allturtles

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by allturtles 10d ago
I don't think it requires the agreement of that many parties. How many organizations/physical sites can create chips capable of training and running frontier models? That is your bottleneck. It is equivalent to targeting uranium e
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by allturtles 10d ago
> if you have any strategic adversaries whatsoever you MUST NOT slow. What if the most dangerous strategic adversary you have is the one you are building?
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by allturtles 15d ago
This is a power they already have. Google could ignore this change just as MapQuest has done. They are not legally compelled to follow government naming conventions, and I think it would be a clear first amendment violation to attempt to co
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by allturtles 15d ago
> No, they show what the respective government datasets contain Which matches popular usage in the respective countries. Your example is a non sequitir for explaining why matching popular usage can't possibly work. For the popular u
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by allturtles 15d ago
> Choosing one via popular usage would not be a good solution. Huh? Isn't that exactly what you've described? In the UK they show the popular usage in the UK, and the same in France.
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by allturtles 26d ago
This is exactly the kind of pointless concern I'm talking about. How many legal digitial providers of those rare books are there now? Zero, I believe. It's the logic of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face, which p
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by allturtles 26d ago
Yes, this was a great tragedy. I was very sad to see academics at the time arguing against Google providing what would have been one of the greatest storehouses of readily available knowledge in the world, in favor of an imaginary alternati
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by allturtles 26d ago
There is so much misinformation/confusion about this... they go sued after lending "unlimited" copies, but they were sued (and lost) for lending exclusive copies (controlled digital lending): > “At bottom, [the Interne
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by allturtles 27d ago
> Although I appreciate the article, what's the deal with calling depth thickness? Possibly riffing on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thick_description ?
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by allturtles 27d ago
> Like if you read Dickens, will you know enough about the industrial revolution, the condition of cities at the time, and such? We did talk about these things in English class in high school. The teachers would lay out the historical&#x
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by allturtles 1mo ago
This person is not named, unless you consider Skeleton 150 a name. 'known' is the appropriate word here.
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by allturtles 1mo ago
Some do. It all comes down to whether the local government cares/thinks about this when setting up ordinances and approving PUDs. I was also appalled when I moved from a place that did this to one that didn't. There were so many o
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by allturtles 2mo ago
Whatever the merits of the rules themselves (which I think are estimable), the OSR "ecosystem" is buoyed up by a huge network effect. I would wager that just the list of official D&D modules from the 80s, all of which are easi
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by allturtles 2mo ago
This dataset is bad. The North Carolina state capitol is a castle?
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by allturtles 2mo ago
> But it's a paradox that on HN, Google gets far more hate than any of these. There is no paradox. This is Hacker News. It's a site of by and for people in the tech industry. Of course Google's activities (good and bad) ge
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by allturtles 3mo ago
So someone introduces a new, problematic feature to a long-existing technical system, and your answer is to "just" reorganize all of society to eliminate that system?
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by allturtles 4mo ago
That's what the robots with guns will be for.
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by allturtles 5mo ago
> he article doesn't sell it that way. "You should play modern board games if ..." would be a different claim. Indeed, but neither does the article try say you should play games with "20 different piles of crap to set
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by allturtles 5mo ago
I think the lesson to learn from this is that different people are different? While most people are repulsed by the complexity of extremely heavy games, others will luxriate in them. There is a whole 40-year-old community built around Advan
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by allturtles 5mo ago
> Using a 1960s book as a benchmark feels weird to me. I'd expect books to be more expensive when they come out and less expensive when they're the fiftieth low-cost reprint 60 years later. Well it doesn't matter. Even if
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by allturtles 5mo ago
I see this kind of take a lot, and I don't think it's convincing. To me it's similar to saying that the water frame and the power loom won't change anything, because people have been able to make thread and cloth for mil
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by allturtles 5mo ago
You described a want, not a need. How often does this actually come up? If your friends are frequently having "emergencies" that prevent them from meeting you, they may not be good friends.
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by allturtles 6mo ago
Yeah there are quite a few exceptions to this. I've been (re-)reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb , and two of the four people directly involved in the discovery and explanation of nuclear fission were 60 (Hahn and Meitner) the othe
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by allturtles 6mo ago
The industrial revolution is coming for white collar work. I'm finding Marx more and more relevant these days: "So soon as the handling of this tool becomes the work of a machine, then, with the use-value, the exchange-value too,
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by allturtles 6mo ago
> You might be able to argue he was a bigger star than any of them. I think that's a hard argument to make. Candace Bergen's career was just as long. Her first movie role was 1966, she was nominated for an Oscar in 1979, and sh
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by allturtles 6mo ago
I can't speak for jn6118, but for me the reason I tend to avoid used books unless there is no other option is the lack of reliable quality standards. Used book listings rarely come with pictures of the actual item being sold, and the s
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by allturtles 6mo ago
I hadn't considered that. I can see how without modern conveniences the tradeoff would make sense.
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by allturtles 6mo ago
Fascinating. I'm not sure what would drive someone to do this, since until the child can actually go to the toilet on their own, you haven't achieved the actual point (IMO) of the training.
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by allturtles 6mo ago
> My mom toilet trained me at 3 months. Is this a typo? I don't see how it could be physically possible for a three-month-old to be toilet trained. Among other things, they can't sit up on a toilet seat or walk to the bathroom.
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by allturtles 8mo ago
Because they are irrelevant victim-blaming.

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