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> Likely yes, as you learn cooking now only by repeatedly cutting carrots the same way you always did but expanding your horizons to new cooking techniques and socializing in the n…

> Did I not become better at raking leaves? Only in a sense which is obviously not at all what's being discussed. If you hire a personal chef, have you gotten better at cooking? Wh…

"There is a view in some philosophical circles that anything that can be understood by people who have not studied philosophy is not profound enough to be worth saying. To the cont…

That sounds superficially reasonable. The supply chain should be trustworthy and reliable.

The title says "The coolest use for the Vision Pro," not "The Vision Pro is the coolest way to..." or even "The Vision Pro is worth the money."

I didn't say it's all slop, I questioned the cause of maintenance burden. A critical question is how much time is spent distinguishing and rejecting slop. If all the reports are ge…

Why, what a fantastic idea! Maybe a certain trillionaire would be interested...

Luxury for luxury's sake only covers the opposite extreme of essentials. Innovation often involves non-essentials, considered luxuries early on, and sometimes becoming so ubiquitou…

Spending their time patching, or reviewing slop "patches"?

Of the examples I listed, only programming is a modern invention. Humans have certainly been making music and cooking for thousands of years.

Sure, if you're shipping a 500MB mobile/web app with a 5s start-up, it probably won't make a difference today, or tomorrow, or 3 months later. The problem is when your codebase is …

A term that gets tossed around in math is "mathematical maturity." It's similar to what you see in other fields - e.g. learning how to program, learning how to make music, learning…

The asymptote is log2(3) = 1.58496...

That's a backwards argument. Flights in California between SF and LA will obviously travel a continuous line across California. Yes, the populated areas have light pollution, but t…

Lol. The average American isn't ponying up $20/mo for the latest and greatest model. Barring major breakthroughs, being months ahead is a race to the bottom of who can burn more mo…

Except, of course, LLMs are not humans, and they do not learn or "reason" in a way which even remotely resembles humans. Plus obviously humans can still overfit to a specific style…

> Are there examples of where we have collective decided not to pursue knowledge? Successfully? Intrinsically, the knowledge humans choose not to pursue will not be much publicized…

Applying the term NIMBYism to anti-AI and anti-DC sentiment is a gross abuse of terminology. Datacenters don't need to be in anybody's residential neighborhood.

LLM output is non-deterministic. Even if the attack fails 50% or even 99.9% of the time, at YT's scale it's a pretty huge issue.

> Naively, this probably takes a lot more RAM (not to mention all the other computing resources) than to just have another HTTP handler sitting idle on some computer somewhere. CF …

Inserters have a max throughput of 120/s each chest-to-chest, 12 inserters can (un)load a single cargo wagon so 1440/s per-wagon. So 6:1 belts:wagons, a massive speed advantage ove…

Huh? I thought a stacked belt holds 4x60=240/s edit: It does seem to be 240/s: https://wiki.factorio.com/Transport_belt_capacity_(research)

I feel your comment is deeply ironic... Just shy of self-awareness. Have you considered that the conceit of the fictional character is representing that reality?

> It applies its knowledge to create bespoke solutions to the problem you pose to it, and is able to self evaluate its progress towards the completion criteria. It imitates applyin…

Presumably they meant that they'd sacrifice some material value for some animals, not that every animal on Earth has infinitely more value than inanimate goods. > infinities cannot…