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by snordgren 3y ago
Penalizing landlords doesn't solve the problem that there are M people who want homes, N homes in places with decent job markets, and M > N. Better transportation, more efficient use of scarce land, and more home building is needed.
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by snordgren 3y ago
That's very likely. If you eat for €2k in Sweden you're not eating out at any time during the month. You can add at least another €2k to that if you want to go out to eat every workday lunch, which many high-income people do. Spea
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by snordgren 3y ago
I hadn't thought about that before, but that might be one contributing reason why online communities are moving into discord chats instead. A subreddit or forum has its most toxic posts visible until they are deleted. A discord chat al
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by snordgren 3y ago
I believe it comes down to the statistical frequency in the dataset used to build the tokenizer. If the dataset is 90% Burmese the resulting tokenizer will have single tokens representing common complex constructs in Burmese instead of Engl
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by snordgren 3y ago
Those 30 year mortgages also makes the economy less sensitive to interest rate raises, allowing you to run a higher interest rate than a comparable country where 30-year mortgages is not the norm. This makes the dollar stronger.
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by snordgren 3y ago
I think this post suffers from anthropomorphizing LLMs. Humans have values which inform our behavior, these values permeate all our communication and choices (to varying extents). LLMs are trained to minimize loss on a dataset, and the prev
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by snordgren 3y ago
Americans worry about the dollar going to zero, meanwhile it was recently at a 20-year high against the euro, the pound, and the yen. Inflation has dipped to 5% and unemployment is lower than in decades. For all its faults, American monetar
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by snordgren 3y ago
China definitely "leaks" a lot of talent to American companies - most AI papers that I've seen from respected Western universities include at least one Chinese name. One challenge for China has been the university enrollment
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by snordgren 3y ago
Algorithmic feeds generate more user engagement, that is what they are for. That's why platforms built around following updates from people that you like can't help themselves but implement them.
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by snordgren 4y ago
The USD is valuable because the US government demands its taxes be paid in USD. If you want to operate in the world's largest consumer market, you need dollars.
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by snordgren 4y ago
They are social media sites, the textbook example of the network effect. Them not being very profitable is almost like a moat in itself - not only is it hard to displace them, it's probably not profitable to do so either.
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by snordgren 4y ago
Semantic search using embeddings seems like the missing puzzle piece here to me. We can already generate embeddings for both text and images. The vision subsystem generates an embedding when it sees a cat, which the memory subsystem uses to
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by snordgren 4y ago
Unless most tech workers are 50+, they would not be saving the majority of that money, but rather investing it in the stock market. Investment rates and savings rates go hand in hand, and taking money from the upper middle class to give to
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by snordgren 4y ago
Accidentally becoming too muscular simply does not happen unless you start injecting. Don't worry about it.
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by snordgren 4y ago
Road transport of goods accounts for a majority of wear on the roads. Rail is naturally more cumbersome because railroads are less ubiquitous than roads, but it is much more efficient in terms of both energy usage and labor. If we subsidize
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by snordgren 4y ago
These firms are in the business of finding and exploiting opportunities in the markets, before too many people know about them and the opportunity disappears. One person who knows too much could be an existential threat to the firm.
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by snordgren 4y ago
If 99% of global supply fell into the hands of the single country or corporation that brought it home, they would have the power to set prices. We would be looking at a De Beers-diamond situation.
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by snordgren 4y ago
There are already AI assistants for doctors. But the demand for healthcare is unlimited, so salaries will probably remain high and job markets tight. The few times I have been to the doctor it has seemed like relatively standard knowledge w
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by snordgren 4y ago
And at the cost of the character of their neighborhood changing, their property valuation rose to the point that they can now live almost wherever they would like to. Countless people have to see their neighborhood change without the financ
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by snordgren 4y ago
According to that line of thinking, older generations should also stop receiving support from welfare and social security. Let them sell their houses and leave their communities if they can't afford to acquire the goods and services th
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by snordgren 4y ago
Your body builds the strength necessary to support your activity level. Unless you already have an active exercise regimen, an overweight person has generally only built the strength to support walking shorter distances. So the more overwei
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by snordgren 4y ago
People will fight tooth and nail against new technology out of fear for cancer, but won't make the two adjustments that are most likely to save them from cancer: eat less processed food and exercise more. So evidently the risk of cance
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by snordgren 4y ago
Of course we need to cut down trees that are older than we are. The alternative to development is stagnation and poverty. It's medieval Europe where the social status of your parents decided your social status and that of your children
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by snordgren 4y ago
Here in Europe peak electric prices have been far above $1/kWh, rising to around $7/kWh in the worst-hit regions. Due to the build-out of wind power we have also had a few nights of negative electricity prices in recent months. If
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by snordgren 4y ago
I've been wondering how much value could be generated if people could order their regular purchases months ahead of time. I am absolutely going to need to buy pasta three months from now. Why can't I purchase my pasta now and save
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by snordgren 4y ago
People are definitely choosing cheaper alternatives where I live. Prices of pasta and ground meat have gone up 20-40%. Meanwhile prices for better cuts of meat, salmon and seafood are stagnant. I don't doubt that at least a part of thi
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by snordgren 4y ago
As an example, if we use solar to generate the electricity to power the indoor farm, the panels will take up roughly 20-40% of the sun's energy, depending on the panel. So to grow the crops indoors we need to use at least 2.5x as much
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by snordgren 4y ago
Car companies were asleep at the wheel before Tesla. Selling EVs is perfect because they have lower OpEx at the cost of a higher CapEx. Higher CapEx means more revenue for the car manufacturers, and higher valuations in the long run if they
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by snordgren 4y ago
We already know that humans are human-level intelligent, so we don't need to devise a test to prove that they are. If AI >= highest level of human intelligence, then AI > human intelligence. It is less accurate because it will mi
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by snordgren 4y ago
The number of highly disruptive studies remaining the same seems impressive enough to me. I expect diminishing returns to be the long-term norm in science. The low hanging fruit get picked first, and every breakthrough means one more concep

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