mindvirus

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by mindvirus 3y ago
What are some alternatives to the constantly noisy slack for startups? I like the idea of low effort messages, but other than being extremely self disciplined there doesn't seem to be a great way to consume them in a reasonable, low in
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Flashbacks to high school Teacher: "Compute ∫x²dx" Me: "x^3/3" Teacher: "You forgot the + C!" RIP
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by mindvirus 3y ago
More straightforward in my mind would be letting people buy their mortgages. In a world of 7% mortgages, a 2.5% mortgage would only trade at ~68% of its value assuming they're both 10 years.
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Not a particularly insightful article, but I suspect mortgages have a big part. If you're locked into a 2.5% mortgage trading that for 7% is a tough sell, given property values feel pretty flat.
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Right, and I think that's mostly the first point. When the user says "make paperclips efficiently", they (hopefully!) don't mean "step 1: destroy humanity so I can't be turned off".
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by mindvirus 3y ago
I think that AI alignment has come to mean a whole lot of things to different people, and it's all under the same umbrella. * Aligning with the user's intent, especially in the face of ambiguity * Aligning with American left-wing&
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by mindvirus 3y ago
The charging dock is cool, but feels like a missed opportunity to have it be a regular Google Home speaker when the tablet is undocked.
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Questionable statistics aside, it's unbelievable to me that the US hasn't been able to greatly reduce phone and SMS scams. In my opinion, platforms like Twilio should have some liability for scams made using their platform, and we
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Managed to load the PDF. It seems to be pretty scattershot, basically a collection of every complaint we've all heard about AI. Not a lawyer but key complaints seem to be: * Despite OpenAI’s mission to ‘benefit all of humanity in a br
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Isn't it true of everything though? Explosives, airplanes, electricity, computers - all double edged swords that have both greatly benefited humanity and caused great harm (with the potential for a lot more of both).
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by mindvirus 3y ago
I feel like that could sort itself out. With overly complicated or obfuscated code, it would hopefully be hard to prove infringement.
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Fair point, but accurate versus efficient are different. While humans do acquire language much more efficiently, these models "know" more than a human about most things - in that if you asked it to describe each of the 100 most po
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by mindvirus 3y ago
Of course, like anything there will be major societal changes. But consider a few brighter possibilities: * Cars are all electric, since the one downside major downside (a long time to charge versus gas) is reduced if they can go charge the
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by mindvirus 3y ago
That was always the promise of autocracy though. However the question becomes what's being optimized for. Autocracy isn't optimizing for the good of the nation, but securing the wealth and power of the elites.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Perhaps I'm over indexing on the title, but would AGI affect the drake equation? Even if civilizations destroyed themselves with AGI, we also don't see the universe teeming with AGI life either.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
I think the real message is to reflect and know what you want out of life, and to know what you're optimizing for. And not just getting away from your current situation.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Blindsight by Peter Watts. AI, consciousness, and also vampires :)
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Very interesting take! I wonder if a similar argument would apply to something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOD7HQOnKAE - where the setup is a lot of work, but the actual execution is entirely up to nature/grav
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by mindvirus 4y ago
You're not bailing out the bankers, you're bailing out the companies with money in the bank. The consequence is that otherwise healthy companies using the bank can't make payroll, pay their vendors or their rent - which has c
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by mindvirus 4y ago
I really enjoyed the book Range about late specialization. I've also been using ChatGPT for brainstorming and combining two different topics. I've tried to get it to generate analogies too, with mixed success, but I could see that
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by mindvirus 4y ago
This is so cool, especially the Chinese characters! I really appreciate all of the creative projects like this the open nature of StableDiffusion has enabled.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
A pretty naive question: what is the advantage of garbage collection over just reference counting? It seems one benefit is handling circular references, but every time I've had that in Java or Python it's been a bug that at best l
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by mindvirus 4y ago
In this hypothetical, they'd also have the choice not to work at Subway in the first place. But realistically, very few companies (especially fast food restaurants) would want a non-compete if they had to pay for it. My broader point i
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by mindvirus 4y ago
That's where I'd push back. If Subway is willing to pay someone $100k to not make sandwiches at a competitor, why stop them?
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by mindvirus 4y ago
It feels like simple regulation could just be: - non-competes must be paid at the max of your past 3 years earnings, including benefits. - minimum $100k/year. - maximum 12 months. Assuming companies need to enforce them, they'll h
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by mindvirus 4y ago
I wonder what expectations are. Presumably in China they've had years to refine their process to get to a low defect rate, I suspect they anticipated some learning curve.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Social media is going to be looked back on as the smoking of our age.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Assuming they continue to pay a generous severance, it doesn't seem like a terrible idea to stay.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
A few thoughts: 1. Waitlists are a scam. In NYC, it's ~$150 non-refundable just to apply, and daycares won't tell you how long their waitlist is (and per the article, are often over subscribed). I wish there was legislation that t
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Refreshingly honest reasoning, at least.

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