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by orangecat 4mo ago
So, what exactly is the claim? Are the bits constantly conscious? Do they snap into consciousness when the computer does math with them? Or is it maybe the computer that's conscious while it's processing these bits? How about whe
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by orangecat 4mo ago
This is to say that jobs programs for math (and more generally fundamental research) have lead to extremely positive ROI for society Which makes it not a "jobs program" as the term is generally used.
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by orangecat 4mo ago
Yes. There are really three separate questions: - Are current LLMs conscious? - Is it possible that future versions of LLMs with similar architectures could be conscious? - Can any AI be conscious? I'd assign probabilities o
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by orangecat 5mo ago
Are gifts morally wrong? If I'm near death is it wrong for to give my assets to my children beforehand, or does it only become immoral if done via a will?
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by orangecat 5mo ago
It's bad because they're spending the same amount of time "working", but generating less output. It's a loss for customers, who either have to pay more or forego the service altogether.
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by orangecat 5mo ago
A lot of people like going to live music and theatre events and scalpers make it more difficult and more expensive for them Scalpers make it possible to get a ticket at market price, instead of maybe being able to get it for less and mayb
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by orangecat 5mo ago
Surely though, the HOA and all that would likely be baked into a renter's price. Sure, the same way that the benefits of a fixed mortgage payment are baked into sale prices. The efficient market hypothesis would say that neither rent
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by orangecat 5mo ago
Imagine having your house paid for, and you grow old and you have no rent to pay. My home is "paid for". Except for the HOA and property taxes that are not that far off from what I was previously paying in rent, the ongoing main
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by orangecat 6mo ago
Gosh, I hope colleges don't find out about this pricing strategy.
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by orangecat 6mo ago
The average inflation-adjusted hourly wage in the US has fallen over the past 50 years. No: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
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by orangecat 6mo ago
a small group of people who own some parts of the land can block any development Almost all NIMBY opposition to development comes from people who do not own the land in question.
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by orangecat 6mo ago
It's immensely frustrating that Operation Warp Speed was probably the most successful government program in my lifetime, and now nobody wants to acknowledge it (Republicans because of anti-vax idiocy, Democrats because they don't
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by orangecat 7mo ago
And it's silly. A person earning $100 a year is not "twice as poor" as a person earning $200 in any meaningful sense; both are extremely poor and will require essentially the same amount of public support. But this metric tre
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by orangecat 7mo ago
That's exactly what's going on. The inverses are very sensitive to small changes at the low end.
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by orangecat 7mo ago
this metric is more centered around the mode of the distribution (poor people). It's focused on the very poorest, who are not the mode. (Income distribution is approximately lognormal; see https://www.researchgate.net&#x2F
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by orangecat 7mo ago
you need more RAM? Throw it away and buy a new one. Or sell it, which is much easier to do with Macs because they're known quantities and not "Acer Onyx X321 Q-series Ultra". There is then the software issue, with Apple de
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by orangecat 7mo ago
There is considerable evidence that they aren't. Why did Lia Thomas go from being nowhere near winning in the male division to getting fifth in the women's? When competitive fairness is raised as an argument for segregation, it
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by orangecat 7mo ago
Trying to prevent goods and services from being produced more efficiently is bad actually.
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by orangecat 7mo ago
They've also removed the regulation requiring a second way out of a burning 5 story building. This has been well studied. Requiring two stairways significantly increases costs, constrains layouts, and is not actually safer: https:&#
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by orangecat 7mo ago
Rents went down for a couple years then right back up. Except now the city has a bunch of more soulless condos and is horribly congested. So there were a bunch of people who wanted to live there and now can.
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by orangecat 7mo ago
And you'd be right. Forbidding efficiency improvements in order to preserve jobs is the correct solution approximately never.
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by orangecat 7mo ago
The #1 thing we need to do is make it illegal for your healthcare to be tied to your employment Yes. Or at the very least, stop making it mandatory. Health insurance should work like literally everything else: your employer pays you money
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by orangecat 7mo ago
UBI doesn't replace market forces with central planning. You're still incentivized to produce goods and services that other people want, and to do so more efficiently than your competitors.
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by orangecat 8mo ago
Sure, and if the reason you're going to the top of the mountain is to deliver supplies to people who need them, you should absolutely take the lift.
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by orangecat 8mo ago
If I could destroy these things - as the Luddites tried - I would do so Would travel agents have been justified in destroying the Internet so that people couldn't use Expedia?
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by orangecat 8mo ago
That’s like saying that the human brain is based on simple physical field equations, and therefore its behavior is easy to understand. Right, which is the point: LLMs are much more like human coworkers than compilers in terms of how you i
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by orangecat 8mo ago
Rs just believe in things that are not true, as evidenced by the current admins wacky tariff theories that are disproved in Econ 101. I'm happy to see many Democrats now supporting free trade, but that's traditionally been a con
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by orangecat 8mo ago
Yeah, I find NIMBY vs YIMBY arguments interesting because they're almost entirely orthogonal to traditional left vs right. This alignment chart is the best I've seen; for me you can just circle the whole bottom center: https:&#x2
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by orangecat 8mo ago
This is amusing, because the usual NIMBY argument I hear is about "gentrification", i.e. it makes the neighborhood better and that's bad. terminally online young adults who are bitter that they can't afford to live prec
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by orangecat 9mo ago
None of the stuff I've learned over past 20 years was handed over to me in this easy fashion. Yeah, kids these days just include stdio.h and start printing stuff, no understanding of register allocation or hardware addressing modes.

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