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by zug_zug 3d ago
I spent a few hours trying to run all the numbers myself from first principles (e.g. sum of all American salaries is 11.7T, plus international), to see what I could come up with. What I came up with was Nvidia is maybe slightly overpriced c
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by zug_zug 4d ago
In an alternate universe where all research is completely auditable and we all have infinite time, yes that's a valid approach. And you're welcome to spend your life going that route, but the rest of us are gonna trust our common
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by zug_zug 4d ago
We need to start using AI to hack our own devices and make our own TV os, sort of like was done for routers. Probably relatively doable these days.
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by zug_zug 6d ago
+1 . I think it takes a certain type of mental or emotional deficit to forfeit all of your free time and the majority stake in your company for funding for a tiny shot at hitting a grand-lam. "Not everything needs to be a platform&quot
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by zug_zug 6d ago
I've looked up animal farm in more detail, and it seems like you're fundamentally undereducated on the topic. Animal Farm entered Anglo-American classrooms in the late 1950s, and its adoption was heavily influenced by the Cold War
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by zug_zug 6d ago
I agree that a lot of what I didn't like about Animal Farm could have been fixed in a different context (deep dive into the theory of socialism as a classless society, overloading of the word communism, actual history of Russia and how
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by zug_zug 6d ago
You know that's not the chief goal -- if that's the chief goal, we'd all be assigned to watch Babe rather than read animal farm.
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by zug_zug 6d ago
What matters is if you find research on what's true about this world like a responsible adult, or just try to come up with a zinger because you're not
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by zug_zug 7d ago
$2000 are they serious?
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by zug_zug 7d ago
For what it's worth, there seems to be no evidence that reading increases IQ. And it's kinda always struck me as slightly weird how proponents don't feel the need to gather evidence on the matter before making bold prescripti
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by zug_zug 7d ago
Well for whatever it's worth, I feel like I understand why. At least when I was in school, nobody really made a very persuasive case for why reading was important (which I think it is) and I'd routinely get assigned books like Ani
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by zug_zug 9d ago
What are you talking about? Like I've said I've been using finder for 15 years and most of these things people are talking have absolutely no discoverability. Like is the mac UI really supposed to be "Get frustrated, google i
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Is your LLM Biased? Making ChatGPT evaluate itself(think-twice.me)
1 points by zug_zug 9d ago|0 comments
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by zug_zug 10d ago
I agree 100%. Been using macs for 15 years now, but the windows XP explorer in particular was fundamentally objectively better than finder, and it's nuts they haven't figured it out. One of the things I find most baffling is that
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by zug_zug 11d ago
Ultra processed food is about 50-60% of American calories, versus 38% in Japan [1]. Also try visiting a Japanese 7-11, there's tons of fresh-made food options with vegetables and such. Still Japan is developing a weight problem too. 1.
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Is your LLM Biased? Making ChatGPT evaluate itself(think-twice.me)
1 points by zug_zug 11d ago|0 comments
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by zug_zug 13d ago
I understand that what it came up with sounds impressive (especially since I know 0 about Myanmar), but on the topics I do know about its analysis routinely have very fundamental problems (even this Myanmar analysis has % that add up to
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by zug_zug 13d ago
For example?
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by zug_zug 13d ago
But you have to acknowledge how uneven the playing field is. The AI has read every book that's ever been written, and can spend hours of compute time in a few seconds. I think if a person had those same advantages (e.g. could spend 5 h
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by zug_zug 13d ago
> I'd be curious to hear takes on what would make you think Astra is yet to be AGI, and what would still need to be achieved for this to effectively be AGI from this point forward. To me AGI is all about the "G" general (
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by zug_zug 14d ago
Okay I'd love to hear your sales pitch as a theoretical customer. Imagine I'm getting tirzeptide grey-market as a peptide through one of the sites out there for ~$85 a month @ 2.5mg/wk. Suppose I've mentioned it to my do
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The Overton Window of Food(think-twice.me)
24 points by zug_zug 14d ago|25 comments
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by zug_zug 15d ago
Well we tried it for alcohol and it didn’t go well, but enforcing the FDA limit on sugar would be a worthy experiment for a state that voted for it.
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by zug_zug 15d ago
Well, once a state passes a law we'll have plenty of data to actually conduct a meaningful measurement on the topic. We'll see how things change for these teens once the law goes into effect - do they report being happier? do they
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by zug_zug 15d ago
This sounds like a pretty reasonable bill to me. I like the implementation, I think it preserves privacy adequately. I understand that someday (probably someday soon) some actors will try to ask for a worse version of this, one that doesn&#
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by zug_zug 15d ago
> Why wouldn't he get into Harvard? He had 1590 SAT scores and it wasn't because his parents forced him to cram. 1600 is not enough to get into Harvard, AI estimates about 10-20% of those with perfect SATs do. I think he'd
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by zug_zug 15d ago
I think gates is obviously a very high IQ individual with a skill for math and coding. However very very few high IQ individuals with skill for math or coding end up running successful companies, let alone billion dollar companies. I imagin
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by zug_zug 16d ago
My proposal, once you complete your study, if you find a significant positive result you should be required (prior to publication) to describe your methodology in full, and have another lab (who you never have any contact with) blindly take
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by zug_zug 16d ago
I'd be curious, in the last year, how many front-page articles do you remember? To avoid recency bias, maybe let's ignore the last week. What % of CEOs do you think read HN?
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The Overton Window of Food(think-twice.me)
11 points by zug_zug 16d ago|7 comments

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