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That book somewhat supports the idea that oil didn't come from dinosaurs exclusively and may be a product of microorganisms living within the earth's crust. To dispute the "oil only comes from dinosaurs" idea seems to ma
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8. Offensive, but true comment that gets a bunch of upvotes and then gets flagged.
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The banks didn't need to buy those bonds back in 2021. The fed could have just done it and prevented all the ensuing drama once rates rose ahead of time.
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One thing I've learned about the ancient world is it was hyper-violent. Some guys could come over the hill and kill everyone in a tribe for stupid reasons.
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The problem with the tech incubators and hackathons and so forth of today is that it's only tangentially about having fun. Back then it was 90% fun and maybe a few random guys were trying to figure out how to start some sort of tech bu
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I've bumped into R.U Sirius a couple of times. Whenever I do I always congratulate him on Mondo 2000 and being so far ahead of the curve at the time.
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I was around in the early 90s on BBSs. One of the things that amuses me about people asking AI how to do bad stuff and all the handwringing about AI safety is that one of the popular things that was available for download on some of the le
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Wait till the end war comes and they need more cannon fodder.
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The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics also says this[1]. Retrocausality and non-locality are why a lot of physicists don't like it. It's just an interpretation too, but is otherwise consistent with all other QM th
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by narrator 4y ago
The 3d-printed fingerprint one is not scary since it requires physical access, a 3-d printer and your fingerprint.
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Google has been having a hard time making an LLM product. It's sad to see them having this sort of ordering the burning of the ships of Zheng He moment.
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Oil and gas are different than metals though because some deposits spurt out of the ground, while others require heroic drilling, pumping and refining efforts that take more energy to realize. This is the concept of energy returned on ener
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The law of supply and demand expects the marginal cost of each additional fish to be more expensive. What if it's not. What if it costs the same amount of money to catch fish until you catch the very last fish. Suddenly the price of
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People can learn how to use Treasurydirect.gov instead of using their bank as a lousy bond broker. Inflation protected bonds, that you can buy only $10k a year of are some of the highest yielding risk free investments that exist. Banks sho
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The creation of money should be a government function though. The weird hybrid system we have where we privatize the gains and socialize the loses is what causes these kinds of disruptions. With how much control China exercises over the b
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In China they use debt-free newly printed money to recapitalize banks. The reason this doesn't create moral hazard is lending is very tightly controlled and subject to regular decrees about who they can lend to and for what.
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Russia isn't trying to advance. They withdrew in Kherson in an orderly fashion because they believed the supply lines were too vulnerable. The Ruble did not crash vs. the U.S dollar. In fact it strengthened for a while and it's
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I think Russia knows that this is a war with NATO for world hegemony and it is going to last a very long time. Maybe a decade or more. Thus, what's the best way to conserve resources and deplete the enemy? Just sit in defensive posi
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Boom and Bust is a feature, not a bug in western fractional reserve banking. In China, where they have a different system, the central bank would electronically print debt free money and recapitalize the bank and execute any bankers violat
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There is an eerily prophetic work by the high-ranking Eastern European military defector Golitsyn called "The Perestroika Deception"[1] in which he says that Perestroika is a strategic retreat because the Soviets know they are too
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I have been fooling around with the small 7B llama models. They chat, but they are pretty dumb compared to ChatGPT. This means they are terser and they confabulate more, even for things that are common knowledge. It seems, from asking it
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by narrator 4y ago
What if there was some sort of LLM like breakthrough? I could see someone doing a technique where they track all movements of a person going throug their day with a fine grained bodysuit. They could then use that as tokens for generative
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Once robotics and computer vision gets there, there could be a lot of money in robotized regenerative agriculture.
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The household robot that can cook will be able to use a knife to cut anything it arbitrarily thinks needs to be cut which could lead to it being directed to assist with serious criminal acts. Self-driving cars out on the streets have alrea
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Google is too scared to give anyone a model that can do anything interesting. They won't even help the U.S government make autonomous weapons. It's like they are a priesthood of AI like Asimov's Second Foundation that is wa
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Suddenly those jailbreaks of the LLM become a lot more serious. What happens when bad people can get a robot to help them commit various crimes?
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What's more fun is imagine pointing this thing at earth instead of an asteroid. Soon the whole crust of the earth is turned into paperclips, or trusses or whatever. oops.
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Your personal chatbot to protect you will at first be a luxury and then be more of a commodity. It will run on your own machine. Right now you can run the big Facebook llama model on a single machine if you buy a $15,000 A100 with 80GB of
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I noticed that there are a lot fewer forum results in Google search than a couple of years ago. Forum results are often pretty good, but I think Google deranks these sites in their quest to clean up misinformation. That's why appendi
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You have your drones. You also have your own personal chatbot that tells you when to ignore instructions from super-persuader AIs that would get you to kill yourself , spend all your money, or fall madly in love with an LLM if you didn&#x2

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