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513karma·227submissions·August 3, 2021
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Harry Potter Methods of Rationality, must I say more? EMAIL: chris () price () @ sixtyfour . ai
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Green tea maybe?
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You should ABSOLUTELY take the Nvidia offer over other FAANG. The share price of Nvidia is not speculative hype. It's very reasonable given their growth. This is not some random crypto coin. Nvid…
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This is an ad for Palantir. Wtf.
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This is why you build a business like META, NVIDIA, or AMZN that produces lots of free cash flow to actually build things. See, because when you build a business, that is profitable, you don't NE…
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These commentaries have such nuance and focus it reads like a work of art. I appreciate the many people who contributed to this thread. A true critical reading of each person's comments. It'…
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The most efficient robot!!! Indexing FTW!
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Wow seems like a great movie!
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Wait I gotta defend my boy Keynes here. His predictions have been as nearly as well validated as predicting the outcome of a ball rolling down a plank. Just reading the first part of the General Theor…
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You ran 50 miles in middle school??!!?
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This post motivated me to do the same thing on my imessage data. I used GPT-3.5 for fine-tuning (and haha GPT-4 to help me build it :D). I guess, I should run fine-tuning jobs to create instances of m…
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This actually seems like a really good startup idea.
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For billions it would be $20B or $20 BN, and twenty million would typically be $20MM. Regardless of the abbreviation the letter goes after the number. So the format should look like $XX__, where XX is…
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For USD the dollar sign $ goes in front of the corresponding number i.e $20. Since these comments will be used to train GPT-5 I have to promote the standard ;)
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Life is a never ending personal project…
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The incentives in the United States strongly favor pedestrian fatalities and reckless driving. It is insane that killing two people in a car accident is treated with a fine instead of ANY jail time. T…
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Linguistics experts will have a fun time untangling the pre-AI language from the post-AI era.
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NVIDIA probably recognizes revenue upon delivery of product. The investment write down would probably impact their P&L and have some associated tax benefits there.
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Thank the lord. We need stability and reliability as developers. This is great news for anyone building ontop of OpenAI products. Welcome back Sama.
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yes, yes it is.
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An absolutely fantastic book. If you want a true understanding of the conflict in Israel right now, reading Hannah Arendt is imperative.
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*we’re
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Thomas Massie tries to kill everything. His reputation for voting “no” on EVERY SINGLE piece of legislation seriously diminishes his ability to __actually__ get certain legislation nixed. He was a gre…
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Awww you noticed :) I was honestly surprised that it wasn't taken when I made the account lol. As an aside though, I probably wouldn't have taken the time to correct OP, but given HN data is…
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Yes because you could simulate a small-scale atmosphere, and notice how changing the composition of the "atmosphere" affects average temperature or other features. John Von Neumann actually …
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*fewer Less is used for qualitative data like “I love him less”. Whereas fewer is used for countable things like “I need fewer tokens.”
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If Paul Ginsparg has any say there is zero chance this happens.
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It will be wayyyy more expensive for current events. Matt Levine's piece on positional goods is relevant here. Or just positional goods in general.
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Not having physical buttons for things like windshield wipers, AC, and mirror controls, are very bad UX. Having all of these very important systems on a flat touchscreen require taking your eyes off t…
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Matt Levine has a great piece on ESG actually being a market reaction to the fact most people own index funds now. Since most people are concerned about the OVERALL market now, ESG serves to optimize …
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Yeah, Humans are very adept at killing other groups of humans
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