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by nradov 2mo ago
While attacking Iran was a stupid decision, losing some MQ-9 Reaper drones by itself isn't unexpected or a real problem. The US military had already stopped procuring those drones years ago specifically because they aren't surviva
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by nradov 2mo ago
And because a decapitation strike worked in Venezuela, so they naively believed they could use a similar tactic against a much more resilient adversary.
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by nradov 2mo ago
Nah. Rapid, unconstrained growth in the early production and use of fossil fuels was one of the greatest factors ever in saving lives and improving quality of life worldwide. Stopping that would have condemned millions to poverty, darkness,
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by nradov 2mo ago
Stasis leads to increasing entropy and a sclerotic inability to adapt to changing circumstances. You're either growing or dying: there is no middle ground.
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by nradov 2mo ago
The living experience you're describing might be annoying but it's not actual trauma. I think some younger people are too quick to use that word and it trivializes real trauma.
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by nradov 2mo ago
Nah, he just makes things up. Junk science.
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by nradov 2mo ago
No need to fear, the future looks bright!
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by nradov 2mo ago
There is no need for proof of human creation. That is entirely pointless and irrational. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
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by nradov 2mo ago
How is this "better than nothing" considering that it's not even needed in the first place?
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by nradov 2mo ago
Even if some of the commercial LLMs embed text watermarks, students will still be able to use open source LLMs with no watermarks. Universities need to stop goofing around and restructure every part of their curriculum around the assumption
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by nradov 2mo ago
I deny that there is anything scary about AI development. It's working fine for me so far.
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by nradov 2mo ago
There are limits to what you can hide in text. If there is a signal then obviously independent cryptographers will be able to find it.
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by nradov 2mo ago
Foreign USD reserve holdings have very little to do with the US' economic power. Where are you coming up with this nonsense? Even if every other country sold off their USD reserves we would still the same assets, same population, same
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by nradov 2mo ago
Happiness doesn't matter. It's not a useful metric for anything important.
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by nradov 2mo ago
If you want to be a capitalist instead of a laborer then you can just go do that. There's never been a better time to start a company and be your own boss.
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by nradov 2mo ago
So what. The amount of physical gold held by the USA (or any other country) is almost entirely irrelevant to the real economy. It's a pointless relic of the past. We could sell off all of our gold so that people could make jewelry out
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by nradov 2mo ago
I have empathy for people suffering from mental illness. But validating their delusions of persecution is not a kindness. I hope you get the help you need.
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by nradov 2mo ago
Nothing good, but if you have to ditch in the water then batteries are the least of your concerns.
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by nradov 2mo ago
Russia is a big place with limited internal transportation. Land routes from Russia can only supply a fraction of China's fossil fuel import requirements. Much of it still has to come via vulnerable merchant ships. China still lacks th
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by nradov 2mo ago
Your comment makes no sense. There's no need for a larger money supply. The current situation is sensible (at least to anyone who understands basic finance).
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by nradov 2mo ago
No country is accumulating more than token amounts of gold. There just isn't much physical gold available relative to the size of the world economy.
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by nradov 2mo ago
China doesn't have a lot of coal, at least not relevant to their energy requirements. They still have to import a huge amount and remain vulnerable from an energy security perspective. https://www.iea.org/countries&#x2F
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by nradov 2mo ago
The best use case might be short flights over water or other geographic obstacles where driving routes might be much longer or impossible. Like Kahului Airport to Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport for example.
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by nradov 2mo ago
Many of the Garmin smartwatches also have all of those features.
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by nradov 2mo ago
Exactly. Beyond all that, I also use my Garmin smartwatch as a scuba diving computer to track depth, time, and decompression.
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by nradov 2mo ago
Widespread use of nuclear power for civilian merchant shipping is a non-starter. It's simply too expensive to train and pay enough qualified nuclear engineers. The US Navy barely manages this for a few dozen nuclear powered vessels wit
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by nradov 2mo ago
It's not technically possible to prove model alignment. At best you can establish a probability of alignment within certain constraints.
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by nradov 2mo ago
None of those are AGI data point points. LLMs are making terrific progress but it's unknown whether they're progressing towards true AGI or in some other direction.
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by nradov 2mo ago
And that's fine because no guardrails are needed.
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by nradov 2mo ago
We have zero data points for AGI progress.

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