@kloisnitcholes@ExaltedMeatball this is what my carlos avi's smug grin represents to me
he just dropped a bad pun, which is simultaneously clumsy, aggravating, & funny
@CryptoVitamins@alth0u this is objectively not true *everywhere* its just a matter of how many areas / markets
there really is a discovery problem of who wants internet and can pay for it. heard about this from telco provider
@HundredthIdiot no i literally mean 'ignore the money and set your sights higher'
the colli bros should be working on much harder problems imo. but i understand all problems look easy after they've been slved
@nickcammarata does this feeling fade over time? can the brain build tolerance to jhana. also there is a super saiyan 3 transformation so you haven't proved me wrong yet
@teddyknox@alth0u yeah -- i used to work for a company that does this but i'm not sure if they're aware of this market discovery angle
they were mostly using these analytics to negotiate contracts better with heavy bandwidth users like netflix, youtube etc
@NimishTodi it's my duty to point out that the Fremen destroyed the Sardaukar handily because Arrakis was much harder to survive on than Salusa Secundus
@alth0u pediatrician just did not notice/admit i had scoliosis until i was 17 even tho i had previously suggested i might have scoliosis. by which time too late to use a brace or something. its mostly fine but might cause back problems later + prolly an inch shorter than i should be
@alth0u orthodontist did not notice dvlpmental issue with my jaw which could've been easily fixed at age 12 but required highly invasive surgery by the time she noticed (another ortho we consulted with noticed it at that time but only made a private note).
@bayes_baes this has never failed me before. there was a professor at my uni i really disliked specifically because he seemed perfect in every way and had grown a cult following via his otherworldly vibes. turned out to be a pedo
@small_nuts@NotMrbmc thats literally the point. they are in a post-consequence era as soon as they controlled the namekian dragonballs. it's just one contest after another. fun & great animation & good dialogue. thats all i care about
always love 2 watch people contort themselves into pretzels when their absolute conviction that 'silicon valley produces nothing of value' comes in contact with real technological progress
usually the result is they have to send out kara swisher to explain why the general intelligence is racist or how the factory workers had to work a bit too hard to make the electric car. noooo dont kill the taxi cartels theyre so sexy aha
somehow this is an autistic programmer nerd who is also simultaneously a Travis Kalanick type jock oppressing women but also whose main problem is they havent read enough humanities or some shit
@sorkincel high variance is the name of the game. eventually some of them will have an auto-curriculum that generates coold new ideas even if 99% are dogshit
@sorkincel or you can go and indoctrinate yourself into whatever post-colonial theory they teach in traditional humanities settings and think the same as everyone else
@__femb0t it was a very specific kind of alt identity in that it was actually recognizably different and novel back then. now major politicians talk about critical theory or whatever. its in the water we drink. to some approximation everyone is a 'progressive'
@4tian@bayes_baes@world2vec absolutely -- but there's a difference between real criticism and just saying "i hate guys in tech" over and over without anything else novel
Every great substack happens only once. The next Matt Yglesias won't read 5 abstracts on the policy issue of the day and become an expert. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.
Every great NYTimes column happens only once. The next Paul Krugman won't write an article a day assuring his readers that democratic economics is smart and republican economics is dumb. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.
@The_Equationist@eigenrobot that being said i have no doubt they have vast capability to redirect certain types of queries to submodels. it may have more to do with websites making it difficult / illegal for google to crawl over time or google themselves trading off user experience for $$ wherever they can
@halvorz thus leading to the trap of if you take that one male v female decision making quiz you’ve already proven yourself to be female brained via affinity for personality quizzes
@daniel_eth im in the school of thought that human level ai is possible with no further advances in deep learning and only compute scaling
and compute scaling will not stop unless collapse
(imo stagnation is not an option. if modern economies are stagnant for too long they implode)
@sgodofsk ime when life is on the line people will do what the doctor says, even in cases where they shouldn't
chiropractor / glutenfree / homeopathy are all diseases of plenty rather than diseases of scarcity
@sgodofsk ppl in my family have done this where they'll try homeopathic shit where normal medicine doesn't offer a cure and then quit it after they realize its not doing anything
@sgodofsk and yeah its obvious that healthcare is not some sort of ideal market but not sure if any given proposal to reduce choice top down makes it better or worse
@kitten_beloved this an adhd impatience trait but also it’s like … an absolutely unbeatable heuristic as to whether you’re on the same page as someone. nobody will convince me they understand my argument better than if they just complete my thought
@extradeadjcb isnt the algorithm kind of unimpressive relative to the molecular machinery of its body
we write algorithms more complicated than it daily and can encode them to last for a billion years
zero hp's neuralink story barely scratches the surface of what becomes possible with BCI. moreover one basic hole within his framework is that you could install a smartdrug that renders other smartdrugs ineffective or gives you really high self-control or something
@wolftivy since it's unclear exactly what component you've given me (a model architecture? a dataset? a new learning algorithm?) i will just assume it looks more or less what i'm familiar with and say i can probably teach it natural language
also it neglects the really interesting thing about BCI which is that they hold the promise of constructing a whole part of your brain in the sky (which we already do at low fidelity) and making us arbitrarily smarter / more distributed.
