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by timmg 6mo ago
> most people who are keen on making such an argument, or who are identifying racial genetic differences as the primary takeaway of studies like this, are doing so to justify racism, either implicitly or explicitly. That may certainly be
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by timmg 6mo ago
> the fairly vague conclusion that some SNPs possibly linked to traits were selected for Interesting. I find that part of the paper the most exciting. We always knew selection would happen for valuable traits. But seeing demonstration
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by timmg 6mo ago
FWIW, there is some controversy around the “methodology” and honesty in that film. Not saying you should change your view of McDonald’s, but possibly of that movie.
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by timmg 6mo ago
Actually pretty interesting to think: in a few years you might buy a raspberry pi style computer board with an extra chip on it with one of these types of embodiment models and you can slap it in a rover or something.
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by timmg 6mo ago
Props for the great name!
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by timmg 7mo ago
Doesn't this lawsuit (essentially) prove otherwise?
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by timmg 7mo ago
> Keep in mind that this case is about about a minor, not an adult. This obviously means that tech is going to have no choice but to do "age verification". And I don't think there's much of a way to do that that woul
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by timmg 7mo ago
I just watched my "weekly limit" get used while I ran a claude code command. I'm not sure how to square that with the quote you gave.
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by timmg 7mo ago
I’m trying to figure out how this affects weekly limits, since those overlap peak hours. My observation is that it doesn’t. But I could be wrong. If they are doing it “right” I think any off peak usage should count 50% toward your weekly l
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by timmg 7mo ago
Somewhat orthogonal but: when do we expect "volunteer" groups to provide training data for LLMs for [edit: free] for (like) hobbyist kinds of things? (Or do we?) Like wikipedia probably provides a significant amount of training f
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by timmg 7mo ago
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...
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by timmg 7mo ago
I'm one of those people that goes by the "all models are wrong, but some models are useful" saying. I'm sure the "elite overproduction" model is mostly wrong. But I also think it is an interesting/useful
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by timmg 8mo ago
This is so cool. I think I had read that some mathematicians were trying to formalize all(?) known math in Lean. Expecting it to be a long term project. And I was recently wondering how long it would be before they turned LLMs loose on t
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by timmg 8mo ago
I don't really have anything against OpenAI's stance here. If that's how they want it to be, they have that choice. But Sam pretending that he wanted the same restrictions as Anthropic *and* seeing how quickly they swooped i
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by timmg 8mo ago
> If we want to speed up the US EV transition, we push refineries into retirement faster, pushing up refined gasoline prices. Or we could just let electric cars slowly/naturally replace gas cars without artificially increasing infla
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by timmg 8mo ago
My guess is that it is more: the people that are concerned are posting about it. And those that aren't, aren't. So you are just seeing a biased subset of the (relatively) mainstream reddit.
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by timmg 8mo ago
Sorry, I'm not saying the far-right isn't (whatever) anti-climate change. I just meant that I don't think the lack of concern is necessarily due to them . I think it may have more to do with the reality that we are already
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by timmg 8mo ago
> I feel like especially the West is regressing on climate change with the rise of the far right Is it the "far right"? Or is it that technology and fertility have actually lowered the risks substantially? Solar plus batteries
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by timmg 8mo ago
It's true but also (could be) innocent. In the sense that if you A/B test things and look for engagement, you will almost certainly end up with "addictive" systems. I think this may also be why there is so much sugar in
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by timmg 8mo ago
What I find very interesting about it is how much data they have (and are able to collect). I'm personally someone who is less worried about "privacy" for this sort of data. But I know lots of other people feel differently
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by timmg 8mo ago
If the tool generates it automatically or spuriously, then yes. But if it is the users asking it to, then I'm not sure there is a big difference.
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by timmg 9mo ago
But if electricity prices go up, doesn’t that motivate new generation? Like, it is pretty common to see prices go up, then supply increase, then prices go down.
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by timmg 9mo ago
I find it strange how data centers are getting (sorta) vilified. I keep hearing stories on NPR that are kinda subtle fear-mongering. Like data centers are probably the least bad thing to build nearby. They take in power and produce compute
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by timmg 9mo ago
Do data centers in space actually make sense? I can’t figure out how that’s possible. But some people seem to believe they do(?)
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by timmg 9mo ago
> Dividends are totally fine (from my perspective) FWIW, companies are now opting for buybacks because it is more "tax efficient". Stockholders have to pay taxes on dividends (immediately) but only pay capital gains on share pr
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by timmg 9mo ago
My wife will be heartbroken. We moved recently and she loves shopping at Amazon Fresh. (Though part of the reason was that it was never busy :)
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by timmg 9mo ago
For those in the know (in the fintech space): does this mean anything about fintech in general -- or just this sub-space? [I've been watching Revolut and wondering what's going to happen with it.]
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by timmg 9mo ago
I just had a fun conversation with Claude about its own "constitution". I tried to get it to talk about what it considers harm. And tried to push it a little to see where the bounds would trigger. I honestly can't tell if i
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by timmg 9mo ago
I agree that this is more of a justification than a reason. I also agree that social media can be dangerous. But I’m not sure I agree that Twitter is any worse than the rest of them. (Unless you think that only one side is dangerous.) I w
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by timmg 9mo ago
Arguably, China is subsidizing everything with a low currency, though. It may cancel out (or maybe more than cancel out) those tariffs.

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