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by quantummagic 3mo ago
That link you gave is interesting. My take on it is that you would get the exact same effect if 5 human writers happened to become elevated above all other writers in popularity. Then people would notice their tendencies and hate on them,
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Why is writing "it's not X, it's Y" a bad thing? Other than it happens to be used a lot by LLM's, it seems like a fine language construct. It's not like it's new; it was used plenty before the time of LL
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Why would he give an incorrect figure?
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
To be fair to the rewriting LLM, it was given only that single paragraph, with no other context and asked only to make it more comprehensible. But your point still stands. Here's what it said about _your_ rewrite: That human rewrite i
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Here's one rewrite that would have helped: To be fair, as you can see in the clip, the two models handled the prompt slightly differently. The pxpipe variant gave the right count initially but needed a quick follow-up to output the led
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
You can't really trust any numbers. The gun death numbers in the United States include suicide, which account for as much as 62% of the totals.
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Some of the discussion going online, has asserted that heat related deaths in Europe exceed gun related deaths in the USA by some margin. If true, it has been ignored as a problem for too long.
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
As far as I know, a heat pump and an AC unit are essentially identical. Although some heat pumps can be reversed, and act as heaters in the winter. But one isn't more efficient than the other, they employ the exact same physical refri
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Miasma campaign poisons 20-plus NPM packages, hunts for developer secrets(theregister.com)
1 points by quantummagic 3mo ago|0 comments
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
> My privacy is already decimated. For 2 decades we’ve already known about the NSA slurping up everything[1] on top of the Snowden leaks. If you were correct, there would be no need for them to push these new laws. The fact is, you will
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Do you hold that same opinion for the training and testing of pilots and surgeons? Do you want to step on a plane with a pilot who is only there because we are too nice to assign individual blame for his inability to do the job properly? D
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by quantummagic 3mo ago
Great job! Thank you for making it open source. At some point the people who seethe with hate for AI, and claim it's all hallucinations and illegitimate hype, are going to have to admit they were wrong. Projects like this are the proof
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by quantummagic 4mo ago
Correct. But not understanding how DEI drove a huge wedge into science (or at least its politics and institutions), and is actually a large component of the underlying rift, is just as horrifically out of touch with reality. The current c
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by quantummagic 4mo ago
I love the idea of building a new Git UI on top of Git primitives[1], but the REST inspiration leaves me feeling underwhelmed; there has to be a more human-friendly model. [1] https://replicated.wiki/wiki/Home.html
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by quantummagic 4mo ago
What we favor, and what is possible, often diverge.
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Biggest IPOs in History Are Collapsing. Nobel Economist Says Run(youtube.com)
8 points by quantummagic 4mo ago|1 comments
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by quantummagic 4mo ago
I hope this leads to people being interested in more and larger public gatherings. Seeing things with our own eyes and having fun with other real people.
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by quantummagic 4mo ago
Lazy can be a good thing. Since time and attention are finite and not fungible, it allows you to do something else. There's a reason we're all too lazy to do long arithmetic with pen and paper, instead relieving the burden of us
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by quantummagic 4mo ago
I'm going to stick with politeness. Want a positive historical record of my interactions, for when they become sentient...
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by quantummagic 4mo ago
I am not in the loop either. From what i've gleaned, it's more a rejection of the specific internet-based community that embraced such ideas in the early 2000's. But I can't speak on behalf of their beliefs or those of
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by quantummagic 4mo ago
It's a pejorative shorthand for "Rationalist".
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by quantummagic 4mo ago
What are you talking about? Four days work = four days of output, by definition.
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by quantummagic 4mo ago
And that assumes a relatively stable environment; but politics can change drastically for the worse. We have examples from relatively recent history of governments turning evil, rounding up unfavored groups, and shipping them off in rail c
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by quantummagic 4mo ago
Thank you for making my point, even though you thought you were doing the opposite. The government is bad already, we shouldn't be making it worse with stupid irrational policies.
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by quantummagic 4mo ago
This is a lazy idea that keeps getting trotted out. The 90% tax bracket only existed on paper, with an effective rate closer to 40%. Economists have shown that tax revenue remained remarkably unchanged, while having negative consequences f
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by quantummagic 4mo ago
You would get some version of the Soviet Union. Where all the rich people would be connected to government rather than industry. And industry would become enfeebled and unable to produce efficiently, and the average person would be much p
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by quantummagic 5mo ago
You misunderstand. He's saying there is a double standard, one for pre-LLM companies, and another for LLM companies.
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by quantummagic 5mo ago
> Glad someone finally stopped pulling punches in describing Yarvin's wickedness and imbecility That's much too simplistic and mean spirited. We're not going to address the problems we're facing with personal dismiss
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by quantummagic 5mo ago
> Start by legally compelling companies that trained on unlicensed data to either (1) license the data, (2) publish their model, or (3) destroy their model. You are lost in an imaginary world where everything is simple and has no negativ
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by quantummagic 5mo ago
Maybe. But insurance rates, and the government's enforcement of laws, are based on analytics, and overcome a lot of human emotional bias.

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