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by roenxi 11mo ago
Just because something didn't work out doesn't mean it was a waste, and it isn't particularly clear that the the LLM boom was wasted, or that it is over, or that it isn't working. I can't figure out what people mean
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by roenxi 11mo ago
Greta Thunberg achieved nothing useful in practice and if the best mascot for a movement is an autistic teenager it bodes poorly for that movement's chances. She personally is perfectly successful, but in terms of political effectivene
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by roenxi 11mo ago
Well obviously they want it, they voted for it. They probably see the situation in terms of something like class war. There are a bunch of people they don't like in society and they want to identify and marginalise them. As for why pol
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by roenxi 11mo ago
I would assume by default that billionaires are politically active and causing a problem. However this link doesn't give a lot of hints about how or wherefore. I assume this is a jab at Thiel; but it is a bit light on in the synopsis d
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by roenxi 11mo ago
> The security you are thinking is a believable mirage. There are several users who have lost thousands of dollars to scammy appstore in app purchases/subsciptions and apple is doing shit to stop this. And the plan to make this the
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by roenxi 11mo ago
> They tax and control everything, lock down distribution, prevent you from operating without rules. You seem to be arguing that the EU should be doing that though. What about those of us who quite like the way Apple does things right no
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by roenxi 11mo ago
Yeah, that is why I wrote the comment. The stories are about one case where the model behaviour doesn't make sense - but there are other cases where the same behaviour is correct. As jb_rad said in the thread root, hyper-focusing on th
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by roenxi 11mo ago
There are a lot of edge cases where suicide is rational. The experience of watching an 80 year old die over the course of a month or few can be quite harrowing from the reports I've had from people who've witnessed it; most of who
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by roenxi 11mo ago
This seems a bit confusing and their documentation page was out of action when I tried it - why do the results need to be decrypted by trustees after the election? Is the concern that Helios itself isn't trustworthy to hold a key? And
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by roenxi 11mo ago
That'd put it in the same basket as alcohol and tobacco. Although the pro/con of owning a mobile are a lot less clear than those two and banning phones in that way is probably a mistake.
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by roenxi 11mo ago
The treatment of Ma compared to his equivalent in the US (probably Bezos or Musk?) might be one of the neatest illustrations of genuine ideological difference between the two countries.
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by roenxi 11mo ago
Diversity of peers is generally a win. Children aren't supposed to be learning how to act based on what other children are doing - it is a crowd where no-one has any idea how to behave. Kids by nature are supposed to be developing in t
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by roenxi 11mo ago
I suppose the "good" news is that is just how life goes. Conceptually similar comparison to someone who is hungry and someone who isn't - the tendency towards snapishness is definitely there. Who someone is becomes unstable o
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by roenxi 11mo ago
> but calling it over-regulation pushes a certain agenda that all regulations are bad Over-regulation implies that there is an optimal level of regulation that is non-zero. It just happens in practice that people don't complain when
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by roenxi 11mo ago
Fair enough, call it 50s lifestyle then. I looked it up and if we're talking about the US as a benchmark then turns out [0] the 70s was when women were basically finishing the process of integrating into the workforce. That wasn't
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by roenxi 11mo ago
> But real users don't talk like that - they ask loaded questions like "How is X not in jail?" If the model can answer that seriously then it is doing a pretty useful service. Someone has to explain to people how the game
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by roenxi 11mo ago
> Cost of total rewire was quoted $30,000. We didn't end up buying that house, but 30k is honestly a drop in the bucket when you're talking about numbers as huge as 180k It's 15%. That is a substantial chunk of the whole.
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by roenxi 11mo ago
You've forgotten electricity, depreciation and the need for the house to be wired up to support all the gear. The figures you're quoting are just the price for a one-off purchase, not the total cost of ownership. > But in my ar
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by roenxi 11mo ago
And is the summary version that it is just as easy for someone to support a family now as in the 1970s? I'm a bit lost on what view you're invoking those statistics to support.
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by roenxi 1y ago
He's also an interesting study in having principles - a purist approach is rare, honestly confusing to most people and actually rather effective in a Cassandra-style way if watched closely. Quite effective in terms of outcomes too, it&
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by roenxi 1y ago
If they're happy to do it to 1970s standards, probably most of them. The standard of what an ordinary life looks like has gone up a lot. Plus when only the man worked looking after a home was a full time job - much less in the way of m
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by roenxi 1y ago
That sounds like a pretty unsafe solution, it'll injure people. What if a member of the general public trips while stumbling around in the dark? Or gets food poisoning from improperly refrigerated food?
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by roenxi 1y ago
If a generation is ~20 years then 50,000 generations is around a million years. We're talking several times longer than recorded history. In fact, I was curious and looked it up - Homo Sapiens is estimated to be around 300,000 years ol
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by roenxi 1y ago
It doesn't speak volumes. It just says that the people being hired had enough status that they don't have to go through what amounts to an initiation ritual. Polygraphs appear to be another sad outcrop from the same pseudoscience
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by roenxi 1y ago
But the IP laws are visibly stupid, their role in the system is prevent success stories like China where some plucky upstart vaults to the forefront of the industrial world and drags a billion people out of poverty. The response to China ac
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by roenxi 1y ago
In defence of prices yesterday - the people who would use a tool like this the most are the traders since they are looking at the numbers every day, so it probably comes out of the trader community. Real returns are expected to be in the 2-
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by roenxi 1y ago
If the political process gives unnecessarily, then it has also taken something from someone unnecessarily. So while it is a very accurate description of politics it doesn't really surface why that is at the root. The whole question b
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by roenxi 1y ago
The perspective here is subtly baised - look at the diagram down the bottom and realise that they were always only going to hire 1 person, so all the reasons that they give for not hiring the person are, in fact, not reasons that the person
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by roenxi 1y ago
> Nuclear has a negative learning curve: the more plants get built the more expensive they have turned out to be. Which is a policy choice that people were pretty clear on when they bought the policies in. That is basically the only way
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by roenxi 1y ago
People have a very clear vision of 50 years in the future, it has been a major fight playing out for decades. One side wanted cheap energy and lots of industry, the other side wanted green energy and not much industry. That debate has been

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