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by jagraff 3d ago
"Chaotically aligned" and "misaligned" seem like the same thing?
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by jagraff 1mo ago
Distributing an exact copy of the text would be illegal; if you could get an LLM trained on a book to output the exact copy of the text from the book then that would be illegal as well.
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by jagraff 1mo ago
I suspect shrinkflation happens because, when prices go up, consumers will prefer to buy a similarly priced (but smaller) candy bar rather than a higher priced, same size bar; that is, consumers prefer shrinkflation to price inflation, even
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by jagraff 2mo ago
What about classes that weren't interesting to you, but you had to pass anyway? Personally I was the same as you for classes that I found interesting, but for other required classes I went for the shallow understanding, memorize for th
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by jagraff 3mo ago
Very interesting, thank you for posting! I'm curious - roughly how many tokens do you think you used during the initial port and subsequent bug hunting and fixes?
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by jagraff 4mo ago
> at some point in the human civilization journey we'll have to be content with something instead of chasing clouds all the time. Surely we're not even close to this point though? I can think of a lot of things that would be in
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by jagraff 5mo ago
I think right now, the vast majority of oil use is not because of corrupt officials using oil energy despite the fact that cheaper energy sources are available. Maybe that problem will eventually be a sticking point in removing all carbon-e
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by jagraff 5mo ago
Large vehicles are safer for the occupants of the vehicle, however they do increase danger for pedestrians and drivers of other vehicles in a collision. There is a reasonable argument that reducing vehicle size would save lives overall
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by jagraff 5mo ago
Agreed - the good news is, in many circumstances renewable energy is cheaper for new energy capacity. As long as regulations move in the right direction, we are likely to see the global energy mix move towards renewable sources over time
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by jagraff 6mo ago
What's curious to me is, why does this not happen to all youtubers? For example, vlogbrothers, 3b1b, numberphile, etc, all seem to continue putting out great educational content and care about producing good wholesome content despite t
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by jagraff 7mo ago
Setting aside whether the payment with my data is worth it - I don't understand why youtube would be in the category of "things that should be actually free". They have server costs, and employee costs, and they pay out to cr
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by jagraff 7mo ago
Would it be better if youtube removed the free, ad supported version entirely, and only allowed paid users?
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by jagraff 10mo ago
This is a good point - having your code broken up into standalone units that can fit into working memory has real benefits to the coder. I think especially with the rise of coding agents (which, like it or not, are here to stay and are like
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by jagraff 11mo ago
Interesting, it seems that the actual surface material of walls and/or furniture makes a large difference in how long VOCs stick around, due to differences in surface area at the microscopic scale. I have a couple HEPA filters in my ho
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by jagraff 11mo ago
Polymarket gives a >50% chance of the tariffs being ruled illegal, not that they would be refunded - the market only gives a ~8% chance of the tariffs being ruled illegal AND and order to refund: https://polymarket.com/ev
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by jagraff 1y ago
I think, all things being equal, higher home prices should lead to higher rents, since at the margin people on the verge of buying a home would be more likely to choose to keep renting when prices are higher, thus increasing demand for rent
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by jagraff 1y ago
Groceries regularly do price discrimination (and have for a long time) via coupons. People mostly seem to be fine with it.
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by jagraff 1y ago
I think the median country GDP is something like $100 Billion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP) Models are expensive, but they're not that expensive.
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by jagraff 1y ago
I think there is perhaps a different conclusion that I come to - email is not the right tool for long discussions with multiple points of disagreement, because it is, generally, a linear medium, which makes it difficult to maintain differen
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by jagraff 1y ago
Very interesting. From my read, it appears that the authors claim that this attack is successful because LLMs are trained (by RLHF) to reject malicious _inputs_: > Existing large language models (LLMs) rely on shallow safety alignment to
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by jagraff 1y ago
Moving, ever expanding circle: https://tixy.land/?code=%28x-10*t%2521%29**2%2B%28y-10*t%252...
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by jagraff 1y ago
Are products allowed to have labels? Am I allowed to tell my friends I like a product? What if I put a video on youtube and accidentally include a brand name in it?
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by jagraff 2y ago
I think the solution for this would be for companies to proactively raise wages in order to keep up with the market.
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by jagraff 2y ago
Banks are not required to file a SAR just because you withdraw (or even deposit) over 10k. They are required to report it, but the report is not a SAR - having a SAR filed can be bad, because too many filed about you will likely cause bank
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by jagraff 2y ago
> Contrarily, library development is about abstractions. Spend time hunting for an algebra This line piqued my interest - what does an algebra mean in this context? Does anyone know of any good resources for further exploration?
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by jagraff 2y ago
I don't know about enzymes, but bacteriophages (viruses that target bacteria) are species specific, and have been used successfully as antibacterial treatments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
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by jagraff 2y ago
Abandoning Ukraine risks emboldening Russia to continue their conquest of Eastern Europe - which, ultimately, increases the risk of nuclear war anyway, only with a stronger Russia with even more leverage. Being nuclear armed should not give
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by jagraff 2y ago
Why is it impossible to make an ICE for current processors? Just because they're too complex and/or data exfiltration at speed is too hard?
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by jagraff 2y ago
Those numbers are assuming someone who skips a day of eating doesn’t increase their calorie consumption on other days to compensate
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by jagraff 3y ago
Every dead body you've ever seen is teeming with life. Now, it's probably impossible for a novel life form to arise in a dead body, because the existing life (bacteria) that takes over has been optimized by billions of years of ev

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