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by panarky 2y ago
The one thing that is constant from the beginning of the book until the end is Orwell's antifascism. He believed it was essential to kill fascists, and that he had a duty to personally kill as many as he could. At the beginning, he did
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> unimportant things like 12-step programs Hundreds of millions of people have participated in programs like this. That's a lot of people to experience first-hand how it's possible to accomplish good things through decentrali
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People lose their shirts in crypto because they lose it, trade it, and sell too soon. The only proven way to make a killing in crypto is to be physically prevented from losing it, trading it, or selling it for ten years.
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This is true. Flight plans are now algorithmically generated to shave fuel usage. Because weather forecasts are more accurate, the algorithms write flight plans that take the aircraft closer to storms. This saves fuel while slightly increas
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In the direction of higher performance.
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Not only do humans invent stuff that didn't happen (hallucination), we're also prewired with a very long list of cognitive biases. It depends a lot on the domain of course, but I'd bet that frontier LLMs already exhibit super
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ChatGPT and Gemini incorporate web search into their results, so they're not limited to stale information. If you think you can save money by paying per token in the playground, you should know that you're not getting the same res
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The world is changing too fast for knowledge that is nine months old. ------ USER What is the maximum number of tokens supported by gpt-4o? ASSISTANT As of my most recent update in October 2023, GPT-4 does not have an officially designated
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports a maximum of 200k tokens. Gemini handles 2,000k tokens.
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The same way as when you learn something new from some random internet person. Does what they say conflict with anything you already know to be true? Is their argument internally inconsistent, does it contradict itself? Can you corroborate
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EFF Statement on Assange Plea Deal(eff.org)
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Lockbit primarily targets Microsoft Windows servers. Does the Fed run all this critical infrastructure on Windows?
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ShotSpotter is a hot mess. Their data can't be trusted if they collude with police to alter their data after the fact to cover for police misconduct.
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It's been a consistently excellent experience for me in both SF and LA. The cars are well maintained and clean inside and out. They are very careful and considerate drivers. They navigate complex and ambiguous situations with unprotect
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The title is accurate, but it implies that AVs are more dangerous than human drivers in other types of driving. You have to read the whole thing to understand that the implication is false. SAE Level 4 self-driving vehicles (those capable
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Could you prove that another person is conscious? Could you prove that you are conscious?
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Just finished my first Waymo rides today in Los Angeles. Despite what feels like hype right now, it still doesn't price in the massive waves of transformations coming to nearly every sphere of modern life. This poll needs a fourth opti
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It's only zero sum when the total value of the space is fixed. That's obviously not the case here, since the total value of the space continues to expand.
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I would expect that he's seen capabilities that haven't been released to the public yet, and that those capabilities continue to follow that straight line on a log chart.
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Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, recently said that AI capability has been following an exponential growth curve for the last ten years, a straight line on a log scale, and he hasn't seen any indication that the slope of
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What's madness is the state allowing property owners to leave vacant, dilapidated buildings to blight the neighborhood. Owners should be required to maintain their structures and keep them occupied, or forfeit the property.
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> focus needs to be on absolute living standards Living standards of who, exactly? Are you talking about aggregate GDP regardless of how it's distributed? Is it okay if the top 5 deciles do better, while the bottom decile does wor
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Fentanyl is a problem everywhere.
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AI doesn't think like humans just like commercial airliners don't fly like birds.
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I tell my grandkids that vocational school is a perfectly decent and honorable way to get into a trade that pays better than retail. I also tell them that a good university is a perfectly decent and honorable way to begin a life of the mind
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Getting joins wrong once in 1000 queries would beat 99.9% of experienced data analysts. Our standards for AI are too high. If an autonomous car causes one wreck per ten million miles, people set the cars on fire. When someone finds an LLM t
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If 52% of responses have a flaw somewhere, then 48% of responses are flawless. That is amazing and important. The headline should be "LLM gives flawless responses to 48% of coding questions."
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> Investing is mostly about not losing money Counterintuitively, when I focus hard on not losing money, I become too risk averse, I fail to take appropriate risk, and my returns are stuck in the low single digits. I can't count th
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Is it unethical to fast-forward through ads? How about if I turn the volume down during ads, is that morally wrong? Maybe I play ads at regular speed and volume, but I think about something other than the ads while they play, is that wrong?
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> We don't want these kinds of stories (or comments) here Who are you to decide what "we" want? You don't speak for me. The evidence of whether this community wants to see a story and to talk about it consists of up

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