silveraxe93

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by silveraxe93 3y ago
It's not about securing user's data, it's about not being blamed for it. It doesn't matter that China/Whichever state actor is snooping on all your user's data. Either no-one finds out and you're good. Or
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by silveraxe93 3y ago
Eh... fine. People won't come out unscathed in literally all cases. However the risk from one dose is minimal. If your risk threshold is so close to 0 then we should be banning way more things today.
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by silveraxe93 3y ago
If they want to escape their lives they'll just become an alcoholic. I'm not denying that people will self-harm. But the argument that people will self-harm with LSD needs to ignore that there's plenty of better drugs legalis
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by silveraxe93 3y ago
Have you ever done acid? If you want to reduce drug use, you should legalise LSD and make it easy to buy. Your average American that "can't handle cheese responsibly" will try it once, have a terrible 12h and swear off drugs
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by silveraxe93 3y ago
tbh it _was_ quite easy to spot. The gold standard would be making it opt-in, but I can guess barely no-one would enable it. I don't have strong opinions either way in this. But it's usually something that sparks a big flaming thr
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by silveraxe93 3y ago
wow yeah. There's good arguments against libertarian thinking / seat belt laws. This might be the worst.
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by silveraxe93 3y ago
From past experience, the hackernews crowd is super hostile to tools/etc with opt-out [telemetry]( https://www.getdaft.io/projects/docs/en/latest/telemetry.htm... ).
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by silveraxe93 3y ago
It's buried in the article, but they were doing a massive modernisation project so hired to deliver it. Now that it's done they'll downsize. Obviously everyone is focussing on the AI part. EDIT: Sorry scratch that. I've
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by silveraxe93 3y ago
They might have lost you. But starting with "congress shouldn't regulate AI" would lose the senator. Which one do you think is more important to convince?
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by silveraxe93 3y ago
Not just misinformed. How petty and I dunno, plain _evil_ do you have to be? This is a step into making humanity reaching the stars. Is seeing a guy you hate fail really all that matters?
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by silveraxe93 4y ago
I don't know if that would work. But it's definitely better than the current way we do things. I know I'll sound kinda defeatist, but I just don't think it's possible to reliably setup a bureaucracy that's comp
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by silveraxe93 4y ago
They can't hire experts to decide where to put the cash. Anyone who can truly know where to best put cash will become or be hired by a VC fund and make orders of magnitude more money than they'd be paid by the EU.
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by silveraxe93 4y ago
He did not say "make the model think about..." or implied the model is thinking. He simply and _correctly_ pointed that if you _ask_ the model to think it improves the answer. It looks you just pattern-matched on the word _think_
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by silveraxe93 4y ago
You're missing something. - Managing non-python / binary dependencies alongside python ones pip with wheels doesn't deal with non-python packages. I used to be in a horrible locked down corpo laptop. Conda was invaluable in g
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by silveraxe93 4y ago
Yeah I agree it doesn't show increased bad behaviour. It's definitely a weak point in the argument. The theory is extremely interesting though. And better yet, it's falsifiable! If someone went around compared an RLHF model v
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by silveraxe93 4y ago
I don't think that's a valid competing hypothesis. Let me write what I understood from what you said: - There is some behaviour that we want the model to show, and the inverse we do not want it to. - Both are learned in the massiv
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by silveraxe93 4y ago
This argument is basically the same as teacher's argument that 'You'll not always have a calculator in your pocket'. And I suspect it will age equally badly.
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by silveraxe93 4y ago
Of course. Having a job is comparable to being in prison. By those standards every single human to ever live has been in prison. Humanity will only be free once we're in a post-scarcity society.
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by silveraxe93 4y ago
But that's the point right? The economy was flush with cash and bad companies were alive that shouldn't be. It was unsustainable. Now we're just seeing the good companies slimming down and bad ones failing.
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by silveraxe93 4y ago
This is the UK. When comparing to the US it's always lower. I have quite a similar journey working in England, so it looks typical.
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by silveraxe93 4y ago
Thanks for creating it btw! I didn't mean to sound so negative. I used on an analysis that was taking long and it went way quicker.
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by silveraxe93 4y ago
Oh hey! I should know better than to take a potshot at software in hackernews... I used it a month or two ago, so I don't remember specifics, but. The docs weren't unclear, they were bare compared to pandas tough. Once I found an
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by silveraxe93 4y ago
I tried Polars, but feel like it's not ready for production yet. It's fast! The API is nice. But the documentation is not great. While using pandas I can just open the docs and find all functions and examples of how to use, etc. P
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by silveraxe93 5y ago
In a big nutshell: There was a blog written by Scott Alexander called 'Slate Star Codex', which was read by a lot of big tech entrepreneurs. Last year the New York Times wrote a piece on it, and told him they would reveal his name
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by silveraxe93 5y ago
Definitely depends on industry. I've just got a 30%+ raise moving from a lead role in a massive company to a non-senior role in a startup (UK).
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by silveraxe93 5y ago
You need to be careful with that. The brain is amazing at reading what you _expect_, not what's actually written. It's the same as proofreading. Your brain just papers over repeated words or typos, or off-by-one errors. Obviously
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by silveraxe93 5y ago
How on Earth is comparing this to hiring a hitman reasonable? If your point is that you can't spend money on illegal things, bitcoin is not illegal. Also, who complained about immigrants? Where did this come from. And even if immigrant
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by silveraxe93 5y ago
Is that your money? The whole point of money is that who owns it decides where it should be used.
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by silveraxe93 6y ago
Everyone agrees murder is wrong, there's no controversy there. People mostly get cancelled by committing the latest heresy.
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by silveraxe93 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/1172/

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