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What country are you referring to? The American middle class is objectively very wealthy: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-the-us-is-not-a-poor-societ...

I mean, the matrices obviously change during training. I take it your point is that LLMs are trained once and then frozen, whereas humans continuously learn and adapt to their envi…

> Previous generations of neural nets were kind of useless. Spotify ended up replacing their machine learning recommender with a simple system that would just recommend tracks that…

> Current AI systems have no internal structure that relates meaningfully to their functionality In what sense is the relationship between neurons and human function more “meaningf…

Now do drug-development.

If you take a vote of 10 random people, then as long as their errors are not perfectly correlated, you’ll do better than asking one person. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble…

If we did this fifty years ago, we’d be having this discussion by snail mail.

There is no epistemological collapse. Access to accurate information has never been so fast nor so easy. To be sure, lies are spread on the internet - but people believed all sorts…

I implore everyone reading this to google the Sokal hoax before decide whether these guys are worthwhile.

Concrete Island by JG Ballard Libra by Don Delilo Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith

Assuming you value 10 days at the cost of 1-2 AC units.

The main difference is that the media report will be read.

Would new developments (or old developments that had gone underappreciated) in an adjacent stem field count as ”added cultural context” ?

A neat list, but there is a bias toward authors who published one controversial (and not necessarily good ) argument that got a ton of rebuttals. Williamson is the worst offender.

The article is rife with references to a mediocre tv show, but it doesn’t contain a single example of the principle as applied to a firm. The author is an expert in something, but …

It’s interesting to consider whether a simulated rainstorm is in fact possible. Not a crude numerical simulation like those used for forecasting, but one fine-grained enough to acc…

In the regions where it works (PNW, Quebec, etc) we could easily build more. The hurdles are regulatory. The regulation isn’t baseless - a dam will affect the local ecosystem adver…

Why is green in scare-quotes?

> It means that google doesn't have to aquire-hire your team, they can just poach all of them wholesale. Imagine a skilled worker taking a new job that pays better. What a nightmar…

Does the page 404 for anyone else? Is this a Europe thing?

> Literally any definition of something infinite can always be reduced to a procedure that recursively transforms or observes some prior state. You can’t generate R this way. This …

Your critique of the use of ”bigger” in your strawman applies equally to your own use of ”longer” - neither loop will ever terminate. So in what sense is either one longer? The dia…