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by laratied 3y ago
I like Tim's podcast but he is not famous. Tim could go out to eat in any city and almost no one would know he is. You can't claim to be famous if Pauly Shore has you beat 100:1 in terms of being recognized in public. Tim is just
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by laratied 3y ago
I like Tim's podcast sometimes but "after training in tango in Buenos Aires in 2005" has to be the most douche thing I have ever read and Astor Piazzolla is one of my fav musicians. Hardly shocking though a guy who wrote the
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by laratied 3y ago
To be fair, it does strike me that not everyone will derive the same value from chatGPT. I have always wanted to rap and it has wrote rap lyrics that are way beyond what I could possibly do myself. If I was Andre 3000 or Tupac though I woul
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by laratied 3y ago
I am at the point of "Burning Man sucks, don't come." chatGPT? Sucks and a waste of time. Don't use it.
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by laratied 3y ago
It is not impossible that our current system is making people less mathematically inclined than a different system. The narrative when this comes up always seems to be about defending the current system as if everything is going so great as
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by laratied 3y ago
I love Wendy so much and to me it is gross to even mention she is trans. It is the least interesting part of her. Digital Moonscapes and especially Beauty in the Beast are two of my all time fav albums. I am really not much of a fan of Swit
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by laratied 3y ago
I am pretty sure "WeWork is a platform" was actually something they pitched. Or maybe it was WeWork as a service. WeWork labs was the most genius thing though. Build a tech lab straight up for no other reason than to have a tech l
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by laratied 3y ago
Timing is everything and they had bad timing. The time for this company might still not have arrived yet. I just don't see what they could have done at the time and either way Covid would have bankrupted them.
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by laratied 3y ago
You will get a ton of denial about this but you aren't wrong. On the other hand it is really easy to not get married and not have kids. Then the equation is quite different. 40s and 50s isn't all that different than 22. I would ev
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by laratied 3y ago
Same here. I fear the random nature of a heart attack even more. My ideal is almost to take enough water into the woods to starve in the woods. To really stare my death in the face and experience it slowly. Clinging to life in a nursing hom
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by laratied 3y ago
The small claims analogy works for May 20th 2023. I can't remember when I first heard about word vectors and the king – man + woman = queen. That was so mind blowing and now look what we are talking about? However long ago a person fir
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by laratied 3y ago
I just can't imagine we don't get a new programming language at some point that is a more precise subset of English but is closer to English than say python. I mean previously we needed absolute precision in a programming language
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by laratied 3y ago
To be fair, we really don't know what would have happened if the entire financial system collapsed in 2008. This was the Faustian bargain we made. For us, I think it would be hard to argue this was a raw deal as opposed to living the l
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by laratied 3y ago
Bloomberg is just trash at this point when it comes to articles. Of course no one would consider that a quant strategy besides a Bloomberg reporter. That is hardly surprising to me though.
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by laratied 3y ago
We do it because we have had the money and military to do so but I think you will see this go in the other direction over the next 20 years. It is hard to see how the money situation does anything but get worse and worse. We are also pretty
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by laratied 3y ago
IMO it is just a cultural reflection of our general safetyist cultural. Safety has become a near sacred value. Near my house a new light at a cross walk has a computerized voice that says "stop stop stop" , "walk walk walk&qu
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by laratied 3y ago
It will never happen anyway. We are never going to ban cash in the US because government officials need the anonymity of cash just as much if not more than your local drug dealer.
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by laratied 3y ago
Of course not but this is a perfect example of why this type of democracy is a terrible idea. Putting something like that to a vote was itself insane and stupid.
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by laratied 3y ago
We had this debate post 9/11 with "enhanced interrogation techniques". No one cared. Even when you called it "torture" the majority were perfectly fine with it after 9/11 in polling data.
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by laratied 3y ago
They are working on ChatGPT Business. "for professionals who need more control over their data as well as enterprises seeking to manage their end users.”
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by laratied 3y ago
GPT-4 is less full of shit than most people I know and I don't think it is even close. I have always found the knock that it confidently answers things it really doesn't know even if wrong quite hysterical. That exactly describes
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by laratied 3y ago
Or imagine claiming that pay phone companies were liable in 1980 for facilitating mafia crime activity. It is so stupid that no one at the time even considered it.
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by laratied 3y ago
Whatever is on that list of tasks though we will rationalize why it doesn't count once the computer can do the task. "It is just doing next word prediction, duhh" The whole line of thought is muddled thinking and not botherin
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by laratied 3y ago
The PLA has published brilliant books on how to beat America in a non-kinetic war but Americans in general don't like to read. As someone who thinks Unrestricted Warfare is one of the most brilliant books I have ever read, the idea mos
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by laratied 3y ago
Angelo Mozilo is the poster boy for this. He paid a personal fine. He made $470 million running Countrywide into the ground and had to pay a fine of $67.5 million. Retired to live out his old age worth about $600 million. Who is the fool in
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by laratied 3y ago
I buy packs of old school stop watches from amazon. They are practically disposable. There is something really nice about having the timer disconnected from all other usability as a separate device and at the same time not having to care if
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by laratied 3y ago
I have xfce and KDE plasma installed. If you turn off everything in desktop effects for KDE, I can't tell any difference between xfce and KDE in terms of performance on an old 4 core i5 with 16 gigs of ram. The only real difference is
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by laratied 3y ago
I can't stand Chomsky's politics but that doesn't change the fact what he is saying is correct. It is a really bad look for someone with Chomsky's reputation but to go beyond that is witch hunting. Pretty straight forwar
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by laratied 3y ago
No one seems to care about this obvious absurdity. We are not bothering to regulate AI controlling a 3500lb death machine that goes from 0 to 60 in 2 seconds but we are worried about the dangers of a chatbot. So typical of our society to be
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by laratied 3y ago
Working with the sewage system is what first came to my mind. As far as germs that is so modern. Ignaz Semmelweis was considered a moron for suggesting that doctors wash their hands between handling dead bodies and delivering babies. He die

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