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by nmca 3y ago
Yubikey is supported; which has linux compatibility.
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by nmca 3y ago
My advice to anyone running a company atm - don't let your IT security folks do this. They will initially want to, and it will be a huge mistake.
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by nmca 3y ago
“If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare” by Robin Hanson, Daniel Martin, Calvin McCarter, and Jonathan Paulson, September 7th, 2021 Is what you want to read if you're interested in the fermi paradox.
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by nmca 3y ago
Give up 70% of the way into the hyperstitious slur cascade. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/give-up-seventy-percen...
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by nmca 3y ago
Nice UI! Is it open source?
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by nmca 3y ago
Wait - the way this works is you have a backup key, if you lose your primary you replace it using your backup. NB this is only needed when you move to a new device with a new secure enclave too, so at no point is this pizza situation likely
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by nmca 3y ago
Also my go-to. Very useful for travel, projects etc. Recursive lists fit my brain well & the search is good enough!
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by nmca 3y ago
Because they're not building enough.
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by nmca 3y ago
Just to steelman for a second but educational research is obviously quite hard (long horizons, large costs including opportunity costs, vulnerable groups necessitating careful ethical standards and consideration). I'd still give the fo
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by nmca 3y ago
This is one of the most shocking things I have heard about in ages. Because kids can't vote and don't have money they really do seem to get shafted in the US.
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by nmca 3y ago
Apparently launch is planned for 8am CT / 2pm BST https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1647767704177192961?t=9e-I...
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by nmca 3y ago
Opportunity costs are real. Opportunity costs are real. Opportunity costs ARE REAL. OPPORTUNITY COSTS ARE REAL. ¡¡¡ OPPORTUNITY COSTS ARE REAL !!!
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by nmca 3y ago
data? source?
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by nmca 3y ago
super-exponential?
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by nmca 3y ago
Oops, that was the next tweet: https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1641799667942866944?...
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by nmca 3y ago
It would be quite interesting to see with the x-axis unnormalised and; at the moment the equivalent American percentiles are probably materially richer than their UK counterparts, so the effect is larger than shown in real terms.
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by nmca 3y ago
worse, yes, yes, no
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by nmca 3y ago
Remaining horses are happier though.
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by nmca 3y ago
This is not true of goal directed agents and all RLHF models are trained with, ahem, RL; see: "Optimal Policies Tend to Seek Power" from NeurIPS 2021. It's a very useful instrumental goal to be very powerful.
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by nmca 3y ago
In the framing of your original comment: A: Mturkers B: ChatGPT C: Experts => ChatGPT better approximates the labelling of D by experts than mTurkers Which is a coherent and interesting conclusion. Edit: also, please forgive the snark in
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by nmca 3y ago
Ah yes, ye olde "all humans are equally capable of all tasks" axiom (the paper is correct and the parent comment is wrong, perhaps obviously)
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by nmca 3y ago
I honestly sometimes wonder if msft execs use windows at all in their personal lives...
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No Understanding (a poem by GPT-4)(n-mca.github.io)
2 points by nmca 3y ago|4 comments
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by nmca 3y ago
Maybe I'm just being successfully trolled but my goodness citation heavily needed for these completely insane-sounding claims.
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by nmca 3y ago
> GPT-4 had been shown to outperform humans on the coding competition tasks This is not true as of March 2023 (hard to prove a negative of course but look at the percentiles in the GPT4 report)
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by nmca 3y ago
mean is totally inappropriate here (but good that you provided median)
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by nmca 3y ago
This the correct response, but not appropriate in tone for this forum.
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by nmca 3y ago
The clearspace app that this blog advertises looks amazing; it might push me over the edge to iPhone...
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by nmca 3y ago
This time it works.
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by nmca 3y ago
Is this the app store moment for AI? (it certainly is for https://ai.com , aha)

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