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by roenxi 2mo ago
I quite like the article, but I think it is missing reflection on what other common models are and why activation energy is more helpful. In practice the model par excellence is the humble linear model - put a bit more effort in, get a bit
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by roenxi 2mo ago
Most people do try to live a life that contributes toward a positive future that we'll all benefit from, while choosing not to support the opposite of that. There aren't exactly large groups of people organising around the princip
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by roenxi 2mo ago
What's a "good person" exactly? There are many wildly different definitions. People do generally want to be good people but it is a fairly basic don't-upset-the-neighbours form of good. You can't rely on them to con
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by roenxi 2mo ago
Frankly speaking? It is because the people making people's influence operations the topic of conversation (at the national level) tend to be propagandists themselves. They aren't all that interested in a philosophical discourse tr
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by roenxi 2mo ago
If China stops publishing weights, that would suggest the US has been knocked down to 2nd place and it is likely that they will rediscover the "Open" in OpenAI for strategic reasons, or something like. It's reasonably safe be
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by roenxi 2mo ago
I mean sure but if we're just going to give people the money to buy food what is the complaint about big corporations charging more? It isn't like anyone would be unable to afford food, because a welfare state would imply a standi
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by roenxi 2mo ago
If the plan isn't to stockpile food communally through a big corporation making a tidy profit for being well prepared in a disaster, and it isn't to stockpile it personally... what is the plan? There won't be any food. There
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by roenxi 2mo ago
If you think that is going to happen, you can buy up some supplies and store them yourself. I have relatives with some impressive and substantial pantries because they're prepared to be snowed in for an extended period of time. Running
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by roenxi 2mo ago
Being picky with words, you can be a manager of something other than people, it is the same broad skillset. Managing people has a few skills that are people-specific, obviously. But you can manage servers, manage widgets, etc. Which makes i
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by roenxi 2mo ago
> What I find striking here is that there are both fewer questions and fewer answers . Assuming the ratio of answers per question remains the same (or drops because the answer quality raises) this is the sort of thing I would suspect. I
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by roenxi 2mo ago
> Events in China do not retroactively change your solar panels or wind farm. It can, capital depreciated continuously and there'd be an annual budget for replacing panels. If the new panels are much more expensive, we'd expect
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by roenxi 2mo ago
The price of solar power is governed by the events happening in China. It just happens that the situation in China is pretty good because their military are the most competent in practice out of all the major players. At least so far. >
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by roenxi 2mo ago
This is somewhat funny when you realise the data centres are now going to start a process that looks very so slightly like daydreaming. Depending on the time of day they're going to be thinking about different things in a cyclic manner
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by roenxi 2mo ago
The government can sponsor a credential if that helps you? The libertarian position isn't that the government can't have a position on what the standard should be, just that people who think there is a more cost-effective standard
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by roenxi 2mo ago
You can also buy from companies that hire licensed software engineers if you want to? The main thing that would stop people patronising licensed individuals is if there was no obvious skill gap between a licensed and unlicensed practitioner
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by roenxi 2mo ago
There are famously capitalist countries that are monarchies (like the UK), so as written that has to be wrong. There isn't really a definition of what "capitalism" means, although we can be fairly confident it involves people
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by roenxi 2mo ago
You probably can just use Vulkan. Why don't you think Vulkan is an alternative? Can it not handle BLAS and memory access? What is a graphics card supposed to be doing that isn't efficient in Vulkan?
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by roenxi 2mo ago
It is an outcome from over 400 data points. We're expecting to see events outside a 3 sigma boundary. In fact, 3 sigma is basically the 1:400 boundary. Strictly it is 1 in 370 [0] for anyone who takes Wikipedia at face value. In the st
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by roenxi 2mo ago
It is a company, it doesn't have ethics to align with. The whole thing is marketing, they have to do some level of morality theatre to placate the pearl-clutchers.
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by roenxi 2mo ago
The UK's culture on this stuff has been relatively famous since Orwell coined the term thoughtcrime. The major advantage the US has over the UK historically has been the oceans, but an interesting secondary one is the US was built by p
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by roenxi 2mo ago
If we read OP's comment closely, it appears to be technically correct. I can imagine someone not upvoting it because it seems to be generic, but there isn't anything wrong or low effort about with it. And I don't see where th
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by roenxi 2mo ago
But after the study controls for age the starkness of the effect more or less disappears (eyeballing Fig 1, the 2nd graph). It turns out that there is a profession with a lowest risk of getting Alzheimer's (duh, one had to exist) and i
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by roenxi 2mo ago
Fella has read the article, has an argument and some stats. What more do you want from a comment? He isn't running a study. Besides, the point is a good one. There are a lot of professions. If we glance at the underlying study [0] Figu
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by roenxi 2mo ago
How did we get here from OS age reporting? I don't see how age reporting is going to stop any of those 3 things - or indeed any technical set of controls. If the fear is kids communicating with people, I might suggest giving them a pho
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by roenxi 2mo ago
"War crimes" is something of a shorthand for being involved in an aggressive war; they are a surprisingly minor influence on the discourse because they are small in comparison to the decision to go to war at all. I think the more
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by roenxi 2mo ago
Sure. There is no way that old mate in 1960 could have afforded all that stuff and thread ancestor is pointing out that people around today can't afford a 7 person family and have all that stuff in 2026. So we've moved from a worl
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by roenxi 2mo ago
The modern equivalent to what the man had is what the man had. You'd need to be paid maybe a bit less to support a family like he had because everything has gotten slightly more efficient over the years. If you want to define things by
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by roenxi 2mo ago
If you're happy to live life to a 1960s standard, it'd be quite cheap. If I'm interpreting the stats properly [0], he expected to put two children through high school and the other 3 would have been contributing a lot to the
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by roenxi 2mo ago
> but clearly there must be systemic issues in the people getting elected to this board for there to be so many persistent problems. First time dealing with a committee? It is routine for every community to be shrouded in an ongoing clou
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by roenxi 2mo ago
> ...but the obvious counter-argument is that humans can make creative leaps in abstract fields without such sensory grounding... But we have no idea at how good humans are at that. Given the appalling failures of humans to handle even b

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