salmonfamine

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by salmonfamine 1mo ago
Fortunately I’m at a startup with basically infinite Fable 5, and it is legitimately a huge step forward over Opus 4.8. Would recommend. Hopefully some open weight models catch up to its capabilities soon.
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by salmonfamine 1mo ago
I think there is a lot of dev cope in this thread. My workflow is very simple: 1. develop requirements for code change 2. take manual notes for implementation, maybe use LLM for some discovery/investigation 3. present notes to frontier
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by salmonfamine 1y ago
Speak for yourself. Copilot took my job and my wife
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by salmonfamine 2y ago
> Despite this success, evidence about non-experts’ ability to distinguish AI-generated poetry has been mixed. Non-experts in poetry may use different cues, and be less familiar with the structural requirements of rhyme and meter, than e
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by salmonfamine 2y ago
All of this AGI/singularity stuff is quite literally science fiction, so it can be whatever OP wants it to be.
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by salmonfamine 2y ago
How is this sea-lioning? The evidence being requested is highly pertinent to the discussion.
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by salmonfamine 2y ago
What does it feel like to be a real-life mad scientist?
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by salmonfamine 2y ago
Can't fathom why this doesn't have more attention. Really cool project. Also, big fan of the landing page design. Great stuff.
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by salmonfamine 2y ago
> A complete failure to understand what and who Africa is. Care to break it down for us?
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by salmonfamine 2y ago
> What happens when I break the device? > Your friend and their memories are attached to the physical device. If you lose or damage your friend there is no recovery plan. Surely this is some kind of performance art.
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by salmonfamine 2y ago
So actual anarcho-tyranny?
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by salmonfamine 2y ago
It's okay to just say, "designer."
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by salmonfamine 2y ago
I've met some people who have that outlook, and almost all of them have come from competitive high schools on the coasts, with successful parents who put a lot of expectations on them to achieve from a young age. If your goal is to hav
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by salmonfamine 2y ago
And apparently they took place on subsequent April Fools Days -- 77' and 78'. Must have been a golden era for pranking.
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by salmonfamine 2y ago
A melancholic and romantic but ultimately useless perspective. It is impossible to know, with certainty, if any decision is the best one because we only live one life. We can make educated guesses about our "what if's" but we
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
Not necessarily, you could just tax based on weight thresholds, established in legislation, in the same way you could ban vehicles based on the same factors.
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
"fixing the problem" would mean banning these vehicles, which is politically impossible. I think the most practical solution will be to take all of the externalized costs of these vehicles, and charge them to their owners. I would
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
Dark Forest theory of the internet in practice.
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
I have a modest proposal to end all time-zones forever: the fractalizing time grid. Currently, partly due to a historical legacy of railroads, time-zones are longitudinal. That is, they help standardize time (and daylight hours) across east
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
Argument is invalid; r > g.
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
You're right that emissions-per-capita in Western countries are unsustainable, and that consumer demand is out of step with the true cost of fuel, meat, etc. But how exactly would any country succeed in deliberately destroying their ow
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
Having kids was, effectively, not really a decision until the mid-20th century. Would you say that all of your ancestors, prior to your parents, were utterly irresponsible?
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
You're drawing connections, but you're not making concrete arguments. Perhaps China and the West will both face population collapse. The argument still stands that Western values (and Chinese values) will be lost. But humanity won
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
Haha, yeah it does fall apart on the individual level. I don't think I would convince my girlfriend to have kids by talking dirty with population statistics ;) And for the record I'm just another childless, un-married late-twentie
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
1. The comment you're replying to explicitly acknowledges this fact in an aside. 2. It is not full of "coded bigotry." These are simple fact that almost everyone agrees on. India has explicitly made it a goal to reduce their
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
Yes, exactly. This is what I'm trying to get at with "market failure" -- the total economic cost of doing all of that is drastically higher than even the cost of just childcare. In the past, many of those duties would be dist
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
Do you mean First Nations Canadians or people born in Canada? Not trying to PC-police you, just sounds like there might be some confusion here. It wouldn't surprise me if the First Nations people of Canada have a much higher birthrate
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
A lot of liberal (in the classical, broad sense) young folks simply shrug their shoulders at this fact -- not everyone wants kids, so what? I think it's worth considering, if you're one of these people, that without children being
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
There is no highly-developed country with replacement-level fertility. And, in fact, the only places left with fertility rates that are above replacement (and not rapidly dropping) are sub-saharan African countries with a median income belo
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by salmonfamine 3y ago
"Corporate welfare" is nonsense. As opposed to what? A theoretical total free market? Western governments have tried that for the past few decades, and that's done nothing but hollow out blue collar jobs and produce instabili

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