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by roughly 2y ago
I like this! In the grand HN tradition of being triggered by a word in the post and going off on a not-quite-but-basically-totally-tangential rant: There’s (at least) three areas here that are footguns with these kinds of calculations: 1) 9
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by roughly 2y ago
Without arguing the merits of the Altera investment or divestment, a common pattern for Intel seems to be a wild see-sawing between an aggressive and a defensive market posture - it’s a regular occurrence for Intel to announce a bold new ve
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by roughly 2y ago
Walker gave a talk recently at Long Now on Assembly Theory that sounds like it did a better job of getting the point across: https://longnow.org/ideas/informational-theory-life/
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by roughly 2y ago
When the guy lifting your TV starts quoting Marx at you, it's not actually an invitation to engage in philosophical discourse, and no amount of sound economic reasoning is getting your TV back. The Trump administration is not, has not,
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by roughly 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_auction
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by roughly 2y ago
Congrats! Great game - I did todays, and then immediately did them for the last week - it's really fun, tricky, and gives that nice little dopamine hit when you untangle the answer. Contra several other people here, I also like that yo
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by roughly 2y ago
This about jives with my normal experience with the LLMs - a superficially valid answer that falls apart when you start interrogating how and what it actually did.
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by roughly 2y ago
I think you really start to see the fetishization of the Greeks and Romans in the Neoclassicism movements in the 18th century as an aesthetic, and I'm actually not sure how much was known about the actual Greek and Roman lifestyles (Ro
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by roughly 2y ago
One interesting thread here is the long shadow of Greek and later Roman statuary and architecture on Western European self image - the marble statues, columns, and architecture of the Roman empire were taken as the origin story for Western
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by roughly 2y ago
Yeah, I think if I had to put money on where the "native lands" of the LLMs are, it's in a much deeper embrace of the large model itself - the emergent relationships, architectures, and semantics that the models generate. The
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by roughly 2y ago
Two thoughts: The first is that LLMs are bar none the absolute best natural language processing and producing systems we’ve ever made. They are absolutely fantastic at taking unstructured user inputs and producing natural-looking (if slight
702.
by roughly 2y ago
Empirically, a lot of people who go to casinos also go bust.
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by roughly 2y ago
Acknowledging this is a pre-print, but it is _wild_ that we can do this kind of analysis on a species that went extinct nearly a third of a billion years before the first hominids emerged. Every now and again I'm reminded of just how f
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by roughly 2y ago
One of my favorite books is "Seeing Like a State"[1], which talks about how the modern world has transitioned from talking about things like distance and space in human terms ("an hour's walk", "six bushels&#x2
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by roughly 2y ago
Elixir and Erlang have always garnered a lot of respect and praise - I’m always curious why they’re not more widely used (I’m no exception - despite hearing great things for literal decades, I’ve never actually picked it up to try for a pro
706.
by roughly 2y ago
In fairness, that’s mostly because current plastic production externalizes the cost of everything about the lifecycle before and after manufacturing and use.
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by roughly 2y ago
Oh shit, I didn’t catch the name - strongly recommend that whole series. It’s one of the most wildly inventive sci-fi series I’ve read in a long time.
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by roughly 2y ago
I mean, I expect the actual approved governmental secure messaging apps would make it much harder to accidentally add a journalist to the thread, so I don’t know if this is a Signal problem per se.
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by roughly 2y ago
I do wonder what the line is for you and the other folks I keep hearing say this is all totally normal and how it’s always been - what would cross the line for you? What could Trump do that would lead you to say, “oh, this is different now?
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by roughly 2y ago
A hundred percent, yes. The GOP learned they needed to activate their base during the Obama years - that led to the Trump takeover and a lot of the issues we're seeing right now, but the MAGA movement's fundamental allure is they&
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by roughly 2y ago
Yep, that's what started the whole trip. She quotes a tweet in it from someone in the middle of the pandemic about it: https://x.com/localnotail/status/1395393630022553602 "If your Naomi be Klein You&#x2
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by roughly 2y ago
Graeber & Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything"[1] pulls the thread a bit about how groups tend to build their identity as oppositional to their neighbors - that a tribe who lives next to one known for its ornamentation will
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by roughly 2y ago
Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger is an absolutely brilliant read on why you see this kind of consonance between the fringe left & right (although fringe may not be the right word anymore): https://bookshop.org/p/books&#x2
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by roughly 2y ago
About 95% of the conversation about “AI” has this problem right now: there are some interesting theoretical legal and social implications from AI, but what we have right now are LLMs, not AI. They can’t replace your workers, they can’t make
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by roughly 2y ago
The original talk for that creed, a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
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by roughly 2y ago
> If Bezos had to choose between Amazon and WaPo, he'd choose Amazon. And did.
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> they break a lot of great news with a tiny staff <…> I'll never pay for their work because I feel like they get a little user hostile sometimes Y’all choose the weirdest hills to die on.
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by roughly 2y ago
The distinction today is that the murderbots work in the back office of your health insurance company. Yet again, ours proves to be a really boring dystopia.
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Little did we know we already invented the paperclip maximizers
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It’s also why our cars keep running people over and our websites keep overturning democracies

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