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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> you’d think someone would have figured out that Maybe that’s why they haven’t? But being serious if it’s relatively low and the negative effects only occur during pregnancy it’s not that easy to measure it. Obviously there is no conclu
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> yet the US actually pushes more power to the states. Doesn’t their comment claim the opposite? Unlike the US Federal government EU has very limited direct means of imposing any if its laws or regulations on member states of they chose
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> and poor people aren't guaranteed to have a toothbrush, toothpaste Considering that the number of such people is very low it would be very cheap to solve this issue.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> a non-zero monetary cost Direct monetary cost is entirely insignificant, though. Potential risk of mental impairment (of course there is no conclusive evidence of that) seems like a much bigger issue.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> The British abolished slavery with a vote of parliament The situation was fundamentally different. Colonies that allowed slavery had no representation in parliament and the slave owners received massive “compensation” that the British
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
IQ points is just an indicator that could be measured consistently. Who knows what else is going on.. and statistically (especially depending on the distribution) 2 IQ points is quite a lot. After all 50% of the population fall into the 20
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
So same applies to the comment they were replying to and pretty much anything anyone said in this thread?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Way more people having their teeth whitened? Braces being more popular.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> even celebrities try to talk without showing their teeth So fluoride would somehow magically replace braces or teeth whiteners?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
You can presumably buy a different brand of flour or find a different source quite easily? Same applies to most other “fortified” products. With water your’e basically forced to waste money on bottled water or very expensive filtration syst
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
My personal financial situation and the size of my tax bill is entirely irrelevant and tangential.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> it IS exposed through API as logprobs in the ChatGPT api Sure but they often are not necessarily easily interpretable or reliable. You can use it to compare a model’s confidence of several different answers to the same question but any
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Historically the primary and often almost only reliable way of obtaining any kind of meaningful wealth was through inheritance inheriting it. So such behavior was completely standard and expected (it’s much easier to justify it if your pare
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> what you are saying is that academic rigour is going to be ditched overnight Not across all level and certainly not overnight. But a lot of children entering the pipeline might end up having a very different experience than anyone else
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Well humans are not a monolithic hive mind that all behave exactly the same as an “average” lawyer, doctor etc. that provides very obvious and very significant advantages. > days to go from a cold start with zero dev experience How is th
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Well there are still millions that can. There is a handful of competitive LLMs and their output given the same inputs are near identical in relative terms (compared to humans).
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> This is moot That’s not a positive at all, the complete opposite. It’s not about laziness but being able to somewhat accurately estimate and balance risk/benefit ratio. The fact that making a wrong decision would have significant
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
No? I mean if they refused that would actually be a reasonably good outcome. The real problem is if they generally can write selection sorts but occasionally go haywire due to additional context and start hallucinating. I mean asking a stra
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> that is decidedly not happening Regardless of anything else it’s extremely too early to make such claims. We have to wait until people start allowing “AI agents” to make autonomous blackbox decision with minimal supervision since nobod
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> low in general, then you are less confident about that datum It’s very rarely clear or explicit enough when that’s the case. Which makes sense considering that the LLMs themselves do not know the actual probabilities
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Is it? Seems like a lost art these days. Modern politicians hardly put in any effort making up convincing and subtle lies anymore..
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
There is lying and there is being incompetent.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Point is that if the 1% were forced to pay significantly more the 99% wouldn’t have to give up as much. Hard to expect that the overwhelming majority of the population to collectively agree to willingly reduce their QoL when income inequal
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
That seems somewhat tangential? Some people think that it would be right if the costs of slowing down climate change would be disproportionately borne by “the billionaires” (since they disproportionately benefited from economic growth and b
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
I’ll wait for it to be reported on Fox News and then an announcement from the White House.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Apparently it’s a bigger concern than Mexico these days. Something about Fentanyl I heard, presumably Trump is unhappy that Canada imports many times more fentanyl than it sends back or something about as insane..
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Europe_(archaeology) e.g. Maidanetske site could have had 20-40k inhabitants. Uruk possibly only reached that population centuries later. But of course accurate estimates of this and
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Well yes, but I’m just curious in what way was the original comment supposed to promote critical thinking
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Other Europeans never knew anything that they could forget… Nobody cared or had any clue what some “savages” in the North were up to and whether they discovered another random island. If they did it had no impact on them. Europe was extreme
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Tesla did have pretty massive growth over the last few years. Now that’s all over. Even their last quarter was quite awful and it’s going to be downhill in the foreseeable future (losing Europe as a market alone is going to hurt and make an

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