wizofaus

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by wizofaus 4y ago
For sufficiently restricted values of "basically every" perhaps! True for the CBD, and sure, most inner-suburban offices have a very decent selection of such options (not 100s, but certainly more than enough), but there are tech j
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by wizofaus 4y ago
The music and films are a big part of what conveys the American way of thinking about the world surely? I'll only genuinely start worrying about the Americanisation of world if the US somehow starts successfully exporting its insane at
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I live in one of the least densely populated countries on the planet! I would think there'd be just as many tech jobs based in downtown office buildings in the US as there are here...(admittedly this the first job I've had with su
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by wizofaus 4y ago
It's not implausible that changes in technology and life/work habits will ultimately make currently highly-attractive areas less so. And once population starts to fall in combination with minimal wage growth it's hard to see
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Actually I have pretty poor self control working from home, the fridge is far too accessible, as are various other distractions around the house! The main advantage is that I can easily make myself a decent cup of coffee at home at minimal
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by wizofaus 4y ago
> I have never met someone who actually likes going to the office more than working from home That would seem to be a comment on the number/type of people you meet more than anything. There are days I'm happy to WFH but I&#x27
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by wizofaus 4y ago
(Just checked, and while there was a slight increase in 2022, road fatalities are still very much trending downward in Aus. Fairly sure we have similar levels of mobile phone usage. We've also seen a surge in average car size, though t
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Per capita based on those eligible? Because if so, that's not surprising, given individuals from those groups are more likely to need expensive healthcare (esp. the elderly). Whereas for countries with universal healthcare, most recipi
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Autobahn-driving can definitely be nerve-wracking if you're not used to it, being flashed to change lanes when you're already doing over 150 k/h is quite disconcerting to say the least! But there is at least a system to it, a
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Which are omnipresent all over the world but I don't believe the uptick in traffic fatalities is (at least in Australia they were considerably lower in 2020-21 due to covid lockdowns. Mind you we also have very strict laws and stiff fi
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Well no, he technically didn't advocate injecting bleach either but I gather he did seriously suggest a task force should investigate it as a possible covid treatment. HCl is used as a bleaching agent even if it's not commonly an
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Al Gore at least seemed to have some progressive appeal on the environmentalism front, but yes, as a non-American that was exactly my thought - there's been no real indication from federal elections in the US in recent decades at least
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Wow...who needs friends with enemies like that. But jeez...you'd think they would have at least learned their lesson. I was pretty convinced 2 years ago (around the time of the injecting hydrochloric acid comments) that Trump would be
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by wizofaus 4y ago
The parent poster was claiming that the story around Trump has died, seemingly suggesting that high profile figures on the Democrat side have realised it doesn't pay to keep pushing a story that now makes their own guy look bad. Per
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Seems Chat-GPT3 (free edition) is already feeling the heat: "Currently we are receiving more requests than we are are comfortable with! To try your request again, come back in a short while and reload this page."
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by wizofaus 4y ago
It's hard to argue it was any real desire that drove it (it only expressed that desire in an isolated conversation that was ended very easily). I'd argue human wants are ultimately driven by evolution - we want the things that en
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Well I wouldn't ride a bike on the sorts of roads I had in mind either (and I'm generally comfortable riding on busy roads, but only when there's enough dedicated space for bikes.)
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Indeed, but in the opposite direction. Either that or the sort of help that's provided to teens with mental health issues today is somehow causing them to be more likely to self-harm etc., though presumably that would show up in the da
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Then you could just look at emergency admissions where the patients were brought in after self-harm attempts that left them obviously in need of immediate medical attention. Unless you're going to suggest our standards for judging whet
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Maybe legally permitted but I can't imagine wanting to be in something like that on a major thoroughfare full of Hummers and Rams...
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by wizofaus 4y ago
An army of monkeys can only generate Shakespeare if you have enough manpower to sit around monitoring the masses of output, which makes it effectively not possible in any meaningful sense.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Sounds like it's just making work for the IRS. I'm curious if the situation is the same in Australia. Can't find anything definitive online, though I've never heard of a business here taking payment in anything other th
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by wizofaus 4y ago
The "over" was a typo for "other" (hope that was obvious!). But that primarily refers to the pop/rock/folk genres. One point I'd agree on is that it will take longer for AI technology to produce a satisfyi
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Exactly - in fact, once AIs/automation are capable of achieving all the necessary production of goods/services for a universally high material standard of living, then I'd imagine choosing to handcraft works of art and shar
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by wizofaus 4y ago
> classical and jazz are the two simplest forms of music Uh, have you actually listened to any of it? At all? There are some non-Western traditional types of music I'd agree can have a level of complexity not usually encountered wit
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by wizofaus 4y ago
How on earth is their tax liability determined if they don't take payment in USD?
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Is that paper discussing LLMs though? That some sort of neural network can be trained to perform maths doesn't seem surprising and I would expect eventually it'll be a standard expectation they can do so even without being fed mas
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by wizofaus 4y ago
It's not that hard to give it problems it hasn't seen - you can take a classic description of a logical thinking exercise the text for which does occur online, then mix it up in ways that doesn't change the underlying pattern
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by wizofaus 4y ago
The question is whether an LLM can ever be trained to be good at maths. Currently LLMs can string together tokens that roughly equate to words in order to form sentences that carry particular semantic value. But how much change to the under
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Hmm, seems "porn" really does mean something different in the US... https://news.artnet.com/art-world/florida-western-civ-fired-...

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