auganov

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by auganov 3y ago
Mainstream psychology is basically a more popular version of scientology with "therapy" instead of "auditing". Can you guess what my politics are more likely to be based off that sentiment? If so, then that tells you all
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by auganov 3y ago
The insidious thing is "you aren't prompting it correctly" is kind of a truism. For every possible output there almost certainly is a prompt that produces it (at worst you can just tell it exactly what to output verbatim). Th
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by auganov 3y ago
These kinds of arguments come up a lot when it comes to homeschooling. But would anyone follow the same logic when picking a school? There are certainly nice schools that don't have too many of these problems. Are these bad choices the
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by auganov 4y ago
I'll have to agree with this comment by "Jason": Victor Mair quoting a colleague said: "In 1998 when the reformist president, Mohamad Khatami, came to power he tried to eliminate this slogan from the political s
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by auganov 4y ago
These two parameters you're mentioning were chosen to optimize for startup performance. By definition, they have to be preselected. I may be wrong, but it sounds to me like you're under the false impression that this quoted stuff
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by auganov 4y ago
Why does 7 + 51 equal 59? 7+51 is an addition problem. Addition is a math operation that takes two numbers (7 and 51 in this case) and combines them together. The answer to this addition problem is 59. This is because 7 plus 51 is
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by auganov 4y ago
If you're content with where you are then that's fine. I won't claim it's going to be easy to change things. But I do think there are few things you could change that will nearly guarantee success: - There's no good
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by auganov 4y ago
> The thing is, I'm never full. I can eat until I physically can't eat anymore (not something I do regularly, of course), and as soon as my stomach has emptied a bit, I feel fairly hungry again. "Eat until you feel full&qu
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by auganov 4y ago
Check it for rust. If you've got structural rust, you can't even assume the original safety characteristics anymore.
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by auganov 4y ago
That's fine we can call it discipline (which some in the weight loss debate believe is impossible to cultivate, not myself). The point is, if there is indeed a conceptually simple way to increase intelligence, there's no inherent
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by auganov 4y ago
In case of losing weight, it very much does. You don't even need to do anything, you need to not eat (as much). Given high heritability of obesity it may very well be that some genetic configurations make it harder to stop eating. Pl
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by auganov 4y ago
The most trivial brain training exercises routinely show major increases in IQ scores. Those who favor a static hypothesis (and they seem to be the majority) like to simply assume these are fake gains. But without ground truth, there's
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by auganov 4y ago
Either the language model would need to know what it's doing or the host program would have to know what the AI is doing. Both seem out of reach. The latter seems more doable since you could hack something up for simple scenarios, but
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by auganov 4y ago
I don't think you'll find much love between the two nowadays. Modern science likes to make allusions to being the "truth" or at least based on some logical rigor. Back in the day you had someone like Godel be buddies wit
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by auganov 4y ago
If I was a sincere believer in the threat of CO2 driven global warming I'd want: - better temperature measurement tech (even the data can be controversial, big problem) - better measurement tech for all potentially relevant fac
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by auganov 4y ago
Knowledge needs to be cheaper to verify than to produce. Otherwise it's simply not worthwhile to produce at all. Choosing to trust "authority" doesn't fix anything. One still has to be the smartest person in the world at
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by auganov 4y ago
I think people underestimate how verbal ability develops well into old age. Some of it may carry over across languages but most probably doesn't. If one truly does speak multiple languages with similar proficiency, it's reasonable
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by auganov 4y ago
I'd avoid any explicit targeting of the EU and call it a day. You can always block the EU later if GDPR trolls become a problem. B2B should be low risk. It appears to me GDPR "compliance" is a guessing game and hardly guarant
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by auganov 4y ago
Of course the arabs in this area deserve better. Pretending Israel is the oppressor is not empathizing. Nor is believing in fake history in which some Palestinian state (or even major population) has ever existed. They're victims of PA
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by auganov 4y ago
> You don't need to be part of the "community" to use a mechanical keyboard, it doesn't have to be a hobby, normally mechanical keyboards don't need maintenance and last longer than rubber domes. I never consider
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by auganov 4y ago
> Also: for every student where this might make sense you will get 3 or 4 that really overestimate themselves with a nearly narcissistic inability of judging their own ability. You know, the type that would like to construct the equivale
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by auganov 4y ago
Is there actually some way to win real money in this game? Seems like you can only win in-game stuff and cannot cash out? Traditional gamblers seem easier to understand. All you need is some magical thinking about randomness or probability
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by auganov 4y ago
Gilder co-founded Discovery so you'd have to assume this essay is somewhat representative of the kind of thinking that inspired its creation. I've read plenty of Gilder and I honestly don't know what his exact views on the or
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by auganov 4y ago
When people go to a grocery store does it really make sense to think about evolution and natural selection? Every part of the modern food shopping experience has been designed by humans. Even the food itself. It's strange to consider a
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by auganov 4y ago
Epigenetics are interesting, but is finasteride's epigentic action uniquely interesting? Not too familiar with the latest on epigenetics, but a few quick Google searches suggest nearly every heavily-researched drug produces some kind o
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by auganov 4y ago
Most of the alleged finasteride side effects are perfectly vague things that happen to people all the time for all kinds of reasons. While there are plausible (logically, not in terms of empirical evidence) arguments for how finasteride co
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by auganov 4y ago
20M to put a bunch of easily available communist movies (to which they already owned copyrights?!) on a website. Why not "preserve heritage" by "restoring" pre-war movies that have been mostly forgotten and actually do n
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by auganov 4y ago
In the big scheme of things, it's not the absolute easiest, but vs "Türkiye" there's no contest. Tur-key Tür-ki-ye 2 vs 3 syllables. "Tür" with the umlaut cannot be possibly easier than "Tur&qu
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by auganov 4y ago
Terrible branding. Going from a high-recognition, easy to pronounce and spell name to this. It's pretty well-established simple names always perform better. If the Turkish government was very liberal perhaps it would earn them some goo
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by auganov 4y ago
There is no coherent legal argument for universal CJEU supremacy. Most EU members implement EU law as simple bills or treaties. Most constitutions assert themselves to be the supreme law and require a super majority to amend them. To assert

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