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901.
by taneq 2y ago
I don't think that's exactly what they were saying. I read it more like "people who divide life into work-that-you-should-pour-your-energy-into and recovery-where-you-try-not-to-spend-energy", and that maybe we should po
902.
by taneq 2y ago
Typically yeah, but when you're trying to make it work at all it can be easy to forget to add a bit of a gradient towards "winning sooner is better". And this happens even at the top level, the example I was thinking about as
903.
by taneq 2y ago
No idea if they did this on purpose but this is exactly what can happen with board game AIs when they know they will win. Unless the evaluation function explicitly promotes winning sooner they will get into an unbeatable position and then
904.
by taneq 2y ago
Depends on the individual, do they think “look after us ” or do they think “look after ME ”?
905.
by taneq 2y ago
That is what they were going for, yes.
906.
by taneq 2y ago
And most people will still be bike shedding about whether it’s “real intelligence” and making up increasingly insane justifications for why it’s not.
907.
by taneq 2y ago
No, people who say "it's bullshit" and then do something to fix the bullshit are the ones that push technology forward. Most people who say "it's bullshit" instantly when something isn't perfect for exac
908.
by taneq 2y ago
Insurance isn’t about maximising overall outcome (we know it doesn’t do that!) It’s about managing critical (often existential) risks. You buy insurance when you need to protect against an unrecoverable loss (house burned down, car was stol
909.
by taneq 2y ago
Well, it's a bunch of steps, but they're smaller. /s
910.
by taneq 2y ago
15mm isn't much use as a paring knife, so this sounds more to me like "guy who works in commercial research lab sometimes gets to use the equipment for fun".
911.
by taneq 2y ago
You can’t just casually mention making your own 15cm solid diamond knife blades, and then not link a picture! Have you checked the edge on your kitchen knife to see if anything’s flakes off it?
912.
by taneq 2y ago
Moral panic?
913.
by taneq 2y ago
I mean, you didn’t SAY riding forwards…
914.
by taneq 2y ago
(a) Dev kits are often much more expensive than the production hardware. (b) Why would you even care about this if a desktop gaming gpu would work for you? It’s an embedded inference module.
915.
by taneq 2y ago
Much like systems code, right? :D (Mostly what I’m saying is that legalese is essentially natural(ish) language ‘software’ that has been developed and maintained over centuries by non-coders[1] and that most of the seemingly pointless or ob
916.
by taneq 2y ago
Reflecting nothing can be as bad as reflecting a big bright 'ping'. Once you get to a certain level of stealth you have to essentially camouflage against an 'empty' background or you become a conspicuous absence. Edit:
917.
by taneq 2y ago
It’s as weaselly as the wording where they say things like “we use your data to improve our services, eg. personalised advertising. To opt out of personalised advertising […]” Nowhere does it say they stop using your data.
918.
by taneq 2y ago
Tuned spark gaps? Or just an antenna hooked up to a pair of back to back LEDs? Just recently I saw something about light-up fake fingernails that would blink when you got a 2G phone call.
919.
by taneq 2y ago
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Jesus was NOT a velociraptor.
920.
by taneq 2y ago
Hey, whatever floats your boat. :D
921.
by taneq 2y ago
I'm explicitly not a chess player but this reminds me of Dave Sirlin's "Play To Win" where he starts by explaining that if doing a thing makes you not lose, you do that, and then eventually by definition you win.
922.
by taneq 2y ago
Ah but here you're thinking of other meatsacks as "people" which interferes with your ability to manipulate them as objects. /s ugh at the huge proportion of humanity that's like this, though
923.
by taneq 2y ago
https://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
924.
by taneq 2y ago
> So much vehicle tech is at best unimpressive and at worst positively in my way as a driver. Honestly, I'm not surprised that new cars aren't breathtakingly awesome. It's been a really rough 5 years for everybody and we&#
925.
by taneq 2y ago
> That said, working for a US military contractor while not being supportive of the US military mission is kind of a silly thing to do. In my youth I applied for a defense force job in my country. I was turned down because I didn't
926.
by taneq 2y ago
> The only nonlinear programming environments that have really worked are the spreadsheet (which is still linear within each cell) and Labview. Possible shoutout to Unity blueprints, but when those get too complicated sphagetti .. people
927.
by taneq 2y ago
Some of us are just greedy and deep, okay?
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by taneq 2y ago
I dunno if irony is exactly the right word (but that's a complex discussion and probably any call would be category-error-ish anyway) but I was aiming for a Simpsons reference. :D
929.
by taneq 2y ago
Capital-intensive, or labour-intensive? If I were a provider of 'special smart sauce' that goes on a common piece of equipment, I'd be trying to focus on making it so I could provide the sauce rather than dealing with all the
930.
by taneq 2y ago
Breaking down the door of a house isn’t a search. Activating an autonomous drone in front of the house which then enters through the door of its own volition and records everything it sees in the house isn’t a search. And if I make a chompi

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