drc500free

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by drc500free 27d ago
This is why I loved biology; I must have had better high school teachers than the OP, because basically all of what he writes was conveyed.
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by drc500free 1mo ago
Corporations don’t ignore expenses just because they reduce taxable income.
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by drc500free 2mo ago
Fark hasn’t gone anywhere.
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by drc500free 2mo ago
Any show I've googled has a widget at the top right showing me where it is, if it's included in my current subscriptions, and how much it costs without one. It's been getting confused lately about arrangements like "Para
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by drc500free 2mo ago
"The war tried to kill us in the spring" from The Yellow Birds always stuck with me, for its complete decoupling of the war from the men who had come thousands of miles to fight it. ** ETA the full opening: “The war tried to kill
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by drc500free 2mo ago
I would have really liked to see the cultural variation shown visually - i.e. do Eastern Europeans and Americans have different default ways of showing a pizza or a phone?
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by drc500free 2mo ago
Particularly, subscribers to less wrong / rationality ideas tend to get obsessed with the GodAI's ability to create simulated virtual hells that it can trap you in a "I have no mouth and I must scream" kind of way. There
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by drc500free 2mo ago
If you replace "AI" with "Adonai" in EY's framing, it reduces to biblical parables from his childhood about arguing with God to negotiate a new covenant. He's clearly a bright guy, but a lot of his work seems t
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by drc500free 3mo ago
Even in this article, he claims COVID wasn’t a big deal because, essentially, only a million people died in the US instead of everyone. No one ever claimed 100% mortality.
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by drc500free 3mo ago
I’ve only made one comment here.
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by drc500free 3mo ago
Carbon taxes are massively regressive. There is no political coalition that simultaneously wants to act against climate change and doesn’t mind driving further income inequality.
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by drc500free 4mo ago
This is kind of backwards. There aren't as many CS grads in Israel in the first place, because they already put their top talent through 8200. It's essentially a fully socialized Masters of computer engineering, and as a SIGINT
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by drc500free 4mo ago
Totally agree, I think it can get there. If you present the idea as "an idea" rather than "my idea", it's pretty good at challenging, solidifying, and refining it. It still leans on the same forms in the writing par
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by drc500free 4mo ago
It's easy to focus in on particular linguistic tics, which will probably get smoothed away in future training. The underlying issue is that the LLM is trying to ape meaningful writing - which takes the reader from A to a surprising Z -
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by drc500free 5mo ago
> This essay is not a hot take. It is an autopsy. This essay is AI slop with a fancy website design.
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by drc500free 5mo ago
https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Prediction-Markets-... There was a big push post-9/11 that depended on exactly this.
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by drc500free 5mo ago
Does Copilot behave differently in Excel depending on whether you got the premium subscription instead of what is included with Business? Many people I've talked to about Copilot don't realize that the dedicated "Premium&quot
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by drc500free 5mo ago
It’s like not differentiating between solving and verifying. “PKI is easy to break if someone gives us the prime factors to start with!”
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by drc500free 5mo ago
If you tap the images on mobile, there is an animation.
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by drc500free 6mo ago
I have grown to despise this AI-generated writing style.
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by drc500free 7mo ago
I find they are very concerned about ever pulling the trigger on a change or deleting something. They add features and codepaths that weren't asked for, and then resist removing them because that would break backwards compatibility. In
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by drc500free 7mo ago
Punchy sentence. Punchy sentence. It's not A, it's B. The actual insight isn't C, it's D.
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by drc500free 8mo ago
What makes the level they chose a “baseline,” against which it would be appropriate to do statistical tests?
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by drc500free 8mo ago
They cut the internet so they could machine gun people, not stop them from ordering DoorDash.
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by drc500free 10mo ago
Makes me wonder which team is responsible for that feature generating query, and if they follow full engineering level QA. It might be deferred to an MLE team that is better than the data scientists but less rigorous than software needs to
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by drc500free 11mo ago
I seem to be the only person here who prefers the author’s approach! The combination of adhd and colorblindness seems to make most multicolor displays just visual snow to me. It’s like looking at one of those magic eye pictures. I struggle
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by drc500free 1y ago
That's not 50% success rate at completing the task, that's the win rate of a head-to-head comparison of an algorithm and an expert. 50% means the expert and the algorithm each "win" half the time.
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by drc500free 1y ago
What a bizarre reaction to a completely standard marketing segment. Who does the author THINK is Monster Energy Drink's core customer?
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by drc500free 1y ago
The part where Gen-X is younger, maybe?
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by drc500free 1y ago
It makes solely due impost.

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