squidbeak

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by squidbeak 10d ago
The trouble for its global partners, especially in the Western Alliance, is that even if the attitude in the White House does change in 2029, no-one will ever be able to trust a repeat isn't 4 years away. US dominance has depended on i
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by squidbeak 10d ago
Telling that you would use the verb 'take' rather than 'offer'. But these days, it seems the USA has trouble 'taking' anything besides Venezuelan moustaches. As far as an offer goes, polls find that almost thir
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by squidbeak 10d ago
Full membership isn't Association Membership. The article you reference mentions that the EU condemned Morocco for human rights abuses in 2023. So perhaps Morocco should clean that up before feeling anything about this.
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by squidbeak 12d ago
I've noticed this too, though I'd go further. Occasionally it's just a querulous teenage know-all, but more often lately it's been a full-on chopsy jumped-up twat. Not always - I find it more reliable than the article&#x
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by squidbeak 14d ago
Naivete and scorn of autism in one short sentence - you're very efficient. Yandex.com is the international front end to yandex, and not a portal for 'a handful of western autists'. But on Russia's granular propaganda and
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by squidbeak 15d ago
Declining to follow a blunderer into a blundered war really isn't a "decision to live with high oil prices" rather common-sense. This is the USA's mess.
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by squidbeak 15d ago
This sounds like all engineering, rather than just AI. The greatest effort given to the last small difficult details, often for results that seem trifling but which matter at scale. But it's a poor argument. The code improvements with
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by squidbeak 16d ago
> Goodness me. Sit and think about that for a while. You're quite right, let's think further about this. - A person racing to meet their deadlines. - Another sweating through a difficult meeting. - A third using some terrible c
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by squidbeak 16d ago
> I am saying he is, to me, evidently mentally ill in the way I feel I have been mentally ill. I wouldn't accept a doctor telling me my problems are work stress. I'd find it far less acceptable if a doctor told me work stress w
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by squidbeak 17d ago
Before AI, did you find that the existence of human expertise in the world far surpassing yours 'automated your thinking and cognition' or limited your intellectual scope to inventing party-tricks? I've always found greater i
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by squidbeak 17d ago
I agree with you and I'm nitpicking, but if you play a GM, you more than likely are playing Stockfish until your opponent's out of book.
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by squidbeak 17d ago
This is total bollocks. The skeptics are all present and just as forceful in any AI thread.
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by squidbeak 18d ago
One man's cliche is another man's hacker news comment
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by squidbeak 20d ago
Your cynicism is blinding you to impressive feats that don't have precedents. Performances like these aren't faked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUmlv814aJo&pp=ygUbY2hpbmEgb... https://www.youtu
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by squidbeak 20d ago
China's robots are not Tesla's.
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by squidbeak 20d ago
> But Orwell's rule 4 should be ignored ... Orwell himself routinely ignores it, even in the first sentence of the essay Orwell can answer you himself if you read just a little further: > vi. Break any of these rules sooner than
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by squidbeak 20d ago
Remember he's transcribing a scripture into bad modern prose, instead of riffing on it.
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by squidbeak 20d ago
My view doesn't need tempering. I talked about progress, which is indisputable, whatever its pace or current limitations might be. And that was the entire point: robotics is not a stagnant field.
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by squidbeak 20d ago
This is the 'Not today, so never" fallacy. As capabilities in all fields are stagnant and human progress stands still. I would switch off the 'nam flicks and check out some of the recent Chinese robotics progress before attem
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by squidbeak 24d ago
> This shows a deep misunderstanding of the paper's claims, which in no way challenge the established view that these bots are next-token predictors. No, this shows an appreciation of the symbolic richness behind that token 'pr
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by squidbeak 24d ago
Reading stuff like this (as a layman), diminishing these things as 'Next token predictors' seems absurdly reductive. At some point we'll need to concede that 'selection' is a better term for this than prediction.
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by squidbeak 28d ago
The gaps aren't toss-ups. For instance a recent poll on rejoining the EU: https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54567-how-strong-is-uk-sup... > Support: 55% Opposition: 34%
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by squidbeak 28d ago
> I have a mixed bag of UK friends, and it's about half-half. Polls show the population regrets Brexit. [1] > One thing I think myself is that there was an ugly _hope_ that the UK would suffer as a result. A hope which, as far as
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by squidbeak 28d ago
Any excuse to kill something, eh? Tell me, in the free market where a competitor was eating into your paycheck, or threatening the fast food supply to your children, would you head over to their HQ packing heat?
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by squidbeak 29d ago
How dare their need to feed spoil a lawn's appearance...
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by squidbeak 29d ago
Believe it or not, it's quite straightforward to get laid (abundantly) and find a mate (and a chain of replacements) in the suburbs, too. But your ordering works well for remote thinly populated areas. Hungering for a mate there is lik
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by squidbeak 29d ago
You're making a conceptual mistake here, comparing a chess tool to its operator. Deterministic tools produce superior results compared to models in many areas, so we allow models to use tooling. The correct analogy here is Fable as a s
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by squidbeak 1mo ago
> Although I partially applaud what Anna's Archive is doing, I like their model the least (they want to CHARGE to download while doing Copyright infringement?). This is bollocks. AA gives users a means of paying to enjoy faster spee
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by squidbeak 1mo ago
> It would be if it made the point you think it is. All of this is more and more hand waving. 75 copies in museums? Then I think we’re good. You're repeating the seller's contextual point, as if it's a counterargument. Do
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by squidbeak 1mo ago
The British Library has a large quantity of books that have literary, academic, cultural or bibliopolical significance but are too niche to ever see print new print runs. This idea that there can only be merit in a work if it's commerc

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