doubleunplussed
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doubleunplussed
@doubleunplussed
Atomic physicist and embedded software engineer, general-purpose nerd. Forecasting, Linux, weight training, psephology, economics, Georgism, other nerdery
Melbourne, Victoria เข้าร่วม Şubat 2023
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@dontfallforem @AndyMasley He didn't say he always drives under the speed limit.
If you think what a world where cars enforced the speed limit would be like - very likely speed limits would increase to be closer to what people actually drive at (as is generally the case outside the US)
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@AndyMasley every now and then you’ll get a guy on twitter who says something so preposterous he has to be doing a bit. normally it’s reserved for maga but there is no fucking way you always drive under the speed limit lmao
this is the most full of shit thing i’ve ever heard in my life
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I believe cars specifically should exist in a total surveillance state. Internal speed monitors that just auto bill you the moment you go over. Breathalyzers replace keys for the ignition etc.
∿@somewheresy
Flock Cameras are cool because they make car people upset the most
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@GregBenage @EneaszWrites Remember that people are in the circles they're in. A left-leaning man is going to be dating mostly left-leaning women, and there isn't a mechanism by which misogyny in right-wing circles and misandry in left can cancel out. If both exist, people will experience both.
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@EneaszWrites Okay, I’ll call BS. I’ve never been woke, but the idea that misandry is as pervasive and virulent as the misogyny on the right the last ten years is completely detached from reality.
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I don't want to detract from Kelsey's point. It's true and vital. This is horrid.
Also, this is the community liberal boys were raised in for 30 years. We couldn't say anything about it, none of us could, because complaining about that message is incel behavior and drives away success and girls. What kind of loser lets social contempt stop him?
I exclusively dated women who despised my gender because I had no other choice. (until I met someone who was raising a male child of her own and had rebelled against that part of liberal society for his sake) It kinda fucked me up and I didn't realize it at the time.
Anyway, I regret not saying anything in the past, so here's this.
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc
This is the intellectual community you want to raise your daughters in? This is the moral community you want them dating in?
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@SpikyCaterpillr @goblinodds That makes a lot of sense!
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@doubleunplussed @goblinodds It's simple: the "top earners" were annoying. The algorithm put them in front of more people; the annoyance of seeing the same crap all the time made people log off, but not before they'd looked at the post that annoyed them.
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am i stupid or is the conclusion here that the algorithm sucks
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
In a 3% experiment, removing the Top-30 highest paid revenue share accounts from the For You timeline increased both time spent and daily active users on X.
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I prefer a country I'm visiting temporarily *not* to have birthright citizenship.
I fully expect visa processing bureaucrats profile pregnant women and couples of reproductive age, and simply deny visas to people they don't want to put down roots.
Birthright citizenship makes it harder to credibly commit to being actually temporary. What use is this right if it just means you get denied entry in the first place?
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I have no idea who this is but it doesn't seem like a serious proposal, it seems to be listing the things a country might be incentivised to do to control who has citizenship if it cant overturn jus soli.
I don't actually know what the rules currently are, but I fully expected that if my pregnant partner wanted to travel to a jus soli country, she might have difficulty doing so. That's annoying! It would be nice for a visitor to be able to give up the right for their kid to get citizenship in order to not be denied a tourist visit or whatnot. From the perspective of a visitor, many rights you might have due to merely being on another country's soil are a liability, as they increase the chance your visa application will be rejected in the first place.
A related anecdote, my partner's mother had a permanent visa application pending to come to Australia. Whilst it was pending, she was denied a tourist visa, presumably because once in the country she would have some right to stay until the permanent visa was processed (I'm not exactly sure, but she had had no problem getting a tourist visa to Australia previously).
Infuriating! She couldn't come visit us for Christmas. If she could have credibly commited to leaving until the permanent visa was approved (which it eventually was), they would have let her in to visit.
Also reminds me of how an excessively high minimum wage actually just denies people employment
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Feel like a lot of politics now is driven by this desire to be a Prince of Darkness to prove to your opponents that you're so messed up that you can't be captured by their framing, but this only encases you more in this depressing downward spiral of reacting to the other side.
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns
"Sterilize tourists" as a response to the same citizenship rules that have been in place for hundreds of years The guy posting this is supposedly one of the leading intellectuals of the New Right
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This is different to what you're seeing but a friend of mine has this random extra dollar-denominated monthly usage bar in his usage page despite not having usage credits turned on. The amount there, $31 is the monthly price of Claude Pro in AUD. This was there before Fable came back.
