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by reso 3y ago
You need AGI for good self-driving because driving requires predicting the actions of other human drivers at an extremely high level. This is second-nature for humans so we barely notice that we are doing it, but it is extraordinarily diffi
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by reso 3y ago
I quit crypto in 2018 after 5 years. It had become clear to me that there were no safeguards in the industry to prevent scams like Celsius, and that the scams would quickly out-compete the quality companies. There's just no way to comp
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by reso 3y ago
Strategy-wise, the fundamental HFT strategy is to detect large orders from banks or hedge funds as they are filled on one exchange, conjecturing that the order may have been split between multiple exchanges, and the using their speed advant
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by reso 3y ago
It's bizarre that you feel the need excuse this guy by adding words to his statement like "factor" that he didn't say.
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by reso 3y ago
That one quote from the pilot is so egregious, I can't imagine it not being at least referenced in any long-form treatment of this report.
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by reso 3y ago
He absolutely did say that. He specifically references the female co-worker he had a shouting match with the previous day, and then says: "These are the kind of women you don’t wanna get married to. You know, some men, they lose their
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by reso 3y ago
I am a fan of SpaceX, but I doubt we'll see another test in 2023, and at their pace they are ~5-10 "tests" from having a usable rocket. Starship is still 5+ years away.
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by reso 3y ago
Before this pilot crashed his plane, he said into the black box that when a man kills his wife, it's the wife's fault. This is excellent evidence that that sexism is alive and relevant in our world. The fact that the pilot ranted
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by reso 3y ago
Mick West’s analysis involves the gimbal lock idea, which I am convinced of, but he claims that the infrared shadow is the shape that a two engine plane gives off when it is at an angle, and one engine is occluded by the plane’s body. This
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by reso 3y ago
The gimbal video gets its name from the strange way the object appears to rotate in the footage, what some people have claimed is “the craft reconfiguring itself”. Ive seen convincing analyses that this rotation effect is the objects infrar
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by reso 3y ago
That second 737MAX crash was full criminal negligence on the part of Boeing. The first crash was caused by bad design, the second crash was caused by Boeing’s choice to do a big PR push to prevent regulatory action and keep the planes in th
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by reso 3y ago
Its one of those books that has so shifted my thinking that it feels like the things I learned in it I always knew, but I'll try to write a few of them down. I think for me, at the place politically that I was when I read it, the most
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by reso 3y ago
The book is an anthropological history of money. I wouldn't say it has a single thesis, although the idea that money has arose out of debt-relationships in different periods is a recurring theme. It starts in Babylon, where he looks at
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by reso 3y ago
I wholeheartedly and aggressively recommend Graeber's book Debt: the first 5000 years. It changed my whole view of the social role of money and property. I have bought copies of it for multiple people. I haven't read Bullshit Jobs
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by reso 3y ago
It's the difference between a facebook profile and a reddit profile.
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by reso 3y ago
Reddit has entirely failed at building their ad business, which every other major social site has done successfully. Reddit makes 1$ per user-month on ads, while Instagram makes $35. If they could even get to $2, they would be profitable. T
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by reso 3y ago
It seems to me that Reddit knows about as much about its users as Twitter. Am I wrong?
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by reso 3y ago
Is there something counter-intuitive about reddit that makes it hard to monetize? That's the core issue. Reddit still makes barely $1/user/month while instagram makes $35. Cutting off the 3rd party apps is a cost-cutting move
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by reso 3y ago
Highly recommend the third season of the podcast Blowback, which does a broad re-history of the Korean War and touches on these topics.
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by reso 3y ago
The answer is: sort of, but not really. Government funding was used to promote American art internationally for the purposes of prestige and cultural power, but the movements themselves were not created by any institutions.
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by reso 3y ago
Further proof that the cool kids are all anti-soviet libertarian socialists.
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by reso 3y ago
Hard agree. Democrats pay lip service to anti-war voices when they are out of power, then often rule as hawks. It's not necessarily meaningful to call one party more or less hawkish than the other. It often comes down to the leader, er
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by reso 3y ago
I'd be likely to use this in my daily workflow if it was a chrome extension that could simply modify headlines and article text.
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by reso 3y ago
Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s good at 32 because it’s a power of 2. I’ve tested this with a wide variety of number inputs and it’s performance is highly variable. Error also increases linearly with strong length.
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by reso 3y ago
I did not say GPT4 did not have intelligence. I gave an example of a task it fails that is easy for most humans.
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by reso 3y ago
Highly recommend the economist Richard Werner for his defense of small banks as the most productive and resilient financial institutions.
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by reso 3y ago
Humans handily outperform GPT4 handily on the task of "write a random string of length [x]" for any x > ~25.
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by reso 3y ago
It's unfortunate that "socialism" came to mean "central planning" in the 20th century. It didn't mean that before the Bolsheviks and Marxist-Leninism out-competed (and then destroyed) the other socialist moveme
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by reso 3y ago
I'm of the opinion that the calculation debate is mostly a misnomer. The information of individuals' preferences simply does not exist to do calculation on, outside of the context of exchange. I also think that exchange itself exp
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by reso 3y ago
The problem of rocket blast mitigation has been studied for 70 years. It is not a newly discovered thing. They launched the biggest rocket ever made without any of the blast-mitigation techniques used on similar launches.

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