agentofoblivion

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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
I’m sure you can, but you can qualify for loans that do not make for a happy life. You start calculating CA taxes and what that monthly house payment is with todays interest rates and I don’t think you’ll be feeling rich. Broad strokes: whi
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
$800k sounds like a lot of money, and it is of course. I considered chasing it, because it’s within the realm of possibility for me. But when I looked at housing in the area, I was shocked to find that $800k was not enough. Regular ol’ hous
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
Downvotes by those that were in on the hysteria and don’t like to have to face that about themselves.
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
If your algorithm worked better, don’t you think that would be the algorithm? You think those models don’t consider recent sales?
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
This article works hard to paint one picture, and then presents arguments and evidence to the contrary. It’s basically a sob story about local musicians and ski lift operators not being able to afford housing, as if that’s a new problem. Th
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
a.k.a., "that's not real communism".
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
I remember reading plenty of thought pieces a few years ago saying this was impossible, and that Uber was a house of cards gaining market share by subsidizing rides with investor money. That there were no economies of scale to bring costs
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
Headline in 5 years: “Endowments from alumni down 50% and no one knows why!”
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
Yes, pride -> fall, I get it. Although it's the celebration of the fall from the sidelines that I'm questioning. I can feel the spite in your words--towards me, towards Musk, and the "other side", which are a facele
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
I’m pretty sure those are supposed to be moral lessons, not misery porn. But hey, you seem to openly accept the idea of enjoying another’s suffering, and I admire that kind of honesty. I hope it doesn’t end up causing you misery.
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
I watched a few of these a long time ago. Looking at the list of videos, it's funny that nearly half of them are basically, "I've lived here X months now!" I guess not much happens in ghost towns.
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
That's not how science works though. You generate a hypothesis about how something works, and then you execute an experiment that's designed to directly test the hypothesis as much as possible. If we had to just rely on slicing
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
OK, but for a rapidly emerging super intelligence to occur, it seems like all of the relevant problems would need to be of that second type, and that's far from obviously true, and I would argue is much more likely to not be true.
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
You hit the nail on the head, and I train transformers for a living. This pervasive axiom that intelligence can just scale exponentially at a rapid pace is rarely questioned or even stated as an assumption. It's far from clear that t
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
My primary argument is that we not only don't have the answers, but don't even really have well posed questions. We're talking about "General Intelligence" as if we even know what that is. Some people, like Yann L
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
Maybe I'm not "the average HN commenter" because I am deep in this field, but I think the overlap of what these famous experts know, and what you need to know to make the doomer claims is basically null. And in fact, for mos
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
You’re drinking from the academic marketing koolaid. Please tell me: where are these methods being applied in AI systems today? And I’m so tired of this “transformers are just GNNs” nonsense that Petar has been pushing (who happens to have
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
Give me a break. Very interesting theoretical work and all, but show me where it's actually being used to do anything of value, beyond publication fodder. You could also say MLPs are proved to be universal approximators, and can ther
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
What? Have you seen police in real life? When I see them, shit is going down, which is why they were called and turned on those flashy emergency lights.
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
Not sure why you’re downvoted—the evidence is in your favor. This whole thread is basically about the EU not being brought along in what most consider a tech revolution, and it’s likely a direct response to their laws that are well intentio
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
This is the web privacy version of, “but that wasn’t REAL communism.” Look, you guys made a law, and what happened happened. When someone criticizes the law because of the consequences it led to, you don’t get to whine, “but it was the fau
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
If you have to finance it, in what way is it a modest car? It’s not as if people are financing $2000 junkers. I’ve paid cash for every car I’ve owned, including when I was a teenager flipping burgers. Why aren’t these 59% buying junkers i
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
That’s incoherent. If you want to buy a home, but cant right now, financing a vehicle is an issue. You’re not “spending your money elsewhere”, you’re taking major debt to drive something you can’t afford, and paying dearly for it at the cos
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
So 66% say homeownership is hopeless and 59% say they are focused on the goal of owning…a car? Yes, if you’re currently unable to own a car, I can see why home ownership would appear hopeless. I’m sorry, but I just don’t have the empathy.
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
Even beyond the treatment, the whole idea that you could not like the consumption preferences of individuals, and then game the system by mandating more of what you wished people liked is so dystopian.
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
Is someone stopping Canadians from consuming content created by Canadians?
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
It’s astounding to me that the bulk of replies in this thread are supportive. Yay big government! Yay Brave New World!
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
I made an online course over a 6 month period and then did a little over $40k in revenue the first year. It’s slowed down quite a bit now. Haven’t decided if I’ll do it again or not. It was quite a bit of work, and having a full time job an
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
Similarly, I find it effective to simply writing down what the next step is, and what’s interesting/challenging about it in a couple sentences. It seems to directly solve the problem that this “trick” is indirectly solving, which is re
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by agentofoblivion 3y ago
Wonderful! Just went through the GPT video the other day and it was great. Andrej has a talent for pedagogy via simplification.

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