nate_meurer

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by nate_meurer 3y ago
For many of us, work is partly motivated by the desire to avoid making other people carry our weight. Do you not see anything virtuous about that?
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by nate_meurer 3y ago
I don't think so. I got my CS degree twenty five years ago. "Grueling" is pretty much the last word I'd use to describe my journey. I never went to class, spent the whole time smoking weed and gaming. I'm essenti
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by nate_meurer 3y ago
Do you think it's virtuous for an able adult to demand that other people supply his survival and hapiness?
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by nate_meurer 3y ago
You do exactly the same thing when you use phrases like "the right wing".
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by nate_meurer 3y ago
The only company, huh? Strange that so many other companies also building LLMs. You better go tell them all not to waste their time, OpenAI has it locked up. I'm sure they'll be interested to hear your ideas.
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by nate_meurer 3y ago
Thank you for your service.
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by nate_meurer 3y ago
My favorite thing about Elizabeth Holmes is what she said to NYT reporter Amy Chozick when Amy mentioned that Jennifer Lawrence had declined to play Holmes in The Dropout : > They’re not playing me. They’re playing a character I create
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by nate_meurer 3y ago
Stable in what way?
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by nate_meurer 3y ago
Sam Altman estimated that the cost to train GPT-4 was about $100 million. Not only is this not tremendously expensive, it's pocket change for thousand of corporations around the world. But even if what you said was true, this techno
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by nate_meurer 3y ago
The US government has lost every battle in the the crypto wars precisely because the constitution doesn't allow them to outlaw math. In the US, Crypto is currently export-controlled only in very narrow cases where it's integrated
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by nate_meurer 3y ago
Step 7: Complete mandatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training, and demonstrate competence and dedication to avoiding uses of AI that might contribute to the entrenched systematic oppression of <folx>.
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by nate_meurer 3y ago
> For example, we can't download entire libraries of books instantly to our brains and then reproduce those books word for word in memory. Yeah. Nobody's talking about word-for-word duplication here. > If a human was to
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by nate_meurer 3y ago
In common usage, counterfeit connotes a sort of fraud, where the work is presented as genuine in some way. Piracy on the other hand is just unauthorized duplication of all kinds.
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by nate_meurer 3y ago
Absolutely, and by opening our minds to the broadest definitions of theft, we may see that nearly everything we say or otherwise express is "stolen" from earlier work, including your comment here.
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
> Same happened in America with Trump and voters yearning for good ol days, disregarding the new world order. I've heard this called the "Golden Age Fallacy". A belief in restoring the world to some past glory, usually
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
Are you certain of that?
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
My wife and I have talked about this before. How would we feel and what would we do if we knew nukes were incoming to our urban area dotted with military and government targets. We tentatively agreed we'd be in our backyard eating cr
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
Stalin had a wife and kids, and there were times he appeared to care about them, such as his efforts to keep Beria away from his young daughter. But otherwise, Stalin clearly cared nothing for human life in general. He stopped the Great P
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
I thought those guys were Nazis?
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
No, Trump was criticized for withholding that military aid to Ukraine in order to get them to help his reelection campaign by opening an "investigation" into Hillary. Mick Mulvaney, Trumps Chief of staff at the time, plainly ad
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
They need to act fast while air superiority is still up for grabs.
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
Putin will use this as a pretext to invade the Baltics. This has already started; yesterday a Kremlin spokeswoman threatened military consequences if Sweden or Finland join NATO. In his big speech last week, Putin said it was "madness
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
Good point, maybe so.
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
Keystone XL is an oil pipeline. And our net export of gas has continued to increase in the past couple of years.
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
Same in the US.
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
I think history will ultimately judge this as the Merkel administration's biggest shortcoming.
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
Section 8 pays close to market rate, otherwise the program wouldn't get anywhere. My section 8 unit is tad cheaper than what I could get otherwise. But my rents are always lower than market anyway. The tradeoff is that the government
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
Correct. I have section 8 tenants in one of mine. They pay around fifteen percent of their rent, and the government pays the rest. There are advantages and disadvantages, but we're three years in and they're good tenants. Ten
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
This needs to be repeated at every opportunity. I believe history will ultimately judge this as Merkel's greatest failure, and I say that as a fan of her's.
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by nate_meurer 5y ago
I didn't ask a question. What I did do is make a logical assertion with a wee little bit of outside support. I then pointed out that you seemed unable to articulate a material response, which is still the case. Did I miss anything?

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