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by lucubratory 2y ago
It's only the oral version which has no effect and is thus being pulled. The inhaled version has more evidence that it works and will remain available.
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by lucubratory 2y ago
Because most people who read ebooks use a Kindle, and an e-reader having Android is by far the simplest way to read your collection of Kindle books on a non-Amazon e-reader. This is because you can just download the Kindle app to access you
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by lucubratory 2y ago
He does defence economics mostly for the Australian military, and liaising with allies. Probably a civilian contractor, possibly a think tank employee at an outfit like ASPI, but I doubt it.
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by lucubratory 2y ago
This would be a fantastic copypasta for anytime someone requests you prove the outlandish claims you're making.
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by lucubratory 2y ago
I predict that many of those people will continue to believe that up until human cognition is mechanistically understood, at which point there will be some other reason that humans are "real" thinkers and machines are not. The pro
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by lucubratory 2y ago
You have confused me with someone else.
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by lucubratory 2y ago
It's troubling that you are saying things about the bill which are false, and then speculating on the motives of someone just pointing out that what you are saying is false.
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by lucubratory 2y ago
That sounds fantastic, I really love open source stuff.
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by lucubratory 2y ago
Devices like the Aranet4 are mainly useful for telling you how well ventilated a space is relative to how many people are breathing into it, which is a very good proxy for viral load and viral risk. It's pretty much only in spaces with
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by lucubratory 2y ago
I strongly recommend the Aranet4 Home for personal/home use. Very accurate, very long-lasting, tells you other things like humidity etc, and only 1-2 hundred dollars when we bought it (may be more expensive now, been a couple years of
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by lucubratory 2y ago
So if someone figures out how to do it, they then effectively have a button that destroys a massive amount of wealth worldwide owned by a pretty specific group of people? That's fascinating, with billions of dollars at stake people wou
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by lucubratory 2y ago
Yeah, I think what a lot of people miss about these sort of gotchas are that most of them were invented explicitly to gotcha humans, who regularly get got by them. This is not a failure mode unique to LLMs.
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by lucubratory 2y ago
This argument generalises to all possible AI systems and thus proves way too much. >[AI system]s are not general, but they show that a specific specialization ("[process sequential computational operations]") can solve a lot mo
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by lucubratory 2y ago
>But they can't, they still fail at arithmetic and still fail at counting syllables. You are incorrect. These services are free, you can go and try it out for yourself. LLMs are perfectly capable of simple arithmetic, better than ma
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by lucubratory 2y ago
"General" is every activity a human can do or learn to do. It was coined along with "narrow" to contrast with the then decidedly non-general AI systems. This was generally conceived of as a strict binary - every AI we&#x
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by lucubratory 2y ago
It improves educational, health etc outcomes significantly and unlike a lot of proposed interventions in education, it has solid scientific evidence backing it up. Specifically it significantly improves child health (e.g. fewer hospital vis
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by lucubratory 2y ago
Exactly, and people complaining that the price would fall so it wouldn't really be "that" valuable are missing the forest for the trees. Having a hundred times more platinum available to our civilisation (and platinum being a
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by lucubratory 2y ago
This is a very good piece. I don't know why people are so comfortable trusting the man who caused so many harms with social media to dictate our future with this new technology.
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by lucubratory 2y ago
>I don't ask someone how many r's there are in strawberry by spelling out strawberry, I just say the word. You don't ask a human being how many r's there are in strawberry at all. The only reason you or anyone else as
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by lucubratory 2y ago
This just does not seem plausible. Sure, I understand the claim that Cuban statistics are falsified because the Cuban government is obviously biased about whether "Cuba is good", but the claims about Cuban emigration are coming fr
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by lucubratory 2y ago
>It's a place where everything is taken care of for you, not through the thoughtful allocation of resources for mutual benefit, but because it's trivially easy for a machine to just give you everything you ask for. It's tr
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by lucubratory 2y ago
What order would you recommend reading the polity novels? I'm thinking about starting them
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by lucubratory 2y ago
Every scientist has to be a materialist, it comes from interacting with the world as it is. Most of them then keep their materialism in their personal life, but unfortunately some come home from work and stop thinking critically, embracing
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by lucubratory 2y ago
Having to route all of your communications through a relay, having to explicitly build out backups to your backups for comms rather than being able to look up with your instruments, a longer delay requiring more autonomy on the lunar surfac
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by lucubratory 2y ago
Super impressive. A return mission from the far side is very technically difficult, and pulling it off paves the way for a staffed lunar lander on the far side.
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by lucubratory 2y ago
Sure thing, here you go: https://scentofdawn.blogspot.com/2011/07/before-soul-dawn-he...
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by lucubratory 2y ago
It's much more economically viable, but it comes with a lot of ecological and environmental risk that we care about a lot more now (which is right and good). Same with preserving Antarctica, the other one people always bring up. The fa
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by lucubratory 2y ago
Helen Keller wrote about having memories of being something like a stimulus-response automata before language enabled her to be conscious and think. I think that example is actually in favour of language being required for thought, because
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by lucubratory 2y ago
In English your family and friends are absolutely part of your network. If I needed a job and someone told me they'd reach out to everyone in their network until they found me one, I'd be very confused if they'd failed withou
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by lucubratory 2y ago
Chengyu are very common in Chinese, more common than analogous English phrases, but the entirety of Chinese isn't composed of chengyu. I haven't seen much Star Trek so I read the wiki description and watched a couple of clips + ex

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