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by vagabund 4y ago
Is tax avoidance/evasion not a part of taxable income elasticity? My understanding was that it is
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by vagabund 4y ago
What? No, the Laffer curve already describes that. And best approximations of the rate at which the incentive to shirk taxes is so high as to lower total revenue are nowhere near where rates sit now, basically everywhere.
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by vagabund 4y ago
Even considering the Laffer curve, no government today has tax rates at what empirical analysis suggests would be revenue maximizing, so not sure this is true.
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by vagabund 4y ago
More granular economic data probably means better monetary policy and fewer systemic risks.
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Adding de Tocqueville, from 1831: > The characteristics of the American journalist consist in an open and coarse appeal to the passions of the populace; and he habitually abandons the principles of political science to assail the charact
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by vagabund 4y ago
Social media commoditized facts (how monetizable is having the breaking investigative story if the upshot is on twitter moments after the fact?), so out of necessity, news organizations shifted their differentiation to their editorial narra
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by vagabund 4y ago
I'm curious, what filters are you hitting that impede your effective use of ChatGPT? I've definitely seen some irritating outputs, e.g. progressive policy planks characterized as inherently good and correct positions, but only whe
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by vagabund 4y ago
Twitter only works because of the character limit. And even then the “for you” page is pretty bad and widely disliked, at least as a stated preference. This, if I understand correctly, is for articles.
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by vagabund 4y ago
Purely algorithmic feeds work for TikTok because people want to shut their brains off when they use the app. It's like a drink after work. Copy-pasting that logic to longform text misses the differences in the mediums, and how people
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by vagabund 4y ago
Author thread: https://twitter.com/ericzelikman/status/1618426056163356675
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Parsel: Algorithmic Reasoning with LMs (beats code gen SoTA by >75%)(zelikman.me)
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by vagabund 4y ago
Very fun, almost wish there were less overt cultural clues though. I got 3912 on the first go but it was mostly because I recognized Bowie and Le Corbusier, and got a theater marquee with Happy Gilmore playing. I enjoyed the pics where you
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by vagabund 4y ago
Sorry, I meant this one: Evolution through Large Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08896 It's referenced in the article.
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by vagabund 4y ago
1) The design here is meaningfully different from chatGPT. Moderately accurate diff models are an important step in "closing the loop" for automated self-improvement. Read the ELM paper if you haven't, it's great. 2)
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by vagabund 4y ago
It's funny seeing the same people who blithely told blue collar workers to "just learn how to code" now act like luddites when innovation comes for their skillset. Just learn how to be a plumber.
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by vagabund 4y ago
I think you're reading too much into this. The natural reading is quite clearly that the illegal categories referred to were or included "C4", and it'd be highly unethical for them to have framed the paragraph in that ma
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by vagabund 4y ago
It's been fun following Nikita's twitter from the prelaunch announcement, to the "human trafficking" rumor scandal, to a national phenomenon, to the real life experience of my 14 yo nephew being obsessed with it, and fin
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by vagabund 4y ago
You'd think the experience of ChatGPT would have taught them that the average person isn't blindly worshipping the output of LLMs, and has the requisite critical thinking skills to keep the useful bits and discard the rest. Inste
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by vagabund 4y ago
Probably the biggest recent result: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04836 (author thread: https://twitter.com/SamuelAinsworth/status/15697194946455265... ) See also: https://github.com&#
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by vagabund 4y ago
To this point, I dated a Russian girl from Brooklyn whose family had all their medical, dental, cosmetic, car repair, etc. work done by an extensive network of unlicensed Russian immigrants operating out of their apartments and garages. Al
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by vagabund 4y ago
> (For better or worse I don't retire until after 2040.) You are the chosen one. More seriously, "supports transportation infrastructure" is pretty broad. What would be the scale of the problem if it went unfixed? A head
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by vagabund 4y ago
Microsoft's willingness to run ChatGPT at a 6 figure loss daily is a strong signal of the value OpenAI's researchers place on RLHF to make the next leap -- both in raw capabilities and alignment. If they're proven correct, wh
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by vagabund 4y ago
This sort of "late-stage capitalism" cynicism used to be concentrated on reddit but is everywhere now. These shoes are extremely technically impressive, highly novel, and very useful, and yet they're still met with a combati
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by vagabund 4y ago
Great info! Thanks for taking the time. Finding folks like yourself with deep domain knowledge like this is why I love this site.
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by vagabund 4y ago
Appreciate the insight. When you say even stuff shot in film is de and re-grained, are you referring to works shot recently? Or do you mean that the sort of restorations put out by Criterion/BFI/etc have fake grain added in? Woul
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by vagabund 4y ago
Again, not making a normative statement about the superiority of film grain or analog or anything. If your perception is that grain is a gimmick, then you should likewise not want it synthetically reinserted into the stream. The point I&#
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by vagabund 4y ago
Olivine is readily abundant in the upper mantle and has similar decarbonizing and deacidifying effects. Theory and pilot programs suggest there's enough to completely offset the world's carbon output with relatively few mines and
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I'm not saying it's inherently more authentic, just that that's the perception, and that perception drives part of the appeal for film grain.
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What's appealing about film grain isn't the grain as such so much as it is the knowledge that it's an artifact of an analog process in a world where nigh everything is digitally produced. It has a warmth that's inextrica
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by vagabund 4y ago
This is cartoonishly bad, from conception to execution.

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