rain_iwakura

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by rain_iwakura 28d ago
this is primitive understanding of math. what does "truth" mean here? usually arguing over definitions is something i hate, but that's the whole point of mathematics. it starts as a tool for humans, then evolves into a set of
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by rain_iwakura 1mo ago
yeah man it's me who's stupid and not you when i use an example of the author who claims that you can use pro subscription on all of the mundane tasks w/o going over the budget. sure. my point is that you can only use it with
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by rain_iwakura 1mo ago
not at all true. if you're truly using it across the board for smaller things (translation of pages, filtering of every individual tweet based on its relevance to you etc), the costs ramp up super quickly. i used for work where i did l
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by rain_iwakura 2mo ago
because as OP of the article points out, it's not a guaranteed hit with these models no matter how capable. they are stochastic (but not parrots), humans are too (but in a different way), and so there is a chance that the answer is wro
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by rain_iwakura 7mo ago
have you had actually negative interactions like that? they sting for years, even after hundreds of mild-to-positive ones. the brain focuses on risk-minimization and not reward-maximization.
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by rain_iwakura 7mo ago
lol
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by rain_iwakura 7mo ago
you posted an opinion piece by "Director of National Maritime Intelligence Integration Office (NMIO) and Commander, Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)" (i.e. State Department mouthpiece) and the other source is from 2022, with air
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Meta cuts staff stock awards for a second straight year(ft.com)
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by rain_iwakura 2y ago
It's good economic policy based on what? Did you run a counterfactual already? Comparing the US to other countries is meaningless, it's not the same set of init conditions and variables. Do you realize that those taxes go to fund
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by rain_iwakura 2y ago
this was basically what I was asking. would this scheme actually make more money for the musicians? thanks for a reply.
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by rain_iwakura 2y ago
I think they should basically turn it into Twitch, where I can "sub" to an artist and maybe get their tracks earlier than others or some other additional content that costs artist $0 to produce for the most part (podcast, making o
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by rain_iwakura 2y ago
how would this work if i listen to 1000 bands? the split would be miniscule.
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by rain_iwakura 2y ago
that failure is much more a leadership issue than a talent issue. Google was founded by PhD students and it shows. (I am one.) It's like a giant lab where things get prototyped and innovations are pushed, but where product ends up side
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by rain_iwakura 2y ago
I think you misread what I said. I said "could help us" which just implies it's a distant possibility. I am aware that it's an extremely low probability event, but not an impossible one, for example in 200 years they mig
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by rain_iwakura 2y ago
i think applying software engineering logic to diseases is fallacious. anyway, the reason you can say that is because there is basically no one left who doesn't have some sort of immunity against the virus. no immunologically naive peo
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by rain_iwakura 2y ago
my point was not to make it disappear, but to develop better targets for antivirals, which effectively make it end by just shortening the disease course to 1-2 days. Right now, the rebounds that happen are mostly due to virus reservoirs wit
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by rain_iwakura 2y ago
I'm honestly of the opinion that all of the ethical questions that arose during this search are fairly minuscule compared to the potential findings that could help us end this never-ending outbreak altogether. (At least by developing b
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by rain_iwakura 2y ago
Have there been any studies that show that people treated with antibiotics against F. Nucleatum showed improved outcomes in any of comorbid diseases? I'm not saying it would actually improve anything but would be interesting to see. I
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by rain_iwakura 3y ago
damn we got a Kwisatz Haderach over here.
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by rain_iwakura 3y ago
sure man, woke mind virus has ravaged my brain lol.
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by rain_iwakura 3y ago
The fact that the poster focuses on the term ("leftism") rather than on the substance is itself a red flag imo. It puts the discussion on a weird tripolar spectrum: you're either leftist, centrist, or rightwing (of which the
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by rain_iwakura 3y ago
"Heartwarming: The Worst People You Know Are All Fighting" https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2535073-worst-person-you-kno...
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by rain_iwakura 3y ago
i'm not sure if know this but a concussion increases a risk of another concussion. your brain loses ability to balance the body movements and it's a death spiral that a lot of people can't get out of. unless you mean someone
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by rain_iwakura 3y ago
I honestly am not sure what you were arguing for in the first place. I agree that I was being rude to an extent, but your previous comment didn't lend itself to most charitable interpretation as it wasn't clear to me what in mine
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by rain_iwakura 3y ago
No one is saying you don't have agency as an individual. This is an aggregate statement. In any A/B test you're interested in proportion of people converted who displayed increase in desired behavior. What you can't do i
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by rain_iwakura 3y ago
I'm not sure if you're joking about binge-ing but you have to be delusional to think that someone taping their favorite show on their own or waiting for it until it ends is nearly the same as dropping all episodes at the same time
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by rain_iwakura 3y ago
I said YouTube isn't a net negative. Even then you have to think globally, what about children who grew up consuming AI generated abomination animations made with 0 oversight of even its greedy creators? Netflix was the cause for curre
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by rain_iwakura 3y ago
The issue is that without loud declaration like this money men will just soldier on with implementing shittier future. It's always do something first and then ask for forgiveness. But at the point you ask for it it's too late and
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by rain_iwakura 3y ago
At the point you're thinking AI is superior at generating Ghibli-like movies it essentially is as powerful as any human (understands the world and our preferences for storytelling), that is smarter than all of us by some margin. (I&#x2
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by rain_iwakura 3y ago
I think the funny result of our ML work is that we essentially bringing the value of being online down and will eventually force people to interact IRL as costs of verifying these generations becomes too high. That is we are going back to p

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