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by slibhb 2y ago
This response guestures towards a few things, but it doesn't really dispute the claims being made. I was left confused with exactly what the author disagrees with in the Times article (other than the overall conclusion: "weed is b
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A mistake? The Israelis didn't understand the extent to which Hamas views itself as engaged in a holy war. They (and many others, including me) thought that Hamas would prioritize building Gaza and providing services to its people over
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> Note that Palantir's moral stature isn't as grey or debatable as made in the article, it is basically clearly complicit in the genocide in Gaza. That there's a genocide in Gaza is objectively debatable. In the sense that
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by slibhb 2y ago
Scientists "performing miracles" is humanity caring for the planet. Ask yourself why you (apparently) prefer degrowth to this.
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by slibhb 2y ago
Actually, statements like "it does/n't seem plausible" are the only things we can say about AI risk. People are deluding themselves when thwy claim they "reason through this" (i.e. objectively). In other words:
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by slibhb 2y ago
> The variance between species can be dramatic! 2.5 grams of Golden teacher was a standard trip, vs 0.5 grams of PES Amazonian was enough to send my friend into a full blown “awakening” (physical responses and everything). Hallucinogenic
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by slibhb 2y ago
> I notice now that there is a LOT of judgement, bias(?), around obesity, that people, obese or not, carry with them [1]. I certainly carried that bias, and the reason I noticed it was because Ozempic is literally an external substance t
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This has little to do with education. It's just political polarization. Conservatives (of a certain variety) in the US are polarized against the establishment (the media, science, colleges, etc), and this is the result. Better educatio
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by slibhb 2y ago
More and more, antitrust is a means for people who dislike big, successful companies for no particular reason to attack them. On some level, the government is just throwing its weight around. The message is "don't forget who'
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I don't think of myself as on the e/acc side, but I think that deepfakes are here to stay and we'll just have to get used to them. I don't see any way to put the genie back in the bottle but I also don't think it&#x
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by slibhb 2y ago
Developed nation states with public healthcare systems rely on the US pharma industry for an outsize part of drug discovery. It may be better for the whole world that there's one rich country taking the private approach. Also, the idea
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I don't know if it's "pure pleasure" but running reliably makes me feel good. Very good if the weather is nice. I'm happy it's healthy as well.
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1. If prices weren't this high then there wouldn't be incentive to develop these drugs in the first place. There's a reason most novel drugs come from the US! 2. The vast majority of drugs do not pan out and most fledging com
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by slibhb 2y ago
As I read it, the parent comment is making a point about the classification of schizophrenia. It is not disputing that the condition (psychosis) is real, or claiming that people are frequently misdiagnosed with some form of psychosis.
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by slibhb 2y ago
Deep learning has already proven its worth. Google translate is an example on the older side. As LLMs go, I can take a picture of a tree or insect and upload it and have an LLM identify it in seconds. I can paste a function that doesn'
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by slibhb 2y ago
I'm convinced that the "LLMs are useless" contingent on HN is just psychological displacement. It hurts the pride of technical people that there's a revolution going on that they aren't involved in. Easier to just d
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by slibhb 2y ago
Arguing over terminology like "AGI" and the verb "to know" is a waste of time. The question is what tools can be built from them and how can people use those tools.
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by slibhb 2y ago
"Plausible-looking but incorrect sentences" is cheap, reflexive cynicism. LLMs are an incredible breakthrough by any reasonable standard. The reason to be optimistic about further progress is that we've seen a massive improve
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by slibhb 2y ago
I didn't misunderstand or misrepresent anything. Your argument, and The Innocence Project's, seems to be that a lack of physical evidence tying the accused to the crime scene constitutes reasonable doubt. I disagree, and so did th
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by slibhb 2y ago
> I believe the right message (and far less viral message), is the government has not shown enough evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the death penalty is warranted. The jury makes that determination after being locked in a room and
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by slibhb 2y ago
It's pure speculation that the partial DNA profile recovered years after the murder came from the murderer. The police recovered the murdered woman's property from his car. How did it get there? Either it was an elaborate frame-up
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by slibhb 2y ago
That seems like pretty strong evidence to me!
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How much does "allocating resources for preschoolers" actually matter? My sense is not a whole lot. The West is fairly meritocratic. The attempt to deny this is catastrophizing e.g. "everything is awful and unfair." And
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Hezbollah bought a specialty item (pagers) and many countries/companies are legally prohibited from doing business with Hezbollah. My sense is that these two facts were all but necessary for Israel to carry out this operation. So &quot
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Do you really think Israel is going to try to blow up Columbia students? If not, what is the point of your post?
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Reminder: Trump was elected in 2016 despite most of the "elites" backing Clinton, and her campaign outspending his 2:1.
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I would repudiate my earlier, silly ideas.
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> First, we're discussing metaphors, and it's certainly possible to use different metaphors to describe or model the same situation. It's by no means obvious that "any metaphor will do," which seems to be your po
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by slibhb 2y ago
That's an improvement but is it what Lakoff meant? I don't know -- I read the book years ago but I very much got the sense that his argument was "words have no inherent meaning, essentially all meaning is circular, and so we
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by slibhb 2y ago
No -- we have wars, arguments, and negotiations when individuals or groups disagree about things. All of these things are human activities that we use to settle a disagreement. Dance, meanwhile, has nothing to do with disagreements or makin

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