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by pksebben 3y ago
Suuuuper hard second. Getting of the facestagramitter was possibly the single kindest thing I've ever done for myself. Came with a news blackout, and as it turns out you can stay more or less exactly the same amount of informed becaus
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I can't really speak for previous posts, but I've personally seen a huge uptick in how fast I can move through material using LLMs - not because I'm asking them how things work or to explain things to me, but because they rem
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by pksebben 3y ago
Man, comment was greyed between reading and clicking reply - I get that the back-and-forth over AI is a thing but if you're gonna respond negatively to an arguable point based on a topic with this much nuance, at least respond with wor
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That's a gross oversimplification, and I think you know it. We're not idiots here. On any given year in the last decade, about 1/3 (sometimes more, sometimes less) of voters have been registered independent. George Washingto
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Or just a tax on nonprimary residential holdings. Couldn't hurt to take a couple bucks off the folks keeping multiple pie-de-terres or managing a ton of rental units. After all, they can definitely afford it.
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Can they, though? I've been trying for about as long as I can remember without much luck...
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What I find troubling about this is the delta between the vox populi and the decision made. Whether it's right or prudent or whatever, if you figure that people using the service don't want it shut down (~170M or roughly half of t
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by pksebben 3y ago
I would love to see a "landlord tax" that squeezes owners to either live in, rent out, or sell.
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So if AI is randomly as smart as any given cross-section of society, it has an %80 chance to be a benefit, then, doesn't it? The way I see it, we could replace our government (murrika) with a d20 and do better than we're doing now
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please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls
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We have satellites. We use cables b/c they lack the speed and bandwidth necessary to support the total requirements of the modern internet. Satellite-only is only feasible if you're fine with going back to waiting minutes for yo
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A few things glossed over: - the shame in question might actually be about whether one can provide a sufficient and healthy environment for the kids to grow up and thrive in an ever-changing world, the pace of which is increasing exponentia
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Forward-Forward looked promising, but then Hinton got the AI-Doomer heebie-jeebies and bailed. Perhaps someone picks up the concept and runs with it - I'd love to myself but I don't have the skillz to build stuff at that depth, y
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I've always thought of emergence as "a behavior at scale which is unintuitive or difficult to predict given understanding of a lesser scale". More specifically, I think "emergence" is more about the blind spots we h
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So I kind of know what you're getting at - and it's true that "everyone votes on everything" isn't feasible if that's all that you do. Here's one way it could work: - everyone gets one vote on all the thi
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We absolutely have the tech to implement direct democracy in an efficient and effective manner. The fact that we haven't is pure evidence that Democracy (tm) doesn't actually do what it says on the label.
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Fair point. Even solving for age, I would assume this holds as cities with metros mean roughly 80% of people don't even need a car. It's still an absurd comparison, as 0% of people don't need money.
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We can fix it conclusively in one fell swoop; remove the limitations on liability for executives and active shareholders. If the executives in charge at boeing had to show up to court every time one of their planes crashed, this wouldn&#x27
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> the bottom 40% of Americans are in debt That this somehow reads to you as totally normal and not at all anything to worry about tells me a lot about your perspective. edit (addendum): > "Joe Biden owns more cars (3) than the bo
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Or Ridcullly.
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It drives me batty. Consider a team of people building a house. They have all sorts of things that need focus and work - planning the build, assembling resources, coordinating specialists and doing the actual construction. Now, add a secon
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Not necessarily, but it can. Black squares can come from a variety of problems.
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Even if it is all open sourced, we still have the structural problem of training models large enough to do interesting stuff. Until we can train incrementally and distribute the workload scalably, it doesn't matter how open the models
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I dunno, the tone may be what it is but I kinda see the message re: analysts and their forecasts. Beat the managers, buy the index, yaknow.
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by pksebben 3y ago
So like, if you're going to present contrary evidence, quoting an article by a party with a vested interest that claims they "analyzed multiple surveys" and then fails to link to them or even name them is not exactly helpful.
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I recognize the irony of posting this in a thread about maintaining attention, but I could not sit through all that salesey preamble to get to whatever the sigh is supposed to be. Culture gripe; I wish more creators got to the meat first, a
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I wrote a sort of toy version of this a little while ago using Vosk and a variety of TTS engines, and the solution that worked mostly-well was to have a buffer that waited for audio that filled until a pause of so many seconds, then it se
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I have a similar dream; with one major caveat - it must unequivocally be a local model. "See whatever I'm doing on my screen" comes with "leaks information to the model" and that could go real-bad-wrong real fast.
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by pksebben 3y ago
> Of course this needs to be weighed against the potential costs. On both ends. Listening to Darknet Diaries [1] recently with a story on email fraud, and they mentioned that the estimated yearly take for one particular fraud group in N
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I have a similar frustration with the lack of tooling around all this stuff. Like, you had the time to train a bajillion parameter model with a ton of attendant code, but an installation script was a bridge too far. I get that python depen

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