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by yqx 5mo ago
> Or compare AI water usage to that of what it would take a human to do a comparable task (what does it take to keep a human alive for a few hours compared to running a 15 minute long task to write a report with AI?). A very strange comp
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by yqx 2y ago
I'm curious what history Jack Clark is referring to here. If I think of the last thirty years of policy in most of Europe and the US I'm thinking of a strong trend of deregulation and giving more powers to markets, removing intern
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by yqx 5y ago
> is it not reasonable to assume that the number of security flaws just reflects how insecure most public code is? It sounds to me like that's not an inference that can easily be drawn. Copilot was trained on predicting code, it doe
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by yqx 5y ago
There needn't even be a confounding variable, the direction of causation may simply be reversed: not personality traits -> superager, but superager -> personality traits. Sounds quite plausible to me that having a good memory at
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by yqx 5y ago
Right, but a well trained ear is exactly what those who don't focus on reading music tend to have ("instead" I might add since someone focusing on reading music doesn't necessarily need to understand it, although underst
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by yqx 6y ago
They carry incomparable levels of responsibility
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by yqx 6y ago
Similar false friends in Dutch: Concurrentie
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by yqx 6y ago
I really don't see how it matters. It is this specific comment that is going to "manipulate" you into donating? The disaster happened. Stories as told in this comment happened. The hospital exists, it was severely damaged. In
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by yqx 6y ago
I assume you mean hands off approach? Can you elaborate on the connection between this announcement and the platform's value as a platform that fosters discussion you perceive? Do you mean content moderation has turned the site into
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by yqx 6y ago
While peer review has its problems, I have the feeling that the problems that we're talking about here are not primarily caused by peer review per se, but by a set of perverse incentives that surround academia these days. I'm talk
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by yqx 6y ago
But it also matters how those billions live, and considering that the vast majority live in extreme poverty the picture becomes less rosy. Not to speak of the ecological disasters of climate change and pollution this is causing, which als
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by yqx 6y ago
> Slavery was enforced (and subsidized) by many governments; it wasn't exactly a creature of the free market. Chicken or egg. You can make this argument either way. The fact is that slavery has been around for a lot longer than the
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by yqx 7y ago
> If someone saw it coming, and acted early, there would be no pandemic and the action would have been seen as an overreaction. I admire your optimism, but I don't share it. Many are right now (and have been for decennia) foreseeing
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by yqx 7y ago
> "It all boils down to this philosophical question: Are humans special? Do they have parts of their brain predestined to become these special things?" Livingstone says. "Or can we explain it using low-level principles we’
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by yqx 7y ago
Mass consumption and CO2 emissions aren't independent problems. It already is an insurmountable challenge to meet current energy demands with green energy. Producing things costs energy, energy costs CO2. Producing things in a carbon-n
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by yqx 7y ago
I think this is absolutely right. I've heard people on this website wondering why climate change and plastic soup are seen as the same problem. This is it. We live in an economy based on burning through huge amounts of resources and ge
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by yqx 7y ago
> We're getting to the point where there really has to be a financial incentive to do a peer review IMHO, a free book is an insulting and scientists shouldn't accept to do this work for commercial publishers for free to begin
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by yqx 7y ago
You're criticizing this article for failing to meet standards it never purports to uphold. This is an essay / personal account of events, not journalism. For an essay, in my opinion, it stays in rather neutral territory, making so
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by yqx 7y ago
I didn't study law, but as far as I understand, illegal is not the right word here. They (govt) do things for which there is no legal precedence all the time. The court could also have found no problem with these searches. Now that the
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by yqx 7y ago
Surprisingly, what makes tones sound consonant is a matter of controversy in music perception research. The ratio between fundamental frequencies theory is most easily debunked: if that were true, equal temperament tuning would sound unbear
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by yqx 7y ago
I see them both as symptoms of the same underlying problem: an economy based on generating enormous amounts of waste for short-term profit.
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by yqx 7y ago
> It's like saying - there's a trained neural net with input It's not. There's a world of difference between a neural net and a chimpanzee. Chimpanzees are some our closest evolutionary relatives. They are living anim
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by yqx 7y ago
> Are we morally obligated to not cut the nip of societal development in the bud for these species? And if this species suffers in developing and advancing, are we obligated to ease and accelerate their development? Perhaps we can start
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by yqx 7y ago
The point that's missing from this discussion is that beavers have been building dams for an eternity because it's part of their natural behaviour. The ecosystem has had ample time to adapt to it. An ecosystem is a delicate balanc
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by yqx 7y ago
That's because that's only half of Hill's argument. If you read on you'll see the main point is about the size of the largest groupings, which in humans appears larger than what has been found in Gorilla's to date.
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by yqx 8y ago
Independent of whether this is true (and I'm sceptical), Bitcoin mining requires computation (and lots of it). Computation requires power. Even if that power is renewable and would be difficult to use for things other than computation,
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by yqx 8y ago
Not to mention the difference in CO2 emissions.
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by yqx 8y ago
Your post introduces an imaginary issue. The question is not whether a company "gets to decide social norms", the question is whether a company gets to decide whether it agrees with terms set by a government that conflict with the
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by yqx 8y ago
I don't understand why academics seem so complacent in this. Sure I'm perfectly happy to do "service" for a community of researchers who run an open access journal or are organizing a conference. That's a beautiful
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by yqx 8y ago
I share your frustration with people who claim it's out own responsibility to change our habits and come up with things like limiting your showers and turning off the lights when you leave the room, but flying less or not owning a car

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