Maybe they're going to start measuring monthly usage in dollars?
I don't see this bar - maybe something to do with me paying for Pro anually
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The /usage command says I'm spending on the API but I don't have Usage Credits turned on. Is this a UI bug or is there a setting I don't know about that's letting me spend extra money?
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Unfortunately I only saved the images and don't have any record of the source.
For what it's worth, it wouldn't have been just a prompt to a public image generation AI, these sorts of images I believe were made by running local diffusion models that were tweaked to impose the desired light/dark pattern during the diffusion process
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@doubleunplussed @GarrettPetersen I'd never seen the bottom right one. Could you, by chance, find me the artist and original prompt for my collection?
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This image was so great, because it did something genuinely new and interesting that a human artist would have struggled with. But then nobody ran with the concept. Or if they did, it never went viral enough for me to see it.
Jack@tracewoodgrains
My father-in-law is an AI artist. He is insanely gifted. We saw this picture years ago and I asked him what it would cost to generate it today. I will never forget his answer... "We can't, we don't know how to do it."
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@ambitiousmfer @GarrettPetersen They are! And not even particularly new AI - these are from September 2023 or thereabouts.
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Hm, I think of derangement syndrome as something like "unconditionally taking the opposite side of a despicable person, even when the stopped clock is right".
So not only is Musk's infantile public behaviour not a contradiction, it's like, a precondition. When someone is acting reasonably they don't negatively polarise everyone and people's opposition to them is just normal opposition.
Derangement is when the usually-correct heuristic that the person is wrong is used unconditionally to adopt dumb views. Obviously though the person is indeed usually wrong, so I'm definitely not saying the USAID stuff *is* an example of derangement, just that Musk derangement does exist and him being a bafoon doesn't contradict that.
There is plenty of Musk derangement syndrome around, see people being dismissive of SpaceX and Telsa. Recent debates on orbital datacentres are an example too, you've got some reputable people totally crashing out and making atrocious arguments. Even if they're ultimately right, the debate is a very poor quality one and it's obviously because people hate Musk and are not thinking straight.
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Haha all those dumb libs with Elon Derangement Syndrome. I will simply go to his timeline and see the contents of the brain of the wealthiest person on Earth to confirm there's nothing weird or bad happening here.
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The IEEE Spectrum article that the video linked to (and was part of some sponsorship deal) is about orbital datacentres generally, and the title of the video is "the truth about space datacentres".
Yes it talks about a specific starcloud white paper, but the framing is clearly presenting this as a central example of orbital datacenter proposals, as if (valid) critique of it is critique of the concept as a whole. The video says near the start "I'm going to tell you why this technology is dumb", and if this is supposed to refer to the StarCloud white paper specifically, that's very unclear. I don't think it is.
I do not think this video was intended as a critique of only that one white paper. I think the author thinks all orbital datacentres are implausible for similar reasons, and they made a video saying so.
The fact that they picked an unrepresentative example to criticise is simply because that's what people do when they already have a conclusion in mind and aren't making a good faith effort on a topic, knowingly or otherwise - in this case I think the author is totally sincere, just mistaken, and vulnerable to the same kinds of motivates reasoning errors almost everyone makes when in the same situation.
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@TheBrianMcManus Honestly amazing to see so many people commenting here that clearly didn't watch the video, or are too stupid to understand what they saw.
No folks, this has nothing to do with Elon or SpaceX. This is about StarCloud, which is quite obviously a very idiotic concept.
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1. That wasn’t an assumption. It was from Starclouds white paper and I directly criticize it for being a stupidly low operating temperature
2. I said laser communications makes more sense, but it’s beneficial to keep satellites closer, like suncatchers bounded orbit achieves
3. I outright say space data centers have a useful niche in military inference.
Elon’s best a brightest are arguing strawmen arguments because of an inferred slight to their master 😂
ApoStructura@ApoStructura
Real Engineering’s latest video about space datacenters is terrible. He spends his time “debunking” a long term plan and not what’s under development today, makes bad hypotheses (GPUs running only 35C) and dismisses existing tech like laser communication (used by Starlink today)
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@TheBrianMcManus @ApoStructura Come on man, people are disagreeing with you in good faith and making reasonable points.
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@ApoStructura You’re welcome. I enjoyed dismantling your argument.
