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by strken 3mo ago
I thought most Australians had different pricing for peak/off-peak. I'm paying 39c/kWh for peak (3pm to 9pm) and 20c/kWh for off-peak (9pm to 3pm the next day).
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by strken 3mo ago
It's quite a good metaphor. What used to happen to an old horse? How many horses do you see now that the world has moved to tractors[0]? I can't wait to be kept in agistment by my overlords, fed on treacle and oats, ridden in circ
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by strken 3mo ago
Do "entering proprietary information into AI tools", "using non-approved AI tools", and "ignoring guidelines and best practices" really count as sabotaging an AI strategy because you are opposed to it? An over-
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by strken 3mo ago
High culture can feel obscurantist to me. Writers like to impress that they and Derrida are in on a shared secret, but if this secret is not interesting then the reader must not be allowed to know it before doing some work. A barricade of a
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by strken 3mo ago
In the context of "I want the human cancer gone from this planet" and the rest of that blog post, I am confident that it's a desire. Probably a desire for a peaceful fading out of the human species rather than a violent one,
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by strken 3mo ago
Wanting every living human being to die and our species to go extinct ("NTHE" stands for "near-term human extinction") is a little beyond not being professional PR folks.
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by strken 3mo ago
Their direct work output contributes to a functioning democracy, but does so indirectly by providing material goods and services, which I refer to by the shorthand "economic reasons". We don't train nurses and carpenters beca
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by strken 3mo ago
I believe the argument was that they do contribute to a functioning democracy, as opposed to investment in training nurses and carpenters, who are being trained for economic reasons. The argument was that the two goals are so different that
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by strken 3mo ago
Hiring funnels at big companies are funny because they're all about stacking filters together in a way that optimises some random grab bag of metrics in the candidates who make it through. One of those metrics is "number of people
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by strken 3mo ago
`arc land` is burnt into my brain by Phabricator, so I'm aware that the term predates LLMs, but it still drives me nuts. It's impossible to undo some of these linguistic wobbles. Even if you could filter out 100% of LLM input, the
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by strken 3mo ago
I feel compelled to mention that the vast majority of cyclists are part of a household which owns a car, as well.
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by strken 3mo ago
This is misreading the original reply. An enormously complex problem is different from an enormously complex project. Complex projects can usually be decomposed into tasks of varying complexity, some of which I bet an LLM helps with.
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by strken 3mo ago
Good for you, but that is entirely you describing your life and doesn't address the point. Which was that, if "what matters is that you move, consistently, every week", then it's motivational to tell sedentary people tha
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by strken 3mo ago
Have you ever heard of the motivational technique where, instead of telling themselves "I'm going for a run", people will say "I'm going to put my shoes on and see how I feel, no commitment and no pressure", an
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by strken 3mo ago
I've had two dogs. One didn't like fireworks but would just turn his head towards the noise then walk over to the nearest human, and the other completely ignored them. However! The first was a Labrador cross and the second was ful
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by strken 3mo ago
I feel the opposite. AI writing is like a version of Google Maps where you can see little black and white houses up close, but when you zoom out, all those details fade to white noise.
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by strken 3mo ago
There are a bunch of upsides here. Industrialisation increases standard of living compared to an agrarian economy. A service economy, where services mean things like industrial engineering and product marketing, increases standard of living
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by strken 3mo ago
I'm starting to think that when non-experts believe a job will be easy to automate with AI, it usually has hidden elements which they don't understand and which make automating it almost impossible. Meanwhile, there are all these
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by strken 3mo ago
A socialist might object that deregulating private enterprise (and let's add lowering taxes, moving to a flat tax rate, cutting programs, etc.) is obviously not socialist regardless of anything you nationalise. And they would be right!
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by strken 3mo ago
The political compass always seems to me like it should be a heatmap, or a polygon of 90th percentile political views, or something that more clearly shows the standard deviation and the presence of outlier positions. Some simplification is
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by strken 4mo ago
The last of the three was done on Australians. Not that it changes your point, given the latitude of Australia.
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by strken 4mo ago
We do know that Anthropic claims earlier models eventually turned a profit, and OpenAI is presumably the same. What is in doubt is whether past performance is an indicator of future results. How long will the ever-increasing R&D expendi
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by strken 4mo ago
It's more like you have a business making engines, each generation of engine has eventually turned out to be profitable over its lifespan, but each generation has an exponentially increasing R&D cost and your customers will switch
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by strken 4mo ago
I don't think Australia has many true four way stops in cities and towns. Usually there's a give way sign on two of the directions, or lights, or a roundabout. Unmarked intersections do exist, mostly on bush tracks and backroads,
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by strken 4mo ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding, the argument isn't that whoever controls AI will use it to kill everyone, it's that they'll control nearly everything because power snowballs. They could kill everyone, so aren't you g
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by strken 4mo ago
The first comment said "They need a lot of money to do that. Where do they get it all from? Not the jobless masses I presume?" I was explaining that money is irrelevant and so are the jobless masses. Someone owns the factories, an
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by strken 4mo ago
Money is a mirage. You can't use dollars to hold land; you need force projection. Once upon a time that meant guns and soldiers, but today it increasingly means drones. Drones mean mines, factories, supply chains, chemical plants, and
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by strken 4mo ago
> This might be why despite AI automating so much work, the 996 grind culture is more alive than ever. There's an interesting paradox which occurs when a particular field finds its work becoming easier. Suddenly, the world needs mor
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by strken 4mo ago
If we want to solve a problem, intent matters.
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by strken 4mo ago
I am not convinced the finance system is struggling to find Cobol programmers. They certainly don't seem willing to pay them more on job listings. When you read an article about a "skills shortage" it's usually more of a

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