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by scarmig 4y ago
If I were a corporation looking for an LLM for some product feature, I would absolutely go for the one with more "woke" opinions, even if if resulted in a worse customer experience. If you didn't, you risk a lot of media and
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by scarmig 4y ago
It's not (just) a matter of hand curating; you can train LLM to self censor if it's generating undesired output.
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by scarmig 4y ago
LLMs are going to always reflect the biases of their creators. At some point there'll be a BlueTribeGPT, a CCPGPT, a PutinGPT, etc., and if you're looking for a text that touches on a topic of concern for one elite in particular,
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by scarmig 4y ago
With optimal play, is there ever a reason to make a move that's not an integral value? Also, to the extent there is a benefit, does the full set of floating points (presumably) get more advantage than just the positions located midway
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by scarmig 4y ago
The issue with building a custom monorepo system that can handle Google's and Facebook's scale is that it fails to scale down, even to moderately large project and organizational size. It's expensive (think at least 7 figures
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by scarmig 4y ago
You can have microservices and different repos, microservices and a monorepo, or a monolith and monorepo. In principle you could even have a monolith split across different repos (e.g. each library in a separate repo). What's included
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by scarmig 4y ago
I always find monorepo/polyrepo discussions tiresome, mostly because people take the limitations of git and existing OSS tooling as a given and project those failings onto whichever paradigm they are arguing against. I'm pretty ex
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by scarmig 4y ago
> police scanners relay police knowledge about suspected crimes. If I'm physically stabbed during the commission of a suspected crime, the material reality of my bleeding out is more relevant to me than whether or not a judge and ju
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by scarmig 4y ago
GPT can do this faster, cheaper, and (soon) better than most people. That poses a problem. For comparison, people have always run scams that victimize old people, but new communication and payment technologies have made it happen far more o
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by scarmig 4y ago
Rankings (particularly by ideological organizations) need to be taken with a large grain of salt, but Heritage has a ranking of regulatory/economic freedom of different countries: https://www.heritage.org/index/ran
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by scarmig 4y ago
> If the NYC underground economy is indeed the only thing keeping minorities afloat, that means the economy is dependent on exploiting minority communities (keeping them working in illegal ventures, preventing upward mobility). The flip
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by scarmig 4y ago
If you're living offshore and paying taxes to the place you live, there's no particularly good justification (except might makes right) for the US to force you to pay taxes. AFAIK it's the only country, both now and in histor
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by scarmig 4y ago
You're right in terms of economic output, but that's not the only measure, particularly when it comes to politics; small farmers might not do much for the economy, but they still vote. I'm supportive of doing something about
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by scarmig 4y ago
Singapore.
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by scarmig 4y ago
Farm economic class by sales values (USD annual) | number 1k-10k 11000 10k-100k 5100 100k-250k 900 250k-500k 520 500k-1M 310 >1M 270 Total 18100 Source: https://ag.utah.gov/w
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by scarmig 4y ago
I'd extend a bit more sympathy to farmers. When they purchased the land, they were also purchasing bundled water rights; land without the related water rights would have been a fraction of the price. And the property, inheritance, etc
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by scarmig 4y ago
It's a bit different, in that property rights are (at least in part) around to incentivize production of the property. Probably a better analogy is property rights in land.
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by scarmig 4y ago
Is there some blocker to cities purchasing water rights? Or is the type of thing where cities will, but only once they have to?
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by scarmig 4y ago
It's the fragmentation and lack of ease of use that does it. If I had a NAS and Jellyfin setup, I'd have a catalog of basically everything available to stream; I wouldn't have to look a dozen different places to see if anyone
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by scarmig 4y ago
Let's take 1000 people above 30 BMI and divide them between us. I give them my intervention of semaglutide and lifecycle changes; you give them your intervention of "work harder you lazy fatties." I guarantee you an arbitrary
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by scarmig 4y ago
> The rest of us have worked hard our entire lives to stay skinny and now you all get a cheat. Someone could just as easily say that you've had access to a cheat your entire life and are now bitter other people have access to it. Th
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by scarmig 4y ago
> I consciously pace my food intake every single day. I just had a huge plate of nachos, some christmas cookies, and a pickle...and I could still eat more. You give some thought to it every day, but do you think about it every minute? Yo
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by scarmig 4y ago
> Food, as anything, is unique, so the idea of comparing it to other willpower exertions isn't relevant. So, you're backing away from the idea that people who struggle with weight lack willpower and are shifting to the stance t
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by scarmig 4y ago
I'd be curious as to what the effects would actually be on you (though I agree that it seems at best useless and potentially harmful for you). Would your weight zone shift downwards, or would it do nothing?
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by scarmig 4y ago
I hesitate to speculate; for any individual, it could be a different mix. It would be an interesting test to correlate obesity with other non-food related willpower tasks. If the correlation was high, on a population level I'd lean mor
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by scarmig 4y ago
For me, it was primarily carbs. Not potato chips or anything particularly greasy, but things like tortillas, rice, noodles, bread, potatoes. As to why, who knows. I'd be "starving" but have zero desire to eat lettuce, but the
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by scarmig 4y ago
Figure out a compelling answer for what that explanatory factor is, and you'll be a billionaire. Chalking it all up to willpower is, however, unconvincing. When I managed to get down to ~22 BMI awhile back using the willpower approach,
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by scarmig 4y ago
> What factors do you think are influencing your desire to eat more or less? Well, as you said: > It apparently changes quite a lot as different factors in your life influence you As far as > Additionally, what do you think of the
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by scarmig 4y ago
> Every animal will engorge itself given the chance. Not every animal. Mice given semaglutide don't gorge when presented with food to feed on freely, to the point where their weight drops >10% compared to control after a month.
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by scarmig 4y ago
I applaud that self knowledge. It's always hard to know others' experiences. I have a friend who genuinely tried to help me lose weight in college with the typical advice and a lot of support: he had the strategy of just eating un

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