marcus_holmes

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by marcus_holmes 6d ago
Right. Isn't this just a more efficient version of that?
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by marcus_holmes 7d ago
Is there any other way that the world could officially agree on something?
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by marcus_holmes 7d ago
I ponder whether, if the poles flipped and we survived that relatively intact, there would be a sudden enthusiasm for "South is up".
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by marcus_holmes 7d ago
Apt. And that fits both parties in this situation.
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by marcus_holmes 7d ago
Why can't the AI be held liable? If I pay a company to do something, and that company uses an AI to do the thing, and the AI messes it up, why isn't the company liable?
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by marcus_holmes 7d ago
About time tbh. I don't work in game dev, in part because of the horrorshow of game dev management.
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by marcus_holmes 7d ago
Building in Minecraft is a very different beast than building in NMS though. The prebuilt cabins and machines of NMS aren't the rabbit hole of redstone engineering that Minecraft has.
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by marcus_holmes 7d ago
So someone who has suffered incurable harm and damage at the hands of health insurers is a "hate monger" while the health insurance executive prioritising their company profits over human health is just a normal person doing their
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by marcus_holmes 8d ago
OK, but in that scenario the prompter doesn't understand the output and can't judge whether the LLM is going off the rails or not. As we know from coding, this is a vital step in the process. Experienced coders produce better resu
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by marcus_holmes 8d ago
It's not so much vetting their thoughts, as dealing with my own inner voice ranting at the beliefs I see in their writing. There's a few other books that I've been unable to finish purely because I disagree with the author so
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by marcus_holmes 8d ago
It's the dream, isn't it? Make enough money to do something like this. Keep enough friends over the years and moves to have a tribe around you that enable this. Find a partner who also enjoys this. I'm glad someone is getting
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by marcus_holmes 8d ago
I think successful replications are as valuable as the original research because they're not unsuccessful replications
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by marcus_holmes 9d ago
good thoughts. Thanks for sharing :)
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by marcus_holmes 9d ago
Fair points. But it wasn't so much the viewpoint of any individual character as the assumptions underlying the entire cast. But you're right - I should read her other works precisely because this one unsettled me
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by marcus_holmes 10d ago
The UK's position on Palestine Action is the poster child for this. Completely harmless old people holding placards have been prosecuted under terrorism legislation passed after 9/11. "Terrorist" has become a label appli
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by marcus_holmes 10d ago
I was really put off by the Terra Ignota series. I struggled through it, but her writing really didn't gel with me. I've been resisting reading "Inventing the renaissance" because of that, though it does come highly reco
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by marcus_holmes 10d ago
It's a good question. Pure maths has foreshadowed a lot of physics, and a lot of Computer Science. We should probably keep doing it. Does the current model (of highly-talented academics at Universities mostly arguing with each other) c
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by marcus_holmes 13d ago
I think the point is that currently if anyone .fraser.name is registered, then fraser.name cannot be registered. The change that Verisign is making is to deregister all the *.fraser.name domain registrations, which will then free up fraser
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by marcus_holmes 14d ago
Animals don't have a choice about eating each other. We do. And there are plenty of people who would vehemently argue that eating their pet puppy is very, very, very, different from eating a plant.
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by marcus_holmes 14d ago
Does an LLM have any idea of what "best" is? I think it doesn't, and just predicts the range of most statistically likely next tokens based on its training data, and picks one of those.
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by marcus_holmes 14d ago
I actually think that's a separate debate. The question of "are laws there to enforce morality, or enforce public order?" is the key one. And, I think, very easily settled by looking at the laws we choose to implement. Almost
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by marcus_holmes 14d ago
The one I find fascinating is eating animals. We currently eat animals as a normal part of our diet (for most of us, including me, anyway). To do this we treat the animals horribly. Incredibly badly. And we know it. It's very easy to s
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by marcus_holmes 14d ago
Property doesn't produce anything. If I buy a house for $500K and sell it a year later for $600K, that extra $100K hasn't been added to the economy. Something else had to make that money. It's just speculation. Whereas if I i
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by marcus_holmes 15d ago
To your point, the argument about the 20% Gas Export tax has been interesting. Fossil fuel lobbyists employed by foreign companies clearly and openly buying politicians to try and fend it off, when it's obviously in Australia's in
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by marcus_holmes 15d ago
Thanks, this is interesting. Folks I've been talking to see a huge hit coming for us. Mining is getting automated (and coal/gas have huge problems). Education is getting hit by AI. Agriculture is good but employs relatively few pe
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by marcus_holmes 15d ago
The Guardian's funding model [0] proves this wrong. People will absolutely pay for things voluntarily if you ask them, without forcing them to. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2018/nov/12/
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by marcus_holmes 15d ago
I read all Ed's posts, and enjoy them, and I like AI as a tool and use it every day. I think it's really, really, really important to have a contrarian opinion out there, even it's a voice howling in the wilderness. Even if m
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by marcus_holmes 15d ago
Absolutely not. It was illegal to harbour escaped slaves. Or hide Jews from the Gestapo. Laws have nothing to do with morality. Or justice.
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by marcus_holmes 15d ago
They clearly would like donations, but choose not to require any payments. Your line of reasoning seems to be along the lines of "anything not forbidden is compulsory" which is not a good place. Having the choice to donate but not
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by marcus_holmes 16d ago
It's more the "small boats" crap that has reduced and therefore reduced their ability to shout about it.

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