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If we take amateur level of understanding as a threshold, a sum of all of these concepts is not even a fraction of complexity required to understand a single non-trivial concept in mathematics.
the moat of cost to enter is already unfathomable
At the moment.
is very balanced and careful in the video
A part of me somewhat wishes I was this easily swayed by YouTube smooth talkers.
What would be his motive
A libertarian socialist podcaster tries to discuss an online culture that is adjacent to Silicon Valley tech scene. He then proceeds to take movement’s worst manifestations as its essence. One would have to be naive to miss the source of his bias.
This kills their sales funnel.
A median non-technical ChatGPT user is:
-Less likely to pay for ChatGPT use
-Will not self-host an open-source model
-Quite unlikely to use an adblocker
The author here clearly is extremely superficially familiar with the writings of rationalist people and views them from a preconceived standpoint. Comparing beliefs of Yudkowsky to dianetics is nothing short of misguided, whether you like him or not. This is a textbook study of motivated reasoning.
I guess people who are high in both openness and conscientiousness and who like to read long texts prefer to read them through books over online forums and social media.
There's something about their approach that appears to actually make people more susceptible to nonsense, not less.
It would be highly surprising if an open-access online community with the kind of slogans that might be particularly appealing to somewhat spectrumy individuals did not occasionally attract some eccentrics. The point I am trying to make here is that these are pretty fringe offshots and are far from the representative views of the community as a whole. Appeals to reason don't make any community immune to human nature. After all, their main place of gathering is named "less wrong", not "correct".
This seems like an awfully uncharitable and cherry-picked treatment of a community of well-intentioned and occasionally eccentric disagreeable online nerds. You're effectively just noticing that a community that actively aims to overcome bias is not free from bias itself, but no one within that community would ever deny that.
I suspect it's at least partly akin to OpenAI buying uv where they did not want a startup with questionable profitability horizons that serves as a critical piece for their business to get suffocated when VCs come for their money back.
Offshore engineers tend to require just as much micromanagement and perfect clarification as an LLM, so if anything I would expect the demand for offshore engineers to fall much faster than for local talent.
So they basically reinvented reddit.
Sure thing Charles-Gilbert Romme.
Dedicating most of the article to a personal attack and then finishing by saying that you don't have anything against the person is a bit of an odd sequence.
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From a computer science perspective, I'm not exactly sure how a transactional database would implement a columnar type. Postgres + CDC + an actual analytical database like ClickHouse would be your strongest bet at scale.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Almost immediately, something will be installed that will require installing the .NET runtime, maybe multiple versions of it.
That's because Windows ships with an ancient .NET 4.8.1 by default. Purely a mistake on Microsoft's part not to bundle modern .NET with their product and force software packaging hell.
I would expect no less from Hacker News, good job.
This looks better than 90% of websites I visited. The palette is pleasant, content has the right density and spacing is very relaxed. If this is AI-generated without some clever prompt tuning, frontend as a profession is done.
The host website seems extremely interesting in general. Anyone here used it before?
Qualcomm has an enormous incentive in breaking Nvidia's CUDA grip on GPU programming.
Slipping in censorship under the "think of the children" pretext is so cliché, I am not sure how EU thought this is going to convince anyone.
From my observation both studying and working abroad in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Finland and Latvia, people almost always tend to cluster along ethnic or linguistic lines in another European country. This stays invariant even if the command of English is perfect. Pan-European national identity is very much non-existent, ethno-lingustic patriotism very much is alive.
This kind of messaging is overtly Republican-coded.
I am not aware of anything on the level of YCombinator or Sequoia Capital over here in Europe.
What exactly am I selling here?
So my personal experience apparently is a folly that requires some bureaucratically approved scientific study to validate?