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by wyager 3y ago
Altman was fired because people who want to slow the progress of AI orchestrated his firing. Whether or not he works at the company is symbolic and indicative of who is in charge: the people who want to slow AI progress, or the people who w
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by wyager 3y ago
Given that the board coup was orchestrated by AI safetyists, it likely has a pretty direct bearing on life as a researcher. What are you allowed to work on? What procedures and red tape are in place? Etc.
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by wyager 3y ago
> but that gets largely nullified if everyone is in a bigger car. This is not true - the collision between two large vehicles is safer than the collision between two small vehicles. If you are colliding at a given speed, you want as muc
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by wyager 3y ago
"If the branch condition is not volatile, compilers will usually lift it."
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by wyager 3y ago
"If the branch condition is not volatile, compilers will usually lift it" Usually in any program with well-defined semantics (e.g. not using janky multithreaded mutability), this will be true
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by wyager 3y ago
Modern compilers and branch predictors means this doesn't matter 99.9% of the time. If you take the same branch every time 100 times in a row, the processor will optimize the cost of the branch away almost entirely. If the branch condi
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by wyager 3y ago
> [Citation needed] Why do you think posting something like this is a valuable use of anyone's time? What are you expecting here, an article that exactly restates my claim? If such an article existed, would you even read it or take
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by wyager 3y ago
If you think the BBC is apolitical, you are frankly a fool. The author of that piece is a specialist in churning out low-information articles on various progressive concerns for low-information readers. https://muckrack.com/
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by wyager 3y ago
This is obvious nonsense. Larger vehicles are so much safer to their occupants that it overwhelms the very minor marginal risk increase to non-occupants from larger vehicles. People who complain constantly about large vehicles almost never
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by wyager 3y ago
They're boiling the frog slowly. The goal is to eventually remove all autonomy from drivers, but they can't do it all at once.
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by wyager 3y ago
Animal proteins and fats are not fungible. If you habitually eat large quantities of non-digestible insect proteins like chitin, it will in all likelihood severely damage your digestive system. Insects also have an extremely unfavorable pro
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by wyager 3y ago
All of these "beef is bad for the environment" articles are written by vegan activists, seventh day adventists, or other extremist groups who have a political agenda against meat. The amount of methane emissions from all beef agri
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by wyager 3y ago
It is critical for optimal human health that we eat large quantities of meat. Food is not fungible. Proteins are not fungible. Fats are not fungible. There are dozens of chemically and metabolically significant differences between what you
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by wyager 3y ago
You can either have a fully dedicated core for codecs, or you can just put certain codec related operations (like DCT-related SIMD) in your main cores. Cryptographic acceleration tends to use the latter approach.
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by wyager 3y ago
Probably like 98% of customers already have a USB power source of some kind, so that seems like a reasonable cut corner.
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by wyager 3y ago
> Isn't it still an open question if matter is attracted to antimatter Conservation of momentum (force*time) means they both experience the same force. The attraction is symmetric
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by wyager 3y ago
Thankfully we have a mechanism for working utility-theoretic optimization into economic calculations. The mechanism is called "prices". When you undermine this mechanism, you are not globally utility-maximising.
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by wyager 3y ago
Every physical good is a financial asset whether you like it or not. Ignoring this reality will not help achieve policy goals. I agree that you are accurately describing the economically illiterate thought process, just not that it's c
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by wyager 3y ago
I haven't thought about it super hard, but I suspect the ergos of that would be quite poor, as you would need to pass around the type of the trait object, even though all you really care about is the associated type constructor.
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by wyager 3y ago
Monetization of real estate in china is exacerbated by the fact that A) there aren't a lot of great investment opportunities available to most chinese people B) the chinese government has a history of propping up property values, so th
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by wyager 3y ago
> her landlord suddenly raised her rent by $500. That shouldn't be legal. GP: "Government regulation is preventing the construction of more housing" You: "So true. For example, we need more regulation that make housin
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by wyager 3y ago
I use at least 3 separate runtimes: tokio and 2 no_std runtimes (rtic and embassy). The latter would probably not be possible at all if there was an "official" runtime, because the official runtime would inevitably require allocat
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by wyager 3y ago
Are you sure? Because when I actually looked at the claims in detail, as described several sentences farther into the paragraph, it turns out that my priors were correct
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by wyager 3y ago
I looked at the report - reading between the lines (e.g. deaths by country), this looks to be at least 90% south/central american cartel related. This isn't the saudis sending agent 47 after people - it's more like people fig
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by wyager 3y ago
The implication (that this many people are murdered specifically for environmental activism) sounds prima facie unrealistic. How many people are included in their definition of "environmental activist", and what is the risk-adjust
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by wyager 3y ago
To be fair, petroleum extraction is minimally invasive. You can easily live with an oil well on your property. You can't live with a lithium mine on your property.
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by wyager 3y ago
This reminds me of when Google Shopping (remember that?) started returning zero results for any search containing the substring "gun", so "hot glue gun" or "gundam figurine" would return nothing.
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by wyager 3y ago
Three phase and high voltage are both more copper-efficient.
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by wyager 3y ago
> Regardless of the language Haskell has Safe Haskell, where there is no way (at compile-time or at runtime) to "sneakily" violate user expectations. In particular, any compile-time IO is disabled and any runtime IO must be cl
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by wyager 3y ago
It does seem weird that you can just hire random children for astroturfed legal campaigns like this, where the child has no direct connection to the case. Seems like that should probably fall afoul of child labor laws at some point.

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