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by lz400 1y ago
Might be my perception from my algorithm curated news / social media feeds, but to me it looks like Trump's strategy of doing so many outrageous things every day that most of them go through unnoticed or unchallenged is working. A
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by lz400 1y ago
That’s probably what the companies spending the money think, that they’re building a huge moat. There’s an alternative view. If there’s a bubble and all these companies are spending these huge sums on something that ends up not returning th
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by lz400 1y ago
But that makes sense, technology makes headlines when it's exciting. Crypto I'd disagree there's been advances, it's mostly scams and pyramid schemes and it got boring and predictable in that sense so once the promise an
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by lz400 1y ago
That's a bit of an edge case, powered by the absolute, lovely turbo-nerdery of a few dedicated souls. They are called 4K77 / 4K80 versions for people looking for them.
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by lz400 1y ago
I mean, they're wrong? LLMs don't have agency, don't learn, don't do anything except react to prompts really.
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by lz400 1y ago
Not sure about that one. I do agree with the AI bros that, _if_ we build AGI, ASI looks inevitable shortly after, at least a "soft ASI". Because something with the agency of a human but all the knowledge of the world at its finger
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by lz400 1y ago
Engineers thinking they're building god is such a good marketing strategy. I can't overstate it. It's even difficult to be rational about it. I don't actually believe it's true, I think it's pure hype and LLMs
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by lz400 1y ago
I think at this point the better question is: why in the past fertility was so high? and I think the reasons were mainly that people _relied_ on their children to grow up and take over the farm and take care of their parents. They were also
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by lz400 1y ago
the problem is that you still need to install all the low level stuff manually, conda does it automatically
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by lz400 1y ago
Unfortunately uv is usually insufficient for certain ML deployments in Python. It's a real pain to install pytorch/CUDA with all the necessary drivers and C++ dependencies so people tend to fall back to conda. Any modern tips &#x2
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by lz400 1y ago
not all of them, but that's not the issue, the issue is 100 engineers + AI replacing 500 engineers
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by lz400 2y ago
IMHO the US is turning into an oligarchy / autocracy like Russia. Musk is one of the oligarchs. We all know what happens to oligarchs when they get too close to eclipse the top dog and go near a window.
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by lz400 2y ago
I think on average trusting the experts is the right thing. And by the way LK99 is not even particularly damning, as far as we know it was science working as intended
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by lz400 2y ago
I think this is a real problem but your post is an exaggeration. There are cases of fraud in science. There is a reproducibility crisis in some areas. There are political angles and rent seeking wrt grants. But how widespread is it? You&#x2
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by lz400 2y ago
I've watched it. I disagree. Zelensky calmly and reasonably asked JD Vance a question regarding his answer to the reporter. It was all fine until Vance started with the "frankly I think it's very disrespectful" line. HE
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by lz400 2y ago
That's not true for the kind of searches we're talking about here. If you are looking for "best mechanical keyboard" or "reviews of shimano bicycle gearsets", reddit will regularly be of higher quality than the
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by lz400 2y ago
Unless of course it’s Trump who wants him out
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by lz400 2y ago
I can't believe what's happening to be honest. Any world where Musk doesn't end up in jail feels unjust at this point.
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by lz400 2y ago
I think all those things are obviously and trivially opposed to evidence coming daily now.
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by lz400 2y ago
I really hope this is an outlier and the median smart guy like you has a bit more of a moral compass and doesn't seem to willing to sell their own country for a cool line on a CV.
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by lz400 2y ago
Everytime lesswrong or rationalists or Yudkowski or any derivative show up here, I try to read some of the materials around and frankly, I don't understand most of it, it's all so self referential, full of impenetrable jargon and
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by lz400 2y ago
I would have not given the scriptwriting to terminally online, politics obsessed people. For DE it looks easy to fix, just don't have so many characters pontificating about communism or whatever, and not so much internal dialog about i
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by lz400 2y ago
Honestly there aren't that many games about politics, at least the way I understand "being about politics" so I can't say, and I don't miss that there are more to be honest. Also, I don't think Disco Elysium ne
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by lz400 2y ago
damn it! but nice research area
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by lz400 2y ago
I understood SETI style meaning crowdsourced. Instead of mining bitcoin you mine LLMs. It's a nice idea I think. Not sure about technical details, bandwidth limitations, performance, etc.
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by lz400 2y ago
I read a tweet around 2014 that was very short and simple and stayed with me for a while and now seems prescient. It was something like "man, anti-SJW is getting worse than SJW" (using sjw as the precursor for woke). Makes me thin
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by lz400 2y ago
It's "political" in quotes. In the sense that there are factions, and they represent mostly evergreen moral and civic ideas either real or fantasy (the religious fanatics, the militaristic autocrats, the death obsessed). Disc
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by lz400 2y ago
It's not about agreeing or disagreeing, it's about the shoving it in your face. It's also done in fairly "modern" ways (modern = juvenile, twitter brain-rot, millennial, culture war-coded, whatever you want to call
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by lz400 2y ago
I wouldn't say I didn't like Disco Elysium, in fact I really enjoyed it in the beginning, when it was more about the case and less about politics. In theory it was really my thing: focus on story, mature, a sense of humour... Plan
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by lz400 2y ago
> bandwidth Speculation has it at ~5XXgb/s. agreed on the memory. if I can I'll get a few but I fear they'll sell out immediately

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