spangry

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by spangry 3mo ago
No, where did I say that? All I said was that I can see the logic - doesn't mean I agree with it. This policy sucks for me personally, as a non-US citizen.
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by spangry 3mo ago
I agree this is probably their thinking - they view frontier models (and the capability to build them) as a vital strategic edge that they want to keep to themselves. The problem is that there are network effects at play - the more people y
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by spangry 3mo ago
"The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national , whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign n
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by spangry 3mo ago
"The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any *foreign national*, whether inside or outside the United States, including *foreign n
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by spangry 3mo ago
Why don't they just auction H1B visas? 1. Set a monthly quota (for argument's sake, 5000 a month). 2. Each month the government holds an auction, and businesses that believe they need to bring in foreign labour can bid for however
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by spangry 7mo ago
Looks really cool, I like the pretty but minimalist interface. Could I store the SQlite file on, say, google drive so that I could access my journal from different devices while the contents are still kept secure because they’re encrypted?
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by spangry 9mo ago
As I understand the data in this article, midlife mortality rates for those who hold college degrees has declined from 1992 to 2019, whereas the rate has remained largely stable for non-college degree holders. I wonder if this trend is due,
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by spangry 1y ago
Then why don’t you go bet against these people? You could be rich.
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by spangry 1y ago
This is good advice. You can buy “wart-off” freezing spray over the counter at a pharmacy to do this.
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by spangry 1y ago
Oh darn, I thought they'd gotten Arch running on an M1 but they actually switched to a ThinkBook. I somewhat regret my expensive switch from Linux to MacOS. MacOS is just so weird, it doesn't make any sense to me. For the first ti
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by spangry 1y ago
I missed that bit. What did it say?
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by spangry 1y ago
Pretty sure that's what I have too (and am diagnosed ADHD). I used to complain to my Mum that I couldn't hear what people were saying on the bus back home from school. She took me to get a hearing test and it turns out I have bat-
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by spangry 1y ago
> The US gets a stronger position with China such that china attacking Taiwan would be like bombing Apple or Google. The USA will go to war over that. If TSMC has effectively transferred their technology to Intel, doesn't this remov
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by spangry 1y ago
Just spitballing - maybe if TSMC had a 49% stake in Intel they'd be incentivised to transfer their chip-making technologies and techniques to Intel, to maximise the value of their (forced) investment?
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by spangry 1y ago
For me it's more a recognition after the fact thing: "Oh that was a good comment who said that? Oh that guy, yeah not surprised."
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by spangry 1y ago
I see you’re being downvoted but I think you’re right. The US reserve currency system allows the US to tax the world, whenever they print more dollars, via oil price inflation. Anyone without sufficient military power who tries to stop deno
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by spangry 1y ago
There’s one crucial difference - countries can’t print new diamonds or gold bars at will. Whenever the US prints more dollars, it transfers value from hoarders of US dollars to themselves - they’re levying a stealth tax via global oil price
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by spangry 1y ago
Won’t the reserve currency simply switch to being “backed” by some other fundamental productive input? And by switch I mean the world’s most militarily powerful country will ensure that countries producing this fundamental input denominate
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by spangry 1y ago
I think that’s right - more discretion creates more room for corruption. Although there are other ways to limit corruption risk, namely process and transparency. In the Australian government you can pay someone higher than standard pay thro
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by spangry 2y ago
I tried this for a while using adhesive medical electrodes attached to a grounding strap, in turn attached to an earthing point in my house. I didn't notice any benefit or disbenefit, but I wasn't paying particularly close attenti
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by spangry 2y ago
I've heard similar about Zoloft, and Effexor (which is notorious for causing withdrawal symptoms when coming off it). I believe Lexapro is a highly selective SSRI, which might explain its lack of withdrawal symptoms (and also its &quot
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by spangry 2y ago
What kind of training did you do? I have trouble figuring out how I'm feeling and want to get better at it. I'm particularly bad at noticing when I'm stressed, and by the time I notice I'm already redlining.
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by spangry 2y ago
Well put. I’ve wonder if some of those on the other side of the argument are actually, perhaps on some subconscious level, proponents of mind-body dualism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism
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by spangry 3y ago
This is a very good thing to do. Managers have to split their attention multiple ways across multiple people and so they end up neglecting you by default. They're also time poor. You will actually be helping them if you can package up
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by spangry 3y ago
They could use control vectors, one for each individual - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414532 . Or they could selectively apply the censorship model they already quite clearly have running on ChatGPT's output
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by spangry 3y ago
I can't know for sure obviously. But let's think about the plausibility of those three: lawsuits, bad PR, 'harm'. On lawsuits, I would have thought a disclaimer & 'unsafe output' option would cover them. Wh
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by spangry 3y ago
ChatGPT4 has overreacted to this issue IMHO. When I try to do even slightly esoteric medical research, ChatGPT seems pretty intent on only referencing Cleveland and Mayo Clinic, the most mainstream of orthodox mainstream medical sources. Tr
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by spangry 3y ago
That's disturbing. Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy will often be given Lipegfilgrastim to bolster their immune system. It does this by stimulating the production of neutrophils.
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by spangry 3y ago
Why not? We started off as single celled organisms and look at where we are now.
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by spangry 3y ago
Physics.

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