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by nradov 3mo ago
Ukrainian F-16s have used cannons to shoot down some Russian drones. Cheaper than a missile, but a somewhat risky maneuver as it requires getting close at low altitude and possibly flying through the exploding debris. https://www
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by nradov 3mo ago
What an ignorant comment. Are you not familiar with Mavyret, Vosevi, or Xatmep?
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Even small corporations have a huge need for paperwork in terms of contract negotiation and redlining agreements. Some of this can be partially automated but the real value an experienced attorney brings is in knowing how those issues fit i
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It's really the junior associates doing most of that grunt work. Paralegals in most firms have more limited responsibilities. Some work has already been handed over to LLMs but the job market for graduates of first-tier law schools rem
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Lawyers do a lot more than accepting liability. In my field they spend a lot of time on contract negotiation, and on interpreting what federal and state regulations actually require us to do.
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Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project(nature.com)
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It's all a matter of trade-offs. If you design the airframe to withstand higher G forces that makes it heavier. Thus you sacrifice range and payload. There are very few real world scenarios where the ability to pull more G's is ac
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These are going to be experienced test pilots who are pretty good at actively managing autopilots and other automated systems. Plus they'll be backed up by telemetry to ground controllers. But ultimately the military is willing to acce
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There would never be a reason to use windmilling props in flight for electrical generation. Even when descending, airliners like the Dash 8 need at least some forward thrust in order to maintain control and stay on the glide slope. They onl
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Already happening. Frontier LLM vendors have been hiring human domain experts specifically to create their own proprietary training data in targeted verticals.
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Nah. I've spent enough time in Western Europe to know that's total BS. It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.
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Please explain how making it difficult to start a business and hire employees protects people. I've never understood that logic but maybe I'm missing something.
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Ukraine hits more warehouses of Russia's top online retailer Wildberries(reuters.com)
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The legal concept is that LLM vendors can put pretty much whatever they want in their terms of service, and cut off or sue clients who violate those terms. They have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason (or no reason at all)
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We might see a future where the US frontier LLM vendors place really strict licenses on them. No consumer access. Only sell to enterprise customers in a limited set of countries, with heavy monitoring and auditing down to the individual emp
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The knowledge of how to build a crude gun type nuclear bomb was published in open literature decades ago. This is no longer a secret.
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We're not on the hook. The systemically important banks are very well capitalized now and have limited exposure to these debts. Even if there are substantial defaults the big banks will be fine.
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You're really missing the point. Only moronic cult members believe that the real world can be reduced to conditional probabilities, or that the probabilities of anything important can be calculated to a useful level of precision.
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Rationalism is just a secular religion, complete with all the usual arguments and schisms over minor points of dogma. These are not people worth taking seriously.
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More efficient AI is possible in principle but when the next breakthrough arrives there's no guarantee that it can be implemented on current hardware architectures. Something fundamentally different may be needed, as different from cur
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Well there is Russian and then there is Russian . The elites in Moscow and St. Petersburg don't really regard people from the outer provinces as fully Russian, especially not the ethnic minority groups. They're expendable. Most o
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What are you talking about? All of the major long-haul trucking companies hire team drivers. https://schneiderjobs.com/truck-driving-jobs/driving-opportu...
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European caravan trailers are generally designed with a much lower tongue weight, like only 4%. This reduces strain on the tow vehicle at the cost of reduced stability. It is ridiculously dangerous to tow such a trailer at full "Autoba
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If only the LLMs have to learn the new language then maybe it can be a starter?
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Athletics has never maintained any sort of "leaderboard" for unsanctioned exhibitions. When Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon-distance time trial sub 2 in 2019 it was an amazing feat of human performance but no one was under any illus
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Nitrate supplements wouldn't seem to meet the WADA criteria for inclusion on the prohibited substance list because they don't present a health risk to the athlete. A lot of endurance athletes are using beetroot supplements and so
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I agree with you, but in huge organizations like Kaiser Permanente there doesn't seem to be any good solution. For management at scale there are multiple levels of organizational hierarchy between the decision makers and the individual
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Regardless of whether your preferences are rational or not, you're quite lucky to be able to pick and choose. There is a shortage of clinicians and it's only going to get worse so most patients will have to take whomever they can
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In the US, FICO scores are mainly unpopular with "credit criminals" who have low scores. The score performs quite well in predicting how likely a borrower is to repay a loan. The problems that arise with credit scores in general a
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In a medical setting we first have to be clear about whether the LLM is acting as a transcriptionist or a scribe. Those are different roles. A transcriptionist merely writes down everything the clinician says verbatim, with perhaps a bit of

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