short_sells_poo

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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
> If a man had no real skills except giving advice left and right I love how you summarized 99.99% of influencers and lifestyle/business coaches.
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
I presume they evaluated the global response to dropping nukes and decided it's not worth it. A nuclear first strike is a red line for pretty much every major country. Russia would likely face extremely severe sanctions even from their
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
I agree with you, but perhaps this is very hard (impossible?) to pull off. Invariably, politics will result in various outcomes being favored in management and the moment that groups realize the game is rigged, the whole fair market devolve
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
A person is entitled to hold any political views they wish, and a business is entitled to not hire them for those views. Just like freedom of speech does not entitle you to a platform or give you immunity from the consequences of saying thi
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
In a perfect world, nobody would be forced to wear a seatbelt and yet everyone would eagerly wear one. I'd also much rather live in a world where everyone does the right thing, there's no greed, stupidity and short-sightedness. Un
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
There's an important distinction that we are glossing over I think. In the times of the "old web", people were putting things online to interact with a (large) online audience. If people found your content interesting, they&#
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
This would likely require completely new forms of physics and interacting with matter I'm afraid. It simultaneously requires extremely high resolution and high penetration (we need to see deep into the brain). You'll need to be ab
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
The corollary is that a perfectly secure system is one which is completely and utterly inaccessible to anyone, including the users.
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
They are, but I think the keyword is "generalization". Humans do very well when innovation is required, because innovation needs generalized models that can be used to make very specialized predictions and then meta-models that ca
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
Why not both?
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
The feeling I get from the article is that the engineers basically received specs that were nothing short of idiotic, were given no choice but to implement it and now are getting the blame. It's easy to point the finger at them and say
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
Ah yes, what Europe needs once more is to become existentially dependent on a region that is both culturally and geographically distant and where Europe has very little ability to enforce and police it's interests. Have we learned noth
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
I think parent just means that "backwards" is a relative term. Your backwards is someone else's "forward". For someone who is used to reading Hebrew, they would be used to reading right to left and this would seem c
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
Is this really a surprise? I'd hazard a guess that the ability to program and beyond that - to create new programming languages - requires more than just probabilistic text prediction. LLMs work for programming languages where they hav
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
That's because global state is very convenient early on. Everything is in one place and accessible. It's convenient to prototype things this way. This is very similar to doing scientific research (and why often research code is an
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
I wonder if this is to a large degree also because when we communicate with humans, we take cues from more than just the text. The personality of the author will project into the text they write, and assuming you know this person at least a
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
Fully in agreement with you. There'll be ultimately two groups of consumers of "organic" content: 1. Those who just want to tick a checkbox will buy mass produced "organic" content. AI slop that had some woefully un
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
Well throw us bone! Can you cite robust examples where private markets deal with this gracefully? Because I can't. An informational asymmetry that is beneficial to the businesses will heavily incentivise the businesses to maintain stat
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
This is why we can't have nice things. I don't (mostly) doubt that poster's good intentions, but it takes only a few people with undirected ideas and flexible morals or empathy to necessitate strict rules around medical resea
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
Most (all?) hedge funds that use AI models explicitly run in-house. People do use commercial LLMs, but in cases where the LLMs are not run in-house, it's against the company policy to upload any proprietary information (and generally t
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
This very much "depends". Many algo strategies are indeed programmatically simple (e.g. use some sort of moving average), but the parametrization and how it's used is the secret sauce and you don't want that information
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
Right. I'll try one more time: this thread is about caring to do a good job. People move to London, try to do a good job, find that they'll never be properly rewarded for going the extra mile, give up, and do a shit job going forw
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
Easily solvable by a piece of bread soaked with a drop of lysergic acid diethylamide :D Ingest. Wait 30-60 minutes. Enjoy the ride.
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
I think we have crossed some wires. People care about living in and around London, that much is clear. People want to live in cities for many reasons, economic ones are just one of them. What this thread - and my posts - are about, is peopl
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
Mindshare and hype tend to be self reinforcing and create their own gravity. BTC has the largest market share because it has the largest market share. The moment it got derivatives and ETFs listed and traded on major US exchanges (e.g. CME
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
Sadly this is true. 150k a year is "only" about 80-85k net, good luck buying a tiny Victorian row house for >1mln quid without your parents sponsoring the down payment. Or you can buy a crappy apartment built to "UK Standa
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
There's also no real future to look forward to. Take London. Outside of finance, technology and law, even manager level positions won't earn you enough to ever own the roof over your head. The median salary is just under 50k pound
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
I think the comment you reply to perhaps fundamentally misunderstands the economics of public transport. You raise good points about the benefits of having central planning for these things, but IMO the most important factor the people ofte
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
So what will happen once most/all your staff is replaced with AI? Your clients will ask the fundamental question: what are we paying you for? You are missing the point that the parent comment raises: LLMs are not only replacing the nee
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by short_sells_poo 1y ago
Wow, you are really projecting the image a wonderful person to work for. I don't doubt you are successful, but the mentality and value hierarchy you seem to express here is something I never want to have anything to do with.

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