flextheruler

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by flextheruler 2mo ago
There's just no easy way to see what makes LLMs able to duplicate the profits of the entire existing tech sector of the economy. This is the return they need to make based on what they're currently expensing and projecting. Couple
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by flextheruler 2mo ago
I'm personally a much bigger fan of Vin Mariani. It's a wine made with cocaine alkaloids and endorsed by the pope. Unfortunately not as popular as it was in 1863...
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by flextheruler 2mo ago
This essentially requires tripling the entire tech sector's share of the economy in a few years.
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by flextheruler 2mo ago
Sarcasm over a legitimate question really? After about 4 years I think it's totally acceptable to ask where the profit is on any company's 10-K. Where are even the revenues on a 10-K?
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by flextheruler 2mo ago
8 people as the entire control group... yeah I'd say "may" is the operative word in the title. My takeaway from long covid is that it's probably as severe as the much more deadly pandemic of the Spanish Flu. Considering
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by flextheruler 2mo ago
So like a bottle of cough syrup it should have a child-lock cap and be required to be 18 and show I.D. to buy?
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by flextheruler 3mo ago
How do you conclude you carry more muscle than the average?
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by flextheruler 3mo ago
I'd like to apply for this job where I can make mistakes and it's considered an acceptable cost. Seriously, I can't remember the last time I made a significant error and it was acceptable. Maybe during training? Half the effo
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by flextheruler 3mo ago
Unfortunately for a lot of people with weight issues it stems from becoming overweight during puberty which is uniquely bad. Your body's appetite signals are permanently impaired if you become overweight during puberty because during t
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by flextheruler 3mo ago
While I'm sure professionals in neuroscience or philosophy can expound on this topic in a more satisfactory manner than myself, I think a relevant point is that despite all our efforts we still don't know how brains think.
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by flextheruler 3mo ago
Yeah not sure how mold infestation in every bathroom of every apartment you've lived at for longer than 2 years can be anything besides a user error.
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by flextheruler 3mo ago
Solar, wind, and even hydroelectricity are too dependent upon the environment to make up the entire electricity generation capacity of any major industrial country. With renewables, even with batteries, the actual production is within a ran
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by flextheruler 3mo ago
Sure I'll do the same for those other industries. It took generations and many deaths after each industrial revolution to address the harms caused by the technology. People's complaints about economic disruption have been proven t
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by flextheruler 3mo ago
If not for the war or other legitimate reasons I'd assume a preponderance of one demographic doing a specific job as likely a bad thing. I'm surprised it'd be wishful thinking.
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by flextheruler 3mo ago
I find it inefficient to use models for all possible uses right now even with the current subsidies. As the costs increase this will only become more true. Keeping that in mind will naturally motivate you to not lose your skills by engaging
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by flextheruler 3mo ago
Sure it's a social construct, but billions have killed or been killed for money, land, and ownership of assets. Social constructions at their extreme are just abstractions of power which determines life and death. Something being a soc
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by flextheruler 3mo ago
The argument that commoners now live better than historical kings because we possess better technology is reductive if by living better you mean life satisfaction. Happiness is relative. Most people compare themselves to their peers. This i
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by flextheruler 3mo ago
It's more unpopular than that. Not surprising since they're competing underhandedly for electricity generation with everyone else.
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by flextheruler 3mo ago
You've named technologies that people were heavily speculating on that did experience bubbles. A useful technology and a painful misallocation of resources is far from mutually exclusive.
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by flextheruler 4mo ago
These are similar numbers to the dotcom bubble. With GDP growth and the percentage of productivity AI contributes staying the same in this scenario this requires regular gains in revenue or growth. If things just stumble, like with most dat
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by flextheruler 4mo ago
Begrudging more senior employees for lacking sympathy for younger employees who feel left out by remote work is not the same as begrudging them for working remote. Regardless, I would say it's a fair hypothesis that the vast majority o
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by flextheruler 4mo ago
I considered this too but I didn't think it too ironic considering anonymous pen pals have been a thing since the 20th century at least. Obviously the technology would amaze, but the concept would be understandable and appreciated.
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by flextheruler 4mo ago
I struggle so much with what the allure is for using a chatbot for companionship and I've dealt with loneliness before. Then again I struggle to understand how people become fixated on celebrities or adult actors. Either one seems so g
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by flextheruler 4mo ago
Yeah it's awful and the lack of any sympathy from people further along in their career with kids made it even worse. Everyone thinks it's great but I literally developed depression and anxiety from isolation.
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by flextheruler 4mo ago
Yes it seems that this discussion that has sparked such controversy involves an already well defined concept in business. Net margin versus gross margin. Net shows profitability after extracting all expenses while gross only extracts the co
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by flextheruler 4mo ago
Why would it not make sense to change your opinion on something based on its origin? Supporting local artists and small businesses is commonplace. How is this not just another extension of that?
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by flextheruler 4mo ago
How can someone be born in a state that does not yet exist? The statement has the year in it clearly demonstrating the contradiction. One can't be born in the Soviet Union in 1995 or in Tsarist Russia in 1950.
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by flextheruler 4mo ago
Newtonian physics doesn't just work well enough for education. It provides an incredibly accurate and precise model of the world except at extremes. The majority of engineering does not necessitate using theories of relativity. Both th
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by flextheruler 4mo ago
It's trained on the internet so it's wrong just as much as the internet is wrong or misleading.
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by flextheruler 4mo ago
Why would that matter? You still have to read, understand, and respond. If something is important and specific it takes longer to prompt iterations to generate my response. It's nice for spelling and grammar correction.

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