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by czl 3mo ago
> You don't have to have health insurance at all, There are (or were) tax time penalties for failing to have healthcare coverage. Possible USA laws have changed recently.
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by czl 4mo ago
> What gp wanted to say is that models are now so smart and useful that even if they managed to be EVEN MORE smart and useful, you wouldn't even notice it. If benchmarks across the board keep trending up and you still don't not
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by czl 5mo ago
> "--speculative-config", Regarding that last option: speculation helps max concurrency when it replaces many memory-expensive serial decode rounds with fewer verifier rounds, and the proposer is cheap enough. It hurts when you
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by czl 5mo ago
> specific type of manipulable gullibility A congregation trained to say “amen” on cue.
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by czl 7mo ago
Not a bad idea, but how do we prevent this from creating incentives to engineer similar situations in the future?
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by czl 7mo ago
Sound like Singapore's system rewards competence + stability, and that makes it hard for opposition to scale, because the incumbents can absorb popular ideas while keeping institutional advantages. That’s demoralizing if you’re doing p
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by czl 8mo ago
Money is less about personal consumption and more about a voting system for physical reality. When a company holds billions in IOUs, they are holding the power to decide what happens next. That capital allows them to command where the next
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by czl 8mo ago
FYI: Newer LLM hosting APIs offer control over amount of "thinking" (as well as length of reply) -- some by token count others by an enum (high low, medium, etc.).
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by czl 9mo ago
I hear you on intergenerational stuff. I just don’t think “public education is a scam” fits what most kids actually receive. Kids are not only getting classroom time. They inherit a whole baseline that previous taxpayers built: safer street
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by czl 9mo ago
> I do not believe there exists a way to safely use LLMs in scientific processes. What about giving the LLM a narrowly scoped role as a hostile reviewer, while your job is to strengthen the write-up to address any valid objections it rai
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by czl 10mo ago
There is no single definition for all scientists. However if you define free will as choices that are completely free of deterministic or even statistically deterministic causes that science could in principle predict, then most scientists
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by czl 10mo ago
> closed lid would flex slightly in your backpack, and press keys on the keyboard, FYI: Over time, this repeated pressure + rubbing (especially with dust or grit in between) can leave permanent key-shaped marks or “ghosts” on the screen.
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by czl 10mo ago
I mostly agree with your intuition, but I’d phrase it a bit differently. Temperature 0 does not inherently improve “quality”. It just means you always pick the highest probability token at each step, so if you run the same prompt n times yo
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by czl 10mo ago
I agree that consumption is the point of production in the long run, but that does not mean consumption is neutral in terms of tradeoffs. When someone consumes, the underlying real resources are gone and cannot be used for other purposes. T
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by czl 10mo ago
One of the big advantages humans have is that we are really good at working around constraints rather than just fighting over them. Health care, education, and even things like prenatal screening to reduce serious genetic disease all expand
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by czl 10mo ago
Capitalism ties decision power to how good you are at accumulating wealth. Other systems give decision power through birth, status, or bureaucracy. But so far none have matched capitalism at growing total wealth over time- just look at “com
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by czl 10mo ago
You’re slipping into a version of the broken window fallacy here. Consumption isn’t automatically good for society just because it “creates activity.” When you eat an apple, the apple - and all the labor and resources behind it - are gone.
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by czl 10mo ago
Faced with subtle lies you may prefer the obvious ones.
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by czl 10mo ago
One thing I keep wondering, though, is whether “life” is tied more to the particular chemistry and environment it uses or to its patterns (the abstract information structure that can, in principle, be re-instantiated on different substrates
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by czl 10mo ago
> evolution by natural selection only applies when the adaptation in question affects survivability before reproducing > Anything that happens to you after reproductive age does not get affected by natural selection because the select
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by czl 10mo ago
> Our entire societal system is based on increasing revenue (due to inflation). Yes that is capitalism however if inflation cuts value of money in half and in the same time your revenue doubles, did you actually double your revenue? Do
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by czl 11mo ago
I get the worry. AFAIK most of the current capex is going into scalable parallel compute, memory, and networking. That stack is pretty model agnostic, similar to how all that dot com fiber was not tied to one protocol. If transformers stall
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by czl 11mo ago
Human reasoning is, in practice, much closer to statistical association than to brittle rule-following. The kind of strict, formal deduction we teach in logic courses is a special, slow mode we invoke mainly when we’re trying to check or co
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by czl 11mo ago
> So how is it therefore not actual thinking? Many consider "thinking" something only animals can do, and they are uncomfortable with the idea that animals are biological machines or that life, consciousness, and thinking are f
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by czl 11mo ago
The challenge is that human values aren’t static - they’ve evolved alongside our intelligence. As our cognitive and technological capabilities grow (for example, through AI), our values will likely continue to change as well. What’s unsettl
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by czl 11mo ago
100%! > I'm not sure what would motivate an artificial intelligence. Those who give it orders hence your concern about how AI will be used as a tool is spot on.
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by czl 11mo ago
AI trained and built to gather information, reason about it, and act on its conclusions is not too different from what animals / humans do - and even brilliant minds can fall into self-destructive patterns like nihilism, depression, or
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by czl 11mo ago
> when you have some supremely intelligent agent acting on the world, even a small misalignment may end up in catastrophe Why not frame this as challenge for AI? When the intelligence gap between a fully aligned system and a not-yet-alig
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by czl 11mo ago
> Whatever it takes to add object permanence and long-term memory assimilation to LLMs may not be so easy to run on your 4090 at home. Today yes but extrapolate GPU/NPU/CPU improvement by a decade.
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by czl 11mo ago
> for any problem there is an ideally sized model that when trained will produce the lowest error rate. You studied ML before discovery of "double descent"? https://youtu.be/z64a7USuGX0

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