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by rytill 5y ago
Do you have an actual refutation though? Why does buffering perform better in real-world factories than the simulated ones in Factorio?
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by rytill 5y ago
I don’t understand. Isn’t that a pretty basic hypothesis? There’s no way we’ve gone almost 100 years and no one tried that.
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by rytill 5y ago
It’s impossible to get some people to use wires. I work in an area where a high bandwidth, low latency connection is in theory mission critical for my customers and they still use WiFi 80% of the time.
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by rytill 5y ago
Are there configurable reliability settings, or is it TCP-only?
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by rytill 5y ago
If it’s bad enough, why not release a v2 of the library?
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by rytill 5y ago
Alternative solutions like what? Your example was not very specific.
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by rytill 5y ago
What if it’s a public good that we generally believe everyone benefits from, like mathematics research? No individual would pay for it, but it’s still more valuable than random noise.
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by rytill 5y ago
Ah, so it’s like “unfollow by default” instead of “follow by default”
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by rytill 5y ago
As someone who doesn't have Facebook, what actually appears on your feed at all when you've unfollowed all connections? Wouldn't your feed be empty?
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by rytill 5y ago
I actually looked it up after commenting and discovered the same. As any curious person would do.
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by rytill 5y ago
> Smart People Become Curios The author was not curious enough about this essay's spellcheck squiggles.
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by rytill 5y ago
You mean $945B?
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by rytill 5y ago
Scarcity is built into the fabric of humanity. Even if we solve food, material, and comfort, humans will continue to compete for mates and status, which are ordered human constructs.
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by rytill 5y ago
I don't think it's accurate to say "you don't have a cent of that money until you sell your home". Nobody has anything valuable until they transfer some cash to receive that thing. The potential to transfer X for Y
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by rytill 5y ago
The person you replied to basically saying the opposite of you.
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by rytill 5y ago
I'm one of those people, minus the straw man of it "understanding" anything. Why do you assume a language model can't learn some rudimentary reasoning from predicting the next token?
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by rytill 5y ago
In addition, for the record... even if there were unlimited natural resources, there would still be constraints. Order on the social graph and any other ranking system would be the constraints. Even if you crack all the way down to mathemat
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by rytill 5y ago
> how we choose to distribute those natural resources Even this is subject to the limits/constraints of human coordination. I think there is a lot of play there, to be fair. But saying it's 100% unconstrained how we coordinate
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by rytill 5y ago
I can agree with that.
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by rytill 5y ago
> In our own brief experiments with GPT-3 (OpenAI has refused us proper scientific access for over a year) we found cases like the following, which reflects a complete failure to understand human biology. (Our “prompt” in italics, GPT-3’
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by rytill 5y ago
Okay, if it’s completely manufactured, with no constraints that are outside of our control, please describe a completely utopic economy where every human is satisfied with every aspect of it. What, it’s really difficult? Those are the const
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by rytill 5y ago
Any? Either? A USD or Euro stablecoin?
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by rytill 5y ago
It is the most well-known one, but Ethereum is the one with the most users and DeFi. What is your critique of Ethereum? * Just saw your edit with the coins listed. I agree, but I also think it's just a matter of time before a DeFi syst
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by rytill 5y ago
That quote implies that the subject is providing some value to users that makes it worth staying on the network. Do you believe Ethereum, Bitcoin, or other networks are providing value to people? If you believe there is value, you must simp
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by rytill 5y ago
It’s essays like this that make me realize that many detractors don’t get it yet. If users decide that a chain is too centralized, they can move to a different one, much more easily than moving to a different traditional financial system. I
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by rytill 5y ago
As the other comment implied, infinity and exactitude are two sides of the same coin. Exactitude is infinite precision. No finite amount of empirical evidence can afford infinite precision, so you’re back in math-land.
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by rytill 5y ago
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. Thanks!
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by rytill 5y ago
Same with open source. The more open source exists, the easier it is to make more useful open source, which increases the surface area of profitable development, which fuels more open source. 1000 programmers is more than 1000x as valuable
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by rytill 5y ago
What do you mean long-term? In the short and medium term (5y), humans being in the loop is highly likely to be valuable, as you seem to agree with. Long term is very difficult to predict. AGI changes everything instantly. If you’re saying “
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by rytill 5y ago
What replacement terms would you recommend?

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