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by tshaddox 1mo ago
It’s a silly question, since (short of a major life change or economic system change) you need the grocery store and the job to have decent quality of life. You need to trade your labor for money, and you need to trade your money for food.
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
Don’t you just mean that one set of vibes resonates with your own vibes better than the other set of vibes?
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
I didn't say that it would increase RAM prices. I said "may in practice cause RAM to remain unaffordable."
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
That's actually the point. Opposing vibes are just as easy to utter as the initial vibes.
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
Ah, well that must be it then. The stench of culture war was pretty strong in the original comment, so I'm not surprised, although I'm a bit disappointed to see it so front and center on HN (especially given that it was set off by
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
Isn't that a pretty well-established genre going back at least to the 1980s? I'm pretty out of date on modern games, but I do remember Heavy Rain being widely acclaimed 15 years ago. There's gotta be something else that expla
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
The stock market crash caused by AI companies halting their planned build outs may in practice cause RAM to remain unaffordable.
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
I've never heard of Mixtape, but I'm surprised to see such a weirdly contemptuous post about a video game get so much traction on HN. At a glance, critical review aggregators are showing 80+ on this game. Is there some drama or cu
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
Okay, but I would also ask “why does Claude say that its name is Claude?”
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
For what it’s worth, “race to the bottom” typically refers to a scenario that we absolutely do not want as a consumer. We do want a highly competitive market that drives prices down, but “race to the bottom” specifically refers to a scenari
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
It's not clear to me why "predictability" should be a major goal. I'd say the goal should always be fairness. Of course, we want the letter of the law to describe what is and isn't fair, and for the law the be chang
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
The plan is that he (along with a small number of other people) will already own everything. The only reason he currently wants proles to buy things from Amazon is that he has not yet achieved what he considers sufficient ownership of the w
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
The people who advocate this expect to be part of a very small group of humans who own literally everything, so they don’t share your concern.
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
Acting morally should obviously be the thing that law is designed to incentivize.
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
Law isn’t code. There’s no mechanical decision procedure. That’s both impossible and undesirable.
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
It's a continuum, and things very low on the intelligence continuum might not be referred to as intelligent in everyday usage. But many calculators are Turing complete and can thus clearly perform computations that I would consider int
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
I think I mostly disagree with this. "Technical compliance" is not and should not be the thing that a legal system is designed to incentivize, and should not be the criterion for "perfect rule of law."
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
I don't think "intelligence" needs to carry all the intrigue and woo of related words like "consciousness" or "creative." If we just use "intelligence" to mean "the ability of a system to so
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
Clearly you need to consider how general the capabilities and use cases of the technology is. The most general-purpose technologies will always have obvious use cases for police states and other bad groups or people.
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
Politics in the broadest sense is just any decision-making process where a single decision affects multiple people and those people don't all agree on which decision should be made.
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
Large barriers to entry are anathema to competitive markets, so the conclusion here is still that firms are benefitting from the lack of a competitive market.
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
Alaska wasn't a state yet, but it was part of the United States and thus federal law applied there. Moreover, Alaska passed its own alcohol prohibition laws before the nation-wide prohibition.
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
Earlier this year they literally publicized changing their immediate goal from Mars to the Moon.
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
I like the general concept, but I think framing it as a small number of discrete tokens isn't quite right. I'd treat the whole thing in terms of debt and risk . Using "non-boring" technology [0] is really just subtrac
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
I don't think anything like a "general speed limit applied to experimentation" makes sense. In general we should move as fast as possible. When there's a specific explanation why a specific experiment should move slowly
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
What are these surprisingly large numbers you've seen? I thought that linear scan optimizations are typically reserved for pretty small maps, like dozens or maybe hundreds of elements.
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
It's possible to mistakenly think you've solved a problem when you've actually made the situation worse, of course, and that's just plainly a bad thing. It's important to be able to identify specific things which we
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by tshaddox 1mo ago
Hedonic adaptation is a very good thing. Culture or technological stasis is a death sentence for civilization. Open-ended progress is the only chance civilization has to survive (and even that's not a guarantee). There is an infinite s
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
Advertising is and always has been a fundamentally adversarial relationship between the consumer and the publisher. Everyone knows that, with few exceptions, no one ever wants to see ads. So I guess I'm not sure why you're surpris
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by tshaddox 2mo ago
> Eventually, this arms race ends with a computer vision model that looks at the screen, classifies visual elements as ads, and draws a rectangle over anything that looks like an ad. Surely a better way to think of this is that a person&

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