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by efficientsticks 3y ago
Ok, only in iShares Exponential Technologies ETF as the 3rd entry. There has been press hype linking Palantir with AI however: FT: AI has given Palantir its mystique back The Register: Former NHS AI leader joins US spy-tech firm Palantir It
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by efficientsticks 3y ago
Another AI article on the front page since an hour previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36271120
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by efficientsticks 3y ago
Friendly FYI that Palantir is considered an AI stock, because unfortunately BBC and newsnotfound felt no need to mention it.
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by efficientsticks 3y ago
“Then, automatically file a patent for it”
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by efficientsticks 3y ago
Thank you for the article. During lockdown I made a search engine that you might like to try: https://highbrow.se/ No special algorithms and just the plain slightly spammy but endearing internet :)
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by efficientsticks 3y ago
They use a lot of machine learning for ads and YouTube recommendations - the TPU makes sense there and if anything shows how hard they try to keep costs down. It’s a no-brainer for them to have tried keeping Search as high-margin as possibl
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by efficientsticks 3y ago
Google went slow not due to ethics but because running neural inference is a lot more expensive than serving SERP data from cache.
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by efficientsticks 3y ago
Normal people are not rational agents.
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by efficientsticks 3y ago
Lots of people prefer comfort above and beyond the necessity: private cars instead of bus, takeaway instead of home cooked meals, country homes instead of small city apartments.
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by efficientsticks 3y ago
I agree it’s worth looking at the history, and to not repeat its mistakes, though at the same time this is a new situation, and it will continue to be new into the future, so sticking to heuristics may not serve humanity as well than being
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by efficientsticks 3y ago
The ambiguity of “advanced socialism” is problematic for any meaningful debate, so I apologise for that. I was meaning something closer to “we have the resources and technology (in this advanced era), just not the wisdom or political will”.
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by efficientsticks 3y ago
I agree, listening to the podcast I think the answer is that “yes” that is it: faith in technological progress is the axiom and the conclusion. Joined by other key concepts like compound growth, the thinking isn’t deep and the rest is execu
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by efficientsticks 3y ago
They’re dystopian fictions, ie. examples of what not to do. But experience has shown that the real-world often recreates dystopian visions by example. So trying to be the first to show something in a well-meaning way can nonetheless have
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by efficientsticks 3y ago
> The goal, the company said, was to avoid a race toward building dangerous AI systems fueled by competition and instead prioritize the safety of humanity. > “You want to be there first and you want to be setting the norms,” he said.
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by efficientsticks 3y ago
Good idea. A couple more non-AI engines: https://search.marginalia.nu/ and my own https://highbrow.se/
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by efficientsticks 4y ago
Or they are maladapting to pain that they’ve experienced, or just behaving out of pure ignorance.
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by efficientsticks 4y ago
It’s way past religion and it’s more like am explosion of science. GPT3.5-turbo has an IQ.. What will GPT 4’s IQ be? Even so, it’s escaped the lab already. Which model will make the better products?
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by efficientsticks 4y ago
When performing calibrations I typically found my (accurate) blood finger prick monitor to be 1 mmol/L lower. It’s not enough of a difference to be deadly, as the sibling comment suggests, and the clinician guidance is to always eat so
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by efficientsticks 4y ago
Type 1 diabetic here, they’re not close to as invasive as insulin pumps and a lot of people use those. Honestly the real problem with CGMs is they aren’t accurate enough, and they bias high - I suspect so they can pretend they eliminate hyp
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by efficientsticks 4y ago
That’s a very engaging explanation. I’d recommend Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as a similarly engaging way to introduce life and death early on. Perhaps a couple more analogies would be helpful for how animals and trees can be alive
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by efficientsticks 4y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/comments/zn0zsw/fuck_thi...
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Show HN: High Browse independent “surf engine”(highbrow.se)
7 points by efficientsticks 4y ago|1 comments
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by efficientsticks 4y ago
Thanks for this great reply. Ironic thing though - that 10% most severe poverty mostly lies on the African continent, exactly the place which could stand to benefit the most from China’s intervening, and of course before that it was Chinese
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by efficientsticks 4y ago
I agree that things should be considered ultimately as political (even judicial if needed). But it’s not a given - Black Mirror describes worlds in which that reality does not win a survival-of-the-fittest competition against harsher techno
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by efficientsticks 4y ago
Does LaMDA have sentient-nature?
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Show HN: High Browse, esoteric web search (alpha quality)(highbrow.se)
4 points by efficientsticks 4y ago|0 comments
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by efficientsticks 5y ago
This is incorrect. Dogs don’t just survive, they thrive. In Romania the government resorted to mass killing of dogs because they bred so successfully. Also in poor countries and remote places where you wouldn’t expect there to be excess foo
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by efficientsticks 5y ago
I haven’t used it in years, but magit is really great. Nowadays I just do a few rounds of git add -p; commit, or trusty ole git commit -av
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by efficientsticks 5y ago
In a past job, minimising Pull Requests was a key motivator - you can touch a larger cross section of codebase with a single branch. It’s useful when lots of things that are genuinely distinct happen to have similar config, for example.
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by efficientsticks 5y ago
In an ideal world, a class would be all public fulfilling some abstract interface which is pertinent to the logical substance of the solution, and those methods would perform their operation using other components which are private final

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