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The article did say that they tried injecting concepts via the context window and by modifying the model's logit values. When injecting words into its context, it recognized that w…

Removing recommendation systems entirely, for now, would be a massive improvement, but that won't happen because none of us get input into that decision. The people who make it hav…

Yep, the whole of society. Most of us have a great deal of control over how things are run in this definitely real democracy

It's almost like there might be some inherent problem with running everything through profit motives...

Financialization ruins everything. Who'd've fucking thought...

Does this mean we need to worry about service degrading as the company gets financialized?

Multiple PiP is a great idea

Were?

How about instead we put a tax on bankers who want their heads to work from their shoulders

Good thing they added that clause about how it needs a 7/8ths majority to repeal, ensuring this special law will be with us forever

I thought the original generators were fusion and powered some kind of ion engines? The ostensible explanation for the later casimir generators was that they were pulling energy fr…

Stopped clock

Basically anything by Greg Egan is great. His early short stories have a lot of "drugs can let your brain talk to other dimensions" and "your mind literally makes reality" (though …

That would be really cool. Especially if they expanded the system outside of 10 or so blocks around downtown

I would have said stackshare if the operators hadn't gone to great lengths to make it completely unusable

Excellent book. Took me three reads to understand most of what was going on, but very much worth it.

Is there some reason that exam results aren't based on just, yknow, exam results? Why does location or estimation need to factor into it?

Yeah... But maybe first we should have a coherent system for regulating public utilities. Like just having whatever president shows up appoint someone who basically has full contro…

Honey throw out the whole professor

Definitely a good sign things are looking up guys!

stfu parasite

No, it was designed to benefit the kind of people who designed it. Namely, bankers and statesmen.

People perform better when their brain isn't constantly buzzing from financial stress? Who'd've fucking thought...

As long as housing remains an investment asset the price will continue to go up. If we would just decide that housing is meant to be lived in, not profited from, you'd see the pric…

But they won't because they would lose out to any businesses that didn't. Almost like competition is really ill-suited to solving public disasters (as well as a lot of other things…