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by myrmidon 2y ago
Factual correctness is a different dimension from how "outrage-inducing" news are. Those are orthogonal . Consider: "Illegal immigrants strike again, having raped 2 teenagers already this year" is outrage-inducing regar
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> What is the variance of the resulting sample distribution? Relatively? The same. Yes it scales quadratically, but that is just because variance has such a weird unit. Just consider standard deviation (which has the same physical unit a
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by myrmidon 2y ago
I think there is some kind of mixup, you can not scale up the variance percentages quadratically: If you do a small-scale measurement, say you get result of 5g, with a standard deviation of 0.2g. That means the variance is 0.04 g^2. If yo
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by myrmidon 2y ago
I think this is essentially the exact same approach as the "bring back US electronics/heavy industry"-- you subsidise a sector (either directly, via regulation or tariffs). This can have positive outcomes (crisis tolerance, l
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Out of curiosity-- does "trumpists" mean PiS? Are the "trumpists" still in power? What is the current trend (toward trumpists or away?). > Get subscription of high value newspaper or magazine. Professionals work there
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by myrmidon 2y ago
The degree of automation affects this very little, for 2 reasons: - Anything you can easily automate (like pick & place machines for electronics, industrial robots for welding/assembly) will be automated anyway (no advantage fo
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> Yes, because the governments in 2020 have shown that rioting, setting building on fire, attacking police departments and declaring shit like CHAZ was totally ok and won't be persecuted. Are you sure that this is not a distorted pe
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Do you think the blanket-pardon for J6 was ethically justifiable? To me, a blanket pardon appears very problematic because I firmly believe that the underlying action (violent protest directly aimed at government representatives) was and is
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by myrmidon 2y ago
That is extremely simple, because there is less money to be made compared to just going into pure software/finance/etc, which is why all the US talent shifted there in the past. Economically speaking it was a big advantage because
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> if the media (or their owners) want to lean heavily on the scale, this is always going to be a problem 100% agree. But I think you don't even need heavy bias on media ownership to get the whole political landscape distorted; I
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> The USA will likely address climate change directly through technology (geoengineering) vs rapid degrowth (the only two plausible means of stabilizing the climate) How is "rapid degrowth" a solution to climate change? we have
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> Trump got a majority because eggs are too expensive. I think this trivializes the outcome in a dangerous way. From my view as an outside observer, these were all big factors: - Bad handling of the candidate selection for the democrats
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Because it was hunting their livestock. Bigger predators and sheep/goats/etc don't mix well in general (should not be a surprise). Protecting the rights of bigger predators over those of shepherds/farmers is something th
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Another thing to consider about South Africa is that wealth inequality is insanely high; it seems very plausible to me that most money is spent on like the rich 30% of population, and the majority of the country is basically on Namibian lev
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Thanks for the source of the quote. It's very interesting: Seeing "a computer can never be held accountable" is something where the cynic in me immediately expected "we just solved accountability, boys!", and not &q
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Yes, exists. Here is an example for 5.2: https://ia903205.us.archive.org/15/items/ARMArchitectureRefe...
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Note that loading (maliciously crafted) bytecode is generally not safe in Lua; sandboxing can be escaped in more ways than what's possible when loading plaintext sourcecode, and there are no full mitigations for this currently as far
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by myrmidon 2y ago
If you insinuate that %q obviates the need for ldump then you are wrong. There is not even significant overlap in what they do; all that %q does is sufficiently escape Lua strings so the interpreter can read them back. It does not serialize
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> can I save it to disk, shut off the interpreter, boot it again and it imports it fine (in which case it somehow dumps them as code...? Yes, it dumps them as bytecode (probably not compatible between completely different interpreters).
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> In retrospect, keeping China a weak communist nation was so easy. This is extremely naive, and fallacious. As policymaker, you do not know beforehand how countries are going to develop over a 40 year period (not even your own country :
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Sure, being a domestic enterprise might help here , but you will have to deal with regulations abroad, too (and Concorde had arguably the edge there because it had both London and continental Europe as home court). I'm also fairly s
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Very simplified-- looking at incidents over time is a good sanity check. If you expect microplastics to cause problems with blood flow in brains, you would expect stroke rates to go up with "microplastics exposure". But they don&#
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> If gen Z and Alpha don’t die from aneurysms at 45, then yeah, I guess we could assume it isn’t dangerous. I think this is still overly alarmist. Plastic production basically started really ramping up in the 1950s in industrialized nati
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> I’m in the US so I would start with immediately ending all funding, military and political support for Israel. This is a very principled move, but I think it overestimates the short-term political effect that sanctions can achieve by
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by myrmidon 2y ago
I can absolutely see your point that Israelis in the past did unethical things to make their state happen. And many Israelis do unethical things still, or abuse the power of their state to disproportionally react to attacks. But my point is
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> Dresden and other civilian areas that supported factories were bombed because better bombing abilities that could actually take out factories weren't available. That is exactly my point. Dresden was just a juicy target-- dropping
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by myrmidon 2y ago
There is no text-only evaluation of the other models, though. The comparison might be completely invalid.
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Is there a text-only evaluation of the non-Deepseek models? Because being evaluated on text-only might have helped the other models immensely as well from what I can tell?
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by myrmidon 2y ago
No, you are arguing against a strawman. What I said is that more targetting information does not necessarily lead to less bombing (or less collateral damage), and the fact that Dresden was firebombed is neither here nor there.
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Sure, but the low inhibitions on murdering civilians are entirely mutual- it's not like all the suicide bombing during the second intifada was mainly aimed against military targets... I'll absolutely concede that as outsider its m

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