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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

This is going into my Doran deck

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Im not in the loop about what people are expecting of ai or what state of the art models can do. But here's my review.

Ive found chatgpt useful for code snippets, rewording paragraphs, writing emails, fun images. It saves time, but I still need to adjust things. I also use an llm for code suggestions, which I love.

I can not use it for things I don't already understand well. Whenever I try to diagnose issues in my Linux computer, i feel like I get dragged down tangents and I get confused and after many messages it completely forgets what we're doing. I would need to already know how things work to be able to navigate this.

It doesn't do well with niche information. I haven't been able to have it make me a functional EDH-deck. I have not been able to get basic information about my not-so-niche field of research. It gets things wrong too often for me to trust it as a source of information.

Overall ive found it very useful for the things I've found it useful. I understand why it fails at the other tasks. But I assume that someone better equipped than me could prompt-engineer, or adjust the model somehow, to make it useful for those tasks as well.

But ive also heard of really impressive uses, like alphago and alphafold. Im sure there are more recent examples.

But I honestly don't understand what people are envisioning that these ai are supposed to do. Im probably just ignorant about the state of the art, but it seems absurd to me that an ai could tell you how to make government efficient by just throwing existing data at it, to use a topical example.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

By the end of ww2, the nazis were the underdogs.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What does it mean that it's an Indonesian hospital? Is that just it's name?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I don't know how it would be paid for. It's probably prohibitively expensive. But I think it would be cheaper than the product of UBI*population. Poverty is very expensive for a country, and would be reduced by like 80% (made up number).

I'd draw money from my other pie in the sky policies, like ~100% marginal tax on wealth above $500M, and on incomes above $5M/yr. Realistically, I think this would cause wealth flight, so it would have to be global to work.

I don't expect any of this to happen in my lifetime. A more realistic hope is a UBI that you can't survive on, but that keeps you from poverty. Maybe a UBI that equals the poverty line. But then I'd want to keep the minimum wage.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (4 children)

My pie in the sky hope for UBI is that it would be large enough so that you don't need to work to live, maybe with some frugality.

At that point I'd be fine with scrapping minimum wage altogether. Companies would have to offer a job/salary that attracts people who aren't desperate.

It would be much easier to quit a job. And I think it would broadly increase the value of labor. Automation would increase, but that wouldn't be a problem, because its no longer a problem to be unemployed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I don't know anything. Why not the spirit?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I've been told he's really concerned about additives in food, pointing to the regulations in the EU favorably. Im also concerned about the poor quality of food regulations and enforcement in the US. So I've been cautiously optimistic on that front.

Should I not be optimistic? Am I misinformed? Has he said/done things to undermine this position? I haven't followed RFK particularly close.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They do. But one thing that bugs me about the nutrition labels in the US is that they show "amount per serving", rather than per 100ml or per 100g, which they have in the EU (at least in Sweden). it makes it a step harder to compare nutrition labels in the US.

I also feel judged when they tell me a bag of chips contains many servings.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (7 children)

What do you do for a living? How does NPD impact your work? Is it beneficial or detrimental? I imagine there are careers that would be particularly suited for someone with NPD.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm a big fan of the higher density housing being built everywhere

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Only 0.001% randomly selected books get a fanbase.

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