throwawayoaky

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by throwawayoaky 2mo ago
looks like the agent-judged results of an agent-built 'eval' based on some examples derived from this person's real work. and clearly part of a larger document. this kind of slop is kind of useful but opus 4 was the first ge
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by throwawayoaky 3mo ago
AI written articles about AI adoption hurt my brain
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by throwawayoaky 2y ago
buttloads of honeybees everywhere around here. Hate em. Eating bumble and carpenter foods, boo. Leave my white sage alone. https://bugguide.net/node/view/7698
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by throwawayoaky 3y ago
dunno! it's gonna be rich in iron and magnesium, which you need to grow plants anyway. I would think transportation cost would be the dominant factor but olivine is common everywhere
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by throwawayoaky 3y ago
Yep nope. Play crazy games win crazy prizes. Every one of these cases is the church’s fault to begin with for encouraging their followers to believe in superstitious nonsense. Causes psychogenic diseases in your population every time. K
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by throwawayoaky 3y ago
Too many honeybees! Was hoping this would be about bumbles and carpenters
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by throwawayoaky 3y ago
It’s the additives that leach from plastics, this is now common knowledge. And yeah chromium and nickel are bad for you too. Aluminum is bad for you too but it forms a stable oxide layer. Cast iron is the way. Can we stop the whatabout
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by throwawayoaky 3y ago
Was this written by chatgpt?
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by throwawayoaky 3y ago
always have been
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
and it's exactly as embarrassingly immature as the above, because the question we really need to focus on is: can a lab leak of a GoF virus happen, what will the consequences be if it does, and should we be paying money to support that
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
oh also decentralized file transfer. The trick is you don't need to make it go away you just need to prevent wide-enough-use-to-cause-destabilization-of-the-thing-you-like. The thing with viruses is that usually they are helpful inasmu
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
nuclear fission. note all the folks complaining on this site about how there ought to have been much more of it but muh regulations.
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Could we please stop doing gain of function research in mammal/bird viruses anyway? That'd be great.
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Here's one good place to start: https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
The basic idea is that a rogue superintelligence could turn us all into paper clips. After all it only takes one.
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
this is true but for companies instead of people, and it'll be worth 100B+ in 10 years
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Yes, hello. It seems to be a matter of emphasis and sane defaults. Narrative is all about controlling emphasis. Film vs digital changes the default choices around which you build emphasis. Noise is an unreasonably effective tool for cre
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Treating a document like a 2d text buffer is the root of all evil. Treating a document like a string is even worse. Emacs does both, so does everybody else. The big idea is mapping the doc to a tree of nested structures whose schemas def
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
doesn't just build muscle-- heals cartilege. fixed my tendonitis
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
> A settlement on Mars could conceivably preserve our cultures and current civilization in the face of such an event. huh. most honest answer I've seen so far. "We're going to mars so we can later to go war with Earth,
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
found the goldbug. afaict inflation is great for indebted earners, bad for savers. Still waiting to learn why hoarding tokens is socially beneficial behavior that should be rewarded. Sorry you can't predict the future of your stuff j
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
no reason to clutch your pearls fellow bougies, the fed will fix it
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Kinda seems like ChatGPT in particular is a customer service agent mashed up with a snapshot of the internet.. all these "hacks" are just routing around the customer service parts that we find grating-- though maybe the problem so
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
calm down guys the holidays have been rough but let's keep bringing the big boy energy. Here's a pull quote for you > “..from the degenerating brain’s microglia cells to enter the brain. It could be the degenerating brain act
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Yes!
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
all of these things have already been happening for a long time. no jobs == priced out
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Pretty sure slavery is corrosive to the slaveholder too. Source: slack ass economies love slaves
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
adopt. you've reached the endgame help noobs
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
I mean your advice is correct but if you choose to only look through half of the binoculars you're not going to get depth perception.
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by throwawayoaky 4y ago
Idk the central metaphor of the article reads as legible and correct to me. The take home message is that it seems complex-but-stable systems must spend a lot of complexity on achieving hysteresis across scales, and the degradation of such

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