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by tim333 2mo ago
edit: mouse that is conscious...
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by tim333 2mo ago
I'm skeptical. One piece of evidence - around 2020 the US went from being an oil importer to an oil exporter and people hardly noticed. I also think if Saudi asked to be paid in Euros rather than USD it wouldn't make much differen
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by tim333 2mo ago
I'm a Brit and we've done business other ways for centuries without issues. At least not issues due to using pounds rather than dollars. Who got wiped out?
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by tim333 2mo ago
As a counter position I enjoy the internet these days maybe more than before. Back in 1999 there was almost no good content. These days there's huge amounts of content from experts in any field you can think of, often in direct video f
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by tim333 2mo ago
The petrodollar thing always seemed overhyped by people who don't understand economics that well. It was just a term for the dollars received by oil producing countries like Saudi Arabia. People used dollars rather than yen or pounds b
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by tim333 2mo ago
The origin of consciousness is probably evolution. A mouse that is unconscious and sees the cat coming can run away as opposed to an unconscious one. In that case it goes back more than 3000 years and also will vary in nature - a mouse prob
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by tim333 2mo ago
I figure your opinions and similar one will matter because in a democracy people can vote to redistribute the wealth however.
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Though a lot of that was a political choice to outsource to China and similar. We've had a lot of new tech since 1900 - cars, electric motors, internet, computers and the like and I'm not sure it's led to inevitable unemploym
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by tim333 2mo ago
Historically, new tech making a job redundant leads to people who were doing it doing something else - horse stagecoach drivers become motorised vehicle drivers and so forth. I'm not quite sure what Dario's take is on that.
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by tim333 2mo ago
He called for a lot of questionable stuff about Ukraine. ( https://x.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/1643320904930275328 etc)
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by tim333 2mo ago
The US mainland won't get attacked but places the US wants to protect like Israel already are.
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by tim333 2mo ago
There are a bunch of fairly normal activities that are not specifically M-F. Landording and contract programing for example. And a variety of specialist services, like I've got a friend who delivers race cars and specialist vehicles as
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by tim333 2mo ago
Also there's a recent ramp up in spending suggesting things are on the up. https://x.com/a16z/status/2088658228959953052/photo/1 Up like 3x in half a year or something. I think current investment to
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by tim333 2mo ago
The optimistic view is AI improves and generates significant value. You probably need it to generate of the order of 1% of world GDP for the investments to make sense.
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Valuations are based of future expectations. I guess people are expecting Anthropic and or AI to do well.
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by tim333 2mo ago
It would be funny if after looking for more complicated causes if much of the Alzheimer's problems were down to bad plumbing. Still I guess a lot of complicated machinery malfunctions if pipes are blocked or the cables are iffy.
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by tim333 2mo ago
Well, not a good one.
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by tim333 2mo ago
>The age of humans comprehending things is coming to an end I'm sure humans will comprehend some things and not others just as now. They may be smarter than me but the Einsteins and the like already were. It may be that the cutting
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by tim333 2mo ago
I think there's definitely more than just retrieval, although no doubt it helps.
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by tim333 2mo ago
As to >clinically relevant impact is, so far, disappointingly limited it could be that the AI tools have to get to some threshold before they are very useful? Like with the Economist talking to Hassabis: >AlphaFold itself took six yea
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by tim333 2mo ago
Derek Lowe discusion of the paper https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-dis... I think that was originally linked but got changed to the £30 to Elsevier version for some reason.
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by tim333 2mo ago
While I voted remain I'm not sure about rejoining fully now. A lot of the problems were with the upheaval, like food companies selling to the EU often couldn't do it economically without the single market and went out of business.
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by tim333 2mo ago
I've lived here. My take is it's been mildly depressing. Economically tearing up our trade agreements hasn't been good, immigration wise having european immigrants replaced but a bunch of dark skinned immigrants hasn't m
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by tim333 2mo ago
uBlock lite works pretty well for me with Chrome
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That's interesting. I have a Decathlon bike (UK) and was thinking there's not much elite jargon or such like and they are quite straightforward and reasonably priced for fixing things. Different strategy I guess. They are probably
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by tim333 2mo ago
I'm thinking of ways to do that. I think maybe partnering with long lived institutions like universities or national libraries?
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by tim333 2mo ago
I'd say it's a matter of taste - you can if you like.
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You could make a similar argument for humans - it's all just neurons going off which fools them into thinking they understand. Whether someone/thing has understood you is more a practical matter than a question of what substrate i
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In a lot of the developing world it's quite reasonable - you pay like $80 or something and that's it. Nowhere else is it as financially scary as the US.
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I'm not sure that's true. I'm in London and I'd say it's because bikes don't have number plates or licenses and are thus immune from the overwhelmingly camera based rule enforcement. Some riders are still ok bu

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