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by whatshisface 4mo ago
I had a good laugh when Haiku's thinking summarization referred to mayor Mamdani as a, quote, "known anti-Zionist." :-) Probably a good thing to remember is that the value added in RLHF is not partly biased, or biased, but it
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
It is not going to take 15 days for short selling hedge funds to right-price these IPOs. It is going to take something closer to a few seconds.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
This may seem extreme, but it must be considered in the full context of the package of policy proposals that would also eliminate the grants themselves. This balances out any concerns of bias. See you in 50 years when we read about the cons
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
Not every role is suitable for contracting. An individual can become a part-time developer by freelancing, but if you do that you get very specific kinds of jobs, ones with high compartmentalization.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
When you say technological era, do you mean anything after the introduction of potery, writing, or what? Because you can trace slavery back to the earliest recorded civilizations, but it won't be easy to trace it to before a written re
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
The past had slaves too. The feudal arrangement of tenant farmers was only one system of labor. I don't think union bargaining was ever tied to specific advances in technology.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
If it was utilization of fixed capital that motivated the maximum-length workweek of today and centuries past, they wouldn't mind who was on the shifts or how many so long as there were three of them.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
The drivers behind the asymptotic scaling are the tasks that can't be compartmentalized into prompts, the same tasks that couldn't be compartmentalized into a request for another person to do.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
The "flipping out" aspect is something that does not seem to have a lot to do with technology at this time or in the past.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
Working out why the workweek is 5 days, non-negotiably, even if you'd be willing to be paid less in proportion, comes down to realizing that it's being maximized subject to the constraint that everybody would flip out if it was 6,
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
That is an estimate of the relative cost of one training step, but you have to multiply it by the number of training steps, an unknown quantity.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
Inference has traditionally been far less expensive than training. One public example is the fact that hobbyists can run StableDiffusion ($600k training costs[1]) on their personal computers. Speaking to your point, inference being dramatic
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
Here are a few thoughts: - The publicly available information about how inference costs compare to training costs is conflicted. EEs involved in datacenters talk about power usage spikes during training runs as if they were a major factor i
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
There were no knowledge workers in the middle ages.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
"Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
Producing great products is a game at which every player wins, because sellers must find willing buyers. It only fails if one participant panics and jumps out of the window, or if a significant number of people are not participating (this i
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
Yes, even if it never is. But you have to realize that these proposals to close loopholes are massive tax increases, not technicalities.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
You can get a loan from a bank against your assets and spend only the loan. I think that's how it goes to zero. > So it's in theory possible that someone could make millions tax free from selling a business, but that's a r
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
A much more interesting formula would be how to convert between income and income tax - you'd think it worked according to the superficial bracket system, but in fact, it works along the lines of going to 0 at the top. P.S. a wealth ta
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
If not knowing who somebody is weighs into your consensual model of interactions with them, just wait until you hear about surveillance! :-)
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
As Knuth points out, applying math to art is applying artistic sense to a continuum of forms all at once.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
The idea that they would ban their propaganda networks, but not their alternatives, is really baffling...
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
I'm sure VPs are sweating bullets over the instructions they will receive during the part of the shareholder's call where mutual fund managers dial their members and hold the phones up to each other.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
Waterfall was famous for wasting developer time and extending delivery dates in exchange for simplifying management. If Claude time is comparatively inexpensive, but human oversight remains necessary, we will switch back to waterfall becaus
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
To be fair to the loyalists, a lot of people were making this point at the time. Tally ho, gents.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
What's going on here is that out of 100,000 constituents, three know that Gary's Carpets is licensing the city reservoir as a PFOAs dump, and combined they have $1,000 of advertising reach if in-kind contribution is counted. Meanw
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
The whole point of AI is that if something different happens, it's not you doing it.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
I'm not asking for anything close enough to the boundary for questions like that to be difficult. There are some ML systems like AlphaGo that have crossed the line in specific domains. It's just that making self-play and online le
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
If you want a model, here's one: LLMs have never demonstrated the ability to go obviously beyond interpolating their training data. It takes an army of paid data producers solving homework problems to give ChatGPT the ability to do you
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
This is one of those things that seems true in theory but doesn't have examples of success. There are people who self-study advanced mechanics at home, but they're child prodigies and enjoy (typically) going to universities as a w

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