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by trashtester 8mo ago
The main problem with ice, is that it moves all the time. The glaciers on Iceland move up to 46m per day. Also, any tunnel created in fast moving ice could easily be crushed by the pressure of the ice.
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by trashtester 10mo ago
Indeed. But most instincts involve elements of learning. Meaning the instincts may be stored using a much smaller number of bits than if they were stored as traditional IF-THEN-ELSE computer program. For instance, the pattern the brain seek
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by trashtester 10mo ago
For now, Sora will not be able to actually produce all the text, I think. Maybe next year.
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by trashtester 10mo ago
Student unions tend to focus on all sorts of other issues, I wouldn't trust them to handle cases like this. The only way to reliably prevent the use of AI tools without punishing innocent students is to monitor the students while they
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by trashtester 10mo ago
Certainly, and I don't think anyone really doubts this. Still, people are sometimes surprised by how DNA may affect more parts of behavior than they previously thought. Not necessarily by directly coding for the behavior. In many cases
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by trashtester 10mo ago
I don't think human DNA generally codes for the behavior derectly. Rather, DNA can code for how the brain learns from incoming data streams. If the brain naturally tunes into some sources or patterns of input rather than others, it ma
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by trashtester 10mo ago
As technology changes over history, governments tend to emerge that reflect the part of the population that can maintain a monopoly of violence. In the Classical Period, it was the citizen soldiers of Rome and Greece, at least in the west.
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by trashtester 1y ago
The fears from 3 Mile Island and Fukushima were almost completely irrational. The death toll from those was too low to measure. And the fears from Chernobyl was MOSTLY irrational. The reason for the extreme fears that are generated from eve
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by trashtester 1y ago
The "next token prediction" is a distraction. That's not where the interesting part of an AI model happens. If you think of the tokenization near the end as a serializer, something like turning an object model into json, you
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by trashtester 1y ago
For now, the people able to glue all the necessary ingredients together are the same ones who can understand the output if they drill into it. Indeed, these may be the last ones to be fired, as they can become efficient enough to do the job
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by trashtester 1y ago
Ironically, finding ways to spin stories like that IS one way of taking responsibility, even if it's only a way to take responsibility for the narratives that are created after things happen. Because those narratives play an important
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by trashtester 1y ago
It would not collapase. But it would shift some purchaing power from the middle class to the working class if all of them would leave, as working class salaries would go up even faster than the inflatino it would cause.
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by trashtester 1y ago
Presidents may not be able to pardon themselves, but they ARE immune from prosecution through the regular legal system for any actions taken as part of the office as president. The only way to go after them (given the current SCOTUS, who ma
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by trashtester 1y ago
Language models are closing the gaps that still remain at an amazing rate. There are still a few gaps, but if we consider what has happened just in the last year, and extrapolated 2-3 years out....
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by trashtester 1y ago
If the training data had a lot of humans saying "I don't know", then the LLM's would too. Humans don't and LLM's are essentially trained to resemble most humans.
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by trashtester 1y ago
Authority, yes, accountable, not so much. Basically at the level of other publishers, meaning they can be as biased as MSNBC or Fox News, depending on who controls them.
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by trashtester 1y ago
Wikipedia is one of the better sources out there for topics that are not seen as political. For politically loaded topics, though, Wikipedia has become increasingly biased towards one side over the past 10-15 years.
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by trashtester 1y ago
Somebody, or SOMETHING. There will not be much work that cannot be done by Figure, Optimus, Atlas, Claude, Grok or GPT by 2035.
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by trashtester 1y ago
With all due respect, this attitude typically comes with age. I see it in myself, too (I'm over 50). You're right that an important reason why it's hard to replace those 30+ year old systems, and that part of the reason is t
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by trashtester 2y ago
Try to live below that poverty line for a few months, and I'm pretty sure you will understand it.
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by trashtester 2y ago
> Is this because of a fundamental limitation, or because the post-training sets are currently too small (or otherwise deficient in some way) to induce good thinking patterns? "Thinking" isn't a singular thing. Humans lear
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by trashtester 2y ago
Things have changes since the Raegan era. There are a couple of elements to ICMB defense: 1) If you can strike the the ICBM's before the MIRV's separate, you only need a fraction of the number. To do this, you need to already have
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by trashtester 2y ago
I heard war games indicate that the US would lose at least a few carriers if they try to defend Taiwan. That may be more than worth it if they succeed. Taiwan is not like Ukraine. As long as TSMC has monopoly on the latest AI chips, it&#x27
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by trashtester 2y ago
Being unpredictable has advantages and also disadvantages, depending on setting. Though with an AI race going on and Musk practically living in the White House, I can't imagine the US would let China have Taiwan without a fight right n
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by trashtester 2y ago
Asking what charge, momentum or energy (or other conserved quantities like QCD color) in Physics basically boils down to something that is invariant under some symmetry. Momentum and energy may feel more intuitive, but I'm not sure the
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by trashtester 2y ago
If you define "junior" based mostly on age, then LLM's aren't yet at the level of a good "junior". If you base it on ability, then an LLM can be be more useful to a good developer than 1 or more less competent
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by trashtester 2y ago
A very small percentage of orgs, a not-as-small percentage of developers, and at the higher end of the value scale, the percentage is not small at all.
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by trashtester 2y ago
A lot has been written about this. The jury system has many purposes, but I don't think protection against individual subjective or corrupt judges are among the most important. (If anything, judges are much more likely to be objective
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by trashtester 2y ago
During Watergate, congress was still aware of it's role as a counterweight to the executive. Nixon would likely have been convicted if he hadn't resigned first, or at least he must have thought so, since he resigned. But since the
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by trashtester 2y ago
In most cases, I would think the SCOTUS would point to Congress in a situation like this. It's Congress' role to step up and provide checks and balances for a president that goes off the rails. As long as a president has support b

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