bet
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
This is a general objection to AI responding to real world events in general : "What if something unexpected happens?" It comes up in self driving as well. Things like "What if something suddenly appears in the middle of the
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
Fwiw I agree with you. I feel that in general people obsess over assigning blame to the detriment of actually correcting the situation. Take the example of punishing crimes. If we don’t punish theft, we’ll get more theft right? But what do
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
Can you explain why? That doesn’t seem like sound reasoning to me. If you believe the reason is corruption, what personal incentive would the courts have to rule this way? Judges can easily be the victim of government overreach as well.
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
It's even worse than you're saying actually, because health care has no price transparency, very little consumer choice, no negotiating power on the part of the user and even the services provided are extremely opaque. To be hones
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
To use a software development analogy, the average person is a user of health care, not a health care project manager or designer. Just as the user of an App doesn't need to provide an alternative design when they say "this App su
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
I take issue with the claim that in order to say something is too expensive that you must be able to precisely propose an alternative price. I have no idea what the correct margin for essential cancer drugs is. I don’t think it should be a
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
If you think this is bad, wait until you move physical addresses and don’t notify all your creditors! Literally ANYONE who moves into your old house will have access to your bank statements, credit card bills, tax forms, auto registration a
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by landryraccoon 2y ago
This is problematic though, isn't it? It's effectively mass subsidization for bad behavior at the expense of people who are altruistic. I don't see how it can be a winning strategy in the long run. For just a second, let&#x27

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