evanwise

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by evanwise 3y ago
I would hope this results in criminal charges and jail time. Honestly, even if it's by negligence and not deliberate. Fines are not enough to abate this kind of despicable behavior.
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by evanwise 3y ago
The only possible reason for barriers to entry is regulation? There are many industries where startup costs are high for reasons intrinsic to the business and margins are relatively low so you are unlikely to get investment from outside sou
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by evanwise 3y ago
What was the controversy?
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by evanwise 3y ago
Every post that is even remotely critical of ChatGPT has someone posting this exact sentiment like clockwork. It's probably just mindless fanboys, but I'm genuinely starting to wonder if it's some kind of astroturfed ad campa
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by evanwise 3y ago
Worth pointing out that sometimes things really are impossible. If an MBA tells you something is impossible, it is probably just really hard. If a physicist tells you your idea violates conservation of energy, it is probably not worth wasti
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by evanwise 3y ago
There should be criminal liability not just monetary.
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by evanwise 3y ago
This is a really fun use of language models. I wonder if more capable models would be better or worse in this kind of application? To some extent the charm comes from the whimsical aspect of it.
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by evanwise 3y ago
Did you read the article or just the title? They mention the specific models the researchers were testing and note that increasing model size did not seem to offer much improvement on this metric. It also ends with a discussion of research
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by evanwise 3y ago
Even if we accept their motivations at face value (which is naive), it's a totally incoherent morality. There are infinitely many future states with trillions of of lives. Which one is the one we attach moral value to? If it's all
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by evanwise 4y ago
It gets reposted because it confirms the biases of right-wing posters and is an easy way for them to farm positive engagement and feel like they have some special insight into current events.
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by evanwise 4y ago
If the OpenAI is using a machine learning system to flag comments as hateful there is a simple and parsimonious explanation: it simply had more examples of hate speech directed at minority groups and people with left-leaning politics. Inter
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by evanwise 4y ago
I'm all for people pursuing amateur chemistry if they want to, but they should be doing so with accurate resources. The Anarchist Cookbook is not reckless. It's just straight up wrong in a lot of places in ways that very well coul
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by evanwise 4y ago
I would tend to agree. The only people I saw really struggle with learning Fourier series and the Fourier transform were people who had struggled with more basic concepts and failed to internalize them. This kind of explanation might be hel
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by evanwise 4y ago
The methodology they describe seems like it would be prone to the multiple comparisons problem. Time to dredge up the actual study and see what's going on.
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by evanwise 4y ago
I hope this is sarcasm.
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by evanwise 4y ago
While it's true that some of the simpler recipes will work, a lot of the others just won't work or are dangerous. From memory, the TNT and mercury fulminate recipes are wildly dangerous and omit key steps. Messing with stuff like
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by evanwise 4y ago
Please, for the love of God, don't follow any of the recipes in here. Many are dangerously wrong (as in blow yourself and your neighbors up dangerous).
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by evanwise 4y ago
To be fair, sometimes a single idea is difficult enough that it deserves an entire book.
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by evanwise 4y ago
Nothing in this contradicts what I said. Prisoners have a right to informed consent which can be removed in certain circumstances, specifically to ensure the safety of staff or other inmates. You made a much broader categorical claim that p
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by evanwise 4y ago
The irony of complaining about cherry picking statistics while yourself cherry picking statistics is astounding. If you combine federal and state prisons about 40% of prisoners are reported to be in prison for violent offenses (in 2019 acco
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by evanwise 4y ago
Verbal communication may be the default option but there is a reason we often defer to (carefully constructed) written communication in complex domains. While emotional nuances may be clearer (to some) in verbal communication, the details o
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by evanwise 4y ago
At this point it's worth pointing out that this user has conspicuously ignored this and other replies that point out that, beyond any moral qualms, the user is woefully uninformed about the medical rights of prisoners. Dunning-Kruger s
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by evanwise 4y ago
He's also just talking out of his ass. Prisoners have informed consent rights just like you and I do.
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by evanwise 4y ago
Well, not only are you evil, even worse: you're wrong. The only scenario in which the state can compel you to receive medical treatment while in prison is to ensure the safety of staff or other inmates (e.g. they can force a violent in
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by evanwise 4y ago
A root canal is also a fairly safe procedure but I would be rightfully upset if it was done to me without my consent.
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by evanwise 4y ago
I was giving you the benefit of the doubt in the previous reply but this is so arrogant it's quite silly. If you want to force your preferences on others be my guest but don't be surprised when some people respond negatively. Verb
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by evanwise 4y ago
I can understand the gripe about people who don't respond promptly during a chat and I too sometimes just call people like that, but in my experience much of the time when someone wants to "hop on a call" they essentially wan
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by evanwise 4y ago
Yes, that kind of arrogance can definitely come from the front-end side as well. I've just noticed a pattern with a certain type of back-end developer. Similar to the old XKCD physicist comic, there is a personality type that seems to
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by evanwise 4y ago
Having worked on both sides of the divide, I can say it's sadly common for back-end devs to underestimate the complexity of front-end development and discount the advice and opinions of their front-end colleagues. I've even seen s
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by evanwise 6y ago
Another situation where geometric algebra makes everything clearer.

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