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by obblekk 3y ago
I’d rather live in a society where companies can challenge the system without threat of shutdown. Imagine how the other side would use the power to make contract decisions based on political loyalty.
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by obblekk 3y ago
We also get things like companies being able to refuse to give your data to the police without a warrant (unreasonable search and seizure protection for people).
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by obblekk 3y ago
I wonder if Elon is distracting people from the issue: can you go into an office, openly announce to everyone your boss is a terrible human being who should be denounced, and reasonably expect to keep your job? Workers should have the right
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by obblekk 3y ago
> … offers convincing evidence that the guards in the experiment were coached to be cruel. This was the point of the experiment. That simply coaching people in banal ways to be cruel caused them to be cruel. Yes the study participants we
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by obblekk 3y ago
Now that it’s been operational for a while, I would love to see an analysis of the James Webb to determine if there’s diminishing knowledge returns to size. I worry a bit the cost of something like this may be better spent on other space ex
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by obblekk 3y ago
How long does the job get to run? Would be really awesome if this could be used to offload long lived jobs from the request. Defer.run is building this for vercel and it’s really cool.
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by obblekk 3y ago
Very cool, I've been thinking about the need for a service like this. Does the 22% fee you're charging mean a 22% revenue share of what the customer pays? If so... that's very expensive.
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by obblekk 3y ago
This is an interesting example of a highly intelligent person actively convincing people to remove some alignment constraints.
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by obblekk 3y ago
Unlike China, the US has prioritized decentralized growth for centuries. Throughout the Midwest, there are excellent research universities, large industrial manufacturers, and smart hardworking people. It would be folly to try and relocate
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by obblekk 3y ago
Serious question - I read that Sweden has a lot of social issues right now, but then I see this "bipartisan" reform (is this word used in non-US politics?) of an important sector in a reasonable way. What is the Swedish political
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by obblekk 3y ago
“Moreover, incapacity is a near certainty for all people: there will be a period however brief, in which a person can no longer manage their own affairs, requiring help.” I’d never thought of it this way, but it’s a thought provoking realit
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by obblekk 3y ago
It's possible to build an EV or even smart ICE that has a bunch of modern features and doesn't phone home constantly. But I think we've now crossed a threshold where most of society agrees with continuous monitoring of some t
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by obblekk 3y ago
These photos are beautiful. But none of them strike me as "photography" in the traditional sense of "objective capture of the light at a scene" but rather all look like hyperrealistic digital art. If it was labeled as Da
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by obblekk 3y ago
For written text, the problem may be even harder. Identifying the human author of text is a field called "stylometry" but this result shows that some simple transformations reduce the success to random chance [1]. Similarly, I sus
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by obblekk 3y ago
This is important. Not just that amzn algorithmically finds the optimal market clearing price. They may be finding an optimal dumping price to reduce competition and then an optimal profit maximizing price to capture monopoly profits. If tr
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by obblekk 3y ago
RNNs are the correct solution, but infeasibly expensive to run. A different way to think about it is Transformer models are trying to predict which part of the RNN network is "worth" keeping given a resource constraint. Transforme
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by obblekk 3y ago
Knowing the people or knowing the rules?
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by obblekk 3y ago
This is fascinating because the effect size is so large and so discontinuous. That the US government has become so detached from actual law enforcement makes me wonder if there's anyone thinking about reforms to the political system it
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by obblekk 3y ago
I was a PM at instagram in 2016 when we got a lot of these complaints from celebrities and short usernames. Some users were getting hundreds of reset emails/day triggered by random people in the world trying to reset their password.
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by obblekk 3y ago
@sama Jk though I intuitively agree, I think this article doesn't really prove its claim. > Are shared computers without user separation a thing? If so, these shouldn’t be used to access web applications with sensitive information a
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by obblekk 3y ago
It's not charity, it's capacity planning but at a lower scale than before. There's always a set of junior eng with high growth potential who are being trained to become senior. They will continue be hired, albeit with less si
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by obblekk 3y ago
I don't think so. Junior engineers will learn much much faster than the past (think about how much more effective GPT4 is as a learning tool than the "rubber ducky method" or manpages or even stackoverflow). And a part of the
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by obblekk 3y ago
I've experienced a very similar feeling. To me it feels exactly like finding wikipedia in 2005, or getting an iphone + wikipanion in 2008. The frontiers of my mind have been unleashed. A real bicycle for the mind. Here are some tactics
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by obblekk 3y ago
An interesting modification would be to have it reflect on its own output each day, and build up a list of advice for future attempts, fed in the next day. That would give it some “learning” and I’d be curious if 1. Would it converge to a c
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by obblekk 3y ago
Build the habit. When google doesn't return a good result to a specific question, switch to scholar.google.com and start reading abstracts. Everything may seem like an opaque maze at first, but just keep reading and patterns start emer
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by obblekk 3y ago
Build the habit. When google doesn't return a good result to a specific question, switch to scholar.google.com and start reading abstracts. It'll seem like an opaque maze at first, but just keep reading and it'll start cleari
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by obblekk 3y ago
This is the most exciting science event to follow recently. Just wait until the normal media picks up on it. A story made for TV.
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by obblekk 3y ago
The researchers definitely believe it's real - they're fighting over who gets credit (hence the double paper publication). Only a few days left until replications should start pouring in...
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by obblekk 3y ago
The method to produce this material as described in the related paper [1] is fairly simple and could be done at home with a $200 home metal melting furnace from amazon and the precursors (which also seem to be fairly standard easy to obtain
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by obblekk 3y ago
Sometimes I’m reminded how remarkable it is that people managed to set up a system of governance in which the rulers can’t do anything they want. An imperfect system, but still worth protecting as it improves.

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