brindlejim

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by brindlejim 9mo ago
why is it news that a guy quits when his boss changes, and a company doesn't do enough to criticize itself? the internet is flooded with information about the risk that AI poses to jobs. cunningham now works at one of the places that l
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by brindlejim 2y ago
The political changes that lead to the talent exodus from Goettingen are not, in fact, so different from the ideological oaths required by much of US academia now, and seem to me to be a great way to eliminate our centers of intellectual br
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by brindlejim 3y ago
> Who cares if they’re all women? What difference does it make? One of my main beefs is the mismatch between the headline "Brilliant Thinkers ..." and the contents of the page. If they had labeled their page accurately "Br
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by brindlejim 3y ago
It's just pure sexism, an exercise in performative feminism. More absurdly, these people appear to have no idea how the dead researchers they feature actually thought. No archival references or citations to work in the original languag
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by brindlejim 3y ago
The funniest part of the OpenAI post is where someone comes in breathlessly and says "hey have you read this ACX post on why we shouldn't open source AGI" to the guy who's literally been warning everybody about AGI for d
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by brindlejim 3y ago
Some form of at least partial superiority is inherent in the notion of "helping", as is a power dynamic. You say that your colleague's diversity-focused activity gets results, and my question is: what results? A more diverse
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by brindlejim 3y ago
A "sincere desire to help" is a form of self-validation, a move to serve the socially ambitious, and a show of power, in that "helping" implies superiority. It would be great if educators they could separate the search f
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by brindlejim 3y ago
University faculty-activists are a perfect example of elite overproduction a la Turchin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction We create small, smart cadres of people who watch power and wealth pass them b
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by brindlejim 3y ago
No kidding. As they say on Twitter: "What did you think decolonization meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?" Racialism is the stovepipe for the revolution.
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by brindlejim 3y ago
Great answer. Thank you.
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by brindlejim 3y ago
Does the college remain a pipeline to good schools? In the past, a very significant portion of the student body, some years the majority, transferred to tier-one, four-year universities (Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, Cal, Chicago, Stanford
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by brindlejim 3y ago
The brothel (The Cotton Tail Ranch) closed many years ago. Another neat thing about the "bus stop" was that the phone booth gave you no way to dial. There was no number pad. You'd pick it up, and the call would go straight to
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by brindlejim 3y ago
TASP was renamed TASS a couple years ago, and it now offers only two seminars: Critical Black Studies and Anti-Oppressive Studies. The program has been taken over by woke radicals both on its board and in the administration, which is led by
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by brindlejim 3y ago
It's almost as though your physical surroundings are your true phenotype, creating a whole-brain activation with memory cues that disappear when you leave the room. The edges of the self are blurred.
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by brindlejim 3y ago
China runs on Intel chips like everyone else. It's AI researchers beg for Nvidia chips like everyone else. And its mobile companies use Android. Chips that break away from those standards have little chance of success.
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by brindlejim 3y ago
I'm surprised by the cluelessness of most replies here, given that this is HN. Hardware is only as useful as the software that can run on it. Radically new hardware requires rewrites of certain layers of that software. Ain't nobod
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by brindlejim 3y ago
Software determines whether good hardware succeeds or fails. China has yet to build successful software ecosystems on top of its hardware innovations.
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by brindlejim 3y ago
DJI has been delivering payloads in Ukraine for some time now.
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by brindlejim 3y ago
When I consider how much specious, fallacy-riddled reasoning is produced by EAs, all hunkered in their AI bomb shelters praying for and against the end, I suspect that the "problem" that Scott's friends face is not learned ep
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by brindlejim 3y ago
Anyone interested in the military transformation of Europe and really Eurasia should read John Keegan's excellent "History of Warfare." https://www.amazon.com/History-Warfare-John-Keegan/dp/067973...
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by brindlejim 3y ago
context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren%27t_Real
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by brindlejim 3y ago
This is fantastic. The nursing home industry is dirty and sad, with for-profit groups squeezing every cent they can out of seniors who can't advocate for themselves, out of their families, and ultimately out of the taxpayer. They do th
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by brindlejim 3y ago
Intel spent more than a decade under Otellini, Krzanich and Swan. Bean counters. Gelsinger was appointed out of desperation, but the problem runs much deeper. I doubt that culture is gone. It has already cost Intel many opportunities.
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by brindlejim 3y ago
Fun fact: More than half of all engineers at NVIDIA are software engineers. Jensen has deliberately and strategically built a powerful software stack on top of his GPUs, and he's spent decades doing it. Until Intel finds a CEO who is a
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by brindlejim 3y ago
Reeks of self-pity. At what point does Monroe own her choices and their consequences? She did have a child while she was economically precarious, and chose to. No one forced her.
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by brindlejim 3y ago
I find this supposed expose profoundly underwhelming. So a bunch of people collaborated on private channels to promote a point of view? That happens about 10 thousand times per week. We're all living in nested, overlapping and opposing
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by brindlejim 3y ago
To the folks who want to cut Anduril slack, let me just say that these cost 5-6x a Shahed. In war, like in chess, if you manage to trade crappy little pieces for rare big pieces, you win. And if you decide that your strategy is to trade exp
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by brindlejim 3y ago
It's hilarious that Anduril is proposing "more affordable" defense gear. They are a prime wrapped in VC funding, and like most defense contractors, they are egregiously overpriced compared to the cost of materials. I can see
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by brindlejim 3y ago
The repetition of a false analogy does not make it true. They are no more neurons than transistors are "little brain cells". This is just shorthand for outsiders who can't hope to understand. But on HN, we have technologists.
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by brindlejim 3y ago
This is egregiously false. ML models are math and code. They are not tissue; there are no neurons in an ML model. None. The analogy is false. And it is used here to make you think that ML models are more human than they are, or more superhu

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