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by mlsu 2y ago
Propaganda is as much about convincing "the people" as it is convincing the "internal apparatus". Of course, for something like WWI, you have to have propaganda because the effort required is too large -- you can't
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by mlsu 2y ago
Pretty funny to see the solution to the <industry x> paperwork morass is twofold: an AI to generate paperwork and an AI to understand it. Can we just... not do that at all?
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by mlsu 2y ago
Most software engineers especially now are definitively not plucky kids who just love computers. They are in it entirely for the money. It's a completely different kind of person, the motivation comes from a completely different plac
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by mlsu 2y ago
On Solaris movies. You may find better luck with the Mosfilm adaptation. It's very beautiful, slow, contemplative.
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by mlsu 2y ago
No no no, you don't understand. We'll remove it from the environment. So the environment will be safe -- the byproducts will be disposed of outside of the environment!
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by mlsu 2y ago
I really don't understand how this level of consolidation has been allowed in the healthcare market. I was affected by this, couldn't get prescriptions filled for 4 days. Turns out I'm not alone -- 100m people? That's 1&
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by mlsu 2y ago
I did a "hard" degree and saw classmates who worked half as hard sail by me, because they cheated. Groups that share answer banks, in-class quizzes with answers shared (when they were not supposed to be), group projects that used
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by mlsu 2y ago
The quality of algorithm/recommendations on the platform has gone down sharply. In addition, I have noticed a slow uptick in bugs -- things failing to load, videos don't play, back button doesn't work, clicking profiles doesn
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by mlsu 2y ago
I know MPC takes a LOT of compute power. It's not like a finely tuned PID loop or even a cascade of PID loops, computationally. Does anyone know (or have educated speculation on) what kind of hardware is running these algorithms? Like,
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by mlsu 2y ago
Yep, it definitely is! I mentioned type 1 because I have it. As a contrast -- the point was that nobody judges me for having type 1 the way they judge people for having obesity. As an aside, I notice that sort of "lifestyle/willpo
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by mlsu 2y ago
My view about obesity has shifted dramatically since Ozempic came out. Before this, I didn't think about it too much (I am not obese myself). I notice now that there is a LOT of judgement, bias(?), around obesity, that people, obese or
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by mlsu 2y ago
I'm sure if you have an easy form like a regular cylinder that you just have to fill from the top, then the sharp sand is stronger in an absolute sense. It's when you have complex forms, logistics considerations on site, curing co
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by mlsu 2y ago
This reminds me of something that appeared on hacker news a couple days ago: https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart.... Basically, the proxy objective is "getting into YC" -- th
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by mlsu 2y ago
So then, how on earth does this stuff even get published? What exactly is it that we're all doing here? If a finding either cannot be communicated enough for someone else to replicate it, or cannot be replicated because the method is s
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by mlsu 2y ago
You could randomize replications a bit, take away the choice. Or make it so that if you replicated one group's result, you can't replicate them again next time. The key is a bit of distance, a bit of neutrality. Enough jitter to b
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by mlsu 2y ago
We can solve this at the grant level. Stipulate that for every new paper a group publishes from a grant, that group must also publish a replication of an existing finding. Publication would happen in pairs, so that every novel thing would b
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by mlsu 2y ago
I didn't realize it had that meaning, good suggestion!
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by mlsu 2y ago
No, I didn't brush it aside. There is a healthy argument going on with compelling points on both sides about the tradeoff between freedom (spending your own money how you please) and social harm reduction (preventing people from ruinin
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by mlsu 2y ago
Of course. Freedom and all. My uncle gambled away a successful business, a beautiful house, his family, his friends. In my early memory he was a giant who carried me in the ocean, flying just above the breaking waves. Later on, when I was i
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by mlsu 2y ago
And you start to wonder, he's just one who got caught. How many more. It sure didn't take long!
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by mlsu 2y ago
Of course all of the major leagues would say that they are not at all biased. Most probably have extreme suspension rules for being involved in gambling. But, we shall see. Human beings are fallible creatures; people forget, people slip. An
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by mlsu 2y ago
Isn't the goal of a non-profit by its very definition... not profit? The goal of the openAI non-profit is something something control the development of AI for the good of all humanity, then it seems that they explicitly shouldn't
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by mlsu 2y ago
Sports gambling, like all gambling, ruins lives. It's certainly worth having the discussion about whether people should be able to run a train through their life and the lives of their families via app. But a much easier argument again
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by mlsu 2y ago
There are no new cars on the market today that don't have a slew of connected """features""", right? Will it ever be possible to have a non-connected car? If so, how? What would it actually take? This is n
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by mlsu 2y ago
I would love to have that neural wristband released as a standalone product. I could imagine it acting as a sort of third/fourth/fifth shift key. Easy extra few degrees of freedom for an input device, for regular computer use.
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by mlsu 2y ago
Well, the energy isn't free, so you'd definitely be doing osmosis and making brine (osmosis is like 1/5 the energy compared to distillation). But even if it were and you could run thermal desalinization. It's a LOT of sa
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by mlsu 2y ago
Desalinization at scale produces a LOT of brine. Like, way more than anyone needs. The evaporation pools would need to be gargantuan to service SoCal. State of California uses about 5maf of water (non-ag; with agriculture, much much more).
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by mlsu 2y ago
Desalination releases brine, and would even if you had free energy. It's a disaster for local sea life. You can either pump it back out to disperse it over a large area, or release it and kill all local marine life. Pumping it back out
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by mlsu 2y ago
Really insightful. I'm a little more cautious though. I think GPT will be way more integrated, simply because it's useful. Stalinist language was artificial, in the sense that it was basically imposed on you from outside for no go
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by mlsu 2y ago
The biggest productivity gain I've seen in my programming life has not been from Claude or ChatGPT. It's from the Rust compiler. A good compiler that catches errors at compile time instead of runtime, that makes writing tests and

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