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badsandwitch

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    When that happens typically the company starts optimizing for sucking money from the government. From the point of view of the consumer Intel would be finished.

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    Comment #41950670

    Has anyone tried to see what the output looks like if the model is never allowed to be uncertain? For example, whenever certainty drops below a threshold the sampler backtracks and…

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    Comment #41883100

    Tragedy of the commons is why short term is all that matters and will ever matter to non-ideological investors. If an action that hurts the stock short-term but will help int he lo…

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    Comment #41784615

    What is purpose of the lambda parameter? Why isn't it a constant of 1?

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    Comment #41694145

    The race for true AI is on and the fruits are the economic marginalization of humanity. No game theoretic actor in the running will shy away from the race. Anyone who claims they w…

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    Comment #41674577

    Bitcoin is the furthest thing from cash, every single transaction is transparent on input and output. On the other hand... Tornado Cash was made illegal. Pressure is put on exchang…

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    Comment #41542207

    Due to the limitations of gradient descent and training data we are limited in the architectures that are viable. All the top LLM's are decoder-only for efficiency reasons and all …

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    Comment #41422346

    Tornado Cash does this. And you can find articles on how it functions online. You can even read the smart contract that directly implements it. Roughly: you have 2 secrets that you…

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    Comment #41421662

    It is currently possible to use ZKP's to set up via a central authority a digital cash system where the bank notes are all anonymous and all transfers are anonymous. The central au…

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    Comment #39120387

    Psychopaths are incapable of feeling empathy. I merely restrict empathy to family, friends and people who are in a position to reciprocate. I do feel pity for people who succumb to…

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    Comment #39120203

    You get something in return for all the risks you listed. This is why I said "If you are altruistic perhaps". I'm not and I gain nothing by helping others after I'm dead. Now if it…

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    I doubt it would be deliberate. It would be a bias. "He will never wake up, but he can save lives." Small chance, but why deliberately manifest it against yourself?

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    Comment #38778204

    mRNA can be used as indirect vaccine, by manipulating cellular factories to produce a foreign object that draws the attention of the immune system. There is no known pathway of per…