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by starbugs 3y ago
> Another sad mark in the "wish I didnt have to kill the planet but ..." column. The high cost of the hardware, installation and maintenance suggests that you would rather "kill the planet" with the system installed?
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by starbugs 3y ago
This (at least the headline) reads like an advertisement for heat pump systems. I doubt that anyone has calculated the total cost of owning and operating such a system. It might pay off in a super modern highly insulated home. Otherwise, go
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Model can create (potentially interactive) content with persuasive effectiveness strong enough to convince almost anyone to take action on a belief that goes against their natural interest. Well, it for sure has a lot of good training
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Fan speed control for Apple Silicon Macs(github.com)
2 points by starbugs 3y ago|0 comments
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by starbugs 3y ago
In my opinion, you will be much better off if you either do not even read or, if you've already read it, ignore both this article and the original manifesto. If this demonstrates anything at all, it's that we somehow lost or are i
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by starbugs 3y ago
Let’s say I am a mighty evil lord who put you there against your will. I think you’d need more pessimism to anticipate risks rather than optimism to believe that you can survive. The will to survive is somewhat hardwired anyway.
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by starbugs 3y ago
> The universe tends towards first chaos and then entropy. Working against these forces, to build security, comfort, and meaning, inherently work against the tide. I am not sure I would agree. Try living in the snowy mountains without sh
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Pessimism is closer to truth. But it promotes inaction. Is there any evidence on this? (I must admit, I didn't read the paper, just the abstract.) > Optimist by choice, Pessimist by experience Optimism vs. pessimism in a partic
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Yeah, here it comes. In these conversations you don’t need to ask very many “why”s before it just turns out that the antagonist (you) has an axe to grind about OpenAI, and has added that the their misplaced sense of expertise with rega
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by starbugs 3y ago
> You can't start with a statement about clinical trials not being perfectly reproducible and that's fine, then say this. Nobody said that to begin with. Re-read their comment. > If people are lying about an extremely import
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by starbugs 3y ago
Look, the burden of proof in a scientific paper is on the authors. Not on me. A company with a proprietary product that says something is not acceptable evidence in a scientific context. No need to allege that anyone is lying. Lying is irre
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by starbugs 3y ago
> You can easily see this because it can be flipped around easily - you made a claim that they are being changed, even every few weeks! Should it really be on me to show that your very specific claim is false? Wait a minute? The author o
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by starbugs 3y ago
> You can select a static snapshot that presumably does not change, if you use the API Sorry, I won't blindly believe a company who are cynical enough to call themselves "OpenAI", then publish a commercial closed source&#x
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by starbugs 3y ago
> If I book telescope time and capture a supernova then no one will ever be able to reproduce my raw results because it has already happened. I don't see why OpenAI pulling old model snapshots is any different. That's why you c
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Do you have any evidence that the weights for versioned models are being changed without notifications? I think in a real scientific process, it's upon those who claim that they are not to provide the evidence.
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Compare with drug trials: Adderall only differs from regular amphetamine in the relative concentration of enantiomers, and the entire value of the drug is in the measurements. Drug trials may be expected to be somewhat reproducible. Wh
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by starbugs 3y ago
> To be clear, not all users are affected. Our test Windows 10 PC was far too busy suggesting that we should take a look at Copilot to bother with the HP Smart app nonsense. The author seems to agree.
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by starbugs 3y ago
Germany is not the US. We are not energy independent. In fact, we are not independent of anything other then water maybe. Germany is reliant on exports. Tariffs are not helpful there. If you can’t manufacture a product at competitive prices
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by starbugs 3y ago
> I guess the confusion here is between the company being competitive -- as in making money -- and having products that are competitive in the marketplace This is almost certainly going to boil down to being the same in the end. If your
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by starbugs 3y ago
The state and VW are quite intertwined, so I guess our politicians will not stop before they have driven this whole thing into the ground completely. Ultimately, I believe this will be a good thing for Germany in the long run. But for quite
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by starbugs 3y ago
> The question was whether they have competitive products right now and I find it really strange to say they don't when they have the #4 and #5 best selling EVs in all of Europe (not just Germany) You can have high sales numbers and
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by starbugs 3y ago
I guess I should have phrased it differently. Going forward, they don't seem competitive in comparison to Tesla and the upcoming Chinese competition. Selling a lot of cars doesn't mean it's a profitable business. I am quite s
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Deliberately and cynically scamming millions of their customers could have something to do with VW's loss of brand value. It definitely has. But the current issues seem to be more due to a number of other factors. During the pande
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by starbugs 3y ago
> It has left me feeling like software development is kind of a pointless skill or rather something that will be commoditized soon, unless you are heavily-specialized in some field which I unfortunately am not. Look, if that's true,
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by starbugs 3y ago
"We need more attention for our <insert thing here>" "Mh.. let's add AI to it!" "Great! But hey, let's call it 'AI-ready'. That sounds even better!" "Consider it done."
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by starbugs 3y ago
One more reason to not get caught up in the hype. If you claim to have AGI, show it, prove it. Otherwise, I will continue to assume that it's not around the corner. If you claim that GPT4 is close to AGI (as was done a lot), then you v
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by starbugs 3y ago
The point being?
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by starbugs 3y ago
Judging from the quality of GPT4 output that I get, AGI is not around the corner for a long time. This whole thing seems like extreme overhype squared carried out in a very unfortunate public soap opera setting.
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by starbugs 3y ago
I think your point is reductionist nonsense to be frank. The same genes that may cause competitive behavior are responsible for the opposite as well. There’s much more to this than genes. What about cultural and environmental influences for
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by starbugs 3y ago
> My point is: Humans are status-seeking actors acting in our self-interest. It's literally in our genes. Could you please enlighten me what gene exactly that would be? > For example: Encapsule us in pods like The Matrix and buil

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