medvezhenok

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by medvezhenok 1y ago
I'm not going to make a scientifict argument about innate intellectual ability - I don't consider myself qualified enough for that. I can only speak to my own observations. I have taught a lot of people to juggle. Juggling is an i
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by medvezhenok 1y ago
What is the color vision equivalent of a savant? Surely you don't believe that any person could (given infinite time & training from birth), match the intellectual performance of a savant on, say, multiplying 6 digit numbers in the
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by medvezhenok 1y ago
Agreed, there is no way to know the exact degree of differences between the two populations (although any geneticist would reject the notion of primarily unselected genetic drift in the example I described. I specifically outlined strong se
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by medvezhenok 1y ago
Well, take racism out of it. Do a thought experiment. Take a genetically identical starting population with identical culture, customs, etc. Split them onto two islands, island A and island B. Island A has temperate weather, plentiful food,
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by medvezhenok 1y ago
I have Ashkenazi friends that also love to point out how many of the winners of international Olympiads are Jewish. Does that make them sus too?
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by medvezhenok 1y ago
It's a MoE (mixture of experts) architecture, which means that there's only 3.6 billion parameters activated per token (but a total of 20b parameters for the model). So it should run at the same speed that a 3.6b model would run a
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by medvezhenok 1y ago
Yeah, the interview with Geoffrey Hinton had a much better summary of risks. If we're talking about the bad actor model, biological weaponry is both easier to make and more likely as a threat vector than nuclear.
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by medvezhenok 1y ago
It's because of the effects of technological progress on wealth accumulation. Tech allows winner-takes-all effects in many different markets (and runaway situations where labor cannot catch up at all) - you either have to have very str
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by medvezhenok 1y ago
Yup, this problem is why I think all therapists should ideally know behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology (there is at least a plausibly objective measure there which is dissonance between the ancestral environment in which the br
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by medvezhenok 1y ago
It probably requires some sort of decreased security (if the password hash is truly slow & secure, it would be hard to enforce dissimilarity); but there might be other methods that leak less than cleartext (like salting and storing hash
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
You can also have prisoner’s dilemma where no single actor is capable of stopping AI’s advance
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
Show me a human that can answer honestly and correctly about whether they know something.
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
Legal rules are just "good ideas" that we've inherited from previous generations :)
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
What about examples where [technical] management actively makes it harder for engineers to do their job by enforcing nonsensical design decisions (when explicitly warned against it)? :) No AI can solve that one.
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
Well, in that case U.S. Engineers should cheer for a weaker dollar, since it would bring the U.S. salaries more in line with the salaries in the rest of the world without affecting local dynamics as much (and still allowing people to afford
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
The human brain is also dry big data statistical machinery. The frontier models (of which R1 is an example) « think » in much the same way a human would - look at their chain of thought output). I think if you shut down LLMs in your head be
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
The integration of different folks into the military is not the issue for most people. That's equality. The problem is the differential standards by population (i.e. equity).
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
You have to inflation adjust the 2019 numbers to get the comparables for 2025. And not using the CPI (which is aimed at individuals), but using an index based on what the government actually spends the money on :)
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
Further than just muscle memory, every cell in our bodies actually has "memories". That's why heart transplant patients can experience personality changes from the donor: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science&
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
Economists have a pretty poor track record of predictions themselves... so I wouldn't be too smug about this. The economy (the real one, not the one in textbooks) is very complex, and most "obvious" things that you think abou
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
This is reductive. Even PhD economists are crap at predicting effects of certain policies (see the Federal Reserve - it has thousands of them!). The economy is very complex to model (and has reflexivity), and generally you will find credent
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
Bullshit. It’s framed as an equality movement whereas it takes as an axiom that society is built on systemic oppression - that’s the unquestionable tenet. And then the prescription is using governments power to impose “preferred” outcomes,
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
The magic incantation is competing offer . If they know you have alternatives, they are much more likely to negotiate. In fact the modern version of this guide is try to get several offers and negotiate them against each other (not you ver
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
Not that big of a deal, grand scheme of things - accidents are rare. It's just that our tolerance for risk has gone down a lot over the last 50 years - likely because of decreased other-cause mortality. When children were dying of dise
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
Indeed. Change from corporate tax to VAT, and then no such trickery is possible (tax charged at point of sale)
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
The "Jobs Bank" described above is exactly equivalent to what you're proposing (which is not UBI because it's not universal, by the way).
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
To be fair, pre-kindle we used to have a stack of magazines in the bathroom for toilet reading. And my chess instructor used to assign what he called "toilet puzzles", or chess puzzles that were thoughtless enough to be done on th
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
It also has information on store closing times/dates (some stores are closed on random days of the week, or close early on others), unexpected detours (construction, previously announced road work), speed traps (crowdsourced), and more
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
I'm an early-internet player, but I used to really enjoy games like KingsOfChaos, Outwar, Neopets and Runescape (OG version, or 2007 reboot). It sounds weird, and not what most people would consider as "gaming" but all of tho
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by medvezhenok 2y ago
Yes, same way that the image model outputs have already permeated the blogosphere and pushed out some artists, the other models will all bury us under a pile of auto-generated code. We will yearn for the pre-GPT years at some point, like we

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