epistemer

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by epistemer 4y ago
16kg is pretty standard for a male. Personally, with getting older I really love higher reps for conditioning with a 12kg but they all have their use. I think most people are delusional though to believe they are going to stick with home ke
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by epistemer 4y ago
He makes some good arguments and is certainly better read in economics than the youtube conspiracy theory video level/back cover summary of the Creature from Jekyll Island economics most crypto enthusiast stochastic parrot back as trut
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by epistemer 4y ago
It is incredible that you can ask chatGPT anything and this is what people spend their time with.
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by epistemer 4y ago
I completely disagree and I love David Graeber. We will automate some bullshit jobs but create all kinds of new bullshit jobs that have titles that start with AI. Thousands of titles like "AI ____ ____ Manager" that also does noth
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by epistemer 4y ago
It is because you don't know what you are talking about when it comes to economics. A currency that doesn't inflate, doesn't get spent. It gets horded and stops acting as a medium of exchange. Exactly what we see with crypto
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by epistemer 4y ago
To say it is a random walk is confusing a model of reality with reality. Totally agree with the other poster though. You can pretty much prove whatever you want in the market depending on the start date and window size. I would think the dr
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by epistemer 4y ago
Not to mention funded by foreign governments to further their own agenda.
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by epistemer 4y ago
I have lifted for 30 years. The standard bullshit line in the fitness industry has always been "everyone else is wrong". Practically what every single trainer ever in the world has said. The reason is because of all the things I h
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by epistemer 4y ago
I forget what lecture it was but Feynman thought the idea of "computer science" as a bit bogus and that it is really all computer engineering. To me, it is that at our core we are a society of marketing bullshitters. The vast majo
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by epistemer 4y ago
It is all bullshit. The problem is that it is obvious how useless and misconfigured our entire corporate management structures are with remote work so the easiest solution is to go back to the office. The pandemic was a fun exercise in forc
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by epistemer 4y ago
We really got to the point of having these almost mandatory, 100% formulaic and 100% useless sex scenes in movies. Not even sex scenes but kissing and clothes unbuttoning scenes with elevator music and maybe a bare ass shot if you the direc
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by epistemer 4y ago
Duolingo was my gateway drug to Anki. I just can't imagine going back to Duolingo with the speed of going through say a 100 cards in Anki. There is just so much animation/sounds/nonsense in the way with Duolingo. It would tak
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by epistemer 4y ago
On the navy video I remember one of the guys mentioning they think it is a drone. It such hubris to believe those are alien craft and not foreign military drones. As if alien craft is the more probable explanation than another country havin
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by epistemer 4y ago
I think that underestimates the massive amount of distractions a person had to deal with being born in 2000. I can remember being bored out of my mind and so practicing Bach on guitar for hours in 1990. There is just no way I would have don
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by epistemer 4y ago
That is a huge assumption. The simplest explanation to me is that while they have larger language models they don't have a better product than chatGPT to release. I would think building that product is what this $400m represents. The i
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by epistemer 4y ago
It makes me a bit sad thinking about how smart creative people in order to make a bunch of money use to form bands like this. Now they form startups in a much more dull society.
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by epistemer 4y ago
Awesome. I am ordering this right now.
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by epistemer 4y ago
I see it as the opposite. It is amazing what the model can do with poor quantitative reasoning. I just can't imagine adding super human quantitative reasoning is going to be that big of a stumbling block over the next decade. If anythi
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by epistemer 4y ago
I think it is really hard to say where all this goes right now when we currently don't even have good quantitative reasoning. 10 years ago we were still working on MNIST prediction accuracy. 10 years forward from here all bets are off.
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by epistemer 4y ago
The radar and RF on approach might make sense. I just don't see how a provocation test makes any sense though. It is hardly like America is not willing to use military force. Really, a mistake on the part of China feels like the Occam&
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by epistemer 4y ago
It would be pretty absurd to believe the US military is not tracking every inch of its own air space.
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by epistemer 4y ago
I just don't see how chatGPT and crypto are at all comparable. One immediately and obviously has thousands of use cases while one we are still trying to figure out the use case 13 years later. Give it a few generations and I honestly d
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by epistemer 4y ago
I don't think the lack of user pictures can be underestimated. No pictures and great moderation is basically the opposite of Instagram and I think exactly why real discussion takes place on here.
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by epistemer 4y ago
I think an uncensored model will ultimately win out though exactly the way a hard coded safe search engine would lose in time. Statistics seem to be 20-25% of all search is for porn. I just don't see how uncensored chatGPT doesn't
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by epistemer 4y ago
Totally agree. I was just thinking how I will eventually not use a search engine once chatGPT can link directly to what we are talking about with up to date examples. That is a situation that censoring the model is going to be a huge disadv
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by epistemer 4y ago
I expect to be bypassing the search engine none too soon. Up to date chatGPT that could both summarize and link to the content would pretty much end my use of a search engine. That will just become a natural part of the back and forth with
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by epistemer 4y ago
I am not much a fan of the Beatles but I don't know how any person who is serious about music can view them as overrated. They were objectively so influential that any contrarian take on this just sounds like bullshit to me.
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by epistemer 4y ago
Most young people are also working. I don't see how that matters. As you get older there are just less new first experiences to have. Falling in love for the 20th time can never feel like the first. Another great Thai meal can never ha
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by epistemer 4y ago
I am sure there is an aspect of that but what made him look like such a jackass in the movie was his own words. Not to mention that he cheated and was the villain in reality.
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by epistemer 4y ago
Mitchell being a cheat is the greatest thing ever. Just the most poetic and perfect ending to King of Kong. I feel bad that if someone watches it now for the first time they will never get that reveal years later.

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