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by shwaj 3y ago
Without negating the observation of timelessness, it jumped out at me how Russell Brand is now on the “conservative” end of the spectrum (both how he is painted by media, as well as revealed by polls of his audience on a variety of topics),
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RFK also makes the promise on his website: https://www.kennedy24.com/pardon_julian_assange_robert_f_ken...
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Haha, better know what you’re doing before you dare invoke ‘vigil -i’.
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He is not asking anything. He is making a statement. When someone says “that’s why A, and also why B”, they’re making a statement, not asking a question just because the word “why” appears. The lack of a question mark is also a clue.
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by shwaj 3y ago
Not to make a big thing about it, but you’re wrong. Try read it again, slowly. Edit: hint: focus on “if that’s true” and “merely”.
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by shwaj 3y ago
I think they intended to say quadratic. For N classical objects interacting, each of them can interact with each of the N-1 others, hence O(N^2). The GP is saying that the quantum interactions don’t follow this rule, hence “not merely O(2
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by shwaj 3y ago
You might want to make that clear by editing the original post.
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Try reading the abstract of the linked paper. TL;DR: neural networks
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by shwaj 3y ago
A small nit (sorry): it’s probably not a matter of sensor quality (decent quality microphones are not very expensive), but rather the neural networks that process the audio signal.
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by shwaj 3y ago
Your point about terrible drivers getting better through practice doesn’t make much sense to me: - autonomous cars are also getting better with practice - we’re alway producing new batches of terrible drivers. This is unlike autonomous car
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by shwaj 3y ago
The transformer model was introduced in the 2017 paper “Attention is all you need”, which applied it to machine translation of human language.
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Maybe the person wasn’t alive during conscription. They lived through Covid.
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That is one question where you’re guaranteed to get the canned response that OpenAI RLHFed into it.
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Citation requested re: Altman saying current offerings are AGI. When I search, I see things like “there may be a path to AGI”.
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Apple's not playing word games, because they didn't say "LLM". They said that autocorrect will use "a transformer language model, a state-of-the-art on-device machine learning language model for word prediction&quo
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by shwaj 3y ago
If you’re talking about using LLMs as part of the simulation, where decisions and commitments made during discussions are reflected in the simulation, that sounds terribly expensive if you’re simulating a full city.
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Or participate in activities the government doesn’t want you to participate in. Canadian trucker protest? Nope.
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This sounds a lot like the thesis behind George Hotz’s tinygrad, and the accelerators he eventually hopes to design for it. edit: typo
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by shwaj 3y ago
Why can’t “psychedelics” be the name for the category?
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It is totally obvious that the usage refers to sex. The title is "How the Y chromosome makes some cancers more deadly for men", how much more obvious could it be? Pre-emptive edit: Given that this is a press release for a broad
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by shwaj 3y ago
What wound proper ideological diversity look like? Or, which ideologies are underrepresented which would make this a better place, in your opinion? It doesn’t seem like a monoculture to me: depending on the topic there is usually at least
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by shwaj 3y ago
This sounds truthy to me. Can anyone confirm, and also weigh in on whether uneven distribution of the moved mass might account for any of the missing orders of magnitude?
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I’m not sure if I’m supposed to panic more because we’re tilting the earth, or panic less because we’re melting less ice than we thought. Or panic the same because the jury is still out in this research.
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by shwaj 3y ago
Do you have a link showing that China suppressed evidence of the presence of raccoon dogs? I just looked and couldn’t find, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It’s a fair point that if suppression of evidence is to be considered an in
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by shwaj 3y ago
I’m reading this as sarcasm, am I wrong? If so, it is such a bad faith response. It is well reported that China was highly uncooperative in providing records about the research that was occurring at WIV.
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A source would be helpful, if you can provide one.
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Which one do you mean by “the denial argument”? (and why do you use that term instead of something unambiguous like “lab leak” or “zoonotic origin” hypotheses?) As to which of the two hypotheses is more predicated on politics, I think ther
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by shwaj 3y ago
Half of this very thread is saying that China intentionally released this virus? Let’s grant you that half of this thread is saying that China likely engineered Covid as a weapon (very arguable). Are you unable to distinguish that asserti
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Or like they were pretending that they couldn’t understand.
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Weren’t they responding specifically to a comment that said AI would make it easier for “freedom fighters and democracy”? I don’t understand how your questions relate to that. Furthermore, you seem to be implying that AI will help deal wi

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