osmarks
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osmarks
@osmarks1
I have opinions. You are required to agree with them.
GPT-5 test chamber Katılım Mart 2019
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someone who knows more about rationalism than me please make the xkcd geologist joke
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opus 4.7 references specific RationalWiki lines that i've "probably already seen" without telling me what the line actually is. is the assumption that i have RationalWiki memorized. i didn't even know that was a thing
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@JucheCouture @skinnebo I have heard that this is a problem. It doesn't really seem like an austerity problem, though, if there is not actually less money being spent.
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@skinnebo It’s really important to point out that it didn’t use to be like this! We used to be at/near the top of international outcome comparison charts! Austerity destroyed this country.
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I don’t understand why people compare C++ and Rust, what could you possibly be working on where those are your two best options. Order books? Search engines? Compiler for your new programming language not yet capable of bootstrapping? Be honest, that’s not you
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My wife used to work at a UK bank and said her coworkers used to flag accounts with a couple thousands in them….
These people are broke asf😭
Markov@MarkovMagnifico
holy shit there’s no way the UK is actually this poor
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@real_redp @qualiascript AI GPUs don't have much double-precision compute, though you can do some kind of workaround (Ozaki?).
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@qualiascript actually no
there are lots of application for gpu clusters in applied science
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@qualiascript @AfflatusSolis I think you'll find that obsoleting all human labour is very valuable.
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@AfflatusSolis because the parallels with the dot-com bubble are very strong, there's currently still no clear path to profitability but everyone acts as if that is no longer a constraint. not saying it is *not* a revolutionary technology, but that we are due for a temporary correction
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@FabricioNakata @wordgrammer (okay, yes, type system quality, not literally the same type system)
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@FabricioNakata @wordgrammer I would use a GCed language instead if there was one with the same tooling, libraries, type system, etc. The closest thing is OCaml, but it's not really there.
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@GileadRespecter @RepealTCPA1947 The regulations require them to hold safe assets in general, which I expect doesn't actually include gold (because their liabilities aren't gold-denominated).
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@RepealTCPA1947 Aren't we required to issue bonds because banks are required to hold gold or bond reserves and we physically do not have enough gold in the world to cover this?
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Patricia@PatriciaNPino
Stop issuing bonds. See how quickly the bond markets fall in line.
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@AlextheYounga Cognitive performance as measured how? Doing the same kinds of things as modern frontier LLMs?
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Friendly wager: $50 in BTC or BCH. By 2030, AI will run on basically no compute, on pleasantly discrete algorithms, at either the same cognitive performance as now or better. English will run like code on a Raspberry Pi.
osmarks@osmarks1
@AlextheYounga We tried symbolic AI approaches which run on basically no compute and work on pleasantly clean discrete algorithms. They don't really work because the world is not cleanly discrete and factorable at the necessary level.
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@GuiveAssadi There probably are still security concerns. Modern cars have way too many computers in them.
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When he's right, he's right
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson
Politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, are trying to prevent you from ever even getting to see a Chinese car, because they know that these cars are cheaper and higher quality than American-made cars and they're worried you'll want to buy one. currentaffairs.org/news/why-they-…
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@anon_opin Misleading station names are a time-honoured British tradition.
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Milton Keynes Central station should be renamed Milton Keynes, seeing as there aren't any other stations with Milton Keynes in their name so nothing else to get it confused with.
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A lot of work seems to go into making new infrastructure building in Britain less disruptive to current infrastructure. Building whole new bridges like this next to existing railways and then sliding them over in one go.
HS2 Ltd@HS2ltd
#HS2 engineers have completed Curzon 2, the tallest bridge on the new high-speed network, and shortly we’ll be launching it over the Cross City railway line just outside #Birmingham city centre. Curzon 2 is part of the Curzon approaches, a network of five viaducts forming the final mile into HS2's Curzon Street Station. The 4,200 tonne bridge will reach its final position on 5th June creating a stunning new addition to the Birmingham skyline.🌉
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@_Zojka @SharklettVT Please elaborate on the supermarket/utility data. I looked into it a bit and didn't see anything credible.
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@SharklettVT Not just SIM data (1.8 SIMs per person if the population figures are true, which is insanely high), but stuff like supermarket purchase data, utility bill usage ect. Everything points towards a much higher population than reported, which is evident to anyone who lives in Britain
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@jee_vacation @MarkovMagnifico I think the country is in a meaningful sense poorer if the top end is cut off.
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@osmarks1 @MarkovMagnifico Median still reflects the average person.
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@kateevelynber @AshyCompounds @Victoria_Spratt @jrf_uk @Autonomy_Inst @grok Sensible companies won't keep developing drugs of a class which empirically and theoretically doesn't work.
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@AshyCompounds @Victoria_Spratt @jrf_uk @Autonomy_Inst @grok In clinical trials, scientists do not stop developing a drug simply because previous iterations have not cured the disease.
Instead, scientists persevere with the problem and keep on producing new formulations until they’ve found the correct one.
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Could rent control save renters £1,200 a year? And shave £600m off the annual Housing Benefit bill?
New research shared exclusively with me from @jrf_uk and @Autonomy_Inst seems to think so, and suggests mitigations to protect landlords with mortgages.
This week’s newsletter @theipaper
inews.co.uk/news/how-rent-…
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@jee_vacation @MarkovMagnifico The US has much higher high-percentile salaries.
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@MarkovMagnifico US median: 64k USD
UK median: 52k USD
Not a massive difference.
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@arcadioenjoyer @disco___cat Leasing/maintenance costs are ~30% of fares, with margins surely less than that, and the difference to explain is much bigger than that.
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@disco___cat ROSCOs are a big part of it. No operating company owns the trains they rent them from mostly financial consortiums for ridiculous amounts
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has it ever been established *why* train fares in the UK are so comically overpriced compared to almost anywhere else?
Barto@_barto1
The standard of trains in Europe compared to the UK is a joke. €30 in 1st class for the 500km journey from Seville to Madrid, in a seat like an armchair. Where's its £120 off peak Liverpool to London in the cattle carriage. After every trip abroad, I hate the UK even more
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@disco___cat The expensive intercity fares subsidize the regional/branch lines and the cheaper (advance, etc) intercity fares, probably. Also, much of the network is at or near capacity because the Treasury hates capital spending.
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