energy123

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by energy123 26d ago
How do you know this? Anthropology?
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by energy123 26d ago
Can't they use ML to predict where I'm going to click, and pre-cache the predicted page whenever the predicted button doesn't mutate important state? Or skip the difficult ML and have some basic rule of thumb that pre-caches
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by energy123 27d ago
That hypothesis requires substantiation. Just because 10 people in a room came up with a breakthrough doesn't mean a sociological process contributed positively to that breakthrough. People generally like socializing, so the base rate
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by energy123 28d ago
Not error rates which implicitly assumes all errors are of equal consequence, something like 1/N*∑(magnitude of consequences of error) * (did error occur)
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by energy123 28d ago
Many eminent mathematicians did their best work while not talking about it with anyone, sometimes in isolation. Newton's calculus, Perelman's poincare, much of Grothendiek's work, Wiles's fermat, Ramanujan's earlier
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by energy123 28d ago
This is relevant, but only after AI has solved all the open problems including Millenium problems. Until then, as AI keeps solving harder open problems, people will pay attention and be interested.
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by energy123 29d ago
I was referring to the gases from the cars on the highway more than easily removed indoor sources.
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by energy123 29d ago
It's a good start, but for VOCs and gases you'll need activated carbon. Those 2-in-1 filters do exist but cost more. And many are scams because they don't have enough volume of activated carbon.
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by energy123 29d ago
You have activated carbon to filter out the VOCs?
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by energy123 29d ago
It's a dumping ground for poor people.
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by energy123 29d ago
Viktor Frankl's body of work deserves a plug. Meaning can be found in the worst conditions, it's quite subjective. With meaning comes contentment. Buddhist teachings also deserves to be mentioned. Suffering comes from clenching to
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by energy123 29d ago
That's a good thing to note. The same can be said of Newton, Wiles and Perelman. Grothendieck's later years or more extreme isolation were less productive, same with Perelman, so maybe there's some balance that needs to be st
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by energy123 29d ago
Biden's ARP independently caused inflation according to multiple central bank analyses. However, you are also correct that Trump pressuring OPEC to cut oil production at the end of his first term did cause additional inflation in Biden
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by energy123 29d ago
I actually think primatology is quite useful here. We aren't that different from other primates. We selfishly attach extreme morality only to things that impact us , which we would never do when we analytically study primates doing th
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by energy123 29d ago
The glasses are a trust destroying device that degrades privacy. If someone shoves a camera in my face in public I am going to move away from that person. If I see them filming someone with me in the background at least I know what is going
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by energy123 1mo ago
If it's a fine tuning step at the end, why is the need for it to vary a problem? Can't you run the fine tuning, test for regression, and deploy the weights in a day? I think the more likely reason is it doesn't work as well a
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by energy123 1mo ago
Cheap cooling vests distributed at scale, kept cool or "recharged" by a portable and unpluggable solar panel, seems necessary. Individual air conditioning is too expensive and most affected people need to work outside during the d
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by energy123 1mo ago
Pointing the finger at RLHF is basically right. It removes variance from model outputs compared to base model. That makes each output more predictable and more correct on average, but across trials it repeats the same thing. It's relev
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by energy123 1mo ago
The model providers could randomize the system prompt to make it say no 2.36% of the time, automatically tuned up or down depending on user feedback.
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by energy123 1mo ago
Accessing the kind of "feminine" mental states that Grothendieck talks about, basically a type of creative flow state, is not an example of that. It's in the realm of meditative, passionate and artistic.
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by energy123 1mo ago
Other examples like Grothendieck: Wiles (Fermat), Perelman (Poincare), Newton (calculus), Ramanujan. > Spend too little time and you toil away in a cave, at best reinventing things that were invented already without your knowledge. Groth
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by energy123 1mo ago
Non-hierarchical structures (like anarchy) are plausible only when defence is stronger than offence, because the individual/clan/nation can defend against any offence from any other entity, while also being incapable of attacking
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by energy123 1mo ago
This is what AI safety activist Connor Leahy calls offense-defense asymmetry. Imagine if a nuke could be created with household materials. We got lucky that wasn't the case, but we didn't know that it wasn't the case before s
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by energy123 1mo ago
Words vs actions+incentives
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by energy123 1mo ago
> closed sourced model pricing has no relationship to its size. That's too strong. Only in an actual monopoly for a product with no substitutes that has price inelastic demand can pricing fully disconnect from costs. Frontier model
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by energy123 1mo ago
Those results were found with 64 subagents, or with GPT 5.6 Sol Pro which uses parallelism under the hood. Low latency is a big deal but the immediate use cases are somewhat different in the short-term (more serial coding workflows) rather
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by energy123 1mo ago
That's an argument for cheap massive parallelism, which is what's behind the recent math breakthroughs, not expensive low latency serial compute.
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by energy123 1mo ago
That's a moral judgement about what words to use that has no bearing on causality. Incentives are never a valid justification but they are almost always an explanation. We should care about explanations when trying to solve problems.
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by energy123 1mo ago
OpenAI claims that the harness that ARC used was unfairly handicapping the model: https://openai.com/index/how-two-settings-tripled-our-arc-ag...
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by energy123 1mo ago
Because not everyone shares your preference and/or discipline for plants. Lab grown meat doesn't require a planetary scale realignment of moral values and habits.

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