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by rytill 5y ago
Do we still have the DNA of the original vine strand?
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by rytill 5y ago
GP basically created a hypothetical situation wherein they were right, and then here you are saying they're wrong. The only case in which you would be right in saying the GP is unequivocally wrong is if dynamic arrays were Pareto-optim
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by rytill 5y ago
Wouldn’t you just need “the whole truth and nothing but the truth”?
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by rytill 5y ago
That factor of “competitiveness” exists on Ethereum 2 as well. The more ether that is staked, the less the yield is from staking. If half of all ETH is staked, the APY will be below 2%, for instance. At a certain point bonds would overtake
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by rytill 5y ago
You read blog posts at the same time you are listening to podcasts?
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by rytill 5y ago
Do you have a belief like this? What should be done when one has a belief like this?
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by rytill 5y ago
> zero times out of zero Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ZeroDivisionError: division by zero
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by rytill 5y ago
Can you elaborate on your thoughts here for us? It seems like you’re leading somewhere.
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by rytill 5y ago
> and its concurrent AWS, which could be run by less than 50 engineers One engineer for every four offerings.
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by rytill 5y ago
I love this game, have played at least a hundred hours of it in my childhood, and this seems … nice? What in particular makes this so amazing?
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by rytill 5y ago
The article begins with saying there are two ways to discuss morality: phenomenological morality, and evolutionary morality, but many (most?) comments here are of the format, “morality is Darwinian” like it’s a panacea for the whole discuss
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by rytill 5y ago
Were the breakthroughs of history regarded as such during their formation, generally speaking? Maybe we will look back on this period as one rife with breakthroughs, but can’t make the historic judgment in real-time.
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by rytill 5y ago
Does that imply we can put a lower bound on the energy required for certain types of operations on certain types of information?
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by rytill 5y ago
Not at all. I can't convert between miles per hour and miles given an interest rate.
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by rytill 5y ago
Would it be possible to simply fork an MIT-style license and relicense the new fork as AGPL? The pre-fork version can continue with its old license, but the new fork is AGPL.
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by rytill 6y ago
How does this startup plan to make money? Services?
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by rytill 6y ago
No, I expect this to occur with high probability for the reasons I stated, and my rebuttal would be similar to the other reply to this comment by Viliam1234.
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by rytill 6y ago
Wouldn’t it be more predictive to think in terms of capabilities to track rate of improvement? You’re never going to see any improvement by your metric if you don’t want to, it’s unfalsifiable. Your second statement (if it’s possible) sound
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by rytill 6y ago
Why do you clam up so hard against the possibility that there’s progress and potential on computers learning? It’s because, if you admit there is even a slight possibility of progress being made, or future potential, suddenly you’re in the
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by rytill 6y ago
It’s very likely the parent was referring to market cap. See TSM’s market cap over the past year. I don’t really understand the comment though.
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by rytill 6y ago
Can you explain your approach/philosophy, or is it intuitive?
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by rytill 6y ago
You’re right - it belongs on a list of universal-scale risks rather than global-scale ones.
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by rytill 6y ago
So you thought the OP asked "What software engineer salaries are common in Atlanta at various levels?" and you replied, "Here is my $540k salary. (This datapoint should be included in your perception of what is common in Atla
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by rytill 6y ago
Good summation of the situation. This take: > Bitcoin is deflationary: it gains value over time (assuming it doesn’t crash). is extremely popular but not nearly as straightforward as its proponents presume. The author continues. > Def
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by rytill 6y ago
What does socialism optimize for?
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by rytill 6y ago
I have never really pushed hard on style in my software journey. But this is different. That code sample is horrifying.
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by rytill 6y ago
I am a safety advocate, and your analogy to nuclear explosions is pretty interesting. However, simplified analogies may be doing more harm than good because they fuel the straw-men people create of arguments for AI safety. I am not sure wha
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by rytill 6y ago
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool."
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by rytill 6y ago
> Richard Feynman’s quote on cargo culting comes to mind. Care to share? Probably 90+% of readers do not have this quote memorized.
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by rytill 6y ago
> You won't be able to buy something like this for any sum of money, so it's free. I don't understand this. Why won't you be able to buy something like this? Do you mean you won't be able to sell it? I suppose if

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