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by dynm 11d ago
I'm a bit skeptical of arguments of the form, "You should not use LLMs without disclosure because LLMs at bad at writing." My reasoning is: If LLMs get better at writing—which I think is extremely likely—will you switch posit
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by dynm 22d ago
I think you're getting a lot of unfair pushback on this, when you're making some excellent points. Just to clarify, I think you're making these points: - Existing air pollution causes a ton of harm. - Realistically, the optim
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by dynm 1mo ago
I've withdrawn this claim, which I believe was overstated. Thank you for following up!
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by dynm 2mo ago
There's definitely quite a lot of scientific support, e.g. see this review paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2018.08.059 I'm open to the possibility that this is wrong, but as far as I can tell, the con
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by dynm 2mo ago
I don't want to stop anyone from debating the merits of using plants for carbon sequestration. But the ones explaining why my article did such a bad job of explaining those merits are kind of eye-opening, yes.
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by dynm 2mo ago
(Author here) I've added the word "indoor" to the title, which will hopefully make it harder to miss that this is not about climate change or carbon sequestration.
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by dynm 2mo ago
It might not be clearly worded, but 132.5 watts is the power used by 2 incandescent light bulbs, whereas 918 watts is the power present in the light produced by 765 light bulbs. The factor of 50 comes from the fact that incandescent lig
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by dynm 2mo ago
Like most people, surveillance pricing feels gross to me. But I think we need to separate two things: Surveillance pricing is a combination of (a) price discrimination and (b) surveillance. If it were up to me, I'd probably give people
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by dynm 2mo ago
For what it's worth, I have a markdown-based website with a domain I own, and I stubbornly link to that website only, treating substack as just a temporary distribution channel.[^1] And I am constantly, endlessly asking myself if all t
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FCC plans ID mandate that could block anonymous use of prepaid burner phones(arstechnica.com)
6 points by dynm 2mo ago|1 comments
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by dynm 2mo ago
Perhaps on brand for Meta, there appears to be no mention anywhere on this page or any of the docs pages, of any data retention policy. Maybe this is hidden in an agreement you need to sign when making an account? Has anyone actually done t
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by dynm 3mo ago
> I'd like to know how long it takes to write a post like this. In this case, about three weeks.
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by dynm 3mo ago
> The "nicer" sunscreens that use these ingredients often sneak in SPF boosters which are actually derivatives of other chemical sunscreens but are treated differently on the ingredients label, pretty much cheating the system.
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by dynm 3mo ago
The FDA did (3 days ago!) finally approve a new ingredient: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-expa... My personal hot take is that we should all be using zinc (or titanium) oxide sunscreen wh
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by dynm 6mo ago
Ack, I'm sorry you had to waste your time transcribing the data! I uploaded it here: https://dynomight.net/img/coffee/temps.csv
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by dynm 6mo ago
How? By default, state governments can pass basically whatever laws they want. They don't have (theoretically) limited enumerated powers like the federal government.
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by dynm 6mo ago
Before the law, I think the state government or local governments could (by passing a law) restrict computing for any reason, even without a government interest. Now, they'd have to repeal this first.
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by dynm 6mo ago
I think the main content of this law ( https://legiscan.com/MT/text/SB212/id/3212152 ) is just two paragraphs. I'd suggest reading them yourself rather than relying on secondary description: "Gov
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by dynm 7mo ago
As you say, it's sort of a cat-and-mouse game, and I'd rather not play it. Fortunately, there are plenty of competitors that don't require a phone number.
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by dynm 7mo ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's unusual and harmful to privacy to require a phone number.
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by dynm 7mo ago
Not too interested in debating the semantics of "micropayment", but it sounds like if we swap in "news sites" in place of "LLM providers" everything should still still be possible? Consumers could pay tiny amou
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by dynm 7mo ago
Everything you say makes sense. But can you help me understand why this doesn't also apply to the LLM service I use today? Doesn't that service, in effect, makes a "micropayment" to the LLM providers every time I make a
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by dynm 7mo ago
There is a lot of hate for the idea of micropayments here, so I'd like to offer a counterpoint. I use a service that provides access to a bunch of different LLMs. Each time I call an LLM I, in effect, pay a $0.001 - $0.05 for the respo
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by dynm 7mo ago
FWIW, the EU is working on zero-knowledge proofs: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-mak... But I strongly prefer my solution!
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by dynm 7mo ago
What I find puzzling about these proposals is that it SEEMS like they could be designed to achieve 90% of the stated goals with almost 0% of the loss of privacy. The idea would be that devices could "opt in" to safety rather than
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by dynm 7mo ago
When you have lots of non-randomized dropouts from a randomized trial, that greatly weakens the causal link. The results are effectively non-randomized. Meanwhile the evidence from actual drinking levels was much stronger (far fewer dropout
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by dynm 7mo ago
The results for how much people actually drank in daily life were basically zero. No effect at all. The effects you're talking about are for a weird lab experiment where they sort of had people sit there in the lab and drink (or not).
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by dynm 7mo ago
I'm surprised that this article doesn't appear to mention the RCT on semaglutide and alcohol use disorder by Hendershot et al. that was published in JAMA Psychiatry in early 2025 (though it's possible I missed it) https:&#x2
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Why Read Novels?(dynomight.net)
4 points by dynm 8mo ago|0 comments
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NumPy Enhancement Proposal 21: Simplified and explicit advanced indexing(numpy.org)
3 points by dynm 9mo ago|0 comments

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