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by beefield 3y ago
> This is so obvious to everyone who has used their ad system. This. I tried once and am still a bit confused if I understood it correctly. Google seemed to refuse "too low" bids completely for no other disclosed reason than t
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by beefield 3y ago
> Can't achieve your "AGI" without that. Can I ask, what makes you so confident on that? For all I know (which is admittably not much), current AI may be going to a direction completely orthogonal to achieving AGI.
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by beefield 3y ago
I have a feeling that it is more like 99% of people are insane 5% of time. Or if not insane, at least forgetting the principle of charity. And given that a typical social media text does not contain all nuances, someone is interpreting the
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by beefield 3y ago
> Except that with our current systems we involve a lot of lawyers, banks, and notaries, that to a large degree would be dis-intermediated into code. I don't quite see how it could be a significant share of workload that would go to
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by beefield 3y ago
I can walk to a bank and have a loan without any collateral. If I put a car or a house or a company as a collateral, I get a discount in the interest rate. Can I do that with crypto? To be clear, those products, lending money without fiat c
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by beefield 3y ago
> IMO, Ethereum is actually doing a fantastic job at moving itself forward. The issue with Bitcoin has always been the lack of innovation to overcome its fundamental problems. Ethereum isn't afraid to do what needs to be done to bec
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by beefield 3y ago
> If a business is known to offer 10% settlements after 2 years... that predictability will eventually be taken advantage of. Yep. And the next order effect is that the business stops selling bad debt and sits on it. And eventually start
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by beefield 3y ago
> Once one tier fails to collect, they'll sell on the debt I think there should be a law stating that if your debt is sold to a third party and you are not offered to settle with the same amount than the third party was paying, the
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by beefield 3y ago
Closest to non-junk that I know might be buying allowances out from EU emissions trading system. And even that I am not quite sure.
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by beefield 3y ago
> hallucinations of regular ChatGPT worries me to no end Why? I mean, I see very much potential in LLM providing hints to doctors based on the symptoms about things the doctors would not think themselves. I also assume doctors would quit
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by beefield 3y ago
The easiest is to look where the money is. Might be risky to let your custo^H products hide the pages where you have most revenue generating ads.
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by beefield 3y ago
Not only just as easily, but much more easily assuming somewhat functioning democracy.
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by beefield 3y ago
This is something important that people do not seem to grasp. Intelligence is a really high dimensional thing. Even the ones that are highly intelligent in some dimensions are dumb as rock in vast majority of other dimensions. So we all are
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by beefield 3y ago
> It's weird to say, but we should crash the economy if it can slow down climate change. It can't. I did the numbers some time ago [1], and they are bad. If you take electricity as a proxy, western countries consume something l
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by beefield 3y ago
We very rarely need specific minerals. We need energy, nutrition, conducting materials etc. Most of these needs we can fulfil with many different minerals. And the amlunt of all [1] minerals in earths crust is staggering compared to any for
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by beefield 3y ago
Oh yeah, and even then: https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/kaust-spinout-wil... We have not run out of any mineral ever and I don't believe we ever will.
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by beefield 3y ago
I was referring his claims about electrification of glo al car fleet. Now that you mention, he had also some claims about lithium needs for replacing all fossil production with lithium batteries, baut also there the assumptions were not so
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by beefield 3y ago
I find his work not so credible. He seems to assume LFP does not exist as a viable alternative for nickel/cobolt requiring chemistries. and He's also missing that the lithium reserves keep on increasing on a rapid pace. (I refer t
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by beefield 3y ago
I solved that by buying a tv that was on sale (sales guy warned that they have gotten lots of returns because the smart features were somehow not so good on the model) and promptly never connected it to internet. So far no ads outside tv ch
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by beefield 3y ago
The most low hanging fruit for seasonal storage is most likely thermal storage connected to district heating. At least technologically, not 100% sure on economics, but given the scalability laws (heat loss scales to square and heat capacity
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by beefield 3y ago
It's a bit funny that at the same time it doesn't sound good reason to an adult, it is one of the main reasons adults buy all kind of stuff themselves. Keeping up with Joneses...
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by beefield 3y ago
> EV chargers aren't this "dumb" for one simple reason: they need to be able to charge you for the power used. A dumb outlet, if metered properly, would still need some app or something to be able to restrict you from just
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by beefield 3y ago
> brands like Shimano have "generations" of motors, each going with specific batteries (with baka yoke features and no other engineering) And the different gen batteries even look and fit the same, the first time you figure the
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by beefield 3y ago
I have a kobo libra. What would be the easiest way to get terminal app (with ssh client as a minimum) running on that? I'm thinking it would be a nice really thin client with low energy consumption.
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by beefield 3y ago
I don't have any excuses but being non native in english having exposure to both British and US english seems to confuse my brain.
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by beefield 3y ago
> LLMs won't get intelligent. That's a fact based on their MO. I kind of agree. However, I see a real possibility that in the near future LLM behaviour would be practically indistinguishable from intelligent/sentient behav
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by beefield 3y ago
I would propose a regulation that if a food package somehow mentions there is not something (sugar, fat, artificial sweeteners etc) in the food, but the food contains some other element of the same list, the thing that is contained should b
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by beefield 3y ago
> Financial services is particularly interesting as a study case as it is almost 100% information processing, hence fully "disruptable". Why is it not happening? I'm not sure I agree finance has not been disrupted. I can i
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by beefield 3y ago
...or it tells how easy it is to sell insurance to the parents of newborns
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by beefield 3y ago
> we do that because everybody loves a philanthropist giving. Count me out. I have a really unpopular opinion that philanthropy is nothing more nothing less than entertainment for the giver. There is no difference between me buing a mo

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