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@kane bidens america........
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@arithmoquine germ theory is the big social tech that you can transmit & extract value from without relying on much of a tech tree
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@var_epsilon "...the Iran-affiliated actor known as Darude Sandstorm..."
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"nobody could have seen this coming" says YC batch that is a year behind an unemployed teen in central illinois
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@thecaptain_nemo hunting mode: on
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@JRysana > S-curve boys sigmoid males, if you will
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@tszzl I was the president of "machine learning club", which existed for two years without holding a single meeting
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@nycguidovoice nicole mullen irl?!
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@Nexuist he's right, and he also demonstrates why Chesterton's Fence is an excellent argument for legal conservativism (to anyone that has ever shipped software)
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@Nexuist skeleton_key
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@tszzl @gwern once had the idea of a tri-phase nicotine-caffeine-aphetamine cycle since all 3 stims have different tolerance mechanisms, you can recover from 2 while you're being juiced by the other
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@tautologer mathematics is unreasonably effective because it naturally emerged to model nature
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@plzbepatient fascism is when the trains run on time. the more precise the timetables are, the more fascism there is
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@mezaoptimizer yeah and I watch hentai for the plot
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@robinhanson give the language-thread something to pay attention to so that other thoughts don't occur
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@tszzl That's it, I'm taking a short position on every tech company
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@sigmoid_male
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this is how your internal monologue works btw
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following bf around the house narrating everything he does in the bene gesserit voice so I can pretend like I'm making him do things
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@sigmoid_male
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@mezaoptimizer consider that Actually Good open-source LLMs may reduce the incentive for OpenAI, Anthropic, GDM, et al. to do larger and larger training runs -- you capture far less value if the output of your model is instantly used to train a model which ppl use for free w/o paying you
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@sigmoid_male
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@sailaunderscore height vs face will be the great schism of the late 2100s
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@sigmoid_male
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@bryancsk the opium doesnt traffick itself 🙄
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@___frye natural abstraction hypothesis
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having straight sex in sf call that a haight crime
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@sigmoid_male
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the face of a woman looking past three thousand "wheres ilya?!?!?!"replies
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@growing_daniel POV: You're pitching to VCs
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@tenobrus SAT solvers over LLMs when
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@TechBroDrip Never ask a man his salary A woman her age Von Braun for his resumé
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@sigmoid_male
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Skill issue. I present "Taliban Vaporwave" by dalle3:
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wild that this microsoft guy managed to generate that i've never met a single person who could reliably bypass dalle3 filters
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@sigmoid_male
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@tszzl talking to sama for five minutes makes you realize that you're not supposed to predictably update your beliefs
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@tenobrus when you were 15 you were writing good python for free when I was 15 I was writing bad python for slightly above minimum wage we are not the same
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@ctjlewis @RamsesAmericas Impressive, very nice. Now let's see the g-loading.
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@mezaoptimizer (real talk, though, GPUs cost money, and money comes from people who expect to get a return on their investment)
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@TetraspaceWest imagine being microservices
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Dropbox was literally just an S3-wrapper with decent UX. But there are two companies responsible for the lion's share of YC's returns, and that S3-wrapper is one of them. UX matters, big style. Too bad frontend work is annoying & midwit-coded lol
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@sigmoid_male
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@ESYudkowsky awe just like humans do
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@gbrl_dick it's called us-west-2 sweaty, look it up
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steve sailer fangirl call that a haplogroupie
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@creatine_cycle I am a Computer Operator
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one of my core advantages over other people like me is that I was 14, not 18, when the world made me viscerally realize that there are other people who really are better at math / more intelligent than me — that I must win by being more strategic, not by firepower alone
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@mpopv just one more dependency bro cmon I'm gonna save myself a whole 30 minutes man cmon dude just one little dependency please it doesn't even weigh that much man cmon bro let me add just one little tiny dependency I need this man please I don't wanna reinvent the wheel cmon just one
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@sigmoid_male
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maybe the real effect was the placebos we hyperstitioned along the way
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@spoonedher chinese ppl
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@718Tv I really don't wanna be the "source" guy, but is there anywhere I can read more about this?
