sarchertech

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by sarchertech 6d ago
By traveling here Aliens have demonstrated the ability to actually manufacture technology more advanced than ours. Even their method of transportation would be an existential threat. Inventing the concept of new weapons isn’t the same as bu
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by sarchertech 6d ago
> Ajeya Cotra Please look up her resume. If that’s one of the people who are “much smarter than you”, you’re either very gullible or you don’t give yourself much credit. She has a BS and and has essentially never worked in a technical ro
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by sarchertech 9d ago
That’s true. But this idea was unworkable because of basic biology/physics. It doesn’t matter how good the sensor is if you’re dealing with bad samples. For most of the tests they wanted to perform, a finger stick will always provide a
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by sarchertech 9d ago
Yeah but the “vision” was just the ideas of a kid with 2 semesters of college classes under her belt saying “what if”. It was never going to work. She had tons of competent engineers working for her. The basic idea was and is unworkable. If
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by sarchertech 10d ago
If you think we’re 10-15 years away from self replicating drones, I don’t think there’s anything more I can say to you.
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by sarchertech 10d ago
AI research takes physical space and physical prototypes. Even if you can simulate a lot, the simulation is never going to be accurate enough to go from simulation to perfectly working prototype. Especially not with a single rack of GPU ser
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by sarchertech 10d ago
Missiles have been doing this for decades. AI drones can’t wipe out humanity without being able to replicate. AI could mostly destroy civilization if you gave it sole launch control of ICBMs. It could also cause a lot of damage to society w
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by sarchertech 12d ago
If you can prove that there’s an imminent threat, you can get an injunction.
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by sarchertech 13d ago
In practice, writing programs this way tends to result in programs that use less memory not more.
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by sarchertech 16d ago
I think I read it as a bit more flippant than you meant it because it was worded assuming the answer was yes.
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by sarchertech 17d ago
I mean sure don’t leave a garden hose running overnight. That’s insane. If you leave it running next your house you’ll flood your basement. You said you had a pool though. That and trying to keep 2 non native trees alive in the desert is pr
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by sarchertech 17d ago
OP confirmed it was gasoline.
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by sarchertech 18d ago
Even if you’re driving a Prius and getting 50mpg, if you’re “driving all the time” you’re spending at least $100 a month in gas. There’s nowhere in the country where a water bill is $1000 a month unless you’re doing a lot of irrigation.
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by sarchertech 18d ago
The only way I can read what they wrote to mean that is if they are saying water costs $30-40 a gallon.
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by sarchertech 18d ago
If you have little experience writing code, do you know that you actually understand what you’re reading though? For example could you reproduce the code you read immediately after writing it? It’s very easy to “read code” if you’re just re
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by sarchertech 18d ago
Have you tried in both directions though? You need to test both sensitivity and specificity.
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by sarchertech 18d ago
> I'm already paying 10-times more for water usage than I spend on gas Are you irrigating an enormous yard?
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by sarchertech 18d ago
Well historically the consensus was that it was harder to read code than to write it, but that leads to uncomfortable conclusions these days, so that bit of common wisdom has mostly been ejected. > I'm not a coder so I have zero ide
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by sarchertech 19d ago
The only time I really heard the term load bearing in a software engineering context (pre LLM) was in the phrase “load-bearing bug”.
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by sarchertech 24d ago
> building a feature that uses cryptography is going to have a better track record than the median human developer. Let’s say that’s true. That doesn’t mean that we won’t have a higher percentage of bad implementations because more peopl
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by sarchertech 27d ago
There’s still browser/OS typo mitigation.
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by sarchertech 28d ago
You can’t always tell the difference, but you can filter out businesses that lasted less than a year, temporary businesses that were setup for real estate transactions, and business that never made a profit.
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by sarchertech 28d ago
Unless you get caught up in a big layoff where the people you have relationships with have zero input.
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by sarchertech 29d ago
I’m also confused.
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by sarchertech 1mo ago
The difference was 3.6cm in the study that measured 10 more years 30-80. And 5cm in the study that measured 10 fewer years 40-80. The studies were conducted over different time periods when average nutrition changed, and demographics change
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by sarchertech 1mo ago
No that’s not what I was getting at. The post was edited and originally mentioned absolute amount of fat being bad for your heart.
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by sarchertech 1mo ago
I mean median household income in 1999 was $40k and median household income now is $84k.
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by sarchertech 1mo ago
Still doesn’t make sense if you believe that AI is making a meaningful boost to productivity. If you are the kind of person who thinks AI will drive down the wages of software engineers that much, you have to think that it is at least a 2x
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by sarchertech 1mo ago
I’m well aware of the history of the fed. Most small businesses fail because they were never serious businesses to begin with. A business closing down after running for a year with no profit isn’t relevant.
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by sarchertech 1mo ago
That’s not the question I ask though. I asked about the specific claim that absolute fat was bad for your heart. But also short people living longer has so many more possible explanations than less overall fat.

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