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by zamfi 3y ago
> Even before written language, storytellers decided what oral traditions they would or would not pass on, changing it each time they told it. Replace "social media" with "broadcast networks" or "newspapers"
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by zamfi 3y ago
You do it every day! The Earth itself moves faster than Voyager -- 1.6 million miles per day.
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by zamfi 3y ago
Respectfully, I don't think it's AI hype that is "polarizing the society".
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by zamfi 3y ago
The "nerds" are having their say and arguing it out, mostly outside of the public view but the questions are too nuanced or technical for a general audience. I'm not sure I see how the hype intrudes on that so much? It seems
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by zamfi 3y ago
> it's a shame that tech-weak showmen like Musk and Altman suck up so much discursive oxygen Is it that bad, though? It does mean there's lots of attention (and thus funding, etc.) for AI research, engineering, etc. -- unless y
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by zamfi 3y ago
You're both saying the same thing, which boils down to supply and demand. Supply shocks (e.g., bird flu) result in price rises in the presence of relatively inelastic demand (e.g., consumer staples). In economic terms, "get away w
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by zamfi 3y ago
> How so? They can do it because we taught them, there is no magic. Yeah, no. I mean, we can’t introspect the system to see how it actually does programming at any useful level of abstraction. “Because we taught them” is about as useful
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by zamfi 3y ago
> Of course we understand how they work, we built them! There is no mystery in their mechanisms, we know the number of neurons, their connectivity, everything from the weights to the activation functions. This is not a mystery, this is s
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by zamfi 3y ago
Sure — my point is only that by and large it’s on by default, and you have to actively turn it off (or de-correct manually).
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by zamfi 3y ago
at this point, it's work to keep autocorrect from fixing this.
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by zamfi 3y ago
a habit of a certain era of internet kids.
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by zamfi 3y ago
Not Brockman, Altman.
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by zamfi 3y ago
In Europe, yes. In, fact, European Teslas all come with CCS connectors now. In the USA, though, nearly every major vehicle manufacturer has announced a transition to NACS, the Tesla connector standard.
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by zamfi 3y ago
> because if it hallucinates an API function that doesn't exist Yes, absolutely agree. And also I’m no fanboy but when it does this and I only notice because the code doesn’t run, half the time I’m thinking to myself that the API f
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by zamfi 3y ago
> I cannot just go and give Professor X $10K to do this research and claim a tax writeoff. You absolutely can. These are called “gifts”. Typically, the overhead rate is very low (~10%?) and they are tax deductible as a charitable contrib
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by zamfi 3y ago
I think you missed the part where people describe their lives as miserable. Clearly that isn't you. But this piece isn't making that argument?
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by zamfi 3y ago
This is true of most debt instruments but explicitly not SAFEs, which do not have an interest rate.
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by zamfi 3y ago
> For context, about 1 in 54,000 people will die of a wasp or hornet attack, making that cause twice as risky as this red dye Yes, and we test people for allergy to these attacks, and often those people carry interventions like EpiPens,
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by zamfi 3y ago
Hmm. Would you say the same thing about train or plane crashes, areas that are heavily regulated? Or is the line somewhere between 1 in 100,000 and 6 in 100,000? California has 40 million people. With something as ubiquitous as food dye, th
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by zamfi 3y ago
Sacramento is also the only city on this list that one would consider the “west” in the US today—next closest are St Paul, MN and Galveston, TX.
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by zamfi 3y ago
> remember a 9.0 is 10x the intensity of 8.0 10x the ground movement amplitude — 32x the total energy release, though!
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by zamfi 3y ago
I rode an e-unicycle (EUC) for a few years as my main mode of transport. It was super fun, and after my first year I was really quite good at it, good enough to even dodge a few cars on instinct: my response was entirely unplanned, a reflex
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by zamfi 3y ago
I’m also on the list of the block I live on, and people also text like this on that list… …including, me. On that list. I think part of what’s disquieting is that there is a “formal text English” that exists (and people know about), but peo
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by zamfi 3y ago
Surely you can’t mean “Europe”, you must have a certain country or small set of countries in mind here, and be thinking of a very recent time period.
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by zamfi 3y ago
I think the parent poster is arguing that we should normalize this behavior not that there's no excuse for not calling the number back given the reality we have today. You're saying it's natural for people not to want to ca
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by zamfi 3y ago
Yes, I was just clarifying because PPOs often do allow you to seek out a specialist without a referral, and without requiring preauthorization.
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by zamfi 3y ago
This particular surprise (out-of-network provider in an in-network facility) is getting addressed, albeit slowly -- surprise bills like these are not allowed in many states. But it wouldn't surprise me if they were still coming in unde
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by zamfi 3y ago
> you don't need preauthorizations To be clear, in an HMO you don't need preauthorizations from your insurance but you still need your (not necessarily self-selected) PCP to order care or refer you to a specialist.
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by zamfi 3y ago
> I believe you can get out-of-state covered via out-of-network. But as mentioned, the out-of-pocket max on my plan is shockingly ~6x more for out-of-network than in-network. So you won't pay 90% of $200k, but it will still end up a
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by zamfi 3y ago
Yeah, except this did not change in the '80s and '90s. Also obesity and wealth are typically inversely correlated within developed countries. There's more to the story.

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