leonvoss

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by leonvoss 2mo ago
I think it's a dishonest essay: >The first step is to decide what to work on. The work you choose needs to have three qualities: it has to be something you have a natural aptitude for, that you have a deep interest in, and that offe
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
>brilliant
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
I don't think it offers any. I got tired of switching between Codex and Claude plus I wanted to start using glm and kimi so I switch to pi. Then I got tired of VSCode eating up battery and RAM so I moved to Neovim which has barely any
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
>As of May 2026, the following 76 participants have signed the treaty: Algeria, Angola, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Columbia, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Ivory Coast, Cuba, Czec
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
How will you stop 15 year olds from getting non-kids hardware?
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
This would require hardware manufacturing. Seems expensive. Locking down hardware is also something I don't want the government getting into. What about poor young suzie who got hit on by a creepy 30 year old briefly after booting linu
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
Because this is for stupid people, it will be done in a stupid way. They aren't interested in cash bought anonymous auth tokens that require you to be over 18 to the store clerk or whatever. In part this is stupidity, in part this pani
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
>Ah, OK, so you admit a problem exists. That's step one... Okay but for your position to be tenable you have to then go to step 2, which is some parents are incompetent at doing this, and step 3, which is that, nevertheless, their c
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
Raising almost all children in these government socialist barracks is so dystopian. What you call "worse" conflict resolution and social skills I call superior confidence and autonomy. People today are oversocialized.
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
He has a master's degree in physics from Oxford. Also there is a toggle to normal notation. Well, CS notation. I'm not a fan of transpose marks everywhere. I like an even more mathematics notation.
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
I agree 100%. This field is not amenable to progress from people with a pen sitting in a corner proving theorems. The math is mostly uncertain vibes and to test it you need millions of dollars of compute. Smart loners just can't.
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
It's all vibes.
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
This is always going to happen with these types of laws, because they can be broken with very little effort from anywhere. That directly causes it to be easy to frame people for breaking them, by accident or on purpose. If the crime is pure
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
> Published in 2004-05. By 2007 that was being used for in-vivo MRI reconstruction with substantially undersampled data I have argued exact claim before and from what I recall, Tao maybe contributed 1% to MRI improvements in the last 20
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
Quantitative scientists are also mathematicians. I'm not attacking mathematics, just probably-useless subfields. Is there any good quantitative evidence that actually estimates what percent of math work today will be useful? Because to
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
So now the Emperor walked under his high canopy in the midst of the procession, through the streets of his capital; and all the people standing by, and those at the windows, cried out, "Oh! How beautiful are our Emperor's new clot
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
So overhyped. Yet they have no power but some prestige among nerds. The reason why it is bad is that the money/status is very limited relative to the amount of smart people. I would rather praise developments in quantitative sciences.
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
The solution is banning dark patterns at big tech companies, not banning privacy.
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
When they run out of other rights to destroy, they will pipe videos of little girls crying from food poisoning into your e-verified telescreen during ChildSafe^TM viewing hours, and the result will be that you will get to choose between two
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
It requires reason to understand the consequences of your decisions. Reason is something democracies have a shortage of. Thus, democracies structurally suffer from issues like this.
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
their parents won't protect them and everyone else has to pay for it. maybe they shouldn't have been allowed to have kids.
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by leonvoss 2mo ago
Hundreds? 200 years ago most people did not even have birth certificates. I can think of multiple famous examples of people who lived in Europe 500 to 800 years ago where we don't know their real age. In existing countries with poor st
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by leonvoss 7mo ago
Privacy is way more important than protecting kids from consuming content online. Kids already have more protection than it's worth, probably, this is moving in the wrong direction.
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by leonvoss 7mo ago
You're really charitable to the "United States." There is approximately no reason behind what it does for the most part, it's just an AI made out of biological serfs.
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by leonvoss 7mo ago
And as we can see with Biden and Trump, 86 is past the the optimal compromise between experience and cognition.
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by leonvoss 7mo ago
from my POV, other alleged humans are p zombies and might as well be unaligned AIs. The "united states" giving me a list of commands and an AI king doing the same is no different to me phenomenologically
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by leonvoss 7mo ago
That's not AI.
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by leonvoss 8mo ago
Statute of limitations for reporting should be 1 year maximum.
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by leonvoss 8mo ago
There are approximately 3 different human species, if you use the same distance measures that give us dog, wolf, and coyote (which can all interbreed).
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by leonvoss 8mo ago
I agree with you. I would rather this brain power go to modeling genetics, politics, and evolution. Fake problems like the sofa problem are overcelebrated while important issues like theory of eugenics are villified and undercelebrated.

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