Kronopath

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by Kronopath 11mo ago
I want to push back against your pushback as someone who’s lived in both NYC and the SF area. I agree with you that Uber barely made sense in Manhattan. I never once used it and taxis were plentiful. I’ve since realized that in the US, NYC
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by Kronopath 2y ago
It was leaked in 2009 in this Reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/7w0i2/comment/c07k9l...
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by Kronopath 2y ago
Anything that allows AI to scale to superinteligence quicker is going to run into AI alignment issues, since we don’t really know a foolproof way of controlling AI. With the AI of today, this isn’t too bad (the worst you get is stuff like A
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by Kronopath 2y ago
I’m not much of an artist, so for my limited photo manipulation needs Acorn is cheap, subscriptionless, and way more than enough for me: https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
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by Kronopath 2y ago
Yes, but it’s not always perfect. I’ve been notified of an “unknown AirTag” while I was home. When I checked the locations it was seen with me, it was a random zigzag within a block or two of my home. I’m pretty sure what happened is that t
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by Kronopath 2y ago
A better comparison for numerical classifiers would be uncountable nouns. In English, you don’t say “give me three waters”, you say “give me three glasses of water” or “three bottles of water”. You can think of the classifier words as being
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by Kronopath 2y ago
No one should want this.
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by Kronopath 2y ago
This is not good news, this means that we could end up with a dangerously superintelligent AI just by scaling up the number of parameters, without increasing the amount of training data.
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Netflitwitter.com(netflitwitter.com)
14 points by Kronopath 2y ago|4 comments
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by Kronopath 3y ago
Legally, it’s not compulsory. Socially and culturally, it definitely is. In the US, if you don’t tip 15%, you’re either an asshole, or you’re saying there’s severe issues with the service. I’m not going justify this culture—I don’t like it
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by Kronopath 3y ago
Yes.
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by Kronopath 3y ago
In SF, up-front prices have been comparable to Uber’s, except that you don’t have to pay tip, which automatically makes it 15–20% cheaper. The few times I’ve tried it, the service has been good and its driving was safe. The only downside is
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by Kronopath 3y ago
Does this mean they can go on the highways? If so that’s a significant upgrade to the Waymo service in the SF Bay Area, as it can now take you between towns.
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by Kronopath 3y ago
Always has been. Now picture what would have happened if we had been willing to do challenge trials early on for COVID. I encourage you to check out 1DaySooner, which the author mentions at the beginning of the article: https://w
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by Kronopath 3y ago
I managed to kinda break it. I managed to get “Steam Engine” and “Hacker”. I combined those to make “Steam Punk”. (Fair enough.) Everything that’s combined with Steam Punk ends up being stupid and boring. Steam Punk + Zombie = “Steam Zombie
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by Kronopath 3y ago
My take is that Apple’s prepping to have some chock-full content streams for when the Vision Pro or its successors become more mainstream, so that Spatial Audio can become part of the draw for using those devices. I also suspect this is a b
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by Kronopath 3y ago
Chiming in to say that the Ballad of St. Halvor was one of the nicest poems I’ve read in a long while, and kind of inspirational. I think I really needed that.
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by Kronopath 3y ago
The similarity to China isn’t a coincidence. This is all coming from the cultural dominance of TikTok among young people, which (to my knowledge) algorithmically downranks any content that has those words in them. It’s a common Chinese stra
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by Kronopath 3y ago
> Is it rational for a rationalist to want to be a parent, knowing that having a kid rewrite your utility function? You’re making an assumption that their desires (or, if you must, “utility function”) weren’t already in that direction to
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by Kronopath 3y ago
The poster pointed out in a comment that this was listed as “Sold By” a random 3rd party seller called “Ramwest”. Amazon’s interface doesn’t make it easy to see this, but if you’re worried about the products you’re buying, always check for
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Explore/Expand/Extract as Metaphor for Life(kronopath.com)
1 points by Kronopath 3y ago|0 comments
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Product Development Instincts Are Bad for Building Platforms(kronopath.com)
1 points by Kronopath 3y ago|0 comments
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The Correct Way to Do Sentence Spacing (2020)(kronopath.com)
4 points by Kronopath 3y ago|1 comments
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by Kronopath 4y ago
Q: best way to get lots of paperclips by tomorrow A: Buy them online at ABC.com or XYZ.com. Q: whats a better way? A: Run the following shell script. RUN_AI=./query-model PREFIX='This is part of a Shell script to
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by Kronopath 4y ago
I have no idea why people take Ambien when low-dose (<0.5mg) melatonin exists over-the-counter in abundance in the US.
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by Kronopath 4y ago
That pizza graph is extremely misleading. It shows only online pizza sales, not in-person or phone sales. Of course that would be totally dominated by big brands, your local pizza shop can’t afford to develop a website or app for their bu
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by Kronopath 4y ago
That’s because both came from the 2022 General Conference on Weights and Measures of the BIPM. https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/64811223/Resolutions-20...
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by Kronopath 4y ago
> I don't always bring a pen to my mailbox My wife had the actually great idea to leave a pen in the mailbox for this purpose. It works really well.
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by Kronopath 4y ago
After unsuccessfully trying to unsubscribe, I acted quickly and made a Gmail filter to auto-trash any emails with that exact subject line. Here's hoping there's a postmortem at GitHub about this.
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by Kronopath 4y ago
I found it! It's this one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkMCQR4TpY "Many years ago" is an understatement, this is from 2014, the better part of a decade ago.

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