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Regexes were invented by Kleene in 1951, to describe McCulloch-Pitts neural nets. So, artificial intelligence! https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memorand...
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Well, with all 16 logic gates available, they can express all Boolean circuits (you could get that even with NAND or NOR gates, of course, if you are working with arbitrary as opposed to fixed connectivity). And so you could have a 32 bit o
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The point of Land is that there is an underlying reality. Systems that make use of that reality most effectively are those that will propagate and dominate that reality. Landian intelligence isn't about scoring high on the SAT (which,
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Some of them have very limited, anthropocentric visions of a world where they live as gods, empowered by godlike technology. The more insightful ones see the end goal as one where humanity has been obliterated, with the successor expanding
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Is retrochronic yours? Nice project, if so. So much of his work is scattered across defunct blogs.
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Intelligence to Nick Land is explicitly not about logic or things that further human values (he is, in fact, explicitly anti-human, which is an intellectual honesty that I have to respect a lot more than the people who have taken his ideas
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1) If pensions are so easily manipulated and stolen from, that's an argument against pensions, not an argument for them. 2) Although the factors you mention are real, they are much smaller than core issue, which is the state underfundi
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Why should young workers be asked to work more to provide a lifestyle to others that they can't themselves achieve?
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The difference is, of course, that investors can sell their shares if a compensation policy is overly generous. And, even if they hold onto them, if the company goes bankrupt because of labor expenses, the government doesn't grab inve
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It's not her fault. However, as a taxpayer, I don't want my money to be taken from me (postponing my own retirement) to fund her retirement. And that is absolutely going to happen with insolvent pension funds.
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> It would pass through you like through butter I know this is just an idiom, but it got me to thinking about just how much easier it would be for the PBH pass through you than a knife through butter. Some back of the envelope calculatio
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Software and algorithmic improvements diffuse faster than hardware, even with attempts to keep them secret. Maybe a company doubles the efficiency, but in 3 months, it's leaked and everyone is using it. And then the compute edge become
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On the ChatGPT Android app, they don't have the autocomplete feature (I think?). Which supports the idea that it's targeted at people who have never used an LLM chatbot before.
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The level of taxation is not the most relevant thing, even though it attracts the most attention. There are countless socially valuable things that they can be spent on. The core issue is that Americans don't get back much for their le
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Scale is all you need.
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For anyone who doesn't know, CTE = common table expression, which is a part of a query representing a temporary result set that can be referenced from other parts of a query.
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In this analogy, you're also asking permission from the IRB to ride a bike or skateboard.
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Cosma has a PowerPoint that may be more accessible to a general audience: https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/2010-10-18-Meetup.pdf
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> But I think it's inappropriate to claim that models like R1 are "good at deductive or inductive reasoning" when that is demonstrably not true, they are incapable of even the simplest "out-of-distribution" deduc
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On the one hand, you have DEI policies like Harvard's college admissions or the air traffic controller hiring scandal. And of course DEI advocates always claim that these are obvious perversions of True DEI, which is only about expandi
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If 90% of nurses are women, is nursing culture sexist against men?
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It's somewhat odd to represent a community as being right wing when the worst thing to come from it was a trans vegan murder cult. Most "rationalists" vote Democrat, and if the franchise were limited to them, Harris would hav
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Probably it's something like "give feedback that's on average slightly more correct than incorrect," though you'd get more signal from perfect feedback. That said, I suspect the signal is very weak even today and p
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When do you think it died out? People have used economical to mean things like affordable or thrifty for a long time.
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You're wrong, here. Words are defined by how people use them, and the way people actually use the term "economy" is much closer to the original etymological meaning than how economists use it. Economists are free to take a te
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Homicides are generally considered pretty reliable for statistics, and those have gone down. Though it's possible for those to go down while lower level crimes go up.
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Well, legally, many of those things are crime, and so people call it crime. But public safety is more than worries about being violently attacked. If you have someone passed out on a narrow sidewalk, you then have to walk into the street to
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In this situation, though, it's economists who are using an out-of-the-norm term and upset when people don't immediately abandon existing usages. Economy literally means "home management," after all. That confusion is bo
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Training, yes, but they recoup inference costs through subscriptions.
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That's ideal for us and the world. It's not ideal for the employing companies, as they can't as effectively extract rents. So, all the forces are pushing against individual engineers getting that leverage.

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