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In software engineering, a liberating fact to know is that you can add one to a 64-bit counter every clock cycle, on the fastest CPU, and it won't overflow for like a century
I've seen posts saying how weird the wall-blade-slot seems, but never seen someone complain it was full
aspen/sparx || #1 edtwt kegel advocate@2oosm4ll
thinking about how people used to just chuck their used razor blades behind the wall and call it a day
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@bouguereau_stan @GarrettPetersen @cremieuxrecueil Ice cream is unfairly maligned. It's basically slightly sweetened milk. Macros are actually quite good and it's not that many calories for how tasty it is!
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@GarrettPetersen @cremieuxrecueil Generally "unhealthy" and "miserable" are synonymous, with the possibly unique exception of ice cream
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You are all low on sodium.
doomer@uncledoomer
apparently on tiktok, people who get migraines swear by eating a large mcdonald fry and a coca cola to cure a migraine. which at first sounds like fat people pretending to have headaches as an excuse to have mcdonalds. but i had a migraine and tried it myself and it worked.
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You gotta be salt maxxing
Last time I was dieting to lose weight I asked a chatbot why I was all headachy a few days in and it was like you need more salt mofo
Salt fixed the problem and I kept up the habit since and it's been great
Salt in my breakfast cereal
Salt in my protein shakes
Salt tablets
Electrolyte powder
I love salt
The RDI is stupidly conservative because of people with blood pressure issues so unless you have blood pressure issues, and unless you eat a lot of fast food, and especially if you sweat ever for any reason, you might not be getting enough of the tasty rock
Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️@GarrettPetersen
@cremieuxrecueil It's nuts that people try to cut all salt out of their diets. It's both unhealthy and makes life miserable.
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Hm, MTG ability seems like a good eval only if models being any good at it is incidental and not something they train specifically for - since I would guess we could have a superhuman MTG AI already if anyone cared to build one. I suspect it's a narrow skill like chess or Go.
I believe people used to say that AI playing chess would indicate real progress, or maybe even require AGI (I'm not totally sure about that one), and then after superhuman chess AI was developed they said the same about Go. But now we see these as narrow abilities and not especially on the road to AGI after all.
AI not trained on chess or Go or MTG nonetheless being able to learn them and play at a superhuman level would be very impressive though. The latest ARC AGI eval is about in-context learning to play novel games - time will tell if models saturating it will actually coincide with AGI or if we will end up thinking of that as a narrow skill too.
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@walterpols @MatthewSitman Sure, my post was not Musk praise, just that perhaps PEPFAR isn't the best example
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@doubleunplussed @MatthewSitman It’s still unclear what the damage has been and the only reason it got saved is because of a massive howell of pushback from even the conservative sun their block
Hardly a thing to praise the Musks of the world for (he would’ve left it dead if not for Rubio)
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Actually it was quite common for people to say, for example, that PEPFAR was one thing you really did have to hand it to George W. Bush for, a genuinely transformative program that saved millions of lives. Seriously!
PoIiMath@politicalmath
One of the reasons that I don't accept the "nuking USAID killed millions of people" framing is because most of the people saying this never took the stance that the US was a tremendously good and heroic force for saving millions of people
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@sentientist @KelseyTuoc @Martina Huh, really?
I thought humans were relatively unique in sweating whereas milk is universal in mammals, so would have assumed lactation predated sweat
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@KelseyTuoc @Martina People are really committed to the idea that breast milk is magic instead of evolutionarily modified sweat.
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It takes what- 4 different chemicals to induce this liquid to come out? This is not breastfeeding. This is experimentation that cannot ever be a plus but certainly can be a big minus for the baby.
Janet Murray@jan_murray
A man who wants to put a baby’s mouth around his nipple should prompt safeguarding questions. A couple of men producing a few teaspoons of medically induced milk-like fluid is not scientific evidence that men can - or should - breastfeed babies. If a man is experiencing gender distress to the extent that he wants to breastfeed a baby, it is reasonable to suggest he should be not be able to adopt or obtain a baby by any other means (e.g. surrogacy). Saying this is not to suggest that all trans-identifying men are unsafe around children. It is to recognise that men who are interested in breastfeeding babies may have a s*xual fetish - which is a clear safeguarding risk. Which is precisely why we have to be able to discuss it openly - without accusations of bigotry shutting the conversation down. And question content like this - that seeks to normalise fetish behaviour. Indeed accusations of bigotry around issues like this should surely make us question the motives of those trying to silence our questions. Because what’s more important: protecting an adult from offence, or keeping children safe?
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