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by paimapi 2mo ago
relatedly: https://abcnews.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story...
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by paimapi 2mo ago
if you've ever read Plato's dialogues or are familiar with the court politics of the eunuchs during, well, any Chinese dynasty, you might be convinced that even those that sit squarely in the seat of power and have the best access
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by paimapi 2mo ago
it's just not a good faith comment. I did a few minutes of digging into their main claim, that a website called responsiblestatecraft.org is some kind of foreign-funded anti-American think-tank and found absolutely zero evidence of thi
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by paimapi 2mo ago
what do you mean, it's a very normal cool thing that everyone loves Sent from my Ryobi Riding Lawnmower
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by paimapi 2mo ago
I was going to say, the acceptance of bottom-of-the-barrel and subsequent capital investment in SEO as some industry-standard practice has pretty much lowered our standards for writing and comprehensibility across the board it probably does
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by paimapi 2mo ago
> You could make it a state capitalist society with theoretical public ownership and this disrespect towards people won't go away this is essentially the PRC in the 21st century post-Deng* - there's probably a cultural differen
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by paimapi 2mo ago
would love to live in a society where past harms and mistakes could simply be forgotten because the law has moved forward. I imagine a lot of low-level drug possession charges would be forgiven under that ethical conceit but since we'r
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by paimapi 2mo ago
more specifically, it was for donating to homophobic political groups trying to pass Prop 8 which made gay marriage illegal in California [0] the measure passed by 5% [1] - people were fairly incensed that Mozilla Foundation money (paid to
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by paimapi 2mo ago
wouldn't you also need to worry about the voltage spikes when you're running on battery vs starting the car if you're running an ICE? and would you need to unplug it if you, say, need a jump? feels like you'd also need t
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by paimapi 2mo ago
Chekhov had such an influence on me as a young, hyper-insecure teen. Chekhov's craft is powerful and widely taught but it's his thematic elements that I really loved. he made a habit of setting up a deeply unlikeable character in
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by paimapi 2mo ago
I didn't make any claim about being smart or not aside from brief mockery of people who care about the word and things like IQ tests I'd personally trust a rigorous, well-evinced, and methodical dissection of a topic by someone wi
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by paimapi 2mo ago
yeah, I think some of the vitriol is well-meaning but misplaced. when I think about the externalized costs (pollution, energy use, water use, rare earth mining, data center buildouts, etc) I think it's worthwhile to remain critical but
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by paimapi 2mo ago
this is bordering on pedantry but aren't there classifications by different regulatory and medical institutions of what fibers are and aren't? as far as I'm aware, a starch isn't a fiber unless a special exemption is car
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by paimapi 2mo ago
Brave has certainly said a lot of good things while doing quite [0] a lot [1] of bad [2] things [3] that make me think it's mostly just marketing to lower-knowledge users that's carrying it forward. I see so many 'privacy&#x2
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by paimapi 2mo ago
a starch is not fiber and generally not broken down the same way in digestion afaik fiber is great and under-consumed (especially soluble) and is very well-studied on modern populations [0]. we don't really need to make mechanistic rea
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by paimapi 2mo ago
we're looking at the 90+ day default line chart? 2008 saw an increase from sub 8% (which seems to be the norm) to 13%. 2023 was at 7% and we're right now sitting at 13% again. there are no other significant swings in credit card d
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by paimapi 2mo ago
is that functionally different than just using the search field in dictionary.com? I guess I'm just not seeing what the point of using Gemini is over a much more efficient feature that already exists
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by paimapi 2mo ago
sample size n=37 of which recruitment only happened in Shanghai without any real control for confounders, only evaluated over a period of two weeks with no longterm follow-ups, the dosage of 40g RS/d is very high (would take about 4-5
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by paimapi 2mo ago
yes but you can graph trends over time: https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc for example, the last time we saw a nice little rise was in 2008 where nothing bad happened and everything was okay (look at the 90
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by paimapi 2mo ago
have you ever done the fun trick of asking any model to adversarially review itself? highly recommended practice for anyone who trusts a one-shot output
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by paimapi 2mo ago
you can have whatever opinion you want of me, friend, but for your own good I hope you develop better ways of processing your feelings so that you're not so reactive when someone mildly disagrees with you
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by paimapi 2mo ago
so why don't people want to work for them? they don't get paid enough? what if they were paid more? what if they were FTE with all the benefits? what if AI projects were nationalized and trainers were funded by grants? what if we
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by paimapi 2mo ago
sure, that's very much the 'just let people like things' argument where literal white supremacists can enjoy Rage Against the Machine in spite of the music literally being in total opposition of their ideology everyone's
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by paimapi 2mo ago
I see it as a problem of context which maps to my theoretical understanding of LLMs. models trained on large data sets will probabilistically veer towards the median in all aspects - reasoning, assumptions, environments, etc. specialized co
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by paimapi 2mo ago
is there a reason why there's no standardization in orgs in terms of skills/harnesses/etc for AI-assisted development? for example, a rule of 'you must invoke ABC skill that contains all of the context for this part of t
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by paimapi 2mo ago
I do appreciate the thoughtful response to a really long wall of text lol. and yes, I agree - I think that'll be the lesson that society is going to take probably far too long to learn, to not see everything as a nail that AI can hamme
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by paimapi 2mo ago
or the name of Elon and Grime's actual child
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by paimapi 2mo ago
there's a wide array of assessments when it comes to reading comprehension. the one you refer to, the GRA, sets the 'sixth grade level' as whether or not a reader understands the author's main points, is able to answer c
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by paimapi 2mo ago
cool here's Stanford HAI's graph on the carbon emitted from model training per model: https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/chart-showing-estima... note that Grok's training, thanks to its portable gas
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by paimapi 2mo ago
"it's not the gun, it's the person that holds it" is not a philosophy that's tracked with me given the probabilistic, population-wide outcomes. the same applies here - tools should build in strict data and privacy p

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