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@chaosprime ok now what
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@ipsumkyle @tszzl israel is part of Akhand Bharat
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concrete before abstract
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@Nexuist *conservatism how does that typo even happen
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@sigmoid_male
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@tenobrus "if he wanted to, he would"
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@ctjlewis @RamsesAmericas this is pedantry imo; ppl only care about IQ tests insofar as they measure g-factor -- which is what IQ tests are optimized to do the SAT is only a slightly worse measure of g-factor than a clinical IQ battery, so the SAT really is "as close as we got to a standardized IQ test"
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@mayfer yooo I used open-source icons from websites where ppl share their linux icon themes lmao
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@tenobrus
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u gotta realize basically every time someone makes a blanket group statement, they actually have a very specific individual in mind. when someone says "women do x" or "i hate men", what it actually means is "sarah did x" and "i hate tom". makes things read very differently.
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@dickcheneyavi @orb_net the twitter variant specifically conveys peak camraderie 🫡
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@ctjlewis @RamsesAmericas lmaooo I took "standardized" to mean "a large fraction of the population has to take it" but fair enough
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@hopes_revenge terrible price tiering hopes 😡 C-
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@tapir_worf I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as "Logical Decision Theory" is, in fact, FDT/Updatelessness, or as I've recently taken to calling it, FDT plus Updatelessness.
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@tszzl this is my FSD face
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@skooookum remember anon, screenshots are yours, "bookmarks" never are
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data locality is all that matters
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@NotTuxedoSam @cosmicmould the one I made just for you pookie
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it's giving tree
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how 2 tell if ur input is out of distribution for ANY model during inference! (working 2023) (not clickbait) (OC pls no steal) benchmark for resnet18, higher score means more out-of-distribution: pic 1: 2.26 pic 2: 2.88 pic 3: 4.76 pic 4: (from the training set) 1.93
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@MichelleCossey2 @TheUnaButters @MarkLevineNYC I'd love to be able to take my cannon and flintlock musket to Central Park
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@Algon_33 @repligate The eleventh virtue is scholarship.
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@addytheyoung @zetalyrae nah this is based now I want my own Baron Harkonnen hot tub
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concrete before abstract
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btw I recently met a guy who worked on infra at dropbox for over 5y and he agreed that their entire moat is UX and market-inertia
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@y_h_j_e_t @chaosprime too pathetic this is better:
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@ruth_hook_ what the fuck ritalin makes kids SMARTER?!?! in a way that's UNCORRELATED with "adhd" symptoms?!!?!?!
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@tacobort ong everyone from baltimore know a mf like this 🙄🙄....
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Sutton, 2019
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@tenobrus OODA loops explained w/ Ari: - I see it (Observe) - I like it (Orient) - I want it (Decide) - I got it (Act)
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they always asking what did karpathy see -- never what karpathy didnt see 😔
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@sigmoid_male
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- take input vector - "nudge" it by adding a lil noise - get cosine-similarity between these two - pass both through ur model (take ur output from any layer you want, wtv) - get cosine-similarity between ur 2 OUTPUT vectors - how much did the cos-sim decrease by? & that's it😎
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@nearcyan TAKE ME HOOOOOMMMEEE
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@MedGold_ are you more spiritually black or chinese?
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@profoundlyyyy well personally I just think love is the answer 🥰
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@Nexuist @macsquirelera "The doctors thought I was too retarded to breathe, let alone ship. So they tested my VO2, and it wasn't VO2. It was EC2."
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physics doesn't follow laws; laws follow physics (from "The physical nature of information" by Landauer)
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@tautologer mathematics is unreasonably effective because it naturally emerged to model nature
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@sama Whereas Adderall has a half-life of 10 hours #motivational
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nothing tastes as good as 10k mrr feels
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what is a mind but an incubator for disparate memes to gather and recombine in
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@mezaoptimizer literally just run it through quillbot smdh
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@FrogTroubadour @CovfefeAnon write a story with two named characters, both of whom are psychopaths that understand this reference
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@LinkofSunshine > open dating app > 2 roommates
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@knowclarified the singularity is here, it's so over, &c.
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@vestiphile @SydSteyerhart > consider his conversation paths almost fatally carefully, like his temperature setting is dialed way down I think this anxiety is more a consequence of RLHF than it is of low-temperature.
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@yacineMTB if you haven't already made one of those tiktok tts bots... I'm sorry anon....
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therefore:
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10x-dev-turned-founder types don’t realize the extent to which their activities can be monetized. they fail to make the rsync -> dropbox conversion. lots of alpha in convincing ppl to charge for these glorified bash scripts, even now, because they will always be in demand
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@Shoalst0ne maybe it was not the best idea to do the POLAR OPPOSITE of that on lesswrong since 2002
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@moyix > set temperature to 0.7 > set top_k to 1
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@Hellachans Postgraduate Malone
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