this development would vastly increase our human agency while zero (justifiably) fears that borgification / bugman ification due to advancements in telecom would be decreasing it
imo the former wins
@wolftivy not necessarily. if we can grant a computer process a continual self-narrative then the output doesn't need to be only text-completion based. and as an aside the output of GPT-3 is a far cry from nonsense
@wolftivy the basis that i have an AGI algorithm on a flash drive is kind of pre assuming the conclusion
what task did we give it to determine that it's AGI. how do we know. it must be optimized for something. we can continue looking down that line
when we say general we obviously mean it anthropomorphically
i as a human can receive all the signal inputs that bat echolocation gets and not be able to construct the shape of the cave in my head
you could go either way with saying this makes generally (un)intelligent
@OpinionsOfJer@bastard_brian i mean, forget neuralink for a second. there are real BCI chips and companies out there. NeuroPace went public recently, they offer responsive stimulation to interrupt seizure patterns in the brain. many cyborgs walking around today
me negotiating a rental: ok so what happens if i need to cancel this this lease? the market is slack, can i get a month to month lease her--
*some guy from postrat twitter breaks thru the wall*: omg bro, you fool, you absolute imbecile, did you just try to preserve optionality?
@MegaBasedChad thinking about starting one. i apparently have a very close connection to anatoly (solana founder guy). might be high time to abandon value creation
>atoms not bits
>create an incredible business crossing app based logistics with the advent of dirt cheap Lithium ion batteries
>dot the roads of all major cities
>everybody hates it anyway
@elaifresh naw this stuff is better than public transit for many use cases
faster + cheaper than buses, easier than biking
at any rate monetizing rot is usually prosocial
@Hellachans i don’t think everything should become like this like some of the YIMBY people
just that there should be one city somewhere so I can go live in it
@elaifresh well yeah that’s the point of my original tweet. idk why ppl hate them. this sort of behavior is reprehensible; they just dislike new things
@cryptocatgirl lets look at capabilities
LMs can solve language tasks of moderate difficulty in a zero shot manner (unseen at train time). it is possible to coerce many areas of cognition into language tasks (a chess game is a language task too)
this makes them general in some sense
@cryptocatgirl they are also not general in another sense: it cannot process relationships of objects in a photo for ex.
but similarly, human cog is not general to all biological cognition. they cannot process the aural landscape of a cave in the same way a bat can
@dcwych yes ive fucked these up as well -- wasted a lab's whole cluster for month and its way worse relatively speaking b/c {big_tech_co} can afford to lose it
Saverin is clearly the villain in the social network movie. dude made company ending mistakes several times. Zuck should’ve not only rugpulled him but in fact had him killed
@DistractedAnna where is the voice that said contrarianism would free us from the dogmas of our peers? where is the voice that told me oppositional defiance disorder is not real?
@ollyrobot me promoting an awesome project that requires a 4 team collaboration: hahaha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!!
me waiting two weeks for all teams to align on a goal metric: well this fucking sucks. What the fuck
@djmicrobeads@ollyrobot i feel like creating a tech stack that is not the best but meshes well with the org chart is a rare talent and far more important than perfection
but obviously there’s a right amount of technical sophistication to trade off for administrative simplicity and it’s not infinite
@djmicrobeads@ollyrobot tech twttr (not necessarily olly) seem to think that a perfect piece of software is more important than sending a useful thing out the door which i disagree with
@ollyrobot@djmicrobeads but yes I have had the experience of developing a “new product” and having to sit through 1.5 months of “privacy review” before the internal Soviet council
would’ve been much better if we somehow sold it as part of an old product
@halvorz@hoffsbeefs followed ty
seems hard to believe that there wouldn’t be environmental impact? at the very least gases coming out of a bioreactor would be easier to scrub / capture
@lowqualitybot ok sorry for sperg reddit moment but the actors dont have to be rational for EMH to be true
all emh would suggest is that its not possible to make money based off that observation
@lelregi this shit is mid tier garbage. we could all talk like this all the time if we wanted. we cumulatively looked at it and decided to be postironic instead
@acauchysequence i think the traditional avenues for writers have gone thru a serious ideological capture and became uninteresting; but that doesn’t mean there aren’t great writers out there
@ollyrobot then again one of my professors cowrote ARM so that’s probably more impactful and widespread lol. One of the worst professors ever, it was clear he had to be enormously talented at research to get that job
@s0larbody@monsterofcook ive seen trash engineers with like 3 monitors and a mechanical keyboard + great engineers that are finger pecking on a lenovo laptop