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by netcan 1y ago
Here's what I want. A compilation of claims, takes, narratives, shills, expectations and predictions from the late 90s "information superhighway" era. I wonder if LLMs can produce this. A lot of the dotcom exuberance was famo
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by netcan 1y ago
They're all good. Being somewhat arbitrary isnt a bad thing.
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Its certainly an interesting race to watch. Part of the fun is that predictions get tested on short enough timescales to "experience" in a satisfying way. Idk where that puts me, in my guess at "hard takeoff." I was rese
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by netcan 1y ago
Good points but dont underestimate "granny needs to visit the bank to get access to her account again " as a problem. For a lot of people, dealing with (now mostly digital) bureaucracies is a major stress in life. The biggest on
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Well... unfortunately the world does not come equipped with a "figure out the truth and report back" button. We have some truth-discovering methods... but they are hard, expensive, and often return empty handed. Science. Courts. F
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This is not a courtroom. Not even a pseudo-court of public opinion. There's a difference between listening to someone's story and assuming truthfulness... and joining a mob going after someone. He's not naming his accusers or
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>as observers, what we're left with is two people accusing someone of something and the accused saying they're innocent. This is the point though, isnt it. He's writing a retrospective about the impact of public condemnati
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by netcan 1y ago
The hyperbole and cliche (corporate greed) makes this trashy, but let me fix it... Big Tech firms with blockbuster products like adwords, aws, iPhone and whatnot... they are extremely profitable. So profitable that the basic business logic
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by netcan 1y ago
>ceramics don't turn into pebbles. Much of the middle east, Greece, etc have many large sites with weathered pottery shards in the shape of pebbles, because pottery shards are flat-ish. Millions of ceramic rocks. In the presence of
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>But as to your question wouldn't they need to have pots? "Pottery" tends to assume ceramics. In Neolithic and later sites that had pottery, ceramic remains typically represent 99% of the total artifacts. Bronze age tel si
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On a tangential note... This type of problem is very relevant for "impact of ai" estimates. I think we have a tendency to overestimate efficiency... because of the central roles it plays at the margins that mattered to us at any g
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Like both will be done. Idk what the roi is on adding video data to the text models, but it's presumably lower than text. There are just a lot of avenues to try at this point.
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It's an evolutionary strategy. If postmen father >12% of the babies, a protective instinct kicks in. That makes them take good care of all children delivered by mail.
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Is this terrible? The idea is not do do science. The idea is to loosely systematize and conceptualize innovation. To generate options and create a failure tolerant system. I'm sure improvements could be made... but this isn't abou
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>Why were the previous expansions out of Africa dead ends? Richard Dawkins would say that descendants are common. Ancestors are rare. Most populations of all species leave little or no genetic trace. The first human radiation was georgic
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> Our closest living relatives — chimpanzees and bonobos — are confined to a belt of Central African forests. Gorillas are similarly ecologically constrained. But, the ancestor of all African apes was (likely) more like us, adaptive. At
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by netcan 1y ago
valid point, just adding context. I have no recomendations of my own.
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Continuation the counter points: most traditional uses, guided by shamans or priests use heavy doses. I had expiremented with moderate/recomended doses of lsd and psilocybin before participating in an auahuasca retreat... and the doses
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by netcan 1y ago
> For unprofitable startups it could cause issues during a phase of very high revenue growth. So I guess my most question is "how this work irl?" Say a new startup raises money and hires 20 people. Pays $5m in salaries, office
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What are the implications of this. As I understand accounting, this means that reported profits would be higher, and therefore incur more corporate income tax liability. Cash flow isn't effected besides tax. A startup isn't likely
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Insect behaviour. Flight of birds. Turtle navigation. A footballer crossing the field to intercept a football. This is what Chomsky always wanted ai to be... especially language ai. Clever solutions to complex problems. Simple once you know
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I was speaking to the content of the article, and making a (relatively) specific point in that context: The pitfalls which may beset a democracy and the involvement of armies therein.
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Not like flat earth. Something that would be discussed in academic contexts and the intellectual mainstream. Articles of the last decade or two tend to be weaker in their claim, salvaging parts of the stronger version from the mid-century.
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> People can quibble about the origin of the idea and who is to blame. Look... I think there is a whole lot of extremely motivated reasoning. Even the British weren't that keen to defend British imperialism by the time of India&#x27
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> My understanding is that partition was driven by the British, starting with the 1905 partition of Bengal. So... this is why I said "blindspot." There have even been socio-political theories claiming that British rule created
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> Bruce Lee: Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch (jab, uppercut, etc) . Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch. I think a lot of that "shakin
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#5: conflict between ethnic groups is, IMO, our big blindspot. An amnesia regarding the story of modern politics. Some version of "Rwanda 1994," occurred in many places, at the transition to modern nation state from whatever came
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> These are not scientific observations in any sense. This is... IMO, a misguided criticism. It implies every study of anything should be scientific. This is the road to bad science, pseudoscience and whatnot. In fact, it's the road
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So... angel investing was once a very small and rare thing. An investment class well outside the scope of formal financing channels. The "angel" was a relative of "silent partners," the informal early financiers of small
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Interesting. Preselling ads huh? I think your point about dominance is a main player. I can make a dozen cases for LLMs as world of opportunity and compliments for both of these companies. It takes a lot of opportunity/gain to hedge ag

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