throwaway_7274

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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Isn’t this the point? To destabilize you, put you on your back foot, make you feel preemptively guilty and a little angry, to feel the presence of an Authority?
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
> teasing, cute, chubby, etc. gordito
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Maybe happiness is a different kind of thing from the pleasure/pain axis. Maybe it’s a different thing that’s tragically easy to mistake for the same thing. I notice a lot of resistance and discomfort whenever someone says anything lik
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Privateering is back!
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Yeah, it's contextual. Of course. There's context in everything.
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Couldn't agree more!
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
ok
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them a
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
All well said. I would add that, while “giving every under-privileged kid opportunity” wouldn’t make them all successful, for just the reasons you said, I’m not sure that’s even the bottleneck! It’s like… how do you “give someone opportunit
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Whatever strawman you’re fighting here, it ain’t me.
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
I’m correctly estimating my own effort in my success. I know just how hard I worked. Making the right childhood best friend causally set me on the path to do it.
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
I attribute 90% of my success in life to the fact that I happened to make the right childhood best friend. One thing led to another and I got a PhD and earn [unreasonable salary]/year now. Life is insanely unfair. On some level it is
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
I mean… I guess, sure. But on a scale of “heavier-than-air powered flight is impossible” to “superluminal signaling is impossible,” it’s like… realistically, about halfway in-between? Enough that I’d sooner start lifting weights and practic
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Yeah, this is all true! All of these things are also insanely hard, like, orders of magnitude harder than what we usually mean by “insanely hard,” and might be near-impossible in a similar way that unburning all the carbon is near-impossi
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
I agree that it’s a little weird, insofar as people don’t talk about it, but I’m not sure it’s very woke at all. It’s in a lot of tension with conventional woke ideas. The usual way people talk about all this is more or less idealist (as op
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Somehow, somehow, everyone’s heads are still in the sand. Desperately trying to bury them deeper. It’s like CICO denialism. I expect this to be a deeply unpopular take here, but solutionism will fail. Magic technology will not come to save
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Wow, I didn’t even notice how badly I underexplained that! Yeah, thanks, your edit is what I had in mind. jbay808 explains it well, too.
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Incidentally, the relationship is bidirectional. You can try it out just for fun. zstd is a pretty crappy language model :)
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
This perspective is a useful source of intuition against the “LLMs can’t have new ideas, they’re just next-token-predictors” style arguments. What if you shift your perspective to thinking of training as optimization over a vast parametri
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Your may have been thinking of peyote, which is somewhat endangered, and widely poached.
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Well, you know, it depends on who “we” are! Lots of people predicted what would be lost. I thought many of them were a bit silly for a long time, but they were right in the end. Many others still think they’re a bit silly.
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
It’s so interesting to me that there are still so many people who see the monkey’s-paw thing as somehow secondary or incidental, even those who acknowledge that it’s often there! I don’t really understand why this is, or why I feel differen
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Yeah absolutely. And obviously I’m overplaying my naïveté and idealism for effect here, a little bit, but I was still surprised how much it really did improve my quality of life. I don’t even buy a lot of things, really, I still don’t own
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
It’s funny, people are so different! I’d always taken it as an axiomatic Truth of the world that money doesn’t buy happiness. When I finally caved and took a high-paying job, I was shocked (shocked I tell you!) to find that it made my life
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
More importantly, why are there always 30 people who insist that you can’t know it’s claudeslop? Or, “so what if it is,” or something like this? It boggles the mind.
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Yep, that’s the one!
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
I didn’t know there were HREaboos out there. Please, how do I take this pill?
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Maybe you’re thinking of the Eastern Roman Empire, which, unlike the HRE, was actually a continuation of the classical state?
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by throwaway_7274 2mo ago
Fascinating how different peoples’ intuitions can be. Thanks for the earnest response.

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