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by paimapi 9d ago
right, which is all the more reason to continue studying them in spite of the lack of immediate returns. our capitalist mode of quarter-driven roadmaps means we no longer care about the long horizon, it's all 'results this, metric
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by paimapi 9d ago
you could probably write a cool little gotcha of an SF short story about a barren wasteland of a planet that keeps broadcasting out legalese that's revealed to just be LLM chatbot lawyers pedantically arguing with one another about xen
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by paimapi 9d ago
in general, yes. but specifically studying exoplant A or exoplanet B? or understanding dark matter? or driving a little science robot on Mars? what's the immediate utility of that?
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by paimapi 9d ago
I think this is too generous of an interpretation of OpenAI's and Anthropic's position. the 'slow down' mandate is not a real regulatory standard - policies are generally crafted based on good vs bad outcomes, not speed-
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by paimapi 9d ago
the sex cult is the sensationalist draw. you don't get readers paying attention in our current content economy if you don't have something salacious which is also to say - I found it very funny and enjoyable to read and it illustr
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by paimapi 9d ago
because it could lead to something. the whole point of academic research is to uncover, as closely as possible, truths about how all of our myriad, hyper-complex systems work. not every truth uncovered is convertable to direct improvements
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by paimapi 9d ago
>why mathematicians should widely receive funding for merely understanding things imagine yourself living in the 1700s. how would you justify Newton and Leibniz's work on calculus? all maritime engineering and trade was done with ge
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by paimapi 9d ago
yeah, this MBA-brained philosophy that 'everything must have KPIs' is so incredibly short-term. research looking for directly, immediately quantifiable production results goes against the entire grain of why we push for bleeding e
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Wisconsin GOP Candidate Is Exploiting Data Center Backlash to Attack Solar, Wind(capitalandmain.com)
1 points by paimapi 9d ago|0 comments
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by paimapi 9d ago
maybe more explicitly this one: https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history “In the 1920s, auto groups redefined who owned the city street. It was [originally the] drivers’ job to avoid you,
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Lawsuit may lead to lowered healthcare plan standards for employees in the USA(kffhealthnews.org)
2 points by paimapi 9d ago|0 comments
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by paimapi 9d ago
no, the equivalent would be marketing material claiming that their specialists help uncover denials that were being blocked but helpfully and so proactively these good insurance companies are hiring more middle managers to oversee that such
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by paimapi 9d ago
ah it's always a lovely day to drop some historical reference points https://www.fastcompany.com/90781961/how-automakers-insidiou... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_city
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by paimapi 9d ago
Big Agriculture (eg subsidies, dereg). Car manufacturers. Healthcare insurance (or insurance of any stripe when it comes to natural disasters and over-insuring and then needing bail outs). It's almost like avoiding accountability for t
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by paimapi 9d ago
In your hypothetical, none of the money is re-invested which would be an utterly ludicrous thing to do. It also doesn't account for the GDP growth typically associated from people having lower healthcare\transportation costs and how qu
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by paimapi 10d ago
you can thank Sergey 'Do No Evil' Brin for that: https://theconversation.com/why-a-vote-on-taxing-californias... I remember doing the math when the last company I worked for was sold, and how much of a percentage
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How Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world(universiteitleiden.nl)
13 points by paimapi 10d ago|0 comments
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Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax(propublica.org)
23 points by paimapi 10d ago|12 comments
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by paimapi 10d ago
I'm not. AGI is almost necessarily closer to ASI than it is to human intelligence by definition. it's become pretty obvious that even what seems like irrelevant domain knowledge has utility applied to other domains - that's w
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Devolver says indie publishing is not 'compatible' with public trading(gamedeveloper.com)
2 points by paimapi 10d ago|0 comments
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Acronis warns of actively exploited flaw in its cPanel backup plugin(bleepingcomputer.com)
2 points by paimapi 10d ago|0 comments
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Pennsylvania's Amazon Data Center Boom Is Fueled by a Lucrative Tax Break(capitalandmain.com)
1 points by paimapi 10d ago|0 comments
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by paimapi 10d ago
it really does feel like 'intelligence' is becoming so much more of a marketing term moreso than it is any actual definitive measure. I was acquaintances with a cognitive science post-doc many years ago who trained under the same
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by paimapi 10d ago
has been for a long time - there's a sound engineer who developed quite a following (and is fairly involved with local movement hackerspaces) who demo'd how easy it was to hack Flock cameras nearly a year ago: https://w
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by paimapi 10d ago
I think the future of development will be a lot of automated quality checks like these on AI-drafted code that humans review and ensures that it doesn't muck up the business logic and actually fulfills the acceptance criteria. that sai
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by paimapi 10d ago
>But I also think that the state of the art in small LLM and user device capabilities aren't there yet to put a "good enough to be actually useful" local-only LLM so then don't add it in as highly advertised feature u
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by paimapi 10d ago
arguably, this is what sales cares about and the half-measures taken to tackle what must be the Mt. Everest of tech debt at Salesforce is what leads to large, systemically degraded customer trust in products that keep shipping bugs
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by paimapi 10d ago
chess is not just a rigorous set of rules, it is rules as foundation with layers of strategy on top. and so is, for example, scientific methodology or chemical interactions or virtually everything else under-the-sun that comprises human kno
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by paimapi 10d ago
is that what I'm saying? or am I talking about AGI? perhaps there's some irony here to be explored when it comes to basic reading comprehension gaps
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A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks into a Telnet Server(labs.watchtowr.com)
2 points by paimapi 10d ago|0 comments

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