zhoBEENG

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by zhoBEENG 13d ago
I did a statistical analysis and you are correct. The issue seems to be that crude birth rates from around 500CE and earlier are overestimated significantly. The bad source seems to be Kaneda & Haub, "How Many People Have Ever Live
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by zhoBEENG 14d ago
Would it help you understand if they were labelled "For Dumb Fucks" and "For Everyone Else"?
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by zhoBEENG 29d ago
IIRC, the lovely book Addiction By Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas claims that gambling addiction was a concept pushed by the casinos, to put the blame onto individuals, rather than the machine.
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by zhoBEENG 1mo ago
I would guess that all sufficiently capable models necessarily contain the information in question, regardless of what guardrails are on that information. I think this is a corollary to the Platonic Representation Hypothesis / model co
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by zhoBEENG 1mo ago
In the US, Meta sold 7 million glasses units last year and is projected to sell 25+ million next year. Waymos already record everything happening in most of the area of many cities, and use much more than just cameras. 6g standard has sensi
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by zhoBEENG 1mo ago
I do not carry a cellphone, but I own an old one with no data plan that remains off and in a drawer except for when used for things like this. I am not sure I have run into any stores that require 2 factor. Mostly just official stuff like b
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by zhoBEENG 1mo ago
That is very interesting. I wasn’t aware of their ability to act as acoustic sensors. It makes sense, but it’s not my field so I hadn’t thought about it. Any link to the trachea vibrations to reproduce inner monologue source? I think the ma
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by zhoBEENG 1mo ago
We agree on when to meet and where, and then we both actually show up. The whole last-minute plan changing thing is a pretty recent phenomenon, I believe.
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by zhoBEENG 1mo ago
For sure, but you still do retain the option to leave it at work, unless you have some kind of 24/7 sales job. I do think privacy at work is not an option for most people.
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by zhoBEENG 1mo ago
Genuinely. Thinking back on it now, the only times I notice it is in some restaurants that don’t have paper menus out by default. I need to ask for one, which feels very odd and kind of awkward. This is the only instance I can think of.
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by zhoBEENG 1mo ago
I do not carry a cellphone. I am employed and live in a major city. I never think about not having one. I know multiple other people, also employed, living both rurally and in cities, who do not carry cellphones. It is entirely optional.
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by zhoBEENG 1mo ago
Thank you, this deserved a link. I was being lazy.
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by zhoBEENG 1mo ago
Obama was promoting The Age of Surveillance Capitalism over seven years ago now. Industry insiders have known all this since 1999. Yet almost every single person I know carries a cellphone and drives a car with telemetry, things that are en
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by zhoBEENG 1mo ago
I also find couches quite decadent, when a similar effect can be gained by piling old rags in the corner.
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by zhoBEENG 1mo ago
You are completely correct. As much as many people don´t want to hear it, Mexico is a failing state. It´s extremely obvious when you are there that the United Mexican States lost most of the reins some time ago. It started with the debt cri
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by zhoBEENG 2mo ago
Diffusion language models do this. I’d guess they are the future.
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by zhoBEENG 2mo ago
Thanks for sharing the quote, it's really great. I believe he is correct, but I am not sure I yet agree with your assertion that we know that LLMs are more like alarm clocks than battleships. I think they are more like watercraft in ge
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by zhoBEENG 2mo ago
If there is no international police, there is no international law.
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by zhoBEENG 2mo ago
Madness. This is what the death of liberalism looks like. edit: Thinking about this shakes me. If this statistic is accurate, that the majority of Americans think we should be nationalizing private assets like this, then I no longer know wh
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by zhoBEENG 2mo ago
Everyone I know who has immigrated to America talks some version of this.
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by zhoBEENG 2mo ago
The lines that have these issues will be dwarfed by the hundreds that don't. It's scattershot for sure, but if it gets to the point where the rate of inbreeding is statistically significant to the total success of his genetic mate
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by zhoBEENG 2mo ago
From an evolutionary fitness perspective, it makes sense as a kind of loophole for easily reproducing and distributing your genetic material in a way likely to lead to many successful family trees. This might actually be one of the best str
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by zhoBEENG 2mo ago
Small-scale, artisan production of goods/services that you personally hand to your local customer and that have strong, local, cultural value. If you're serious about future-proofing your career, do this. If possible, run your own
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by zhoBEENG 2mo ago
He was 100% correct and continues to be so.
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by zhoBEENG 3mo ago
If they die within 30 minutes, you would never see the scat of those who crack the seeds.
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by zhoBEENG 3mo ago
Intuitively, and based on my studies of economics, I believe that we will create new jobs or jobs will transform in some way as AI rolls out. That is, mathematicians would take on some new role in the math pipeline, as described in the arti
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by zhoBEENG 3mo ago
Yes, you’re right. I was just quickly lumping any contractor whose job is to run tests from a test case sheet under the QA umbrella. I guess a more likely title is Product Market Analyst, or something like that. But I was mostly stating tha
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by zhoBEENG 3mo ago
Close, but sadly Markov could not afford a car and Turing was more of a man’s man.
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by zhoBEENG 3mo ago
What’s even the story here? QA Engineers Perform Job?
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by zhoBEENG 3mo ago
This is really a great laugh! It’s like watching a germaphobe come to the realization that germs are everywhere. It reminds me a little bit of how the new left approaches consumption as an identity forming action. It’s really beautiful to b

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