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by yongjik 6mo ago
As I said, I believe statistical physics is a very good intuitional guidance. Molecules move randomly. That does not mean a cup of water will spontaneously boil itself. Sometimes the probability of something happening is so low that even
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by yongjik 6mo ago
Mostly, I agree with you. My complaint is that, when the ceiling fails, nobody says "Duh ceilings are supposed to fail, that's basic physics." Because that (1) helps nobody, and (2) betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of
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by yongjik 6mo ago
> It is fundamental to language modeling that every sequence of tokens is possible. This is just trivially wrong that I don't understand why people repeat it. There are many valid criticisms of LLM (especially the LLMs we currently
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I swear, some commenters here think "the government is incompetent" is an axiom and work backward from there to fill in the details.
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by yongjik 6mo ago
It might have started that way (I dunno) but these days it feels like just Trump being senile and incapable of admitting he made a mistake. After all, MAGA supports Trump no matter what. ICE murdered two US citizens already. Trump could s
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by yongjik 6mo ago
Sovereign citizen? On my Hacker News? ...It's more likely than you think !!
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> have states had the discipline not to raid these coffers in the boom years? "Let's give the money back to voters because they will like that and we'll figure out something else in tough years" is, like, the quintess
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by yongjik 6mo ago
At the same time, the same government, mysteriously, has no problem building a vast network of roads reaching everywhere and spanning the whole country. If the US government neglects a section of highway until a city becomes unreachable by
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That's great, but I think Herbert had a vision of this incredible galaxy teeming with truthsayers, human computers, and space travel, and just needed a convenient excuse to explain away the total lack of computing devices.
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The flip side of the flip side is that poor people in traditional societies are often trapped in toxic interpersonal dynamics from which there's no escape, because they live in the same household. Like, in Korea, "mother-in-law vs
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I keep saying this, but do you remember a single political remark made by owners of Toyota or BMW? Do you even know who owns these companies without looking it up? People aren't raking through Musk's obscure remarks to find somet
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The number of comments here trying to argue that this is anything other than utter humiliation for Trump and America ... I guess I should get used to it now. At least 1/3 of Americans will be swayed at nothing and will stand behind th
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by yongjik 7mo ago
Counterpoint: Japan committed some war crimes back in the 40s, and almost a century later, a lot of East Asians still think maybe Japan shouldn't have a regular military that can project its power. And that includes a large portion of
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by yongjik 7mo ago
Everything Trump has done since he was re-elected made Democrats hate him more, and more publicly, and you know what, despite that Trump's ratings have steadily fallen. If your thesis is true, you'd expect Trump's ratings to
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by yongjik 7mo ago
> there's a big difference between (a) following the clues to reach a conclusion, and (b) reaching a conclusion and then gathering up some factoids to support it. > The latter is very easy to spot Well, you know, that's some
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by yongjik 7mo ago
The threat of Japanese people all waging guerrilla warfare was considered real enough that the US decided to keep the Japanese Emperor as figurehead (even though the US had enough power to sentence or even execute him for war crimes), just
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by yongjik 7mo ago
There's something darkly funny about the reality being so demented that just describing it on HN gathers downvotes because it objectively sounds so awful.
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South Koreans give their government the authority to do such things because we understand that the government need authority to serve its people well. And if the government misuses its authority, we will revoke our permission. Many America
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by yongjik 7mo ago
So you are embarrassed that your leaders don't want their soldiers to die in a war started by another country without providing any semblance of justification? ...I'm just glad that European politicians take their soldiers' l
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by yongjik 7mo ago
I don't know which country you're from, but in most countries, "our troops may get bombed if we join this war" is a very strong public argument against joining the war. Just look at Trump's latest attempt to enlis
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by yongjik 7mo ago
> Do I have to remind you that a South Korean attempted a fascist coup recently and that it was left wing organisations and trade unions that mobilised to stop him? Those "left wing organizations" encompass the majority of Sout
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You mean Iran miscalculated... by thinking they have any power to annihilate or even seriously hurt Israel? Well, that's what I've been saying!
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by yongjik 7mo ago
A nation fighting for its survival doesn't randomly escalate by attacking a much bigger enemy. Instead, we frequently see it from dictators with a delusion of grandeur.
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Well, I'm naively assuming Grokipedia is being sympathetic to the cause(?) of Gamergate, but if the best thing they could lead the article was essentially "It all started when someone got mad at his ex-girlfriend and her many othe
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by yongjik 7mo ago
But America isn't a high-trust society. Roughly half of Americans proudly assert that their government must be small, gridlocked, and incompetent, and that's by design, because if the government becomes too efficient it will infr
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by yongjik 8mo ago
Things must be bleak for climate deniers if they have to make an itemized list of strawman arguments to feel good about it.
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by yongjik 8mo ago
> those protestors also broke into an military armory, armed themselves to the teeth, and an armed conflict broke out Oh you are one of those people. So when you said you were "surprised by the lack of depth of assessing Korea&#x2
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by yongjik 8mo ago
It was also a "complicated issue" for 300 lawmakers of Korea on the night of the martial law declaration, especially since they had so little information and had only hours to act. For all they knew, Yoon could be starting a war,
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by yongjik 8mo ago
> Two Korean presidents were sentenced to death and were pardoned in the 90s. The important context is that these two presidents were Chun Doo-hwan and his successor Roh Tae-Woo, who led the military coup of December 12th (1979), seizing
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by yongjik 8mo ago
I can't believe I'm defending Yoon, but this was one issue where Yoon identified the correct problem, and all those doctors were clearly in the wrong. But because there are so few doctors, things like emergency rooms were always

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