schmidtleonard

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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Yes, but this is probably best instituted at the telecom layer as there are fewer people to educate / complain / litigate drama. Telecoms who self-police don't need it and if they fall from grace they can post collateral to b
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Yes, but we don't even have to go that far: international != unattested. Legitimate overseas telecoms should be able to sign their communications. The point isn't to seal off the USA, the point is to have someone to ban if they st
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Yes, although it's worth mentioning that there are scams that target our demographic, they just look different (fake investment, job, real-estate, or romance opportunities).
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
No, labeling is not enough, options are not enough, unattested communication needs to go silently to spam by default . Anything else encourages the spam. "We let spammers ring your phone unless you tick an option 5 menus deep in your
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
It's hilarious to watch people try to pretend that "crony capitalism" and "capitalism" are different things, as if the greed to rig the system once you've won is fundamentally different from the greed that push
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
It was aspirational then, but after 50 years of working to create the Unitary Executive it is now fact.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Is that the one that turns your organs blue?
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
> It's not perfect See, if anyone who said that took it seriously, or even partway seriously, I would find the prospect of free trade much less offensive. Yet the beneficiaries of "current account deficit equals capital account
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
The "bad actor" strategy in question has been known for ages: it's called mercantilism. It's so old that it convinced Alexander Hamilton away from "free trade laa dee dah" so that he could enact the protectioni
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
No, they just pay attention to each other (some combination of reading the lines, reading between the lines, listening to loose lips, maybe even a spy or two) and copycat + frontrun. The fast follower didn't have the release sitting in
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Their schooling taught them better than that. They choose to forget.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
So a sufficiently confident idiot is equivalent to https://xkcd.com/54/ ?
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Yeah, it goes way back, but it has definitely flared up recently. "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Nope. Experiments are the opposite of faith, and a collection of social mechanisms to encourage experimentation, long-form debate, and useful + correct results is fundamentally different from a collection of social mechanisms to encourage f
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
He spotted a pelican in a presentation the other week, so they're on to him and he's on to them.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
This is so standard it's part of the tutorials now https://developer.nvidia.com/isaac/gr00t
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
We are miles away from the fundamental constraint. We know that our current training methodologies are scandalously data inefficient compared to human/animal brains. Augmenting observations with dreams has long been theorized to be (pa
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Haha I like that quote, but to her unintentional credit Ayn Rand did force me to think about why she was wrong, whereas if my main exposure to capitalist propaganda were the plausibly apolitical econ classes offered in school I might neve
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
The market already exponentially concentrates wealth, just piggy back on that. There will always be a market for promoting the self-serving politics of the rich.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Fundamentally awful but spiritually delightful.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Right, and if you spot a job that needs doing and can be done by a specialized model, waving your hands about general purpose scale-leveraging models eventually overtaking specialized models has not historically been a winning approach. Exc
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Nope. Private capital allocation decisions are the foundation. It is a mistake to mix this with wishful thinking, the same flavor of mistake as claiming "socialism is about making economic decisions that reflect the will of the people
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Exactly! Going offline for hours every day in an adversarial world is positively nuts ! The reason can't be idiosyncratic. No gentle gradient of comparative advantage can rationalize it. It must be something severe and nigh impossible
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Even without that factor, making deep cuts to research funding right before Cold War II: Electric Boogaloo seems like a bad move.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Rhetoric exists. Astroturfing exists. Wishful thinking and name-calling do not make them go away. You might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Specular highlights are cheap (frame time and artist time) and beautiful when done right, so everyone tries to do them and they get overcooked. There is a secondary problem in big budget games where modeling work gets farmed out leading to
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Calorie counting works, but "use this one weird trick to target belly fat and achieve six pack" sells books.
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Obviously healthy habits prolong your life. Nobody argued otherwise. My contention is specifically with the idea that they matter to the exclusion of science and pharma. Healthy habits clearly hit a wall: if they didn't, we would have
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
You're not wrong on the "physics easy culture hard" call, just late. That was Andrej Karpathy's stated reason for betting on the Tesla approach over the Waymo approach back in 2017, because he identified that the limitin
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by schmidtleonard 1y ago
Show me the 200 year old person.

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