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by mmooss 3mo ago
Some people despise drug users on their streets but oppose safe injection (a.k.a. overdose prevention) sites, which would move the drug users indoors. It's often an act of power, like a mob. It's the corruption of power made vicer
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Thanks. I would just add that exchanges have been sufficient for traders for centuries (millennia?) before blockchain, including high-frequency. Can blockchain performance can keep up with high-frequency?: What if I buy an asset then want t
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> There isn't a lot of evidence for historical inevitability. You're the one arguing for that; I'm saying it's up to us whether we advance or go backward. Generations before us have moved us forward, so it's defi
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> virtue signalling That term lacks all credibility - it's just a weak attack based on mind-reading - and is a signal itself. Most people actually want do good - humans naturally are very social and want to do well for the group - a
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By that reasoning any advance is an aberration and thus hopeless, but we've had liberal democracy for a long time. Again, certainly not perfect.
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> The Pathfinder team has built and flown five generations of scaled aircraft over 30 flights. https://www.jetzero.aero/progress Why so few? I'd expect them to be flying daily or as often as possible, to gather as m
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I'm very willing to subsidize universal access to food, shelter, education, healthcare ... not long-haul air travel.
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Actually, lots of people acting together regularly accomplish things - almost everything wortwhile is accomplished that way, probably back to our non-homo ancestors. As a simple matter, it keeps my city clean - we all put garbage in the bin
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> This has always been true and there has never really been perfect justice. You raise the standard for justice to perfection. There also has never been perfect corruption and anarchy. > Ultimately, power and violence have always supe
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> Plenty of successful drugs from the 50’s had hERG activity, yet the impact on safety was marginal. Is there some evidence of these two claims? Obviously many experts think otherwise.
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This argument is almost algorithmic: Take the concern about <TECH>, substitute 'human'. Also, another popular response: don't address questions, instead try to put the person asking on the defensive. The main point is t
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What about translation software that existed before LLMs?
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> Prediction markets run on blockchain Why? It's not efficient computing. To give techy users confidence that their bets are immutable?
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From Proposal A: > LLM output has very unclear legal status: it may be possible to copyright on its own merits, or not; it may be affected by all of the licenses and copyrights in the training data, or not. Debian Policy and the DFSG req
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This is a somewhat common talking point for supporting LLMs. What did non-English speakers do before LLMs?
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It's interesting that you frame it as the FDA increasing regulation and not that science has increased its foreknowledge of problems.
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> if the cost is our privacy? If the cost is freedom . Privacy is an abstract technicality to many, but it's necessary for freedom, and freedom rings everywhere.
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We mostly agree on your points. As I said, the FOSS aspects (which you describe well) are of interest to "undercapitalized startups, amateur financial services, and hackers interested in innovation in this area." I think my additi
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The USD is considered the most sound currency in the world and has been for generations; maybe it's the most sound in the history of humanity (possibly a consequence of modern international relations and communications). The great majo
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But how do investors collect on this collateral? Do they have any legal leverage? And how does blockchain help them? Blockchain and tokenization would seem to help with transactions with investors who are far away who don't know the fa
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> Real World Assets (RWA) is the hot stuff these days. > Uniswap and Aave have been chugging along for years How hot? I haven't heard of it or them, but that's hardly strong evidence. What do you see? > One of the reasons
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I do wonder if there are circumstances where it doesn't work. But it's hard to believe I'm addressing basic syntax for computer commands on HN: 'Display the cause of the <this prior output>'. > needs a cert
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Interesting: What was embedded in the QR code? An identifier for the object? If it's the object's textual data that is embedded: aren't archives as interested in storing the objects as as they are in the contents? Why not ima
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I was a little imprecise, sorry. One reason that the predominantly Sunni countries, such as Saudi Arabia, have conflict with Iran is because Iran is predominantly Shiite and the center of the Shiite world (as I understand it; I don't k
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> They can mind their own business, but they chose not to. Neither the US nor Iran can do that. Iran and the US are in very different positions: The US is the status quo power; they and their allies dominate the Mideast and Persian Gulf,
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That links to The 17-Year-Old Student Who Solved a Major Math Mystery , about Hannah Cairo.
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What about it is 'bad UX' or harder? It seems simple, effective, and more efficient to me.
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Computers long have always, before LLMs, and most still do do output responses that don't sound like humans. It's hard to understand why you think that's hard. It is a matter of definition, but a start would be eliminating th
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I don't see any basis offered for what you're saying.
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Don't say 'you'? One solution is to use commands (imperatives), as you've always done with computers. For example, instead of 'you are an expert in Lisp', say 'function as an expert in Lisp.' Are ther

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