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by mlsu 8mo ago
You're right, but there will be some brand new, even worse social psychosis by then, surely. Cigarette smoking actually makes more sense to me than giant cars -- at least it only hurts the person doing the smoking!
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by mlsu 8mo ago
Imho at first blush this sounds fascinating and awesome and like it would indicate some higher-order spiritual oneness present in humanity that the model is discovering in its latent space. However, it's far more likely that this attra
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by mlsu 8mo ago
From a "my opinion" standpoint, yes, I would love to see this. From a tactical PR standpoint, it would be a disaster. Muh big truuuucks is like a third rail because Americans are car obsessed as a culture. They already hit a kid,
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by mlsu 9mo ago
An honest account of this situation would place at least some blame on there being a tall SUV blocking visibility. These giant SUVs really are the worst when it comes to child safety
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by mlsu 9mo ago
Not only this. The marketplace got way less efficient. These companies are so large that they rival small states, with very little actual competition and command economies internally. When management decides to build the metaverse, it shoul
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by mlsu 9mo ago
If I, a moron, hire a PhD to crack a tough problem for me, I don't need to go back and forth prompting him at a PhD level. I can set him loose on my problem and he'll come back to me with a solution.
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by mlsu 9mo ago
ofc what I'm getting at is, you can't get something from nothing. There is no free lunch. You spend energy distilling the intelligence of the entire internet into a set of weights, but you still had to expend the energy to have hu
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by mlsu 9mo ago
They have a chart that shows it. The education level of the input determines the education level of the output. These things are supposed to have intelligence on tap. I'll imagine this in a very simple way. Let's say "intelli
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by mlsu 9mo ago
> This also highlights the importance of model design and training. While Claude is able to respond in a highly sophisticated manner, it tends to do so only when users input sophisticated prompts. If the output of the model depends on t
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by mlsu 9mo ago
When you read something like this it demands that you frame Claude in your mind as something on par with a human being which to me really indicates how antisocial these companies are. Ofc it's in their financial interest to do this, si
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by mlsu 9mo ago
IMO, the issue of 1% wealth is not an ethical one. I don't care how much money anyone makes, I don't think it's unethical for some people to have more and some people to have less. But, when we get to these scales, where a ve
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by mlsu 9mo ago
So now they're competing with Google. Big G will crush them. No "ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity." Just doing a desperate money grab.
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by mlsu 9mo ago
Because these systems are not only used on illegal immigrants. To give you a very clear example: a US citizen was murdered without any due process a few days ago by ICE. Because surveilling people -- PEOPLE , not citizens -- without probab
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by mlsu 9mo ago
That chart shown in the article is very interesting. But I think more important things happened in 2023 than just GPT3.5. ZIRP ending, coding becoming a full blown meme ("day in the life of a wfh swe" videos on tiktok), and work f
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by mlsu 9mo ago
I was on a trip to the mountains recently. Get out into nature, get away from it all, etc. I look up into the sky and see a satellite. I remember when this was a novelty, it was so rare to see them. But I saw at least 10 of them in the time
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by mlsu 9mo ago
Sixty million people died in WW2. Sixty million.
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by mlsu 9mo ago
The issue with consolidating a BLDC driver is thermals more than anything else, right? Much easier to keep the MOSFETs cool if they aren't packed in on chip. Plus you can customize their size to the load.
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by mlsu 9mo ago
The distribution is a problem, but not for the reasons people think. At these amounts (billions) the money stops being human-scale and starts to become civilization scale. You can accomplish big things with 150 billion. Things like: install
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by mlsu 10mo ago
It's so frustrating. We already created a font for government communication, Public Sans. It looks great, it's very strong, neutral, readable, and respectable. Clearly a lot of effort went into making it accessible etc. But we hav
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by mlsu 10mo ago
Because our markets are no longer efficient at allocating capital. These companies are too large, they don't compete. They can buy a company for half a billion and write it off a few months later, at the whim of someone deranged by hyp
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by mlsu 10mo ago
Until recently, if you offered a pump that _could_ be controlled by another device (such as a phone) you would have to offer your own "controller" device, even if 99.9% of your customers have a phone already. So, this companion de
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by mlsu 10mo ago
I don't work for Medtronic. But it's extremely unlikely that will happen. It's not merely a matter of reverse engineering -- after the original medtronic "hack" / reverse engineer efforts (the ones that lead to
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by mlsu 10mo ago
Mostly the reason that these things are so capital intensive is due to market consolidation. If you want to do something useful and stay small, you have 2 choices: get crushed by a bigco or get absorbed. That's politics.
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by mlsu 10mo ago
And, Ravel did eventually go mad. There's a lot of discussion about whether the recurring patterns in the song had something to do with his neurological condition. https://bigthink.com/high-culture/bolero-ravel-dem
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by mlsu 10mo ago
Until you see your electricity bill.
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by mlsu 10mo ago
This piece is pretty ineffective. Not that I like the world of "AI", I probably share the author's opinion that its just another evolution in the bullshittification of the human experience. But, the point of the article is no
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by mlsu 10mo ago
Kids are in this weird position where they are placed on a pedestal (they’re sooo important! My little future leader!) but yet they have no real agency in their lives and are very restricted from making decisions, even ludicrously simple on
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by mlsu 10mo ago
He just got a $1 mil series A. Better role models? He is a role model, at least in the society we've decided to build.
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by mlsu 10mo ago
No, I think you're misunderstanding. The only way to be sure that we are free of crime would be to record everything, inside and outside the home. It's fair because not only is your home being recorded 24/7; mine is too! Let&
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by mlsu 10mo ago
Why stop at the public? Crimes are committed in private too, you know. I have an idea — let’s increase the scope of surveillance to private activities as well. If everyone is surveilled, then really, no individual person is surveilled, righ

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