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by conscion 3d ago
> I'm just wondering why no one tried to RL a model on stuff like "less LOC" and "less overengineering" Anthropic looked into this and the answer is because it makes the model more stupid https://www.a
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by conscion 29d ago
All government unions make no sense. You can't have fair labor bargaining when the employees are responsible for electing their own bosses.
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by conscion 6mo ago
Sports betting is the one place that "prediction markets" make the most sense. Instead of there being a house to win against, the market just skims a fee. The line is set organically by betters, not be the house targeting a profit
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by conscion 7mo ago
I think they gloss over a major factor also. They mention: > Distribution centres are built around motorway junctions (J24 of the M1, the Golden Triangle in the East Midlands) because that’s where road access is. But they skip _why_ is t
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by conscion 8mo ago
The political solution is 30 year term limits for Senate and House (5 terms and 15 terms respectively). The current system lack of term limits incentivizes inaction
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by conscion 8mo ago
My guess is that they are end-to-end encrypted. And because of Facebook's scale that they're able to probabilisticly guess at what's in the encrypted messages (e.g.a message with X hash has Y probability of containing the wor
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by conscion 8mo ago
> Actual effective managers do much more And how many managers are effective vs. only information funnels?
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by conscion 9mo ago
If you're OK with a ridiculously tall phone: https://www.clicks.tech/
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by conscion 10mo ago
These are all commodity use-cases though. Google, Meta, and Anthropic already all have competing products of equivalent quality and customer pricing is being driven down aggressively.
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by conscion 11mo ago
> This is the same as Searles Chinese room. The intelligence isn’t in the clerk but the book. However the thinking is in the paper. This feels like a misrepresentation of the "Chinese Room" thought experiment. That the "th
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by conscion 11mo ago
> Most of my criticism of Ben’s perspective is against the idea that some kind of emergent morality that we would recognize I think Anthropic has already provided some evidence that intelligence is tied to morality (and vice versa) [1].
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by conscion 11mo ago
It's also the weakening of the dollar. If the dollar is 10% weaker, an international gold seller now needs 10% more dollars to be willing to give you their gold -- which means the "value" in dollar terms is 10% higher.
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by conscion 1y ago
> The problem wasn't sketchy mortgages, it was the borderline fraudulent financial shenanigans after that. What do you think was funding the sketchy mortgages? The fraudulent financial shenanigans
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by conscion 1y ago
> And that's before any discussion about the actual de minimus changes. Changes which will effectively kill the ability for the average American citizen to custom order anything from any other country. How does it kill the ability t
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by conscion 1y ago
It think these "positive news" approaches are always falling prey to stated vs. revealed preference. People's revealed preference is that they want news about _actual_ events, which is why these positive news approaches alway
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by conscion 1y ago
> If the number is only 17%, I'm not sure we need to ban them. Job hunting is a market and the government should tryu to make every market as efficient as possible. Imagine if you went to any other store and 17% of the items you bou
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by conscion 1y ago
The robotaxi evaluation only made sense when they claimed to be years ahead of competitors. A robotaxi service operating in a regular taxi market could have large margins. But Waymo is already operating, any Tesla robotaxi company is going
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by conscion 1y ago
What does any of what you wrote have to do with not trusting this new technology?
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by conscion 1y ago
I don't think they're confused, I think they're approaching it as general AI research due to the uncertainty of how the models might improve in the future. They even call this out a couple times during the intro: > This fe
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by conscion 1y ago
I see this brought up as an issue every time distributing H1-Bs by salary is brought up. What is the issue with big tech "buying them all"?
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by conscion 1y ago
That Amazon wasn't acquiring it for it's business acumen and was actually acquiring it for some secondary purpose (i.e. market consolidation, data extraction)
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by conscion 1y ago
The US should really nationalize their rail infrastructure; only the rails themselves, not the railroad companies. The railroads should be treated as transportation infrastructure the same way that the highway system is. With nationalized r
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by conscion 2y ago
So hypocritical of him "Elon Musk didn't make a billion dollars, his employees did"
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by conscion 2y ago
This is still possible. There's nothing stopping you from putting comments in the JSON in your file or a webpage. It's just not going to be accepted as valid by JSON parser, which for learning material should be fine.
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by conscion 2y ago
> The 10th time, the 50th time, I still needed the GPS to guide me. If anyone else is frustrated by this experience, I've found that changing the setting in Google Maps to have the map always point north has helped me with actually
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by conscion 2y ago
Hostilities from men towards women are much more dangerous and women have the correct response to be more vigilant about them.
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by conscion 2y ago
Large corporations buy Windows _because_ they can have this level of control over their machines. The CTOs and auditors want to be able to say they've personally secured their systems using "top of the line" security software
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by conscion 2y ago
If anyone is unable to access the otherhand.org site, it's available on the WaybackMachine https://web.archive.org/web/20240604123006/https://www.other...
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by conscion 2y ago
Companies don't exist for returning money to shareholders, but issuing stock exists to return money to shareholders. 1. Company issues stock in order raise capital 2. Company uses capital to grow business 3. Company returns money to st
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by conscion 3y ago
I had to go to the ChatGPT main interface and then back to the Godot GPT; and then it picked up my login.

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