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How'd you measure 'livable'? 1. income, 2-n crickets?

The state monopoly on violence (+ a judicial system) tends to result in a low amount of violence... at least intra-state. Wars are another matter. Notably, there is no monopoly on …

I think the bitter lesson (from 2019, what is now seen as the tail end of an AI winter - probably wasn't at the time) made the most sense in academia during AI winter. There is no …

Well, Sundar Pichai just left. In some "Why Google search got worse" threads, people who worked on search mentioned him championing predictable results without too much magic. Seem…

Fixed the result, eh? In both senses of the word.

The bitter lesson is rather specific and IMO vastly over-applied. It basically says that you can beat hand-tuning by waiting a few years and using "more of the same" generic method…

One could also say that a logical agent needs ultimate goals to do anything and it cannot choose them by logical means. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUO6pjwFOo

In which case, are you sure about your one minute?

No shit, but the huge ordeal you described is an exaggeration.

How do you mean building things? To be honest, I don't get excited about most products that I'm working on - that is what the money is for. The enjoyment comes mostly from technolo…

It took me about three hours total to set up a local model. I already have a GPU and I have fiber for the download. llama.cpp is not difficult to compile and has many backends. It …

Konrad Adenauer, Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Helmut Kohl were CDU chancellors without SPD for a total of 36 years. Merkel had one election period out of four without SP…

Well, the intention is much more really-actually-defensive this time.

Oh no, not at all. When CDU and SPD were both very strong (until about 2005-2010), they never once had a coalition, and CDU won elections more often than SPD.

Also rcrdlbl.com! It didn't have as much, but a higher density of good stuff IME. That said, finding good stuff on Hype Machine is not that difficult: 1. Find a track that you like…

Older I think but still active.

I don't know which model, but... "quietly"

You didn't get the feeling that he was a slimy liar from the way he talked?

How would understanding the environment of a decision not matter for making a good decision?

It is easy enough to ban obvious workaraounds as well if the will to do it is there.

Regarding "measurements tend to produce micro-improvements", not if you are the first to actually measure stuff in a codebase. There tend to be big fat low-hanging fruit.

Maybe they could ask the AI to fix their atrocious build times. Only in Chrome do you have 300 line source files that blow up to 20 megabytes after preprocessing as a matter of cou…

Probably the same way it was in Germany: in some foreign countries, where it's the cost of doing business. Switzerland has an unusually direct democracy, which keeps their house in…

I have never before seen "FIFA World Cup" used so much and I guess that's why. Do you enjoy watching FIA F1 or IOC Olympics? It's pushy and inconsiderate self-promotion that nobody…

7/10 of the currently top ranked national teams are UEFA members.