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James Lindsay has a lot to say on this. The guy is probably the most intellectual commentator in conservatism. Here's the first part of his three part series on the death of the university. https://newdiscourses.com/2
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Breeder reactors are such an overlooked technology. Only Russia and India are seriously pursuing them. The thing about breeder reactors is they can get rid of the nuclear waste problem and use 100x the energy of the input fuel vs conventi
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The problem is energy conversion efficiency. Sure you can make synthetic jet fuel from solar panels, water and CO2 but the efficiency is miserable[1]. It's something like 4% efficient and the metal catalysts sometimes aren't che
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One thing I'd like to add is that you do not have the computing power to generate a large language or vision model. Period. Unless you have hundreds of thousands of dollars for compute time you are just not going to do anything inter
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How long do you think before the HN audience tips on this one? That your comment isn't at the bottom of the comments and grayed out shows there might be hope after all.
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Lack of fine-grained tracking makes it hard for small companies to target niche audiences. It tends to favor big brands who can do TV advertising or other highly non-targeted advertising. There was a point in the early 2010s were small co
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Reminds me of the cool stuff that Survival Research Labs[1] used to do in the Bay Area in the 1990s and early 2000s. They'd have very unpermitted and somewhat dangerous shows in abandoned lots in industrial zones and under freeway ove
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We call ourselves the good guy squad. Everything we do is eventually good even if you don't see how it's good now. Any time we do something you think is bad like buying a $15 million mansion that who the heck knows what we'
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Globalization is dead if we hit peak world energy. Then it's every country for themselves. Most products contain energy, so why export energy in the form of finished goods? As energy gets more scarce, countries will get more stingy w
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You will need to use an IDE to be productive in Java. One thing that Java does better than just about any other language though is it's maintainable. A codebase in Java can exist for decades and not become unmaintainable no matter wh
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I tried to get it to answer some factual questions based on government statistics on topics that left of center people go politically thermonuclear on. It wouldn't do it no matter how I phrased the question or told it to assume differ
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The flaw isn't that it's biased, it's just that its creators say that it is unbiased. It's a black box with lots of admitted tweaking to prevent it from saying things that the creators, who are admittedly left of center
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When ads are hyper-targeted to niche products offered by small businesses that I am a fan of, they are actually not bad. I like the ads on Facebook, but not as much on other platforms like TV since TV ads are just random pray and spray ads
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The corpus is just so enormous that no person could fit that into their brain so it just appears to be synthesizing new information. Sure it might be worded differently from any corpus text, but it's roughly the same as things we alre
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I feel like ChatGPT is a search engine for its corpus that has been compressed with a very lossy neural net. It has compressed it via a hierarchical understanding of concepts. It's just retrieving those and stringing them together.
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>Think of a traumatic moment in your past, where you wish you could go back in time and comfort or offer yourself advice. Then imagine yourself stepping into the frame of your memory and giving your younger self the support you needed in
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Oh yeah, Wickard is ridiculous. If you grow wheat in your backyard to feed to your own pigs, that's interstate commerce.
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DC v. Heller is a great opinion to read for us Constitutional Law nerds though. Scalia really put the historical scholarship work in on that one digging up all that 1776 history. It is a very long and detailed treatise. If you are a gun co
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The supreme court case Schenck v. United States said at the time that speech discouraging people from being drafted was prohibited. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
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Almost every defendant in a criminal case would go free if Hanlon's razor were used. Mental state is highly important in securing a criminal conviction unless it's a strict liability offense which there are comparatively few.
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Probably wouldn't be allowed because of the app store rule against apps with embedded languages.
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Part 2 is convince me not to buy it. This is the future.
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The way I did this at a company I worked for is that we had a MediaWiki. That's the software that runs Wikipedia. Whenever anyone would ask me a question, I would make a MediaWiki page or add to an existing page and appropriately lin
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The superpersuader AIs are almost here. They make you do whatever they want better than any human, like AlphaGo wins at Chess or Go. This is what all the propaganda about AI being human is all about. The governments and advertisers want y
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Who could argue for hours and praise and upvote someone getting Doom running on all their household appliances?
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Antipope predicting the imminent demise of coal as an electricity source is a bit premature. Solar panels are a tiny fraction of global energy supply and will remain so. The scale of energy provided by fossil fuels is enormous. This arti
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Ramesh ("sunny") at Theranos got $40 million bucks when he cashed out after a brief period of working at a dot com startup and he blew most of it on his divorce and Theranos. On the upside, he got to date 19 year old Holmes. Peo
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I always scroll to the bottom of the HN comments to see the non-woke take. I was not disappointed! Elon is about the most capable entrepreneur of the 21st century. He could start from scratch and have something more awesome and profitable
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It was from an era of 110 baud teletypes. Thus, brevity was of extreme importance.
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This is kind of like how people are working on AI to get their claims submitted and accepted by health insurance companies in the U.S while meanwhile there are companies building AI to help insurance companies reject claims.

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