rossdavidh

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by rossdavidh 28d ago
Overthinking it. "You have money and need to seem AIish for the stock market, we want real money". You notice they don't do this deal in tokens, they do it in fiat currency.
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by rossdavidh 28d ago
One unexpected "benefit" of LLMs is that it is training us all to be even better at recognizing "you don't even know what you mean by that, do you?"
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by rossdavidh 1mo ago
Less conspiratorially; they may care a lot less about it than ADO, and not give it the priority/resources they would otherwise. Neglect can often do the work of malign intention.
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by rossdavidh 1mo ago
They don't lie, because they don't ever have an understanding of truth vs any other language that sounds good. They don't cheat, because they can for example tell you the complete rules of chess, but don't know how to pl
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by rossdavidh 1mo ago
I've known people who did get inquiries from the IRS; they just had to provide a lot of evidence that they were actually going to markets to try to sell their stuff, actually making stuff to sell, etc. Generally, the IRS are more inte
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Geoffrey Hinton's Bad AI Prediction Became a Legend [video](youtube.com)
1 points by rossdavidh 1mo ago|0 comments
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The Cosplay Economy(rosshartshorn.net)
6 points by rossdavidh 1mo ago|2 comments
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by rossdavidh 1mo ago
This race was never going to get to AGI, at Google or anywhere else, and it appears that Google knows that.
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by rossdavidh 1mo ago
A few points: 1) the simplest explanation whenever a bunch of people leave [x] at a company at the same time, is that [x] is becoming less important to that company moving forward. It's not proof, but you know, everyone is trying real
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by rossdavidh 1mo ago
FYI, the governor is Republican so you might be surprised/suspicious that he would be halting approvals. However, Gov Abbott had a political near-death experience a few years back involving an event called Snowpocalypse, in which the
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Data center approvals in Texas halted until audits completed, says governor(texastribune.org)
16 points by rossdavidh 1mo ago|5 comments
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by rossdavidh 1mo ago
"The end result is a peculiar version of Hollywood: a place increasingly devoid of physical production, populated instead by executives, AI art, and unpaid interns drag-racing golf carts through empty studio streets..." With the c
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by rossdavidh 1mo ago
I mean, we all remember the cases where it was true, but do you really think most people think they are good at computer programming? Or speaking Russian? Or playing the harp? Or gardening? In the vast majority of cases, people who are
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by rossdavidh 1mo ago
Not the least, I think! Appliances, computers, and especially clothing do have other manufacturers (some in Mexico, some in India). Semiconductors are among the most concentrated manufacturing industries, and also among the hardest to spi
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Is This All About China?(rosshartshorn.net)
1 points by rossdavidh 1mo ago|2 comments
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by rossdavidh 2mo ago
'...when this all falls apart, I genuinely think there's going to be an authority crisis where people look at the media and go, "Hey, why did you believe every insane thing said by a CEO for four years?"'
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Oracle's credit rating drops to one level above junk [video](youtube.com)
2 points by rossdavidh 2mo ago|3 comments
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by rossdavidh 2mo ago
So, some of the capital invested due to the AI boom may be for stuff like buildings, energy infrastructure, and other long-lasting stuff. I am reminded of all of the spending done in the runup to the Y2K, when I saw factories able to get a
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by rossdavidh 3mo ago
Great stuff! Great! However, the issue is not, and has likely never been, that young people aren't willing to believe "they can do that". It's that most people, of necessity, are not good at both inventing, manufactur
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by rossdavidh 3mo ago
In various places and times in the past, otherwise rational and successful people had all sorts of odd religious (or other ideological) beliefs, that caused them to do odd things. Sometimes, those odd behaviors even had a modest negative i
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by rossdavidh 3mo ago
No
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by rossdavidh 3mo ago
Might be worth trying live yogurt in the meantime, per the article?
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by rossdavidh 3mo ago
That is a general truth of most ML; many models _can_ find the information in the data, if the data is good enough. If it is not, then likely no model can.
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by rossdavidh 3mo ago
Several instances of both. In at least one case they told us that they wanted to rent to a big-name tenant at a larger space in the same complex, before they started renting any of the smaller places. What seemed odd to me is that they wo
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by rossdavidh 3mo ago
Oh my goodness, thank you. My wife had to move her store in 2020 in the midst of lockdown; you'd think rents would have been low, but no. Since then, many of the places that wouldn't lower the rent then, have sat empty ever sinc
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by rossdavidh 3mo ago
It seems to me he contradicts his own thesis here: "The boring truth is that expertise in most subjects is largely a matter of having an enormous library of knowledge and skill. For example, if you want to learn a language, you need to
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by rossdavidh 4mo ago
True that, but it could be both cause and effect. There are reports that gut bacteria can induce depression, which benefits the bacteria because it sends more calorie-rich, highly processed food down the gullet (think ice cream binges when
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by rossdavidh 4mo ago
Working on a framework for factory management systems.
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Emotional regulation is a dying art(joanwestenberg.com)
3 points by rossdavidh 4mo ago|0 comments
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by rossdavidh 5mo ago
Do they mean, the moment when everyone realizes it's not as useful as they at first thought?

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