ccppurcell

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by ccppurcell 8d ago
I'm going to guess that they have really good predictions, it's just that it doesn't benefit them at all to reveal those to customers.
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by ccppurcell 8d ago
Reading between the lines here, and taking an admittedly very negative view of openai, but they train on user prompts. So if they hear a rumour that someone is about to make a big breakthrough, they have an incentive to scoop by running the
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by ccppurcell 10d ago
I just read that book. Embarrassingly enough, given the context, I got chatgpt (or whatever) to recommend me a list of books based on ones I'd previously enjoyed and that came up. As a mathematician it really sang to me, given the curr
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by ccppurcell 12d ago
Well they brought it upon themselves by making it about being tortured to death etc., instead of the much more reasonable economic and social risks.
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by ccppurcell 14d ago
Weird side swipe at Marx. Or not so weird I guess. Correct me if I'm wrong but I doubt Marx ever predicted that a workers' uprising would lead to classless utopia. It's clearly a necessary but not sufficient condition.
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by ccppurcell 18d ago
That just means it's not their top priority.
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by ccppurcell 24d ago
If you haven't read it already, Fads and Fallacies by Martin Gardner is a great book. A bit more focused on pseudoscience than on cults but Scientology comes up for instance.
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by ccppurcell 28d ago
I've been saying "ask chatgpt" when I don't think I have anything more useful to add.
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by ccppurcell 1mo ago
Do you believe that 30 to 40 Palestinians per night pose an immediate threat? Elsewhen in history, genocidal acts have been justified by claiming a non existent immediate threat (of disease, of economics, of fifth columnists, of terrorism).
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by ccppurcell 2mo ago
Also high pollen count. I am much more sensitive to heat than my partner but she has allergies. We sort of alternate. Sleeping with AC all night has its own issues.
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by ccppurcell 2mo ago
Dinner originally had a meaning like "biggest meal of the day". That used to be midday, culturally shifted to the evening. In some places and some contexts the language followed but not in every case. In southern England dinner is
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by ccppurcell 2mo ago
He almost admits as much if you replace "America" with "Anthropic and openai" at certain places.
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by ccppurcell 2mo ago
Reality has a left wing bias. That's a quote from something. Not sure I agree necessarily, but a plausible explanation.
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by ccppurcell 2mo ago
Isn't it just what you studied in depth? I am not in this area but can understand what's going on "at a high level" here. But I studied no other science formally since the age of 15 (this is possible in the UK school sys
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by ccppurcell 3mo ago
I agree with your broader point but I'm always skeptical of the claim "we should teach xyz in schools!" Because, well, choose your least favourite subject at school. A language, history or geography, mathematics perhaps. How
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by ccppurcell 3mo ago
Tree cover is great but I wish cities would just consider shade a bit more. As the world heats up, it's insane that so many places humans need to be for extended amounts of time have enough shade for a handful of people at best and oft
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by ccppurcell 3mo ago
Which phone and is it android then? Maybe I'm out of the loop on Motorola. I just bought a pixel, thinking of trying graphene. I was a bit miffed about the lack of jack until my partner pointed out I hadn't used the one on my old
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by ccppurcell 3mo ago
The job market being as it is, a lot of people simply don't have that luxury.
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by ccppurcell 3mo ago
Everything you do online publicly is usable in principle. Might as well also be public good. And my understanding is that Pokémon go made use of the camera. The kind of data you add using street complete is like "does this crossing hav
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by ccppurcell 3mo ago
If you are looking for something to channel that energy into, you could help improve open street map using streetcomplete: https://streetcomplete.app/
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by ccppurcell 3mo ago
Hey man, fellow Brit here. The American view on certain aspects of British life is insane. I've lived in not one but two places that have been called Muslim no-go zones in American media. My main memory of living near the east London m
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by ccppurcell 3mo ago
Well exactly. One way to make money is to create a great product that solves a problem people have and market it effectively. That's a sort of idealised situation, an aspiration, but it's what I would call socially valuable. Anoth
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by ccppurcell 4mo ago
I think you've slightly straw manned the lamentation there. Not that I agree with the lamentation, but using your talent to make the rich richer (which is what quants do, they are paid a fixed amount to provide a larger value up the ch
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by ccppurcell 4mo ago
It is a memory game yes! But still you can choose what to memorise.
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by ccppurcell 4mo ago
I find pure luck games really boring. Why not just flip a coin and be done with it. I also find pure skill games boring. I mean like running races. You might as well play "who's tallest?" But I seem to be in a minority
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by ccppurcell 4mo ago
Sometimes people will bring up the fact that Plato thought reading and writing were ruining real thought in response to things like this. Or "you won't walk around with a calculator in your pocket" But there are two possibili
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by ccppurcell 4mo ago
Well it only works when there is no information at all apart from the past frequency. It's the solution to the tank problem. You know that the enemy number their tanks as they're produced. You capture a tank and know its number, N
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by ccppurcell 4mo ago
I'm a similar build and I could imagine using ai for this purpose but come on. 194cm is like top 1% of human height. It's not a solid business model.
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by ccppurcell 4mo ago
Also they make it really difficult to mass delete stuff. I'm basically stuck paying for their storage because I don't really have the skills to self host (but I'm working on it!)
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by ccppurcell 4mo ago
The I'm sorry (that someone died) is easy to explain as it's obviously connected to the word sorrow. The hardest is "sorry?" (I didn't understand or hear you)

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