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by topaz0 3mo ago
Interesting point I guess, much to consider
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by topaz0 3mo ago
To be clear, I am not agreeing that people only upvote their favorite billionaires, just that if this particular thing was done by a Chinese model it would not have gotten the same attention
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by topaz0 3mo ago
Yeah
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by topaz0 3mo ago
Log odds ratios are less misleading. Or at least odds ratios.
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by topaz0 4mo ago
Road safety is a social good -- it depends on the cooperation of everyone on the road. Choosing to put down your phone or slowing down make everyone safer, including you. Choosing a bigger car makes everyone less safe except you, who get ma
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by topaz0 4mo ago
Appreciating that there are some benefits is differwnt from adhering to the church
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by topaz0 4mo ago
It's not a question of whether it's biased to say that, rather whether it would tend to bias the model's response (e.g. toward weighting the stated downsides as more imported than the implicit upsides). But that said, choosin
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by topaz0 4mo ago
The other issue is that it is going to depend very strongly on how you ask.
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by topaz0 4mo ago
It's an antisocial, even solipsistic way to do that. Offense evidently intended, even if you convince yourself it's not.
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by topaz0 4mo ago
You decrease the risk to you but you dramatically increase the risk to other people, especially pedestrians. The total deaths go up.
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by topaz0 4mo ago
The only virtuous goal is to type some fun words imo.
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by topaz0 4mo ago
Database problems are math problems too.
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by topaz0 4mo ago
If you look at his GitHub it does seem like he's obsessed with the tools
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by topaz0 4mo ago
Since I can't upvote @thrance's reply, I'll second it here: certainly complaints about postmodernism date to the 90s or earlier and fear of Marxism is as old as Marx (less sure about when "cultural Marxism" specific
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by topaz0 4mo ago
By "word on the street" do you mean "word that they are leaking to the press so they get favorable coverage, and based based on opaque and questionable accounting"?
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by topaz0 4mo ago
If we're nitpicking metaphors I think it's more accurate to say it's like they were taking requests to rekey the lock on your door.
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by topaz0 4mo ago
Individuality is not to be tolerated.
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by topaz0 4mo ago
Nice work. I guess "vast majority" is overstating the case, but majority anyway.
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by topaz0 4mo ago
But also all of their multiples. I suspect that those account for the vast majority.
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by topaz0 4mo ago
The 2^64 in gps argument comes from the number of pairs of 32 bit numbers, not from the upper bound of multiplying two 32 bit numbers. So for the addition case the symmetry argument is still only good enough to get you down to about 2^63, w
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by topaz0 4mo ago
It's a bit more subtle than that -- most n>2^32 are not prime in which case 2 x n has more factorizations you would have to check. (Just by way of example, for n=2^33, 2n=2^34 but also =2^17*2^17)
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by topaz0 5mo ago
My man, you suffer from capitalist realism. I don't think I can help you.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
You underestimate how much of the cost is the chassis, hinges, screen, speakers, keyboard, which add up. Sure the CPU is the single most expensive component, but CPU + mainboard for the fw13 is less than half the price of a new fw13. And of
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by topaz0 5mo ago
Humans own inference power efficiency by a much bigger margin
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by topaz0 5mo ago
For lots of things, yeah. Don't try to fold proteins or open Facebook or whatever, but if you want to run a 3d printer or make some drawings or organize a bunch of notes and docs it would be way more than enough.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
Let's hope software gets enough less bloated to make that workable.
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by topaz0 5mo ago
I don't think the idea is that the upgrade will take it from decent to stellar compared to other things you might be able to buy for the same money, it's about paying a bit extra now to be able to go from decent-in-2026 to decent-
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by topaz0 5mo ago
You could stop using it first I suppose
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by topaz0 5mo ago
New York is the Ljubljana of America
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by topaz0 5mo ago
I don't know what starvation and gulags have to do with anti-capitalist reform. In this country (the USA), capitalism is what produces gulags and starvation.

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