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by olalonde 7mo ago
Oh, I assumed you meant a powered machine. I believe it's pretty quiet here too outside of CNY, although there is at least one active school nearby. Nice to hear some younger people are returning. It must be nice for kids to grow up in
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by olalonde 7mo ago
I was at my wife's hometown for CNY and it seems her mother still does everything by hand. Pretty impressive... not sure how long I'd last doing that kind of hard labor. It does smell nice. https://gist.github.com/
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Do you mean with health insurance? Novo Nordisk still lists it at $1000+ on their website: https://www.novopricing.com/ozempic.html
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by olalonde 7mo ago
> proposals to confiscate the assets of people not adopting the proponent's scheme (which immediately raises concerns about backdoors and consent) They're going to lose those assets regardless, either to the first hacker with a
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Last I checked, Ozempic (Semaglutide) is around $1000/month in the US. A typical 1 month pen is 4-8mg, so around $250/mg to $500/mg. So yeah, I may have understated how much cheaper the gray market version is.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Not as far as I know. The ratio of fat-to-muscle loss depends on several factors, most notably the rate of weight loss (see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34371981/ ). In fact, retatrutide is popular notably because it
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Yes, I believe most people buy directly from somewhat shady Chinese factories. I tried contacting a few and they all refuse to meet or send samples from within China, so I assume what they're doing is illegal in China. In the US, it&#x
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by olalonde 7mo ago
You lost muscle because you lost around 1.54% of body weight per week, which is way too aggressive. The maximum recommended amount for losing weight while retaining muscle is around 1%. You will also most likely experience a weight rebound.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
The author is missing a massive segment of that gray market: people who buy FDA-approved weight loss drugs (e.g., semaglutide or tirzepatide) at 2–5% of the brand-name price. This route carries some risk, but there are ways to mitigate it,
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Working around arguably dumb regulations and making your customers happy in the process is not the same as defrauding your customers.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
They should charge a small annual fee and let people reserve a custom word for a given IP. You could even have a small utility on your computer that automatically queries given names to "resolve" to IPs.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Sure, that's part of it, but they clearly don't like people knowing about their prompts either.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
I'm surprised that they don't just keep the various prompts, which are arguably their "secret sauce", hidden server side. Almost like their backend and frontend engineers don't talk to each other.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Coincidentally, that's where I ate my first insects as a kid. I was fond of the chocolate covered grasshoppers. The museum also had an impressive butterfly collection.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Impressive but I'm baffled someone would spend that much time and effort fixing bugs for another company's proprietary software...
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Also, begging to get "regulated": https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/2038565951268946021
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by olalonde 7mo ago
> It depends on the computer version. Normal mobile phones cannot accurately process timings, so they are unsuitable for roulette computers. This is why our phones are modified. How we modify each phone depends on the model, but in most
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by olalonde 7mo ago
> How would you the end user know? There are "provably fair" schemes where casino reveals a hash of the outcome before players bet.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
That ontological classification is a recent invention with almost zero roots in common language. For most people, woman means "adult female".
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Yep, this basically. I tend to get along well with solipsists.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
That's besides the point though.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
They don't try to prevent you from deleting them and they don't output anything unless prompted.
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by olalonde 7mo ago
As a philosophical zombie myself[0], I'm well aware of how hard it is to define and test consciousness. That's why I tried to clarify what I meant with: desire for self-preservation and intrinsic motivation. Which LLMs clearly lac
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Something the author didn't mention: what about building more pipelines to bypass the strait? If this war really cost 2B$ per day, why not allocate some of that money to finance pipelines across the gulf states? Might be worth it long
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by olalonde 7mo ago
I wonder how the dog survived for 11 years... Surely he wasn't a stray that entire time?
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by olalonde 7mo ago
How can I tell what? That current LLMs are not conscious or that AGI/ASI will not require consciousness?
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Something that surprises me about modern LLMs is that they're relatively smart yet lack consciousness. I used to believe that consciousness (e.g. a desire for self-preservation, intrinsic motivation) might be a necessary requirement fo
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by olalonde 7mo ago
Disagree. It's also used for high quality entertainment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lNzYP6SjVY
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by olalonde 7mo ago
"Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project. " Is it happening? :) /s
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by olalonde 7mo ago
The problem with targeted exam hints on what to study is that it can create situations where a student who understood the material better overall and put in more effort studying all the material equally, scores lower than someone who simply

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