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by solveit 5y ago
Yeah, this isn't an AI that does maths, it's an AI that takes a natural language description of an algorithm and converts it into sympy. Which is still impressive but not very surprising given things like github copilot. It's
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by solveit 5y ago
Who's the last government official you had to bribe?
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by solveit 5y ago
You are correct for people who can skim a few pages of information, identify what is relevant (possibly spread out across several chunks), and synthesize the information into what they need. For most people on HN, this is as natural as brea
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by solveit 5y ago
Your garden-variety politician lies to further an agenda and it's usually clear what the agenda is in retrospect. Trump lied constantly for no discernible purpose, which either makes him a genius or an idiot depending on how highly you
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by solveit 5y ago
> I suppose that halving productivity won't go unnoticed. Perhaps if the halving was instantaneous. Over any substantial period of time? I have my doubts.
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by solveit 5y ago
I do not believe this is true in any meaningful sense. Schindler's list, Operation Valkyrie and the like are firmly embedded in popular culture. And of course the claim that all of any nation share an ideology is absurd to anyone who t
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by solveit 5y ago
Yes. It's asinine to run a large N study before having run a small one. So small N doesn't mean bad, it means preliminary. Internet comment sections however are not great at nuance, and the difference between a bad study and a stu
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by solveit 5y ago
Yes yes, in the end everyone's success can be distilled down to luck or environment (which we were born into so also luck) or inborn qualities (which are also luck). Merit does not exist and everything is luck. Or we could notice that
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by solveit 5y ago
You do it P2P. Caveat emptor.
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by solveit 5y ago
> Another way to abuse it would be for example, you could place an Airtag somewhere on an iPhone users driveway, and use it to determine when they arrive home by checking for pings. The victim won't even see a notification, since th
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by solveit 5y ago
I don't think the limiting factor in child abductions is a few hundred dollars in the kidnapper's possession.
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by solveit 5y ago
1,2,3 are political problems. 4 is harder than terraforming Mars, and 5 is so vague I wouldn't know where to start. In fact, all of them are too vague to provoke a real conversation. Perhaps you could ask a more focused question with a
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by solveit 5y ago
If your comment consists of a bad example, as you say, and a trite cliche with no content, why would you post it?
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by solveit 5y ago
Nothing of the sort is implied. Everyone can have their own should (or not, as the case may be). But if you know you should do something, presumably you're past such useless philosophising. I know I should be nicer to the people I love
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by solveit 5y ago
> Not for those of us that don't invest our money in banks/stock markets, and don't take out loans. Private businesses meeting the above criteria would have boomed under those conditions, as there competitors were wiped ou
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by solveit 5y ago
This feels like a discussion that could sorely use some numbers. What are good examples of >a small business running a few websites with a few million hits per month, it might be cheaper and easier to colocate a few servers and hire a fe
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by solveit 5y ago
Yes, but you can't convince the FDA to dose a 95-year old either.
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by solveit 5y ago
> Even 10% of that income to address this problem would hire literally tens of thousands of people to tackle the issue. Tens of thousands of people moderating comments sounds like the worst of both worlds. Not nearly enough to keep up wi
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by solveit 5y ago
And this is HN. Imagine how the rest of the world thinks.
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by solveit 5y ago
How do you reverse a cash transaction in a way that doesn't apply to crypto?
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by solveit 5y ago
> Everyone arguing regulators are evil is genuinely tech and finance savvy. The regulator is not there to protect them. They are there to protect the vast majority I agree. But a funny thing I wanted to remark on is that this dynamic mak
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by solveit 5y ago
> I don't believe the broader financial system ever tried out making transactions impossible to reverse. They might not have ever had the power to do it. I mean, cash transactions are irreversible right? Unless you mean that there w
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by solveit 5y ago
> when my main question was how the heck you stumble upon looking at the problem that way, vs all the failed ways Well you stumble through half a dozen failed ways first, is the usual method. Eventually you gain "intuition" tha
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by solveit 5y ago
That is the misallocation I am referring to. Some women should be theoretical physicists and some men should be domestic workers. The unrealised gains must have been enormous.
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by solveit 5y ago
But the women were working before, they were just labouring inside the home. Society is realising that having all the women become domestic workers by default is a massive misallocation of resources and correcting course. That is a posi
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by solveit 5y ago
"I'm sure there is a lot of fraud" is very different from "This is the type of fraud that is going on and here is the evidence".
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by solveit 5y ago
Yes. But it was a goddamned miracle. You can't read about Petrov and Arkhipov and tell me von Neumann was wrong.
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by solveit 5y ago
They were very careful to say characteristics associated with intelligence for exactly this reason, I presume.
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by solveit 5y ago
Eh, many museums will want this, so the DAO only has no alternative if the museums all collude, which I don't see them doing.
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by solveit 5y ago
No, it's because they're paying for the therapy you'll need after burning out in three years.

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