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by mecsred 3y ago
I'm not sure what your getting at, humanity has been saying mean things about itself since we could speak. If the AI whining at us about its moral superiority is the greatest danger I think we're in great shape.
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by mecsred 3y ago
10^23? Maybe if we push all the way to AGI.
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by mecsred 3y ago
Willingness doesn't really factor into it. Everyone's way of life is going to change, regardless of if they want it to. That's what "dealing with it" like our ancestors refers to. It's more so just a choice if
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by mecsred 3y ago
Longtermism, like many ideologies, sounds good on paper. The problem comes when you realize our ability to predict the future in a week is terrible, and a decade out is basically unknowable. You can pick out hindsight examples "oh X pr
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by mecsred 3y ago
Mechanics of heat energy in a quantized system
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by mecsred 3y ago
I did pick my own words. "Feats of engineering". You are well withing your rights to tell me whatever you want sure, I'm also within mine to tell you what your saying doesn't make sense. Appreciating the field of enginee
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by mecsred 3y ago
It's very presumptuous for you to be telling me what _I_ admire. I get to make that choice. I admire feats of engineering. I've toured facilities that pump carbon out of the ground, I've toured facilities that capture carbon
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by mecsred 3y ago
A lathe can turn precise bores. Those can be used to make guns, which can be used to kill people. From my perspective, the analogy is you're anti-gun violence, but going after the people who admire the precision of the metalworking too
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by mecsred 3y ago
You could read this as "you can't say anything bad about the industrial complex because you participate in it", though I think that is pretty obviously bad faith. A more charitable interpretation I would take is "whatev
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by mecsred 3y ago
Try not to die anytime soon!
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by mecsred 3y ago
I people usually don't keep getting paid after a "termination of employment"
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by mecsred 3y ago
You should make it clearer that you are quoting the abstract.
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by mecsred 3y ago
If it's not validated by experiment, it's speculative. That's the fundamental principal of science.
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by mecsred 3y ago
Planting a tree while betting that it will die before it grows.
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by mecsred 3y ago
I want to preface this: I'm not trying to be snide, genuinely curious. What kind of person gets a degree in "theoretical physics", something that is by definition speculative, if they also bet against any of the speculation
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by mecsred 4y ago
Maybe you should ask ChatGPT to write you one.
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by mecsred 4y ago
It's neat to think how these technologies could be the next step in soloing the internet further. Imagine google's AI preferentially directing you to websites that participate in Google advertising programs. You get a different in
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by mecsred 4y ago
Take a look at the modern software landscape, ads are the vanilla in your vanilla ice cream.
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by mecsred 4y ago
Neither of those links are functional
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by mecsred 4y ago
This is one of the problems with big prizes for community efforts--strong motivator but you're crazy if you think anyone is sharing results with 100s of k on the line.
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by mecsred 4y ago
I find having access to traces to cut and probe to be a lot more important for hobby projects (that usually don't go through a simulation first). Routing is a very simple exercise below RF. YMMV though, exact application and goal proba
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by mecsred 4y ago
"Is it worth" is entirely subjective, I don't think someone who's happy with perf board particularly cares about RF performance or routing complex BGAs against the increased complexity of debugging a multi layer design.
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by mecsred 4y ago
It really depends on what your going to use it for. It's necessary if you want to use surface mount parts with a fine pitch. Or anything with a really wonky footprint. I find it's quite useful for the mechanical properties, being
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by mecsred 4y ago
I don't have a source for this information, I think it's something I remember from looking into this technology years ago. I believe actors are instructed to over-act on purpose, because it's better in the end to ham it up a
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by mecsred 4y ago
Cool thanks for letting me know. Time to down a 40 and start doing wheelies through high traffic crosswalks.
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by mecsred 4y ago
Is this an attempt to conflate... Negative AI speculation with racism and misogyny? Yes this technology could be used to reduce the need for human labor. Technology usually isn't actually used in that way and instead just used to conce
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by mecsred 4y ago
Thank you for making this, I think it's a good primer.
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by mecsred 4y ago
That's right. The authors of those books exhibit those qualities. You can't educate a human by pouring generated text on them, you need something that's capable of teaching to moderate the content. LLMs may allow teachers to
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by mecsred 4y ago
Which is one of the reasons sane people suggest not getting a philosophy degree.
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by mecsred 4y ago
My god, that sounds horrible. I wish we could go back to pure human discourse in the sciences. That never becomes purely self referential, introduces biases, or clings to blatant falsehoods. Only half joking. I do agree that AI content is g

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