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by lavelganzu 2y ago
Far from being "ludicrous", there are genetic predispositions for literally everything that humans (and other species) do, especially including core features of biology like the strength of reproduction motivations.
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by lavelganzu 2y ago
Very impressive resume. Why only 30-40 applications? Are you looking for a relatively niche role? As someone who graduated into the great recession, "normal" to me still feels like 1000 applications is the bare minimum.
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by lavelganzu 2y ago
"Too Like the Lightning" by Ada Palmer. (First of four books called the "Terra Ignota" series.) It's one of the handful of books that genuinely changed my mind about serious questions -- in my case, relating to gend
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by lavelganzu 2y ago
I'm a software developer by trade. LLM-based coding buddies (at least as of July 2024) are better than copy-paste for boilerplate, but I've never yet gotten one to complete a novel class method in a way that saved time. And asking
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by lavelganzu 2y ago
Contrary anecdata: No. I have yet to get any value out of LLMs other than crossword clue solutions and first drafts of poetry. For everything else, I find the bland mediocrity of LLM text as bad as the hallucinations, and the combination of
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by lavelganzu 2y ago
This objection is pure ignorance. "Compassionate use" is already one of the expanded access exceptions, and has been for over 50 years.
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by lavelganzu 2y ago
Make a tiny language model and then use it for autocorrect & autocomplete. Current autocorrect & autocomplete on smartphones is so bad that it spawns countless jokes. This use case doesn't require a large language model able
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by lavelganzu 2y ago
> Why would being bad at one subject or skill imply they are bad at all skills? Statistically, human cognitive capabilities of all types are positively correlated, for what it's worth. If you observe someone failing badly at structu
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by lavelganzu 2y ago
It's difficult to visually distinguish GGV from the good ol' Mollweide Hemispheres projection ( https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/mollweide-hemispheres/ ). As an added benefit, Mollweide projections are equ
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by lavelganzu 3y ago
Remember to always strip out the scoff-word "magical"! If there is emergence, it has a non-magical explanation. So instead: > My take on this is that there is no "emergence" that appears when grouping elements togethe
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by lavelganzu 3y ago
We've seen enough attempts at planned societies that ended badly, so most folk are justifiably wary of further attempts, even putatively democratic ones. Make it easily opt-in, easily opted-out, and successful, and then people will be
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by lavelganzu 3y ago
There are a very large number of trained tech workers in India & good business networks for getting them to the U.S. where their skills are highly valued.
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by lavelganzu 3y ago
I'm hoping for a happy coincidence: that expansion of space due to dark energy increases over time without bound. Then the person falling into a black hole will observe the outside universe passing by faster and faster until the expans
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by lavelganzu 3y ago
Even stranger, they're flexing on behalf of a CEO's ego, and not on behalf of his wellbeing or their own. It's a very strange case of cross-class solidarity.
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by lavelganzu 3y ago
It took effort to omit that information, so the omission is probably covering over data that doesn't support the article.
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by lavelganzu 3y ago
The most common view of free will in philosophy is "compatibilism", i.e. that free will and determinism are compatible.
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by lavelganzu 3y ago
The question is a misunderstanding. In the pure wave (Everett) interpretation, there are no universes being created when the wave function branches. Rather, different regions of the wave function become separated (decohered) from each other
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by lavelganzu 3y ago
No: > Based on whether there is a click in a Geiger counter, choose which one to put a cannon ball next to.
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by lavelganzu 3y ago
The headline is a perfect example of a tense-critical deepity: it's trivially true because of the "is" and would be trivially false if it instead used "will be". Best practice would be for headlines like this to alw