strangegecko

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by strangegecko 4d ago
> Individually, people prefer be kind and compassionate, prefer to help when they find another in trouble. What are you basing that claim on? How do you know it's an actual preference and not mainly caused by external factors (e.g.
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by strangegecko 4d ago
Have we arrived at the conclusion that terms like "understanding" and "interpretation" for what is happening is appropriate? Isn't it simply that there are two competing goals that the LLM received RL for, honesty o
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by strangegecko 1mo ago
FWIW, I had a similar impression of your comment as JohnMakin. > give the friend a subtle clue that it's time to move on If a friend needs someone to listen about life struggles and you tell them you're tired of it and don&#x27
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by strangegecko 1mo ago
It could work, but those types of jobs (paying significantly more than local salary and yet fully remote in a different time zone) are few and not easy to get nowadays (not that they were ubiquitous before).
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by strangegecko 1mo ago
No, he says it's a different category of problem, and ability to solve one doesn't carry over to the other and it doesn't imply intelligent understanding.
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by strangegecko 1mo ago
The overseas person didn't work out because of time zone and cultural and language barrier friction that wasn't anticipated in the idea. This isn't analogous to the threat of AI.
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by strangegecko 2mo ago
I'm guessing with backstabbing he means China's practice of stealing technology and closing off the market for foreign companies. Lots of smaller and mid sized companies that tried to invest in the Chinese market lost everything b
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by strangegecko 2mo ago
He literally said it for China: stopping an invasion. I would add limiting political influence from autocratic governments that don't respect individual rights, but I know that's opening another Pandora's box.
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by strangegecko 3mo ago
We all have a health problem that puts an end date on our efforts.
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by strangegecko 3mo ago
Product does what it should and doesn't what it shouldn't?
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by strangegecko 3mo ago
Of course it requires SOTA, people will always choose better models over some compact thing that is obviously more limited. You can't control the truth with models nobody wants to use.
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by strangegecko 4mo ago
His analogy is that a gas station is for putting gas into your car. But he walks there often, so the assumption that you need your car if you go to the gas station isn't inevitable. You could conceivably walk to a car wash that has si
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by strangegecko 4mo ago
Oh sure, Chinese investors and business people share their profits with everyone out of the goodness of their heart. Nice fairy tale.
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by strangegecko 4mo ago
Did they consider that profits on the build out won't be uniform, i. e. there will be some companies that go under but the rest of them will capture the profit?
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by strangegecko 4mo ago
Maybe, but you have very similar dynamics in China or other countries. At the root the problem is one of power dynamics, inequality, authoritarianism (whether legitimized by money or politics or both). Or said otherwise, an erosion of democ
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by strangegecko 4mo ago
I find brackets help me understand structure from a distance much better than whitespace. Misplaced brackets seem like a thing from the past to me when we didn't have IDEs. I don't remember ever having a bug due to that.
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by strangegecko 4mo ago
Engineering and running a company are very different skill sets. Engineers are often not good at Marketing, networking, sales, ... Even if you are good at those, for many companies, it's more about connections than about the ability to
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by strangegecko 5mo ago
It's a dumb joke considering Germany has been one of the most peaceful countries in decades. And the people making the jokes are often citizens of a country actively engaged in wars.
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by strangegecko 5mo ago
Personally, I prefer the US approach. At least then everyone knows what they're dealing with and they can openly react instead of being forced into a fake dance between what is said and what is REALLY said. The covert stuff gives some
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by strangegecko 5mo ago
I have no idea and for me it's not the central question. I don't like it from any party, but from a moral standpoint, the more authoritarian someone is about their propaganda, the more invasive and violent it feels to me. I percei
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by strangegecko 5mo ago
I'm bluer than 98% apparently. For me, turquoise is green. I didn't realize that's not normal. If I'm off on a detail like that, then...uh oh.
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by strangegecko 5mo ago
They're doing a lot that goes against that strategy, you just don't see it in the headlines except in cases such as these or when you dig into how they conduct international negotiations or business deals involving the Chinese mar
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by strangegecko 5mo ago
What examples do you have of the US government doing to CEOs what has happened to people like Jack Ma and many other public figures? For China, there are so many examples of people doing 180s and being full of contrition after those interve
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by strangegecko 5mo ago
Expand? German government is certainly slow and overly limited by bureaucracy, but dangerous? Who are you comparing to?
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by strangegecko 5mo ago
Reminds me of this article https://aeon.co/essays/instrumentalisation-is-making-everyth... Doing things with an ulterior motive most likely changes the experience of those things. There's something inherently stre
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by strangegecko 5mo ago
Go to Russia and ask the average person on the street what they think of Putin. Thing is, the people who had to be afraid are already long gone. The rest just didn't care or tried to stay safe rather than prioritizing their beliefs and
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by strangegecko 5mo ago
There is also European AI and probably other places. You may think only those two are relevant, and so every discussion of one party requires discussion of the other. I disagree with that fundamentally. I'll be honest, I also disagree
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by strangegecko 5mo ago
I'll add my anecdote here: I bought a Tern Verge and the accessory bike bag about 1.5 years ago because I imagined taking the bike on the train or public transport and because I lived in a small apartment. With the bag, you can take it
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by strangegecko 5mo ago
My family had cats when I was young and I walked the neighbor's dog too. I fondly remember reading the translated versions of Catwatching and Dogwatching in the early 90s.
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by strangegecko 5mo ago
I find the black and white thinking scary and I see as a result of social media. Nowadays you even have to argue for the possibility of nuance because everyone immediately jumps to "for or against" mode. I strongly believe humanit

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