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by trention 4y ago
Teams of what?
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Your "real question" ultimately resolves itself because the moment the novelty wears off (and it will happen very fast), nobody will be interested in chatting with "robots".
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Net zero worldwide will never be achieved with pure emission reduction because neither China nor the industrializing third world will ever accept trading carbon usage for lower (than potential) living standards. The only way this works is w
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by trention 4y ago
My first work visit to silicon valley was during the democratic primaries in 2016. Most people there were supporting Bernie Sanders. While me, being from Eastern Europe, could see through him quite easily. I pretty much made all the inferen
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by trention 4y ago
>create fact-checking and supposedly neutral "services"/media >due to selection bias, those "services" and the people providing them end up being heavily on one side of the political spectrum >deus ex machi
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>while the aging population is larger than the younger population who are working at first that’s just because during the elder generations birth rate was higher. As that ages out of the population you’re back to an equilibrium. This is
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by trention 4y ago
>can-kicking at best Covid deaths per 100k population USA 311.7 New Zealand 40.27 Source: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality This is what happens when you "can-kick" infections after vaccination (a
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by trention 4y ago
No, in that both are usually repeated by clueless charlatans.
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by trention 4y ago
Got it, "higher-order thinking" is the new reincarnation of "doing your own research". Not that surprising, actually.
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by trention 4y ago
Is there an authoritarian government in the history of humanity that managed to kill 50% of its population? What's the average? Yes, there are situations in which "higher order thinking" doesn't matter.
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by trention 4y ago
The first-order effect of ebola is (almost) certain death. No need to consider anything of higher order.
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by trention 4y ago
>an authoritarian surveillance state which is far worse than any virus I'd take any authoritarian state over ebola, thank you very much.
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by trention 4y ago
Excess deaths worldwide are more than 20 million and most of them are COVID deaths since excess deaths track covid cases well pretty much everywhere. So, yes, covid did indeed kill way more than 6 million.
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by trention 4y ago
This is a hypothesis based on a sample size of 9 and already in the comments people are treating it like gospel while pushing their political agendas. Humanity is really (mostly) unfit to deal with both nuanced information and collective ac
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I can't comment about India but in Eastern Europe software engineers have a comparable purchasing power than in the US - it's just that it's achieved at ~50% of the wages because of cost of living differences.
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>Poland and Ukraine pay between $22,000 and $23,000 per year Good luck finding a developer in Eastern Europe with more than 2 years of experience willing to work for 23 thousand a year. And if that's a gross number (as I suspect it&
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by trention 4y ago
>Meeting the acceptance criteria with guess and check isn’t hard. Acceptance criteria often don't exist or are wrong. Incidentally, when someone says "business requirements are easy", that's a pretty big tell they hav
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by trention 4y ago
>The fraction of samples being verbatim reurgitations is low Copilot spitting out a function out of its training data with changed variable names to match those in your file(s) - and no one is actually testing what proportions of results
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by trention 4y ago
>The existence of the sentiment ‘lol you trained a big model on X so obviously it produces a good probability distribution on X’ only exists because big models proved to be extraordinarily more effective than anyone expected. No, the &qu
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by trention 4y ago
The proportion of comp sci tasks that have practical importance for which a quantum computer can shave off a factor of ~000s seems to be sufficiently small to doubt it will "change the world".
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by trention 4y ago
> and all their content and capital is vanishingly tiny Only humans are currently allowed to own capital and that's not going to change in the near future. >judicial systems with parallel construction and deepfake “evidence” (Fak
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by trention 4y ago
>Their training data is also part of their output. More deflection and going off point. >is making progress in others - like programming I already explained that programming is not amenable to the approach that allowed alphago to lear
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by trention 4y ago
>I would say these versions did exceed their training data Well, this is obviously incorrect because the training data included all the games it played against itself (good luck replicating that in the domain of programming though). We w
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by trention 4y ago
>Alphago, and similar, are all examples of ML systems exceeding their training data Alphago basically generated its own training data (hence, "exceeding" is not correct) because the domain was amenable to a specific form of rei
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by trention 4y ago
Given the fact that those models seem to improve logarithmically and that they pretty much trained codex on ~all available public code (maybe divide by 2) meaning the training data will at most scale with the growth rate of public repos in
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by trention 4y ago
Calling this "engineering" is just beyond parody.
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>most AI people acknowledge that the timeline for AGI is unknown and that it will most likely involve yet to be discovered algorithms, not just throwing more data/processing power at it. Try telling that to Sutskever or Karpathy (or
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>We could claim the human brain is just 100 million neurons arranged in a mesh were each neuron has their own 'activation potential'. You actually can't because, unlike neural networks (we know exactly what they do), we do
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by trention 4y ago
Your example is not at all as trivial as you may think when you delve into the details. And if you don't want to delve into details, there is already stuff like shopify.
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by trention 4y ago
Do you realize that writing the code is maybe ~25% of what a senior software engineer does?

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