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by radu_floricica 1y ago
I'm not really sure if keeping a strict schedule has any real relevance here, outside maybe PR and politics. Starships will drop the cost to other bodies in the same way Falcon dropped the cost to orbit. Why would anyone want to invest
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
To most of the replies to my comment, the point is that: - ChatGPT is _satisficing_, not optimal. It's definitely worse than a dedicated decoder tool. - and it's also much more versatile, so it will be satisficing a large array of
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
"Why use a calculator all the time? Just use pen and paper!" ChatGPT is the right tool here, because it does the job, and it's more versatile. And underneath the hood it most likely called a decoder anyways.
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
Weeks. I'm talking about multiple business weeks to spin up a new server. Sure, in a pinch I can do it in a weekend, but adding up all the stakeholders, talking it over and doing things right it takes weeks. It's a normal timespan
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
> What is old is new again. Over the years I tried occasionally to look into cloud, but it never made sense. A lot of complexity and significantly higher cost, for very low performance and a promise of "scalability". You virtua
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
You don't "build" such a system. You change the metering to follow supply, and everything else will follow naturally. You'll have enthusiasts that'll do homebrew systems to take advantage of the economy, then you&#x
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
Yes, but still incredibly important to avoid these rolls. Something that is quite unintuitive is that risk is remarkable fungible - one source of risk is very much like another. Once you properly internalize this you can treat risk literall
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
> OpenAI is not currently profitable, and it is unclear if its business model will ever becomes profitable -- let alone profitable enough to justify this investment. Well, yes. Which again is how venture capitalism has worked for ... is
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
But real GPUs are being built, installed and used. It's not paper money, it's just buying goods and services partly with stock. Which is a very solid and time honored tradition which happens to align incentives very well.
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
I get the feeling. Got a pretty bad experience with google when I migrated phones, and it messed up the data for a pretty important app (no damage, because I'm paranoid and have backups). I keep an offline phone with synced Authenticat
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
That's not recreationally. That's actually a good, useful drug effect (even if not specifically for ADHD). I'm more than a little pissed that governments don't let us use drugs like this responsibly.
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
You quoted my comment, but you don't seem to be responding to it? I don't think I mentioned any burning it all down, nor anything you responded to, really.
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
I'm probably part of the contingent you're alluding to. I'm not cheering. I am however a lot less likely to be depressed, mostly because whenever I tried to fact check a doom-like piece of news, I found it failing, hard. So n
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
Politeness? Also speed. But it depends on the project architecture. If the tiles are needed only client-side, then there's really little reason to cache things on _my_ server. That would imply I'm better at caching openstreetmap t
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
The clustering you see is because they're all optimized for the same benchmarks. In the real world OpenAI is already ahead of the rest, and Grok doesn't even belong in the same group (not that it's not a remarkable achievemen
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
I think some viewpoints just sound wise, and get repeated a lot. Being skeptical about medication is one of them. A legitimate worry, one Taleb might be bringing up, is that we should hold Ozempic to a higher standard because it's bein
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
I said "reasonable side effects". I was _not_ trying to suggest that drugs have no side effects or need no consideration when taking them. Tylenol can give you a pretty horrifying death if you misuse it. But this reinforces my mai
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
Availability heuristic. If you read "changes in personality" listed as a very rare side effect on the drug's sheet (which yes, you should read once when you start taking the drug), you can evaluate it, maybe make a mental not
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
I don't think we really need to worry about rare and very rare side-effects. Or if we do, it'd be fair to also start worrying about all of them equally, but that would mean not taking any drugs ever.
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
Not really applicable in humans. Effect is smaller than in mice, and requires some pretty drastic restrictions that aren't exactly pleasant. The thing with ozempic is that is seems to do several things, most (all?) of them good for us
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
Oh, thanks for educating me! But seriously, that link on HN is a bit... you kinda expect people here to have basic education. My comment had nothing to do with the theory of commons, only with the implementation. Yes, the better we coordona
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
That's... good? In more ways than one. The most obvious is that any international body would be easily controlled by the big players, so you'd end up with more centralized control by the same national entities, but now they'd
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
This just found a potential mechanism, right? Because we did know that, AFAIK. A doctor recommended me vitamin C for faster healing of minor lesions about a decade ago.
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
The error itself is probably easily fixed. Usually the bigger the effects, easier to fix. The real problem is the damaged infrastructure. They don't have several launch towers in the pipeline like they have Starships. This is a "p
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
And yet you chose to reply to this comment instead of the parent :) CW is a thing, cant's wish it away. Best to work on rules of engagement and being at least slightly productive about it. Small steps like https://www.astral
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by radu_floricica 1y ago
We'll have to adapt to it, obviously, but I don't think it's all bad. AI can make non-real but really easy to understand video, so for something like a piece of news where you just take a peek and move on, it's actually
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
Why, it is very magical indeed. Property rights are one of the top variables that differentiate rich countries from poor. But don't let that stay in the way of what you feel is right.
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
Funny enough, not only I'm not american, I was actually born in communism, the real kind. So I know what I'm talking about.
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
My property exists because I paid for it, with money I worked to earn. You saying that it's a fictional set of rules a very thinly veiled attempt to take my property instead of working for one.
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by radu_floricica 2y ago
There _are_ other ways. Less efficient and arguably more expensive, but for completeness sake they should be mentioned. For example, build infrastructure that favor sprawling. This way people will prefer to live in nicer, smaller towns as l

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