giacomoforte

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by giacomoforte 8d ago
Even with AI you'd want the AI to be writing python scripts instead of following an analysis.md.
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by giacomoforte 2mo ago
Lots of EU people are now travelling longer distances due to housing prices and job relocations. My last commute in Germany was 1.5 hr one way and some of my colleagues had 2.5 hr commutes. Hybrid hours though.
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by giacomoforte 2mo ago
True although a big component of the energy prices in Europe are due to policy driven taxation. There is a huge difference in intra EU petrol prices from around 6$/gal to 10$/gal.
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by giacomoforte 2mo ago
I like to say, traders and people you put money on the line are often far more honest about economic policy, than economic influencers like The Economist.
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by giacomoforte 2mo ago
Nobody ever recognizes themselves as extremist.
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by giacomoforte 3mo ago
I completely agree with this, but my banking apps, my broker, my health insurance, my simcard provider all already require my face for identification.
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by giacomoforte 3mo ago
What I do not find plausible is this scenario where AI is so smart it can replace us all, but at the same time somehow still easily controllable and utterly subservient to the ownership class.
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by giacomoforte 3mo ago
No because public EU compute is adminisered by physicists and although they are very competent in their own domains they are winging it when it comes to AI. It like expecting OakRidge to train LLMs... They already tried training LLMs.
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by giacomoforte 3mo ago
I don't think using the median lethal dose of toxicity is a good metric to compare pesticides.
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by giacomoforte 3mo ago
Idk, I often felt the opposite. I naturally tend towards working on hard problems but my feeling is that if I chose instead to focus on an easier "thing" I could execute really well and be overall more successful.
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by giacomoforte 4mo ago
Multiple Python based DSLs, just like now with GPU programming.
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by giacomoforte 4mo ago
I would become a patriotic European too, but only after our leaders at the national and EU level stop being transatlanticist sellouts... which won't happen any time soon.
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by giacomoforte 4mo ago
That you need world models to sensibly deploy "thinking" machines in the real world. Else they do stupid shit like drive straight into water. You can bruteforce some semblance of thinking by training on literally all knowledge tha
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by giacomoforte 4mo ago
This viewpoint never made sense to me, because you have variation within any culture, and because advantageous strategies win out over time, any culture will evolve. Therefore, it never made sense to me to consider culture a static immutabl
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by giacomoforte 4mo ago
LeCun is right.
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by giacomoforte 4mo ago
AI would be able to clue you in on the logical fallacy you're committing.
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by giacomoforte 5mo ago
Why not buy a used one?
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by giacomoforte 5mo ago
Programming languages are not just for ergonomics. They are valuable abstractions that help us reason. And they also help LLMs reason in the same manner.
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by giacomoforte 5mo ago
You jest, but isn't this the logical conclusion? A sufficiently smart AGI has no need for humanity, at all.
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by giacomoforte 5mo ago
Having lived in Germany, the strongest cultural conflict I felt was inflexibility of plans. The German way is to plan something very meticulously and the to follow through with the plan no matter what. I am however of the persuasion of not
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by giacomoforte 6mo ago
This is surely the future. At some point we will eventually have battles fought entirely by pilot(less) drones? And then war becomes purely economical.
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by giacomoforte 6mo ago
There won't be any well off people because the machines will rule. Humanity will become second to its own creation. There is no future in which a human ruling class will be lording it over superhuman machine intelligence. I mean look a
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by giacomoforte 6mo ago
This AI risk is the same as with Tesla's Autopilot a couple years back... People believe for some reason that the AI is 99.99% correct and the warning not to trust it too much is just legalese.
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by giacomoforte 7mo ago
The NHS is a bit like the NRA in the US. Politicians and rich folk would ideally do away with it, but they cannot, so they have to play lip service to gain favour with the public. So its not propaganda in the way you are thinking of.
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by giacomoforte 8mo ago
Are there any remaining western countries with strong free speech protections? UK and Germany weren't ever good in this department but now worst than ever. US supposedly good but I wouldn't risk it in practice. Australia I hear is
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by giacomoforte 8mo ago
The problem is all the AI slop that people are publishing to bolster their CVs.
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by giacomoforte 8mo ago
Americans famously don't respect native peoples and their lands.
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by giacomoforte 8mo ago
Beef was literally never a staple food in the EU. There's only a few regions were there is enough pasture land for a local operation but even then it was always too expensive to be a staple. Pork has always been the staple meat and we
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by giacomoforte 8mo ago
? Every health authority mentions both cholesterol/saturated fat and blood sugar as contributing factors.
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by giacomoforte 8mo ago
Pretty much every health authority will tell you that high blood sugar damages blood vessels, thereby enabling the formation of said plagues.

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