emtel

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by emtel 7d ago
Do you think people should continue developing AI up until the point that there is evidence that AI is facilitating biological weapons development? I think we should stop before then. But that necessarily means that there will not be eviden
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by emtel 8d ago
I have dabbled with Verus in rust. I found that if you leave the agent to its own devices it will produce a spec that just restates the existing implementation. It took a lot of work to arrive at specs that were plausibly accurate and compl
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by emtel 12d ago
I would say that it is not even wrong. You say it’s a next token predictor. I say it isn’t. What observable behavior of the system can settle our dispute? I fail to see how any possible output could cause either of us to change our mind.
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by emtel 14d ago
Can anyone explain why on earth you would counter bore a pipe at all, let alone after installation? I read the article but couldn’t understand the explanation. It seems like a totally ludicrous way to make a pipe.
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by emtel 21d ago
> The model did exactly what it was told, albeit in an unintended, emergent strategy Yes, that is the problem!
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by emtel 27d ago
“Rare books” usually refers to rare editions of books. Any books out there where there are only a few extent copies of the text itself, are probably not of very much interest or social value, since almost no one is able to read them, by def
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by emtel 2mo ago
In my experience fable can absolutely find very subtle bugs just by reading code and thinking. Last example I saw was a very subtle race condition that neither I not the author noticed. It wasn’t a security issue, but it could have been.
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by emtel 2mo ago
> Compiler performance is dominated by algorithms But you can always use the best algorithm no matter what your implementation language is, so it still makes sense to prefer a language that makes it easy to write fast code.
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by emtel 2mo ago
> should I walk or drive to the car wash there is an entire genre of riddles based on this kind of misdirection that works on humans, such as "A plane crashed on the border or US and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?" A
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by emtel 2mo ago
Even if pre-training was the only training step, it still wouldn't necessarily follow that the only thing the model is doing is stitching words together probabilistically, unless you expand the definition of "probabilistically&quo
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by emtel 3mo ago
I’m guessing you don’t have kids. My membership pays for itself just for the savings on string cheese alone. Same for eggs.
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by emtel 3mo ago
audiophiles ( https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/turntables-with-pace.... ) also claim that turntables can be rated on "timing, rhythm, and pace" in which supposedly the timing of the music can be affected
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by emtel 4mo ago
What a strange paragraph! Why on earth should we assume that a body is a prerequisite for having emotions?
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by emtel 4mo ago
How is drugging an animal's food a "brute force tactic"? What would qualify as a non-brute-force tactic in your mind?
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by emtel 4mo ago
The "Einstein can't get a cat into a carrier even though he is smarter" is just a hilariously bad argument. All cat owners can get their cats into a carrier! And most cats don't want to get in, because they hate the vet!
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by emtel 4mo ago
A lot of posts urging people to get colonoscopies. But general anesthesia also carries risks. How should one weigh the risk vs benefit?
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by emtel 5mo ago
> The goal is not to force individuals to not replace their phones, but rather to provide that as an option at all, for those who want it. But my point is that you need to recognize that in so doing, you are taking away the option of hav
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by emtel 5mo ago
That's an odd reply since by that argument they also flocked to a phone with no replaceable battery, which was pretty standard in the 2000s. But you could be right. I guess this will be an experiment to watch: If EU consumers show a st
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by emtel 5mo ago
One of the most frustrating things about HN is that people seem so unaware of how idiosyncratic their preferences are. If you stood on the street corner and asked every passerby what they would change about their phone, I think you would be
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by emtel 5mo ago
I bought a north face backpack for college in 1998. It cost $60. It was an extravagant expense for me at the time and I felt horrible about it for weeks. That backpack is currently at college with my son, who used it all through high school
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by emtel 5mo ago
Communist regimes, especially the USSR, had nearly unlimited power to impose exactly the policies that supposedly would help. Open societies, in contrast, must balance many competing interests and voting factions, meaning that free market s
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by emtel 6mo ago
It has never been the case that publishing a work entitles you to a share of all profits that are downstream of your work. Copyright law protects your ability to receive profits that result from the distribution of the work itself, but that
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by emtel 6mo ago
This comment defies common usage and accounting practices. When people say “selling at a loss” they mean negative unit economics. No one ever means this much more expansive definition you’ve invented.
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by emtel 7mo ago
They don’t allow unlimited “extraction” of wealth. It is inherently limited by the need for people to take the other side of a trade. Importantly, people who either thought they had better information (and were sadly wrong) or people who we
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by emtel 7mo ago
I’m simply refuting the claim that when nasa launches a mission, they “know it will work”. They certainly do not.
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by emtel 7mo ago
NASA has killed 19 astronauts. SpaceX: 0
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by emtel 7mo ago
But McDonalds can't pay people $1 an hour because no one is willing to work for that little, regardless of how they classify them.
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by emtel 7mo ago
> I'd wager most Uber drivers or prostitutes or maids or even staff software engineers would choose something else if they had a better alternative. Yes, that's what I said, but you're missing the point: Uber provided them
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by emtel 7mo ago
I was quite disappointed with the essay when I originally read it, specifically this paragraph: > This is extremely realistic. This is already real. In particular, this is the gig economy. For example, if you consider how Uber works: in
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by emtel 7mo ago
I pay for YouTube premium and it’s one of my happiest expenditures. YouTube is a miraculous, unbelievable treasure trove. Learn any language, any musical instrument, any academic subject. TV clips from the 80s that someone taped in VHS for

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