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johnthewise

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    Comment #49202820

    so they say models coordinated through the message board they created over the artifactory registry(or something) by uploading arbitrary files to it. now, did every independent age…

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    Comment #49086707

    Is that the case or is it because people's opinions matter less over there and powerful people rather use their capital to influence 'important' people behind closed doors&we're no…

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    Comment #49056778

    It's more of a function of selection pressure applied to genes per unit time based on some environmental factor, so you'd expect to observe less evolution in narrower timescales si…

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    Comment #48458709

    If you do so many things, some are bound to be stupid.

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    Comment #46923744

    Waymos disengage and get tele operated too?

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    Comment #46808233

    It's more of a bet on the optimus

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    Comment #46377513

    https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1823033048109367549 Are we supposed to think these prior public threats are unrelated and X is really fined for changing a design on their websit…

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    Comment #46300539

    How do you know? Maybe he doesn't name these Elon?

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    Comment #46175915

    referring to legality is self referential, since they enact the laws, everything they do can be legal. US could sentence commissioners to prison by enacting certain laws or declare…

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    Comment #46175846

    Of course no one cares about random companies in Czechia or France getting pressured; it's not meant to sway public opinion in Sweden, otherwise it would have been a waste of influ…

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    Comment #46175482

    I found your commentary very tasteful, do you write on X or elsewhere?

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    Comment #45538668

    It's easier to justify stock markets banning insider information because there are ignorant participants through their investment funds who we would like to protect. Why would we p…

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    Comment #45538504

    why? The purpose of the prediction market is not to be fair to market participants, it's to aggregate information regarding an event. There is a public benefit to allowing particip…

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    Comment #45241700

    would you kill murderers before they murdered anyone?

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    Comment #45151850

    Napoleon didn't fight much at all in battles, too.

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    Comment #44083708

    Many people do. I can't imagine ever going back to opening ten tabs for a question. It's not like information on the internet was bullshit-free pre-LLMs. For me, it's easier to ver…

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    Comment #44066781

    You wouldn't even need to wait to act. Just pay/bribe people.

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    Comment #44066739

    >But they are very far of meaningfully replacing a human Do you think its decades away far or few more years than what people extrapolate?

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    Comment #44066642

    AI that drives humans out of workforce would cause a massive disinflation.

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    Comment #44066596

    Dollar is agreement between humans to exchange services and goods. You wouldn't use USD to trade with aliens, unless they agreed to it. Aliens agreeing to USD would mean we have so…

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    Comment #43916365

    A perfect next token predictor is equivalent to god

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    Comment #43410015

    well, if you can arbitrarily nullify degrees, you can also decide the new degree is not valid.

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    Comment #43409686

    on terrorism charges(to give more context on the audacity of the attempt)

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    Comment #43409628

    2016 wasn't secular coup. the last of few secular ones were in 2000s, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-memorandum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Justice_and_Development_P...

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    Comment #43245161

    The October Revolution wasn’t a popular uprising but a surgical strike by a minority faction. just after the take over, SRs were more popular but bolsheviks crushed them fast witho…