seizethecheese

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by seizethecheese 4d ago
Both world wars dramatically sped up technological progress, what are you talking about?
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by seizethecheese 4d ago
Which is it? Would the regulations slow down competitors or let them catch up, or are you contending it would let American competitors catch up but Chinese ones not?
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by seizethecheese 5d ago
That’s a charitable way to interpret what they’re trying to do in this letter. I would say they are trying to maintain the status quo to protect their status system.
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by seizethecheese 5d ago
I don’t think it’s obvious. In my Leibniz example, mathematical understanding surely would have accelerated right?
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by seizethecheese 5d ago
My thought experiment was trying to extract the issue from the zeitgeist around AI, so not really
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by seizethecheese 5d ago
Can confirm this wasn’t AI generated. (And for what it’s worth, it’s a strange allegation.)
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by seizethecheese 5d ago
I don’t think they make a coherent argument here? This seems to hinge on some argument that because AI doesn’t properly explain its breakthroughs, therefore the breakthroughs are less fertile for human understanding? This makes no sense. Wh
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by seizethecheese 6d ago
I have a hard time charitably interpreting this comment. Care to explain?
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by seizethecheese 6d ago
Huh, I learned something new but also your post is misleading. According to what I read after reading your comment: - google founders’ research was funded from federal grants. - federal grant was administered by National Science Foundation
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by seizethecheese 7d ago
I disagreed with you and went looking in the article for evidence (yeah bad, epistemologically). I actually found evidence for your point. The largest cause of fatal crashes is Generally distracted or "lost in thought" (daydreamin
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by seizethecheese 7d ago
Sure and I did that, but I’d frequently forget it, it was annoying.
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by seizethecheese 7d ago
Wait, they added this feature that was only on pro models to the non pro ones, seems reasonable to mention?
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by seizethecheese 7d ago
It's battery life. I was an iPhone 13 mini user for the last few years. I would buy a refurbished one off Amazon whenever my current one broke. I really prefer the smaller screen size. Recently, I broke my phone again and my wife happe
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Ask HN: Next day thoughts on the millenium prize threads?
3 points by seizethecheese 7d ago|1 comments
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by seizethecheese 8d ago
I charitably assume what you’re replying to is a joke.
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by seizethecheese 8d ago
Elsewhere in the thread, others have calculated $15mm at API rates for just the output token. (So I’ll assume this cost about that much, taking input and human researcher time.) I wonder whether a team of 60 mathematicians working solely on
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by seizethecheese 8d ago
> [T]he group that produced the Navier–Stokes resolution involved on the order of 10,000 concurrent agents.
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by seizethecheese 9d ago
This is a double edged sword right? Allowing judges to interpret the “spirit of the law” more widely would create a different set of absurdities, I think.
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by seizethecheese 11d ago
I don’t think we disagree at all. The feeling is very different from the intellectual understanding of it.
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by seizethecheese 11d ago
It’s actually incomprehensible as a non parent. Your entire psychology re-orients after kids.
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by seizethecheese 11d ago
“People who love you back” is harder if you truly have money.
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by seizethecheese 13d ago
Alcohol, sure, but if I wanted to start gambling on sports today, I could, but it would be harder to start abusing prescription drugs or opioids.
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by seizethecheese 13d ago
Under 1% of the population is not the same as under 1% of people exposed, and if we dramatically increase exposure, we probably will proportionally increase problem gambling. Regardless, this is a good point, this isn’t nearly as high as al
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by seizethecheese 14d ago
I thought this was a strange insertion of geopolitics into the conversation so I checked out this account’s comment history. It’s good for others to see that some commenters here have a serious axe to grind and are not really “hackers” as t
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by seizethecheese 14d ago
Way more comments than points.
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by seizethecheese 14d ago
Regarding showing ads for something you just bought, I’ve always assumed the principle here is that because conversion is extremely unlikely for a given ad, the super unlikely case you’ll buy something twice is actually more likely than a r
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by seizethecheese 17d ago
Apples, apple juice, apple concentrate
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by seizethecheese 18d ago
Could it be that coders are overly focused on the method for generating code over other forms of slop? For example, I’ve seen senior devs outsource their thinking entirely to Claude, then carefully (slowly) generate code that’s not slop on
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by seizethecheese 19d ago
It seems like it was to be able to not be encumbered by civil rights while attempting to solve the problem of terrorism militarily.
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by seizethecheese 19d ago
"In the 40s" and "in the 1860s" here are obfuscations of "during WWII" and "during the civil war". Extraordinary actions in the name of national security during a literal civil war or during a time of

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