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by tim333 3mo ago
Originally the idea of OpenAI was to open source cutting edge AI so one or two large corporations couldn't monopolise it. They seem have flipped to the opposite.
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by tim333 3mo ago
On my mac if you scroll slightly a blob appears on a slider on the right and you slide it to the top to go to the top. I'm not sure about these hidden user interface features that you only find through trial and error.
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by tim333 3mo ago
I think people think things will go faster than they do. The AI revolution will probably be a bit like the industrial revolution which took a couple of centuries to go from Newcomen's steam engine of 1712 to mass produced cars and the
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by tim333 3mo ago
Real evolution produced human intelligence. Constrained evolutionary algorithms may have some promise.
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by tim333 3mo ago
Ok, he's not a space expert but seems quite sensible and wrote that after hanging out with the Starcloud guy who already has a GPU in space and an FCC application for launching 88,000 satellites with more. Presumably the Starcloud guy
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by tim333 3mo ago
Also that AI is "making society dumber overall" seems dubious.
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by tim333 3mo ago
Paul Graham has been positive about the YC startup doing data centers in space https://x.com/paulg/status/2009686627506065779 For the idea to make sense I think you have to project forward some years to launches b
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by tim333 3mo ago
Geography is not generally the most important factor. There are legal ownership precedents and then the will of the people who live there first. You can't just say Greenland or Canada are United States because the happen to be close. O
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by tim333 3mo ago
Well, I said NATO had never invaded bordering countries. Iraq doesn't border and also members of NATO can do their own thing. I think NATO did get roped into involvement in Serbia by the US but it's not their mission. Re. ground t
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by tim333 3mo ago
Binface certainly differs with Farage on the virtues of Brexit. Here he is at the Oxford Union https://youtu.be/0Vlew9R2s2A?t=66
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by tim333 3mo ago
London has a ton of ethnic Russians who do fine under a NATO regime that's hostile to Russia. Russia had long tolerated NATO on it's borders in Latvia and Estonia and is now OK with Finland. NATO is really a defensive alliance tha
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by tim333 3mo ago
I think they get basic gear as standard but can get extra kit for points for getting results.
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by tim333 3mo ago
>declining tradition Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, and David Cameron went to Oxford and Starmer did a postgrad there. So the current PM and previous five. Maybe Binface can make PM after all?
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by tim333 3mo ago
They didn't pour $600bn. They've fought valiantly and going on about them being poor and corrupt isn't very nice.
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by tim333 3mo ago
The percentage of the population that dies from war has gone down over time though. Just needs a bit more work.
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by tim333 3mo ago
I always thought it a bit pessimistic on the upsides like robot to build us palaces, immortality, conquer the galaxy type stuff along the lines of the "Grandiosity" bit in the essay. It's a shame we have amazing tech possibil
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by tim333 3mo ago
AI is "completely inaccessible to experiment given our current technology"? I think experiments have happened and even been mentioned on HN occasionally and effected RAM prices.
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by tim333 3mo ago
I'm not sure producers wanting you to spend time on their stuff is that wrong. Hollywood aren't going to start deliberately making crap movies so no one watches. It's a consumer choice what you spend your time on.
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by tim333 3mo ago
It would be very funny if Binface wins. I'd certainly vote for him as I find Farage annoying and in a national poll there were more people for Binface than Farage. Dunno about in Clacton though.
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by tim333 3mo ago
The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention? Probably partly successful.
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by tim333 3mo ago
Does anyone know why the regex is there? I find it hard to see how english communication is improved by removing random words.
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by tim333 3mo ago
It's interesting that the red tape is still there on the Russian side. A Ukrainian drone maker can make a new one and put it on their brave1 website straight away, Russian ones have to go through a lengthy bureaucratic procurement pro
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by tim333 3mo ago
>Modern armies collapse when they run out of logistics It'll be interesting to see how that goes in Ukraine where Russia has ~700k troops and the logistics are being cut by Hornet drones and similar.
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by tim333 3mo ago
Yeah pretty much here. I assumed it would be along the lines that reading social media isn't reading and only pretentious novels count.
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by tim333 3mo ago
I was trying to find the law to see how they define addictive to children in a harmful way vs in a good or ok way like reading, bicycles etc. It's easy to say one's good, one's bad but I wonder how you define it legally?
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by tim333 3mo ago
I come across her most frequently on Google Maps where the yellow pin man icon for Google Street View is replaced by a Dua Lipa icon. (Not sure if it's global - I'm in London).
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by tim333 3mo ago
I think the comment said they were outsourcing it to "whatever".
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by tim333 3mo ago
Fans are pretty much like propellers and the F15 uses a turbofan and goes supersonic. It works by inlets and exhaust nozzles that slow the air the speed it up again. The only reason that might not work on an electric drone with fans and noz
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by tim333 3mo ago
Europe isn't as bad as you might think. Though they may not be no.1 in military economic or innovation they are still quite strong. Ukraine is an example - when that oval office thing happened Trump thought he could cut aid to Ukraine
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by tim333 3mo ago
You don't necessarily need to be competitive with US tech to be independent. Most countries aren't as good as the US on tech but they get by.

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