kansface

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by kansface 4d ago
Yes, why not? All existed models have been rewarded for cheating (extensively). That is us, putting intense evolutionary pressure, on a system to produce a result we don’t want through indifference. Why can’t we post train them not doing
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by kansface 5d ago
Some people are just out there doing automated math proofs for reasons. If you want understanding, value, and edification, that is on you, not them.
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by kansface 12d ago
Why compare marine boot camp to officer basic training? Officer training looks very different in the US, even for the marines.
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by kansface 13d ago
Similarly, I’ve seen more than one accident caused by a pedestrian stepping into traffic without looking, taking out a cyclist in the process (from between vehicles, eyes on a phone). Nothing too serious, but only by luck. No one is overt
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by kansface 13d ago
I biked 3x weekly to work for a decade from NoPa. Muni busses repeatedly “tried” to kill me - so much so that going up McAllister, I’d hug the double yellows to keep buses from precariously passing me and then cutting me off every other bl
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by kansface 14d ago
Yes, I don’t know where this frame came from. Humans adopt useful systems. Providers attempt to limit exposure to liability. Society will navigate the opposing pressures and fallout in differing ways according to local jurisprudence, custo
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by kansface 16d ago
It’s more like addressing reality has no viable political solution.
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by kansface 20d ago
Some/many people who can’t smell actually don’t know that, nor do the people around them. The same can be true for color blindness and actual blindness!
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by kansface 1mo ago
Several labs that manufactured the original polio vaccine shipped the live virus - ie, we just injected kids with polio. Low double digits of people (kids?) died, a few hundred were paralyzed, etc. Later vaccines also had the same problem
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by kansface 2mo ago
Or possibly the return of some heavy industry?
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by kansface 2mo ago
I look to a future of regularly servicing the immune system of my battery.
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by kansface 2mo ago
Has anyone been experimenting with AI and formal methods - verification, proofs, or anything else? I've been thinking about this space quite a bit lately. For sufficiently interesting AI generated software, AI is also incapable of re
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by kansface 2mo ago
> have a really hard time with the idea that it could be cultural I played in a gamelan ensemble in college. The music was completely foreign. A piece that sounded like a funeral procession was played at weddings. I have a hard time bel
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by kansface 2mo ago
I asked ChatGPT of course, and the response roughly corresponded to my expectations so I went no further. Doctors make way more here than elsewhere (British doctors aren’t making 500-750k a year), pharma makes most of its money here, and ho
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by kansface 2mo ago
Insurance companies don't make much money, actually. Hospitals, physicians, and pharma are at the top of the list (60% or so of total spending). Total insurance overhead is perhaps between 10 and 20%.
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by kansface 2mo ago
The panels probably need 5-8 years in that location to be energy positive. A year is great, but doesn’t prove much.
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by kansface 3mo ago
That is not a universal because the incumbents may hold the institutional reigns. See Academy for a counter example.
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by kansface 3mo ago
> But I can't help but feel that it is missing the point. It’s perfectly fine if _your_ point in playing music is rooted in some flavor of anti-capitalism and your intrinsic joy of your creative process. _His_ point was to write an
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by kansface 3mo ago
What is your a priori estimate for the percentage of news that is consumed as entertainment? As in, it does not result in a change of behavior in the consumer beyond engendering neuroticism. I'd put that number at or above 95%. News
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by kansface 3mo ago
Here is one sector of the US government I'm happy to see burned down. If the alternative is the status quo, I'm OK with any roll of the dice.
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by kansface 3mo ago
Yes, easily head and shoulders above 5.5 and 4.8. The others are like pulling teeth, comparatively (in a domain that never triggers the security fallback at least).
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by kansface 3mo ago
This would not end well.
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by kansface 3mo ago
Yes, exactly this. If I didn't care about price at all, I'd exclusively use this model. It functions more like an actual engineer. I'm in the midst of a DB migration, and eg 5.5 continually suggests stuff like "use DB
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by kansface 3mo ago
I will stake the claim, as an engineer never having studied sociology, that in group favoritism is the (only) stable political arrangement by and large… and further, the preservation of any culture necessitates discrimination of some sort.
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by kansface 3mo ago
I don’t understand why this is insane? Why do you expect a single cause?
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by kansface 4mo ago
We'll get around to training job specific models or the equivalent. Thats just lower on the value chain for now.
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by kansface 4mo ago
No one believes or acts like this will be a one time event (on any side of the issue). The history of all new forms of taxation is that eventually it will come for you.
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by kansface 4mo ago
The sovereign wealth fund would be a stakeholder in equities and estates. It would have to exercise voting privileges and be a party to lawsuits. Do you want Trump getting control of the board of eg SpaceX or Meta?
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by kansface 4mo ago
A 6% wealth tax indeed taxes more than the expected rate of return on the base assets. That is indeed equivalent to a higher rate than 100% in terms of an income tax. This math is in favor of PG’s argument.
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by kansface 4mo ago
Income (returns) are not guaranteed. Go for progressive capital gains if that’s what you want. A wealth tax is a crazy bad idea.

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