throwaway0123_5

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by throwaway0123_5 1mo ago
Beyond scientific knowledge, being there would (much more quickly) yield quite a lot of (higher quality) knowledge about "how to navigate and do things in the Grand Canyon." If I'm going to hire a guide, I'm going to hir
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by throwaway0123_5 1mo ago
> There's so much natural wonder in the world in and around your home. Sure, no doubt. But I don't really think "video of my local state park + imagining the parts that aren't conveyed over video" is particularly
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by throwaway0123_5 1mo ago
> only worth so much. Worth... quite a lot imo. First, in the slightly objective sense of "What is this place like in real life, under X conditions." But, more subjectively, watching a video of a glacier and imagining the wind&
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by throwaway0123_5 1mo ago
I've been to a few natural wonders (including the Grand Canyon) that I saw in advance on video. At least for me it isn't close at all. Even if audiovisual elements could be near-perfectly reproduced by video (imo not even close wi
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by throwaway0123_5 1mo ago
Some parts are pretty annoying to read... the paragraph beginning in "Our mission is straightforward:" has many lines with just 2-3 words, massive font, and tons of unused whitespace to the right. Changing the page/browser zo
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by throwaway0123_5 1mo ago
What percentage of people work at a startup though? Not just new/small business, which could include restaurants, local services, etc., but tech/science startups that would meaningfully benefit from AI. I'd bet you could 10x
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by throwaway0123_5 1mo ago
Agreed, a LOT of UBI advocates gloss over the "B" in UBI. If AI increases human productivity overall, the only morally acceptable outcomes (imo) are that everyone's standard of living increases (or at least is the same withou
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by throwaway0123_5 1mo ago
> others are in denial about whose living standards are actually going to be uplifted. I don't know if it is fair to say they're in denial. For my part, I don't expect life to get much better for regular people (especial
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by throwaway0123_5 2mo ago
> suddenly then there came to be a lot of talk of 'prompt engineering' as a skill. I would've thought pretty much the exact opposite. "Prompt engineering" was somewhat important in 2023/2024 when the models
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by throwaway0123_5 2mo ago
I agree somewhat, but for the most part the signal is that you can succeed in some kind of knowledge work. If AI replaces ~all knowledge work, that signal isn't actually going to be valuable I think. While I don't find it certain
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by throwaway0123_5 2mo ago
> The net effect of this appears to be that we'll see far fewer, but far more elite math Phd's, potentially discouraging many young people from the field. It seems plausible that the value of education will go down for the vast
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by throwaway0123_5 2mo ago
I agree with the general premise with respect to current SOTA, but for making nice plots that I would've never otherwise made or learned how to make (to the same standard), easily 100x.
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by throwaway0123_5 2mo ago
The outcome that you're describing of AIs facilitating education for disadvantaged people is great, but isn't AI simultaneously significantly devaluing education (excluding of course education pursued for intrinsic reasons, which
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by throwaway0123_5 2mo ago
> If AI obviates the need for human labor, then obviously those who control AIs will become the elite while the rest are left to rot. Absent political intervention, I think we agree here. > Therefore, if we ensure everyone controls AI
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by throwaway0123_5 2mo ago
> for ushering in the technofeudalism that will put us all in the permanent underclass. Why is unlimited access to SOTA AI less likely to put us here? If AI obviates the need for human labor, how does having GPT-5 Sol help me get food or
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by throwaway0123_5 2mo ago
> Arxiv is full of pre-prints that anyone can upload. You now (at least for some categories) have to receive endorsement from someone who has multiple recent papers on arxiv in the same (or adjacent) category.
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by throwaway0123_5 2mo ago
Agreed. I know nothing about nuclear physics. I still doubt you could pick a random person off the street and have them convincingly pose as a nuclear physicist to explain a "nuclear physics" concept to me. I doubt you could do it
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by throwaway0123_5 2mo ago
I get 0% (accurately) on my latest paper. Not super surprised, as I intentionally avoid some LLM-isms that I used to use because I don't want reviewers to have even the slightest indication that text is LLM-generated (even if in princi
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by throwaway0123_5 2mo ago
> As a software developer, I am used to finding and fixing the underlying problem instead of relying on the quick fixes these doctors were offering me. I'm skeptical that avoidance of "relying on the quick fixes" generaliz
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by throwaway0123_5 3mo ago
> I mean, you can read them even without the colors I'm not colorblind and I was depending on the textual context implying Sol was better than Terra. I had to zoom in quite far to actually differentiate between the colors. If they i
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by throwaway0123_5 3mo ago
I was wondering the same thing. From textual context it is clear enough that Sol should be above Terra, but I had to zoom in really far to actually differentiate between the colors and I'm not colorblind. I saw a light mode version of
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by throwaway0123_5 3mo ago
I agree with the general sentiment of this comment, but national labs do hire foreigners/non-citizens, albeit possibly not from all countries with eligibility for all roles.
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by throwaway0123_5 3mo ago
The funniest one I've noticed lately is a bunch of Capital One ads saying "We built a multi-agentic system for finding a car to buy!" I'm not saying I 100% wouldn't use AI to help me in product searches, but isn&#x2
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by throwaway0123_5 4mo ago
Presumably ~100% of the employees want to feel secure in their jobs, so I don't think this would happen unless the benefit to the 51% is extreme.
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by throwaway0123_5 6mo ago
> There are some people that believe that writing is an act of creative expression. I think "some people" might be underselling it, as evidenced by the borderline innumerable fiction books in existence? > and as such, it&#x2
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by throwaway0123_5 6mo ago
> I have yet to see a "error" that modern frontier models make that I could not imagine a human making I mostly agree if "a human" is just any person we pluck of the street. What I still see with some regularity is th
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by throwaway0123_5 7mo ago
> because other individuals, organizations and nation states are not going to stop, and not going to leverage their AI if they get ahead of us. I don't think that it is likely AT ALL, but it is probably only necessary for China and
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by throwaway0123_5 7mo ago
The account is 47 minutes old and with the writing style plus the hefty dose of em dashes, I think they are an LLM.
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by throwaway0123_5 7mo ago
> Job loss is likely to have statistics more comparable to the Black Plague. Maybe this is overly optimistic, but if AI starts to have negative impacts on average people comparable to the plague, it seems like there's a lot more tha
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by throwaway0123_5 7mo ago
> LLM's are better at keeping consistency at details (but not at big picture stuff, interestingly.) I think it makes sense? Unlike small details which are certain to be explicitly part of the training data, "big picture stuff&q

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