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by sdwr 13d ago
It's really bad at game design
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by sdwr 2mo ago
I think it's a lot more interesting to look for practical markers of simulation than do a teleological thought experiment. How would a simulated universe differ from a "real" one? How would the simulation cut corners to save
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by sdwr 2mo ago
Tractable is solvable, the opposite of intractable, and a beachhead is a landing point for an invasion. A tractable beachhead is a solvable first chunk of work that sets you up for the rest of the project
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by sdwr 2mo ago
It's an indicator of AI progress. The solutions aren't especially revolutionary, but no person had been able to solve them after decades of collective attempts.
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by sdwr 2mo ago
No taxation without representation?
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by sdwr 3mo ago
Small social sites are just as dangerous in another way, as vessels for a toxic monoculture. Pro-anorexia forums, political radicalization, there was even a famous one that fetishized infecting people with HIV.
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by sdwr 3mo ago
Does reading books have intrinsic value, or is it just a specific (archaic?) way of transmitting information? Socrates would be a podcaster today
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by sdwr 3mo ago
The only people I've ever met who get excited filling out forms were German
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by sdwr 4mo ago
Art is communication. If you can convey the message to an intern on a post-it, what's the point! My favorite art is the kind that describes to people how they already feel.
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by sdwr 4mo ago
That's amazing! The "machines as woodland fairies" conceit imagines them as natural creatures, but nature has no laws "In developing countries, everything is possible and nothing works. In developed countries, everything
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by sdwr 4mo ago
Yeah it's hot...
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by sdwr 4mo ago
They have different personalities. I can only imagine Altman wants to stay on top of the chaos, and believes he will come out ahead whatever happens, while Dario is trying to stay realistic and mitigate worst-case scenarios.
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by sdwr 4mo ago
The map is not the territory!
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by sdwr 4mo ago
There's soft guardrails for "reputable" content. A publishing house has to buy it, stores have to agree to distribute it, and if people are upset they can raise a stink and get the book pulled. Technically, people can write w
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by sdwr 4mo ago
Same as it ever was
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by sdwr 4mo ago
And the EU wants to insulate itself from Russia with friendly, ideologically-compatible countries. Can't put a price tag on safety
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by sdwr 5mo ago
Emergency medicine is the coding of medicine. Fast feedback loop, requires broad rather than deep judgement, concrete next steps. The AI coding improvement should be partially transferrable to other disciplines without recreating the trai
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by sdwr 5mo ago
Yeah, fractal means you see the same structure, or an equally complex structure, at the smaller scale. This is just details, there's no sustained complexity
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by sdwr 5mo ago
So poor people and historical people are in the same bucket as dogs, got it. How lucky we are to be the only generation in history capable of thinking and reflecting!
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by sdwr 5mo ago
Economy of scale, Lego can invest the billions(?) in machines and molds that don't leave connection points (?), partially by reusing pieces between sets.
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by sdwr 5mo ago
This is a peak midwit, popsci, plausible-sounding but foundationally-bereft article.
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by sdwr 5mo ago
Yeah it's fascinating to have an alternate source for intelligence, feels like a mental Rosetta Stone
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by sdwr 5mo ago
Recklessness is based on effort, likelihood, and consequence. If you live in a small town, you might not lock your front door. No matter where you live, you probably don't lock your second floor windows.
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by sdwr 5mo ago
Is it healthy? Maybe every company is a profit-maximizer wearing a skin suit, and people support their siblings exactly twice as much as their cousins. When you slice down to the game-theory-optimal bone, you are, in some sense, cutting off
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by sdwr 5mo ago
Right, because you see the situation so much better than them ;)
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by sdwr 5mo ago
Didn't Google give up on chromeOS? For all their faults, at least Microsoft has a desktop os
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by sdwr 6mo ago
What's cool is that they aren't adjusting the temperature of the model live, or predicting/labeling any of the fork/lock points.
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by sdwr 6mo ago
Get into the account, change the phone number, and start charging the cards on file. Or look through iCloud data for passwords/contacts
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by sdwr 6mo ago
"Requiring an account" means leaning in the Apple/Disney direction - upselling, walled gardens and milking captive customers. Dropping the account requirement is a symbolic (and practical!) step in the other direction, toward
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by sdwr 6mo ago
Lockdown mode could be life or death for some users. Adding toggles and partial states increases complexity and risk.

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