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by roenxi 3mo ago
> So you’re in agreement with me that “no politics” isn’t really a thing in a space? Yeah, its a meaningless term. The people calling for it are clearly being inarticulately and are trying to say something else. But the trans bathroom th
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> So they go into "soft skills" that their more talented peers aren't interested in, and sandbag themselves with authority once they get it. Maybe their more talented peers should learn some of these soft skills and take a
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> ...the issue is Chinese models, whether open or not, and that's what's looking to be banned... Is the US planning to invade China and take away their models? Because otherwise China is still going to have the models even if t
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by roenxi 3mo ago
The paradox can be resolved by assuming they are fallible and limited human beings - they're laying a bunch of people off, they understand at some level that this is evidence that their poor hiring and management decisions have caused
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Bunch of software engineers are worried about their future employment prospects.
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by roenxi 3mo ago
I did just write "that is an inescapable problem that has dogged humanity since before we were a species" you know. But nonetheless the trans bathroom one has a simple and nonpolitical resolution until the people who want segregat
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> So forcing everyone to change their meeting place to a venue with a unisex bathroom only is not political, but a trans woman using a woman’s bathroom is political? Nobody is calling for unisex bathrooms as far as I know, so it can&#x27
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by roenxi 3mo ago
That actually sounds like a relatively simple one to resolve although the practicality might be a bit poor. The nonpolitical resolution is to use a space with 1 small unisex bathroom and insist that everyone keep it clean. If there isn&#x27
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by roenxi 3mo ago
It would be more useful to say that communities should be organised around a set of principles and be ruthless about sticking to them. The issue isn't so much that groups become "political" (which is a hard standard to define
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by roenxi 3mo ago
I think it would be hard to make the label "ethnostate" stick to the US. It is too diverse.
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by roenxi 3mo ago
As I follow the stats, somewhere between 20-40% of the US public seems to be open to the idea that Israel is a genocidal ethnostate. I have a low opinion of the US State on the best of days but it actually seems quite remarkable that they w
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Open sourcing is a complex decision so who knows what their calculations are. But I'd assume that they're preparing for some sort of winner-take-all market in model quality where if they don't do anything the winner will be a
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by roenxi 3mo ago
That's how nearly everything works. If people don't think action is in their best interest they don't act. And you can substitute any country for China - although if anythign the Chinese have been unusually competent compared
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> I have no source for this but I feel like the environment thing is too frequently repeated (also without any evidence). > They're pumping out solar like mad and places like the Xinjiang deserts actually have nowhere to put thei
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Yep. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/median-daily-per-capita-e... for example. Although note the log-log axis which undersells the gaps between countries.
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by roenxi 3mo ago
I'm not really sure that China's labour costs can be described as "low" these days, going by GDP per capita [0] they're above the global average. They're a little lower than the Europe median I think but the ga
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD The US consistently scores among the best countries in the world for paying people [0]. Is there some way I can lodge an application to be exploited in a s
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by roenxi 3mo ago
The CSIRO aren't the group who have to cost, pay for, take on the financial risk of or be operationally involved in running a nuclear power plant. Their opinions are welcome but not in any way final. The Chinese might easily be willing
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by roenxi 3mo ago
We might suspect the hardware used for the LLM is very similar to a graphics card and so the wattage would be extremely similar to using a graphics card to display a game's graphics in the first place. Which puts a certain ironic persp
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> but that isn't because they are reasoning better, it would because they included millions of Rubik's Cube states with next moves as text in the training data, I presume. Isn't it far more likely that the LLM has memorise
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Yeah but that is likely the normal state of things - high status people are human too, we're all shocked. And on Twitter comment - mass media has been a tool of propaganda since shortly after it was invented. Twitter is substantially b
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by roenxi 3mo ago
People can write what they like on their blog, but this article seems to be missing key details - we don't find out what the model is or the coefficients he's using and the model apparently immediately produces unrealistic results
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Then they don't need to tax you and you can just give the money to educational institutions. The argument for taxes is either "I don't think it is fair for me to pay for this alone since others are benefiting" or "t
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by roenxi 3mo ago
It isn't my pension, and if it was my pension the major issue would be that I was relying on people I think are untrustable with money to fund my retirement. That is one of those ideas so strategically bad that no tactical success or
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Those are 3 thresholds that a situation typically has to meet before people get upset about something. Arguably the 3rd one is not great, but the other two are just obvious and basic requirements. In this case even that last one is fine, th
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Prices are set on the margins, the reason people are paid what they are is because even a relatively small change would cause someone to do something differently. Same theory as why we can be confident raising the price of something a few c
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by roenxi 3mo ago
But it does imply at some level attempting to achieve them. At every stage of the war the US has taken (and continues to take) action that is more likely to close the strait than open it. To the point where people were pointing it out how t
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by roenxi 3mo ago
It is a bit surprising, I'd have guessed the same. Although in hindsight I could believe that type systems aren't particularly strong as an anti-bug layer. They help. They're a big boon for coordinating large numbers of mid-
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by roenxi 3mo ago
What is the alternative here other than acceptance exactly? It seems the options are either accept a toll or accept that the strait is closed. The toll seems pretty reasonable. Trump doesn't look like he's actually going to compen
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> If you're measuring it as "how many people own superyachts" that's probably different from how most people want to measure "how well is the planet being run". A disturbing number of people are financially

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