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by runarberg 2mo ago
We live in an era where companies are increasingly hostile towards their users and society at large. Where regulation has been stripped or ignored to maximize the profits of a handful of monopolies, where companies don‘t even have to preten
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Missing the official RÚV stream from Látrabjarg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0EQtb747n8 RÚV also has special programing around the event here: https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2026-08-12-alm
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by runarberg 2mo ago
LLM‘s have been useful for ~12 months for the past 3 years. I’m not buying this any more: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1753056000&dateRange=custom&...
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Spaced repetition is a good way (perhaps even the optimal way) to get large amount of trivial memorization into your brain, but it not a good way to understand a complex subjects. Memorizing one word in a foreign language is not that comp
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I also think that this broad claim (LLMs are good for learning) is also a testable hypothesis, and given the size of the AI industry I think it is reasonable to assume that AI companies would be eager to proof that LLMs are good for learnin
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by runarberg 2mo ago
AI hater here. Too me this story is all to predictable. This is exactly how I thought using LLMs to learn would go. Or in simpler terms: well duh . I'm actually going to make a prediction here as well. I think you will soon realize th
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Seeing how much influence money has, I think that impact is negligible.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I never claimed lead does not cause damage, it does. I dispute it is the primary fault in bad politics, and I offered an alternative theory.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I hate this theory. It is extremely condescending, offers nothing, has no proof, but sounds plausible enough that many people believe it. It is much more likely that our economic system rewards hostile behavior and that money has outsized i
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by runarberg 2mo ago
But we do, and by your logic we can pick any applied statistics, say a Bayesian inference model, and claim we don‘t understand its emergent properties. Heck, we can take any sort of applied mathematics or science, say linguistics, and claim
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Both you and your sibling are approaching LLMs like it is some sort of science. If you do that there is no wonder you have a lot of unanswered questions. LLMs are not a science, they are applied statistics. Making predictions to evaluate hy
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by runarberg 2mo ago
You think we will have Waymo between Bakersfield and Merced before 2033? That is a bit optimistic I would say.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
This is already the case. A lot of transit agencies have a vanpools, rideshares, and ridehales for their low frequency areas. I used one recently in Tacoma because my ferry was late and the bus from the ferry arrives only ones an hour. I wi
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by runarberg 2mo ago
There is a reason I picked the 49 as my example. When I lived there 15 years ago, the busses were lacking to say the least. Extremely slow, got stuck in traffic, crowded, etc. Since the BRT lane on Van Ness, taking the 49 is more like takin
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Whenever I visit San Francisco I get the sense that these robo-taxis are nothing but public transit for those who are willing and able to spend extra money. I would not compare the user experience to drivers, or the safety record to private
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by runarberg 2mo ago
And sales of disco records were up 400% for the year ending 1976. If these trends continue...
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by runarberg 2mo ago
You don’t have the computational ability to process as many calculations as a datacenter. You can hardly transpose a 5×5 matrix in your mind, so you won’t be able to do what datacenters do. This is like saying we don‘t know how a car works
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by runarberg 2mo ago
We know plenty about human cognition, and we know everything about how LLMs work. True we don’t know anything about intelligence but that is because “intelligence” is it self a fraught and vague term, and we haven’t (and perhaps never wil
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I was obviously exaggerating (and even so, I excluded social democrats). My point is though it was widely known on the political left that the economic boom was about to come to an end.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Left wing economists saw the former. Left wing as a whole saw the latter.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I stay away from stocks, and instead focus on trying to get rid of capitalism.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouriel_Roubini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Portes
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I don‘t think so. These predictions were explicit, and were tailored around the economic situations at the time. As you sibling mentions, even some capitalists made the same predictions (or they believed the left-wing economists) and were a
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by runarberg 2mo ago
The entire left wing of the political spectrum saw this coming (except social democrats; whom I don’t consider left wing). And if you were shorting stocks to make money of off this, you probably were not left wing. Additionally, left wing e
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I was there for the Great Recession, and they were indeed in the public discussion. I remember the year 2007, as a 20 year old anti-capitalist, I was counting days until the economic crash. As predicted by plenty of left-wing economists at
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by runarberg 2mo ago
People were saying this about the Lehman Brothers and the entire financial sector at the time, right up until their bankruptcy and the great recession. Some predictions turn out to be correct. And with the benefit of hindsight, obviously so
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I’m not sure it is that simple. Nuclear is expensive infrastructure to maintain, by shutting them down you free up resources (including human expertise) that can be used elsewhere. I wonder if they had maintained their nuclear infrastructur
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by runarberg 2mo ago
For me this looks ideological (or even political), not practical. The theory is that LLMs are approaching general intelligence (whatever that means) and that the more generic of a task they can perform—no matter how badly—the closer we are
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by runarberg 2mo ago
No. But it reveals something about how this technology works, its statistical properties, from which you can infer the limitations.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Union busting as per TFA is a candidate for sure.

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