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by svnt 2y ago
Easier to tear down than it is to build well.
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by svnt 2y ago
My first one just said: Bravo, London But my second one was funny. But I feel like we are maybe overlooking the significance: is DeepSeek actually funny? Does humor travel with reasoning?
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by svnt 2y ago
I am not sure what an electrovolt is, or why this question follows from what I said? All I said was all neurons don’t seem to switch their activation stimuli, only “many.”
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by svnt 2y ago
I’m sorry but business success aside, how else do you propose to do it? Require them to go outside and take a panoramic video including their face that somehow also captures third-party information about the date and time and then feed it i
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by svnt 2y ago
The important part about the statements in the drift paper are the qualifiers: > Cells whose activity was previously correlated with environmental and behavioral variables are most frequently no longer active in response to the same vari
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by svnt 2y ago
What if we tried for an intelligence singularity and ended up with a neurosis singularity instead.
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by svnt 2y ago
Why is that the question? If it learned to do it by itself it still is being allowed to do it by humans.
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by svnt 2y ago
I think I understand you: everyone at the bottom end of society should just have more money or more personal time, or both. I wonder how we could make that happen.
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by svnt 2y ago
I feel like you both got and missed the point, and it relies on your misuse of exceptional that doesn’t escape the original discussion: Society needs and has exceptional people living in communes, in the financial district, in software deve
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by svnt 2y ago
Took a hard left at Tasmania there. Is their GDP a common measure in the banking world?
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by svnt 2y ago
Peak confirmation bias. The market is correcting from that thing that was in full swing three years ago (the pandemic) and drove prices way up for a number of factors, basically none having to do with construction: https://www.re
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by svnt 2y ago
> Would you allow prisoners to volunteer as teachers, nurses, engineers? If part of their job description was the equivalent of clearing brush/cutting fire lines in emergencies, I might consider it. > Why is the market for firefi
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by svnt 2y ago
Yes, unless it is voluntary, which it is.
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by svnt 2y ago
My concern only becomes an issue if prisons put them on parity with actual trained firefighters (as was being suggested, but is not the case). Presently they are not, and they are not used that way. They usually do not do the same types or
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by svnt 2y ago
Have you tried? Do you have your certs? Would you pass the physical? Background check?
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by svnt 2y ago
No one has a response, they just downvote because they don’t like the reality of the situation?
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by svnt 2y ago
> You can achieve the same result by paying them prevailing wage. This has the extra benefit of giving them some saved up money to start a new life when they get out, helping them avoid falling back into a life of crime to make ends meet
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by svnt 2y ago
How is a ratchet effect hysteresis?
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by svnt 2y ago
Picking and choosing companies like that could work if it could somehow remain apolitical. This registry can work despite the tendency for these things to become political. What you’ve described is maybe more possible if provided by a Consu
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by svnt 2y ago
And what motivates the continued expansion? Exhaustion of resources, if that is it, means that decay immediately eats into your reproduction and it isn’t a proliferation, but at best a continuous parasitic migration.
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by svnt 2y ago
I don’t think that is clear at all. I think it reflects a massive gap in understanding of how difficult it is to do anything with humans for more than a generation.
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by svnt 2y ago
You can have abundant life that is functionally isolated by physics, or said differently, by the degree of technological and societal advancement required to traverse the space between. Great distances and inherent speed limits seem like a
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by svnt 2y ago
If I take it at face value they seem to be blaming LLM hallucinations on questionable training data from published science done badly while focused on p-values.
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by svnt 2y ago
They were run as a very unprofitable publicly traded company for a very long time — investor, VC, parent probably just went for some rough metonymy.
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by svnt 2y ago
Amazon functions as a marketplace dynamic, which is defensible if done right, as they have shown. OpenAI right now some novel combination of a worker bee and queryable encyclopedia. If they are trying to make a marketplace argument for this
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by svnt 2y ago
A similar but underreported possibility here is gastric ulcers which correlate extremely well with cortisol/stress. You can attempt to fix it by taking NAC which is an amino acid with no side effects for $20 a month or so. Usually you
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by svnt 2y ago
Is this a shot at zoning? This particular problem would be and has been solved by known better regulation. The macro housing market demonstrates that most people don’t want to live in an imaginary Randian empire.
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by svnt 2y ago
If you lose the mortgage on your investment property, you lose your investment property. Risk/reward and all that. If a renter is evicted, the consequences for their life are much more severe. Not all regulation is pro-monopolistic. Th
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by svnt 2y ago
How are you doing your math? If they have $1k left in available credit, and they were making tech wages, that means on just that one credit card they are probably $9k to $24k at least in the negative already. The $1k of remaining available
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by svnt 2y ago
Except the municipality is not run for a profit, and can benefit from economies of scale, so the difference in GDP contribution for the same event could be an order of magnitude lower.

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