mihaic

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by mihaic 2y ago
I'm surprised a bit that nobody here is turning this into a question of where do LLMs lie on the spectrum of "understanding" compared to this.
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by mihaic 2y ago
> there is a lot beyond the ±σ , just need to look there. Of course, the world if large and kaleidoscopic. But the rate of homogeneity in the middle 80% is higher than it's even been, and that really affects everyone. I actually wan
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by mihaic 2y ago
The profile of the average Swedish immigrant is different than the average US one. Many EU countries have counted and have seen immigrants commit disproportionally more crime.
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by mihaic 2y ago
It pretty much is a soft coup, yes. The general population is apologetic for it, since the concept of rule-of-law is not that important to Romanian culture.
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by mihaic 2y ago
Seeing this election unfold from the inside the country has turned me simultaneously more anti-establishment and anti-democratic. The candidate that could have potentially won is an imbecile that dresses well, has good diction and spouts ji
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by mihaic 2y ago
In pre-11 Windows you can see all open instances of an app from the taskbar, and with one-click open any one of these. Of course, there's an equivalent for Mac as well, but it's not one-step, it's two step. I know it sounds l
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by mihaic 2y ago
Here's just an example: I often want to see all currently open windows on my task bar, and using my mouse I can instantly open the specific window I want to work on. Note that I don't want to open a specific app, I want to access
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by mihaic 2y ago
Interesting offer, but why not make it a Windows 10 look-alike? I've been spending more time recently on KDE on Ubuntu specifically to avoid interacting with Windows 11, which feels like a Windows designed by Mac users that don't
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by mihaic 2y ago
This type of advice only works in the right environments, of which most countries or social groups don't seem to fall into. I do agree with most of it, but you really need to make sure you're the in right environments before putti
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by mihaic 2y ago
Sure, it is both. And in this type of situations I think the more important one to tackle is the systemic one, so that putting the burden on the individual is made manageable. To give another analogy, if you want people to recycle, you need
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by mihaic 2y ago
If drugs flood my community, you can't say the solution is simply "just don't do drugs, duh". If you put the burden on the population when everything in society works against them, it's not productive in any way.
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by mihaic 2y ago
Always using the appeal to nature is a fallacy, but a more refined heuristic is to simply consider that the burden of proof for a processed meal is much greater than that for an unprocessed one. I remember a movie from the 1950s, where a ch
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by mihaic 2y ago
You're right on this. The problem is that in real life it's sometimes harmful to have false positives (putting innocent people in prison) and sometimes you should side with caution and accept some false positives to make sure you
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by mihaic 2y ago
Just what I wanted to say as well, but I guess people really are bad at making counterfactual judgements.
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by mihaic 2y ago
This article seems to a lot of fluff, but one thing I generally dislike in arguments is pulling some historical period, quoting similar complaints from that time, and using this to imply that because a problem has existed before it's t
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by mihaic 2y ago
Wow, this is impressive if actually true. I wonder how accurate their dating methodology is, since they have to do carbon dating on something in that layer, and not on the clay tablet itself. It does seem strange that the alphabet would hav
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by mihaic 2y ago
Here's a little through experiment I use to come to this conclusion: Let's say you start a counter from the number 0, and keep on incrementing it. The moment you stop it to look at the counter, is it going to be odd or even? At an
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by mihaic 2y ago
This feels like doing something just to do something. I hate the fact that Google owns Chrome just as much as the next person here, but what's going to happen next? Are you going to sell it to ByteDance since they have the biggest offe
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by mihaic 2y ago
> It’s good to develop standards even if the vast majority of people won’t adopt them I'm not sure I agree that his standards are that good though. I mean, there's a limited number of standards that the community in general can
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by mihaic 2y ago
Honestly, whenever I heard any opinion by Tim, he seems like he doesn't really have an understanding of the inherent difficulties of introducing standards in the real world, and then I think he got lucky that HTML since it came around
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by mihaic 2y ago
In that case I actually ask "Who's the human?", and in about 80% of the time I'd pick the human.
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by mihaic 2y ago
> I take it for granted, like algebra, it's like saying gravity is bullshit. What other model is there? I somewhat relate to their position. Something can be probably wrong, even if no better alternative can be proposed. I haven&#x2
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by mihaic 2y ago
While I don't think I'm the target audience for this, the quality of landing pages these days is fantastically impressive. Congrats on the slick look. Can I ask if you made it yourself or got external help here?
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by mihaic 2y ago
As an Eastern European, I can agree that we're simply much more corrupt than Western Europeans, and it indeed is a cultural phenomenon.
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by mihaic 2y ago
I agree with most of what you say, but I think real solutions involve even more change to the current system. Essentially, I don't think we can keep having the system of passive income, where more and more of the wealth is owned by peo
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by mihaic 2y ago
This article is one of the most infuriating pieces of shallow thinking I've read for a while now. It seems to acknowledge that there might be a real demographic problem in a couple decades, but since there's no clear evidence, the
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by mihaic 2y ago
The education system has not even really adapted to the constant availability of the Internet, and now it has to face LLMs. If I could short higher education, I would. Literally all its foundational principles are bordering on obviously use
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by mihaic 2y ago
Why though? You lose quite a bit of credibility when you say that theorems that apply to any system of logic don't apply to you in any way.
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by mihaic 2y ago
After Godel published his landmark incompleteness proof, that a logical system can't be complete and also without any internal inconsistencies, I would have expected this to trickle into philosophical arguments of this type. I see no p
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by mihaic 2y ago
> Root for the ambitious… The alternative is to ignore or tear them down. Some resources are mostly zero-sum, support being one. That means that buying their product or even buying their stock means not supporting their competitors. At t

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