mcphage

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by mcphage 2y ago
> That only happens when law enforcement has been categorically denied the opportunity to punish law breakers of all stripes. Is he not in jail?
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by mcphage 2y ago
Apparently not 100%. But they closed that little loophole. :-)
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by mcphage 2y ago
> What the hell is even going on What if the Stock Market was entirely converted to Meme Stocks?
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by mcphage 2y ago
> Quite a lot. Look back at the size of the teams working on language models at IBM, Microsoft, Google, etc, and think about all the decades of language model research going back to Shannon and quantifying the entropy of English. I wonde
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by mcphage 2y ago
That's still not charitable.
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by mcphage 2y ago
> Remember the original 'unreasonable effectiveness of data'? That came out in 2009, correct? I wonder how much was spent on LLMs up to that point. > In contrast, Yuxi goes through the handful of described Cyc use-cases fro
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by mcphage 2y ago
> The charitable interpretation is that this isn't real science. That doesn’t sound charitable at all.
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by mcphage 2y ago
> Cyc grew to contain approximately 30 million assertions at a cost of $200 million and 2,000 person-years. Yet despite Lenat’s repeated predictions of imminent breakthrough, it never came. That seems like pretty small potatoes compared
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by mcphage 2y ago
> Doesn't the crime rate go down when Republicans hold the power? I don't think that's true—or at least, not a strong correlation. Crime rates were going significantly down since the early 90s, regardless who is in power.
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by mcphage 2y ago
But that was his entire campaign: we’re going to shoot ourselves in the face, and it will be the best thing ever for everyone. So maybe someone bought into the “it will be the best thing ever”, fine, but if they bought into that but not
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by mcphage 2y ago
> But for this specific case, would it have been any different a year ago? Yes? They may have kicked her out of the country—not locked her up for 19 days. > Because saying "oh it was all just a mistake, I didn't realize I g
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by mcphage 2y ago
It creates puzzles with multiple possible solutions: 5 6 3 _ 4 _ _ _ 6 7 4 _ _ 4 _ _ The bottom right corner can be in the loop, or out of the loop, and both solutions are valid.
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by mcphage 2y ago
> I don't understand the point of this article. The point of the article is to warn potential tourists to stay away from the US because it is no longer safe.
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by mcphage 2y ago
I’m sorry, are you saying that a decision is correct because it is popular?
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by mcphage 2y ago
Not much written for them being implemented like this , though.
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by mcphage 2y ago
> This one was obvious from the beginning. And yet the markets didn’t price that in.
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by mcphage 2y ago
> Republicans focused on economy The Republicans focused on sabotaging the economy, which they now are doing. I don’t get why that’s a winning message.
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by mcphage 2y ago
> But lets focus on someone trying to avoid war with Russia at all costs and attempting to make peace. So instead you want to give Putin the population of Ukraine to send in to get slaughtered as soldiers for his next invasion, and also
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by mcphage 2y ago
> Your grandchildren deserve to not have to live with Kilmar Garcia's grandchildren. Actually my grandchildren deserve to not have to live with your grandchildren.
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by mcphage 2y ago
I heard that, too.
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by mcphage 2y ago
Yep, I've seen more than my fair share of Fox News in my day :-(
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by mcphage 2y ago
> If the headline was "police raid house to arrest criminal activists", it wouldn't have made a blip. If you’re willing to lie, the headline could be whatever you want.
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by mcphage 2y ago
> Refactoring their platform into something that can attract super-majoritarian support, and win even in "red" states. That’s been the centerpiece of the D playbook for years—pull towards the center. Hell, in the last election
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by mcphage 2y ago
What about an xAI shareholder who just paid $45 billion for a bag of rotten turnips?
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by mcphage 2y ago
So you’re thinking it’s even more petty than what the article said? Woah.
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by mcphage 2y ago
> yet he was saying it weren’t German war plans ... Whoopsie Daisy
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by mcphage 2y ago
> if they're not citizens - they're merely guests in a country If kidnapping by masked thugs is acceptable treatment in your mind for guests , then I am never setting foot anywhere near you. > Supposedly intelligent univers
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by mcphage 2y ago
I think you meant to say “First they kidnapped…”
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by mcphage 2y ago
> avoiding them due to his advanced mental decline. That’s nothing new, either—Reagan had advanced Alzheimer’s, and I’m sure he was far from the first. This is something different.
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by mcphage 2y ago
> I'm sure the Democrats at some point will come back into power in a 50%+1 squeaker > If they want to be the people to actually answer this crisis, instead of ratifying it Honestly? I'm not convinced they do—they seem to b

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