md2020

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by md2020 8mo ago
> I'm trying to understand what the criticism is here You're correct in your understanding of prediction markets with respect to traders using insider information. There are a couple things going on here. One is the subtext fro
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by md2020 8mo ago
This comment violates several HN guidelines. Take your anger elsewhere.
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by md2020 8mo ago
> they are just statistical machine outputing whatever they training set as most probable. How is this sentiment still the top comment on an article about AI on HN in 2026? It's not true with today's models. They undergo vast a
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by md2020 3y ago
On the other hand, not having kids is also a lot like a religion now. I want kids and have many friends who do not and they’re nice people and there is no issue, but there is a certain subset of the population that spends their entire life
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by md2020 3y ago
Clearly Rich Sutton is a giant in AI for his contributions in RL, but his recent brief talk "AI Succession" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgHFMolXs3U ) made me worry a bit about the sort of perspective he has on
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by md2020 3y ago
This is a terribly ignorant take and disappointing to see coming from a science fiction author. > AI isn’t “artificial” and it’s not “intelligent.” “Machine learning” doesn’t learn. On this week’s Trashfuture podcast, they made an excell
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by md2020 4y ago
Can you elaborate on why the increasing accuracy of these measurements indicates that the universe is metastable?
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by md2020 4y ago
> malinformation Please do not normalize the use of a term that is being pushed by the government to justify censoring information they don’t like [1]. I understand that there is such a thing as “true information presented out of context
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by md2020 4y ago
Yeah the same author has a reply to that since the per-capita emissions point is brought up a lot: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-per-capita-emissions-i...
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by md2020 4y ago
You need to realize that mobs are a real thing and in this case, they ruined a woman’s career for completely constructed, ridiculous reasons. This kind of behavior is disgusting. I don’t know why you describe this article as “whining”. This
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by md2020 4y ago
Nobody said the causes the foundation is funneling money to are Democrat causes, though. They’re something entirely different.
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by md2020 4y ago
Just a note to you and the other commenter with a similar comment, they said “counties”, not “countries” and linked to a piece about a county in the US.
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by md2020 4y ago
As a 20-something, I see a lot of people my age that way, way overestimate the negative impacts of climate change, to the point where they admonish and make fun of people who want to have kids. I can’t help but think their media diet is som
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by md2020 4y ago
The thought of the current Twitter leadership presiding over a major media platform throughout the 2024 election cycle probably makes others want to cry.
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by md2020 4y ago
Recently on a podcast John Carmack said somebody should look into building small fission fragment direct energy conversion reactors, since despite their lower efficiency, they’re apparently much cheaper to build. Since Carmack is a software
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by md2020 4y ago
Tbh I think this is just the classic situation of “elite” humanities people dunking on “elite” nerds. I’ve had the same experience of having no idea what the actual definition of “bro” is, and I’ve decided that it sounds made up simply beca
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by md2020 4y ago
> I genuinely think this author just made this whole thing up, or is severely exaggerating what actually happened. Was my first thought as well. Seemed far too caricatured to be real, with the Patagonia vests and the questions about “Bit
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by md2020 4y ago
To offer a different point of view, I'm a software engineer at ASML in the US. I can only offer the experience I've had on my specific team, and I've heard that this does vary between teams, but we do follow normal software i
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by md2020 4y ago
> But our society has conditioned us to believe that consumption and status are the only things that provide happiness: the smartest children of our generation are going to Stanford and MIT to join Goldman Sachs, McKinsey and FAANG I tak
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by md2020 4y ago
Take this comment back to Reddit.
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by md2020 4y ago
It is stable and is improving. I have a Comma 3 in my car and use it almost every time I drive. The team is also very active in the company’s Discord.
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by md2020 4y ago
No we don’t.
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by md2020 4y ago
Another way of saying this is we have tyranny of the minority. A handful of small states hold the majority of the political power and get to make decisions that affect the majority of people. I don’t know why you think this is better than a
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by md2020 4y ago
Your job sounds super cool, how does one get into this?
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by md2020 4y ago
ASML
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by md2020 4y ago
How many real world experiments do we need to run before people accept that governments aren’t self-regulating? Why do laws matter when the government can get around them and change them whenever it wants? Eliminating alternative means of e
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by md2020 4y ago
This comment is smug and offers nothing to the discussion.
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by md2020 4y ago
Government seizing your money because they don’t like the political purpose you used it for is stealing and authoritarianism. Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck…
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by md2020 4y ago
> By that standard, over 99% of Bitcoin mining is waste because because most of the power goes into solving artificial difficulty. This is circular reasoning. The difficulty adjustment is part of the protocol, and the purpose of the prot
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by md2020 4y ago
> We as humans use numbers and algorithms (which are really figures of speech, not things), to explain physical reality, not the other way around. The numbers and algorithms here aren’t what anybody is saying could be sentient. Those num

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