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by pingou 2mo ago
"Giving What We Can" pledge is to give 10% of your income to charity.
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by pingou 2mo ago
"Thinking back on this, and feeling utterly persecuted, I put my deranged and paranoid theory to Hinge that I suspected it had programmed its AI to filter out certain categories of people in certain numbers at certain times, in order t
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China gets better bang for its buck than America in AI(economist.com)
2 points by pingou 2mo ago|0 comments
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by pingou 2mo ago
How has art invented us, or allowed us to find us who we really are, more than science, or a conversation with friends, or countless other things? My bullshit detector was running pretty high while reading the article.
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by pingou 2mo ago
In the US, shareholders get rich while regular people get left behind. In China, shareholders returns seem quite bad, and standards of living seem to actually improve. Granted, China started from a much lower point, which makes rapid growth
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Show HN: Palimpscape, adblocker that replaces ads with vocabulary(palimpscape.com)
4 points by pingou 2mo ago|3 comments
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by pingou 2mo ago
Why does the US stock market keep having record years while the population doesn't seem to benefit, whereas the opposite is happening in China? Isn't that a failure of US capitalism?
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Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%(bbc.com)
216 points by pingou 2mo ago|191 comments
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Making 3 AI's Count to 100 Together [video](youtube.com)
3 points by pingou 2mo ago|0 comments
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by pingou 3mo ago
Wouldn't improving LLM efficiency make them even more useful across the board, then they can enjoy the nice economies of scale? The plan is to have LLM working completely autonomously, in that case, the more resources you have, the bet
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by pingou 3mo ago
"Early in the rollout of the technology, employees also faced restrictions on using Gemini to write or analyze software over concerns that proprietary code could leak into the AI model’s training data, they said" Wait, what?
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by pingou 3mo ago
If in 2020 I had sent you a book about the LLM achievements of 2026, you would probably have thought it was a science fiction book with no relation to reality, wouldn't you?
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by pingou 3mo ago
Perhaps it will. And perhaps countless animals are already better than us at appreciating a good sunset, yet we do not seem to value them much.
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by pingou 3mo ago
https://archive.ph/u7VB8
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How dementia is being defeated(economist.com)
7 points by pingou 3mo ago|3 comments
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by pingou 3mo ago
Personally I am happy that there are weirdos and that they share their weirdness. What he has may not be a very serious disease yet I was interested in learning about his experience and felt sorry for him.
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by pingou 3mo ago
Did he somehow wronged you or are you just having a bad day?
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by pingou 3mo ago
https://archive.ph/3vOjh
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Has China obtained the most important machine?(economist.com)
14 points by pingou 3mo ago|5 comments
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by pingou 3mo ago
Because supposedly they would repair themselves or be repaired by other robots, and energy would cost less and less, anything would cost less and less if work is increasingly done by robots than can be improved year after year.
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by pingou 4mo ago
Would it be more scientific to say it is sure it will happen? I suspect the opposite is happening, too many times an environmental catastrophe has been predicted in too certain terms and has not happened, which is why many people lost trust
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by pingou 4mo ago
But this paper is not about extra EU migrants but all migrants. And even then if we control for age they say they are contributing less than natives. I think it would be very odd that less educated people on average contribute more than nat
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by pingou 4mo ago
Is the SpaceX 1.7 trillion IPO on Friday some kind of psychological anchoring? Say it goes down 50%, then it suddenly appears cheap, when in reality that would still be way overpriced.
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by pingou 4mo ago
But surely Google has both ML people and people expert at optimising stuff, be it hardware or software. In my opinion they have the talent, the sheer number of employees and the capital. Can deepseek really have people much more talented at
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by pingou 4mo ago
But what is preventing their competitors, who have many more employees, who are also very talented, to do the same? Every little improvement would save them billions, so it's hard to imagine they aren't pouring a lot of resources
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by pingou 4mo ago
"Furthermore, vegetarianism, though morally laudable, has an obvious economic limitation — when one person refuses to eat meat, it lowers the price of meat for everyone else" I very much doubt that, I think the opposite is happeni
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by pingou 4mo ago
They talk about subsidies, "draining its coffers", and "taxpayers helping some of the richest corporations on the planet buy servers, equipment, and power infrastructure", but it doesn't seem like they have lost any
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by pingou 4mo ago
For the third time I never said it was a good plan.
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by pingou 4mo ago
Yet LLMs can play chess and have a "mental" representation of the chessboard. If LLMs get better but do not progress at playing games when not specifically trained on it it seems to point to a generalisation failure, a limitation
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by pingou 4mo ago
Not saying this is a smart plan, but how is it far more stupid than invading Iran which is basically impossible unless you are ready for tens or hundred of thousands of casualties among your own citizens?

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