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EDIT: about half to two thirds of the responders didn't catch "I'm not a fan of these proposed solutions." I am not saying I like these solutions. I am trying to explain why they have support among the general public. Ma
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Sending a microscope is easier said than done. Many natural structures can look like bacteria, and vice versa. If there's more complex single celled life then we might see stuff swimming around but that's considered unlikely close
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by api 3mo ago
I do this manually with a desktop app called BoltAI that lets you continue the whole conversation at your LLM of choice.
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by api 3mo ago
Why is this a hard rule? I know people who have had miraculous benefits from psych meds. No downside. Using them for years. Or if there is a downside it’s massively outweighed by the upside.
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by api 3mo ago
A central flaw in the Nobel is that it rewards one or two people for what is often the work of teams.
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Liars like to lie, and you often see them express what's called "duper's delight" at fooling people. Dark triad types (narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths) will often lie about petty things just to get off on their abil
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by api 3mo ago
To me it looks like the periodic table. There's an underlying set of levers in terms of quantum characteristics of fields, but not all settings of these levers are stable. This is just like how only atoms with certain combos of protons
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by api 3mo ago
Fine tuning and updating is far cheaper than training from scratch.
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The point I was making is that this isn't bad AI books made by people trying to make books. This is scam content made by spammers and hustlers.
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The big companies want this. It's a moat for them, a way to keep competitors (especially overseas) out of the US market. They might try to extend it to downloadable open weight models, but honestly they might not even bother with that.
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by api 3mo ago
There was a window where new authors could break in with blogging and self publishing. Andy Weir (The Martian, Project Hail Mary, and the bad one that shall not be named) got started this way I think. That window is now closed. If I wanted
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by api 3mo ago
The category of thing is not new. The level of industrialization and quantity is new. Slop on social media also predates AI but at least back then someone had to make it… usually people in poorer countries using it to game algorithms for mo
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by api 3mo ago
These are not made by people who care. It’s a scam basically. Spamming Amazon with slop is a current hustle culture thing. There’s guides, probably AI generated and not proofread, explaining how to do it. They obviously have tricks to game
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by api 3mo ago
Media seems like one of the domains where capitalism and the profit motive works the least, the other being a lot of health care. In media it seems to be an immediate race to the bottom that converges on dopamine generating chum and slop. A
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by api 3mo ago
This is definitely a dated comment, yes. I believe it is true today and probably will be for a while, but probably not forever. The spec is the new code. I expect that in 5 years I will rarely write actual code. I will write specs and herd
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by api 3mo ago
They're not all the same. I'm not saying they're all great. In a democracy, especially when you face only a few options, it's always a lesser of two evils choice. I've never voted for someone I thought was great.
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by api 3mo ago
Better metrics are transistors/mm^2, performance/watt, and raw performance, since at this point "nm" is fluff and easily game-able. Different companies measure it differently too. This was a while ago, but I remember rea
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I think "AI is replacing art" is a category error. If I read a book or look at a piece of art or listen to music, the whole point is to receive the thoughts, feelings, and lived experience of a human being. But yes, AI is supplant
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by api 3mo ago
One of my 2024 predictions was that Trump would push through the biggest tax increase in history, and that his anti-tax base would cheer it. (Deficit spending doesn't exist and tax increases aren't tax increases if a Republican is
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The hard-core heavy-duty hate is all economic. People are angry about economic issues like low wages and unaffordable real estate but we've been beaten into learned helplessness on those things. Nothing can be done. Both parties are ba
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by api 3mo ago
Much like self-driving cars being better than drunk, incompetent, or texting human drivers, AI software is generally better than the garbage churned out by code monkeys who don't care or cheap lowest bidder outsourcers. It's nowhe
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by api 3mo ago
AI is awesome tech but it’s also to some extent mass piracy. The models are trained on huge amounts of material with dubious or non existent rights. I have a hard time being concerned about “you pirated my piracy.” I hold the view that many
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It's great for testing and QA automation for UIs. It's also possibly good for the vision impaired.
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I just had an LLM synthesize a complete app UI from spec. It did a decent job.
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You’re comparing crypto and LLMs?
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That would give us efficient desktop apps that don’t need a JavaScript runtime.
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Death and suffering are “natural.” These people are all delusional ideologues. If reality does not match the ideology, reality must be wrong.
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This is true but also false. It’s true that things could be slow on those old machines, especially when it had to hit disk. It’s true that things were often single threaded and would stall. But what’s also true is that this old code was ord
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I’ve wondered if this belongs on the Fermi paradox pile. Many biospheres may be more massive planets that are so hard to get off that a space enterprise never starts. Meanwhile lighter planets might have trouble holding onto atmospheres.
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Did anyone ever say Chernobyl was the safest reactor? It didn’t even have a containment building. I recall reading that the Soviet designs were regarded as poor at the time. I don’t totally disagree though. You can reduce it to economics. N

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