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Wood bending is way older than the nr 14. Plenty of that stuff in 18th c. Europe but apparently it was a common technique in lots of cultures before they had any contact with europ…

Interesting point I guess, much to consider

To be clear, I am not agreeing that people only upvote their favorite billionaires, just that if this particular thing was done by a Chinese model it would not have gotten the same…

Yeah

Log odds ratios are less misleading. Or at least odds ratios.

Road safety is a social good -- it depends on the cooperation of everyone on the road. Choosing to put down your phone or slowing down make everyone safer, including you. Choosing …

Appreciating that there are some benefits is differwnt from adhering to the church

It's not a question of whether it's biased to say that, rather whether it would tend to bias the model's response (e.g. toward weighting the stated downsides as more imported than …

The other issue is that it is going to depend very strongly on how you ask.

It's an antisocial, even solipsistic way to do that. Offense evidently intended, even if you convince yourself it's not.

You decrease the risk to you but you dramatically increase the risk to other people, especially pedestrians. The total deaths go up.

The only virtuous goal is to type some fun words imo.

Database problems are math problems too.

If you look at his GitHub it does seem like he's obsessed with the tools

Since I can't upvote @thrance's reply, I'll second it here: certainly complaints about postmodernism date to the 90s or earlier and fear of Marxism is as old as Marx (less sure abo…

By "word on the street" do you mean "word that they are leaking to the press so they get favorable coverage, and based based on opaque and questionable accounting"?

If we're nitpicking metaphors I think it's more accurate to say it's like they were taking requests to rekey the lock on your door.

Individuality is not to be tolerated.

Nice work. I guess "vast majority" is overstating the case, but majority anyway.

But also all of their multiples. I suspect that those account for the vast majority.

The 2^64 in gps argument comes from the number of pairs of 32 bit numbers, not from the upper bound of multiplying two 32 bit numbers. So for the addition case the symmetry argumen…

It's a bit more subtle than that -- most n>2^32 are not prime in which case 2 x n has more factorizations you would have to check. (Just by way of example, for n=2^33, 2n=2^34 but …

My man, you suffer from capitalist realism. I don't think I can help you.

You underestimate how much of the cost is the chassis, hinges, screen, speakers, keyboard, which add up. Sure the CPU is the single most expensive component, but CPU + mainboard fo…

Humans own inference power efficiency by a much bigger margin