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by ajb 3d ago
Economic activity is a flow, not a stock. There might well be a bubble, but you can't prove it like that.
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by ajb 7d ago
Seems dubious. If you build an intelligence that wants to die, isn't that a form of suffering? AI's don't currently have the capacity to feel pain, and so we don't treat them as moral patients. But it's clear that
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by ajb 7d ago
Fair enough- I did wander rather far from the topic
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by ajb 8d ago
This is often not useful advice, as it is common to acquire responsibility for a tree than has been badly managed. The GP's link actually gives a solution for this case: pruning more accurately over a slightly longer period. More gener
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by ajb 9d ago
To be fair it's going to be nontrivial to implement all the codes everywhere. In some cases it's going to be impossible for an app like this to judge - In the UK, for example, there are "permitted development" rights whi
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by ajb 14d ago
It would be catastrophic if they violated confidentiality blatantly, but that doesn't exclude learning of any description. For example, an ordinary human being can't fork a subagent for a particular client and wipe it afterwards.
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by ajb 15d ago
It's free like ads are free. Or certain kinds of advice.
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by ajb 17d ago
The UK was one of the largest members of the EU, and as such had a substantial say over it's direction and policies; and as the EU is a major economic power, consequently that is power in the world as well. That is, it's governmen
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by ajb 17d ago
There is a dilemma, but I don't think it's loss of legitimacy so much as authority. They are quite similar but not the same; an institution that loses authority but is still legitimate, and there is potential for it to regain auth
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by ajb 17d ago
This is true. However there's a potential way to fix it, and it would only take one member state, no matter how small to start the landslide. And it's basically the same thing that happened to the US Senate. The Senate, like the
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by ajb 23d ago
It's actually prescribed for that: https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/peppermint-oil/
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by ajb 24d ago
The only person I know that lived near there had fibromyalgia, and had deliberately moved there from NY as they felt better in that climate. So YMMV I guess. They didn't actually live in phoenix, don't know how much difference tha
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by ajb 27d ago
Yeah, I realize that my comment could be taken as implying that people's "revealed preference" is to lose their autonomy to AI. No, that would be a bad thing. What I meant was really that people fail to recognise the potentia
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by ajb 27d ago
I suspect that people would prefer answers by AI *even if they were actually written by a human". Social animals, above a certain intelligence, are wary of deception by members of the same species. Computer programs, websites, and now
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by ajb 28d ago
Has the title changed since you wrote this? It doesn't seem misleading to me. Misleading would be if it still wasn't fully open source. "It was partly open before" doesn't seem like it's worth a big warning. Bu
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by ajb 1mo ago
Do you really think they aren't? Do you think Amazon are carefully culling rare books from the list? Although, we have to face the fact that the 'indie' book industry isn't necessarily preserving stuff either. I was rece
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by ajb 1mo ago
Why would you not want a mudguard? I personally prefer having one to getting a stripe of mud up my back. Is there a better way to avoid that?
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by ajb 1mo ago
I agree that we should able to be fully in control of what we run on our machines, but that should also include being able to decide who we trust to mark , or gatekeep, code as trustworthy. Both having to run code from any random website, a
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by ajb 1mo ago
... the greatest danger to us is masterless men ; lacking a coercive power to tie their hands, they would destroy society. How else but by binding to lord and master can they be held to the laws? So thought men during feudal times. In fac
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by ajb 1mo ago
I guess part of the point is that it's not subject to the constraints of what you could actually do, so you can make it even more impressive. It's propaganda, after all.
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by ajb 1mo ago
My high school computing teacher had a chemistry degree, from back around then. There was so much expectation about computers, that when the chemicals he was doing his phd on seemed to have some kind of nonlinear behaviour, his supervisor g
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by ajb 1mo ago
People have a bad intuition about economic mechanisms, but that does not mean that AI won't cause huge regressive effects. The transition from independent artisans to factory work didn't cause massive unemployment. But it cause th
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by ajb 1mo ago
I think this is a good observation, but I think the diagnosis is slightly wrong. I don't think the process of becoming dismissive of opinions different to yours is limited to those with "extremist" views. The people who agree
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by ajb 1mo ago
You could actually look at the sources before dismissing them as a conspiracy theory. It took less than 2 seconds to click through to the patent, of which the very first claim is: - 1. A method of reducing the period before the onset of sle
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by ajb 1mo ago
There is a rumour that the high doses are because the correct dose was under patent. I can only find that in a comment here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th... but I could have sw
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by ajb 1mo ago
The one thing that gives me concern in their is "nanoda [the external proof checker] is [now] tracked daily". Although that would have caught this issue, we also now live in a world in which some model is going to think that hacki
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by ajb 1mo ago
This is a moving tribute. Stephen Wolfram's writing often has certain faults, which I mention only to be able to say that he has here transcended them; this is a genuine and heartfelt piece of writing which makes me feel sad for his
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by ajb 2mo ago
That's a likely motivation, but it's worth pointing out that it's against one of the HN community's other values: thinking things through properly, not just picking an option. The hacker mindset values understanding how
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by ajb 2mo ago
FWIW I have seen wind damage to a brick building, but with a shade sail, which while having a similar purpose is typically larger than a typical awning (although an awning on every window might approach the same load).
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by ajb 2mo ago
Small ones like this may be fine, but buildings (especially old ones) may have surprisingly small margin for extra wind load laterally. What seems like a cheap option could require an expensive structural analysis, or an even more expensive

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