salmonfamine

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by salmonfamine 3y ago
Fair points —- I agree that the article is actually quite well researched and to-the-point, once you get past the title. I guess I just see this exact argument being made all over the place, so I’m a little weary of it. But this article is
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
I think this is a conversation worth having, but this is a tech news board. This isn't exactly on topic, and is guaranteed to be inflammatory.
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
Why was this flagged?
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
> From its training data GPT-7 might notice > But its "aligned" so might understand > Using this information it decides to hack I think you're anthropomorphizing LLM's too much here. If we assume that there&#x27
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
That's an interesting perspective. It seems like it's trained on entire soundwaves. I'm curious if you'd get a better result by training it on transcribed MIDI and then taking the output MIDI and plugging it into VST&#x2
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
They are just very bland and a little musically incoherent. They pass the basic sniff test of, "this sounds like music" but the more you listen the more they fall apart. It's a good muzak generator, but that's about it.
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
I wonder if there's some sort of game-theory esque problem with cars. As in, the more people drive to a destination, the less pleasant and convenient it is to walk the same route, and the more attractive driving becomes. I think, also,
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
The average American is greatly affected by SV in many ways, hardly any of them positively.
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
I don't really have to propose solutions, actually. My point was the problem, and its inconvenience for many assumptions many Americans have about housing, cities, markets. I don't have to have a ready-made policy prescription on
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
Yeah, Austin and Denver et al have also failed in their housing policy, for pretty much the same reasons as SV. No argument there. But it's hard to deny that SV's wealth explosion and exodus has not contributed to the problems in
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
Yes, they should build more. But again, that's just pushing the core problem away from SF (one of the most notable cities in the US for over a century, with a history of economic booms and high migration) to what was until recently a l
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
Yes they do. But we -- that is, our nominally democratic government, a "power structure" which you have arbitrarily equated with a collection of private corporations -- have placed restrictions on immigration, and some light restr
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
The discussion here regarding how fleeing SV workers is disrupting property markets in other cities in the US brings up an uncomfortable but, I think, unavoidable point: local housing policy has nation-wide consequences. If SV and SF allowe
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
Interesting, I pulled this from a very recent tweet from a climate scientist. This article delves into it in more detail: https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-will-global-warming-st... Curious to hear your take on that.
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
This is not true. https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/305/graphic-when-...
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
There's obviously quite a bit of complexity here. Huge difference between being terminally ill and getting used to some bad conditions for a finite period.
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
Mostly just this: > I DO expect that short-haul public transportation would suffer a significant decline in ridership, as it would be outcompeted by driverless cars. My contention here is “outcompeted.” Ultimately, this is a policy decis
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
There is no reason that self-driving will create a transit modality that is more conducive to smaller vehicles. That is an energy cost “problem.”
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
Ok.
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
As opposed to highways, which magically have none of these problems.
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
That only raises more questions. People will buy them, of course. People buy cigarettes, heroin, and NFT's. Will they actually meet high enough safety standards in these places? Will they reduce commute times? In other words, are they
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
Well, that's the problem. Self-driving cars does not solve that problem.
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
Walk. EDIT: or just drive, as you do now.
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
Self-driving cars are a solution for a problem that has already been solved. Build trains. But of course, this doesn't benefit automakers, requires a move towards high-density housing that NIMBY's and certain classes of investors
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
Then we agree -- both false.
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
You're drawing a huge false equivalence here. The idea that we can deploy renewables at scale within even two or three decades sufficient to reach net zero is patently false.
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
1. There is no "10 year" time limit. There is a window of time to keep our overall warming below 1.5c, which is virtually impossible regardless of which policies we choose to pursue, collectively. 2. There is no indication that we
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
That is also not true, and not supported by the IPCC. What do you mean "we can't wait that long?" Any time we start reducing emissions is better than never. There will never be a "too late" point to reach net zero.
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
[citation needed]
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by salmonfamine 4y ago
You just have to practice. I used to be quite bad at it, but I've improved greatly. Here's what I recommend: start with a specific topic -- maybe HashMaps, Graph Problems, Dynamic Programming, Greedy Algorithms, whatever. Start wi

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