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sdwr
·5 dagen geleden·discuss
No taxation without representation?
sdwr
·9 dagen geleden·discuss
Small social sites are just as dangerous in another way, as vessels for a toxic monoculture. Pro-anorexia forums, political radicalization, there was even a famous one that fetishized infecting people with HIV.
sdwr
·12 dagen geleden·discuss
Does reading books have intrinsic value, or is it just a specific (archaic?) way of transmitting information? Socrates would be a podcaster today
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·vorige maand·discuss
The only people I've ever met who get excited filling out forms were German
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·vorige maand·discuss
Art is communication. If you can convey the message to an intern on a post-it, what's the point!

My favorite art is the kind that describes to people how they already feel.
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·vorige maand·discuss
That's amazing! The "machines as woodland fairies" conceit imagines them as natural creatures, but nature has no laws

"In developing countries, everything is possible and nothing works. In developed countries, everything works and nothing is possible."
sdwr
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Yeah it's hot...
sdwr
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
They have different personalities. I can only imagine Altman wants to stay on top of the chaos, and believes he will come out ahead whatever happens, while Dario is trying to stay realistic and mitigate worst-case scenarios.
sdwr
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
The map is not the territory!
sdwr
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
There's soft guardrails for "reputable" content. A publishing house has to buy it, stores have to agree to distribute it, and if people are upset they can raise a stink and get the book pulled.

Technically, people can write whatever they want, but practically you can't walk into a bookstore and read whatever you want.
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·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Same as it ever was
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·2 maanden geleden·discuss
And the EU wants to insulate itself from Russia with friendly, ideologically-compatible countries. Can't put a price tag on safety
sdwr
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Emergency medicine is the coding of medicine. Fast feedback loop, requires broad rather than deep judgement, concrete next steps.

The AI coding improvement should be partially transferrable to other disciplines without recreating the training environment that made it possible in the first place. The model itself has learned what correct solutions "feel like", and the training process and meta-knowledge must have improved a huge amount.
sdwr
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
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·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Yeah, fractal means you see the same structure, or an equally complex structure, at the smaller scale. This is just details, there's no sustained complexity
sdwr
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
So poor people and historical people are in the same bucket as dogs, got it.

How lucky we are to be the only generation in history capable of thinking and reflecting!
sdwr
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Economy of scale, Lego can invest the billions(?) in machines and molds that don't leave connection points (?), partially by reusing pieces between sets.
sdwr
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
This is a peak midwit, popsci, plausible-sounding but foundationally-bereft article.
sdwr
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Yeah it's fascinating to have an alternate source for intelligence, feels like a mental Rosetta Stone
sdwr
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Recklessness is based on effort, likelihood, and consequence. If you live in a small town, you might not lock your front door. No matter where you live, you probably don't lock your second floor windows.