tomlockwood

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by tomlockwood 9mo ago
When these companies run out of VC hype money, what's the actual cost of running 10-20 instances of this at all times, going to be?
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by tomlockwood 10mo ago
I thought this title was a reference to this David Bowie/NIN song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3cERVRoQo
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by tomlockwood 10mo ago
Congrats to them! Unions are the reason we have (had) an 8 hour day.
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by tomlockwood 10mo ago
Yes we also invented drinking coffee.
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by tomlockwood 10mo ago
Not only did Australians invent it, we also invented Pavlova, Sam Neill, etc.
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by tomlockwood 10mo ago
As an Australian can I just say of this article: yeah nah
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by tomlockwood 11mo ago
I don't know if anyone has been reading cover letters recently but it seems that people are prompting the LLMs with the same shit, dusting their hands and thinking "done" and what the reader then sees is the same repetitive,
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by tomlockwood 11mo ago
So a largely imaginary "problem" was replaced with an even larger "problem".
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by tomlockwood 11mo ago
If you have a look at figure 2 here: https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/lo... You'll see that immigration was at record levels post Brexit.
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
I understand perfectly, thank you!!!
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
I think it'd kind of defeat the argument of the article to say that those two types of intuition about the sun, and of philosophers, are separate. And besides, before experiment the motion of the sun was pondered by philosophers - and
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
Why are we sending the trillion?
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
So we're sending a trillion on faith?
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
Yeah I was in fact making a cheeky reference to Wittgenstein ;) We were talking about the reliability of intuition versus sense perception.
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
So the answer is a few more trillion?
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
It intuitively appears that the sun is moving around the earth.
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
I don't think intuition is in the same class as "perception". I think intuition is better characterized as a byproduct of perception interacting with our preconceptions. I think fundamentally, intuitions are that part of the
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
The funny irony is that for years and years universities would as a policy not accept wikipedia as a reference. I think the thinking was that a published book was more likely to have been written by an expert in the field. Now, even that is
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
Ethnostates and Theocracies are shit. If an intelligence agency is representative of a single race or religion, its bad. Quit your job.
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
The question still stands.
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
> they don't deserve to have one By what unholy pact have you been beknighted as the bestower of wikis, my friend?
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
Early advocates for Palestinian rights, in 1996? Curious.
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
Except at the time many scholars in psychology and other disciplines were raising alarm bells about replicating tested and published results. So Social Text was in good company.
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
Wild that people think this exposes the Arts as not being rigorous enough when there is an ongoing, widespread replication crisis in psychology, economics, medicine. Increasingly universities are paper mills and the pressure to publish abso
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
This is so uncannily similar to the "Mary's Room" argument in philosophy that I thought you were going there.
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
So the solution that gets upvoted during this hype cycle is the one that requires throwing more money at these companies? Curious.
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
It's funny (horrifying) coming from an advertising background - this sounds exactly like the tech that allows advertisers to take credit for conversions that are wildly unrelated to ads, in reality.
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
I absolutely applaud this. I doorknocked a thousand doors for my local state election and came out of the experience more optimistic than ever. Real people, listen. Real people want to make the world better. Getting out there is the antidot
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
Also I reckon it reads as a good lesson for managers too!
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by tomlockwood 1y ago
I want to suggest that the virus is even more insidious, and is an organism that feeds on VC money, and it is evolving via a substrate of human programmers to become more efficient at consuming it. And like an organism evolving towards surv

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