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jassyr commented on How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047... · Posted by u/50kIters

ryandrake · 3 months ago

OK, so map it out. How do we go from "Palantir has some data" to "I'm a slave of the state?" Could someone draw the lines? I'm not a fan of this administration either, but come on--let's not lower ourselves to their reliance on shadowy conspiracy theories and mustache-twirling villains to explain the world.

jassyr · 3 months ago

You mentioned you're not a fan of this administration. That's -1 on your PalsOfState(tm) score. Your employer has been notified (they know where you work of course), and your spouse's employer too. Your child's application to Fancy University has been moved to the bottom of the pile, by the way the university recently settled a lawsuit brought by the governmentfor admitting too many "disruptors" with low PalsOfState scores. Palantir had provided a way for you to improve you score, click the Donateto47 button to improve your score. We hope you can attend the next political rally in your home town, their cameras will be there to make sure.

jassyr commented on An unprecedented window into how diseases take hold years before symptoms appear bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

nradov · 8 months ago

Number of studies are meaningless by itself, and an intellectually rigorous scientist wouldn't use that as a metric. We've known for decades that any serious infection can have long lasting effects for some patients. There's nothing special about SARS-CoV-2.

jassyr · 8 months ago

you can't criticize someone for poor reasoning while simultaneously making unsupported claims yourself

jassyr commented on What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022) troof.blog/posts/nootropi... · Posted by u/julianh65

diamondage · 8 months ago

Tried creatine?

jassyr · 8 months ago

Creatine does help some. Staying hydrated and good sleep, too.

jassyr commented on What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022) troof.blog/posts/nootropi... · Posted by u/julianh65

omnicognate · 8 months ago

I have chronic fatigue problems, which exercise exacerbates. I swim 3 times a week, but have to carefully regulate the intensity or it triggers post-exertional malaise.

The exercise is important for my general health but it isn't positively correlated with my cognitive functioning. Quite the opposite.

jassyr · 8 months ago

I'm in a similar situation but with multiple sclerosis for over 15 years. I love to exercise, however on some days a medium-intensity cardio session will leave my brain functioning at like 50% which is not great for my job. I gotta work hard to make sure my gas tank has enough for all the tasks planned for that day. My neurologist calls it Energy Management.

jassyr commented on Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor azure.microsoft.com/en-us... · Posted by u/eksu

dcist · a year ago

Now THIS is the sort of nihilistic outlook that keeps me coming back for a hit of HN.

jassyr · a year ago

It's like some sort of Cunningham's Law Inception.

jassyr commented on Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor azure.microsoft.com/en-us... · Posted by u/eksu

kenjackson · a year ago

I need HN's classic pessimism to know if this is something to be excited about. Please chime in!

jassyr · a year ago

Whenever I read about a scientific breakthrough I login to HN to see what the smart people think about it, and am disappointed if there isn't a post with hundreds of comments.

jassyr commented on Elon Musk PAC will pay registered voters in swing states to sign a petition petition.theamericapac.or... · Posted by u/blindriver

yongjik · a year ago

Isn't it a crime to pay people to register to vote?

jassyr · a year ago

Yes. In any election in which a federal candidate is on the ballot, federal law prohibits any individual or entity, including 501(c)(3) nonprofits, social welfare organizations, and unions, from knowingly and willfully paying, offering to pay, or accepting payment either for registering to vote or voting

52 U.S.C. § 10307

jassyr commented on No one expects young men to do anything and they respond by doing nothing (2022) robkhenderson.com/p/no-on... · Posted by u/mooreds

jasperry · 2 years ago

Value growth isn't tied to physical resources anymore, it's increasingly ascribed to intangible things, such as intellectual property. I'm not saying that growth is guaranteed to continue, just that economies have already been growing based on more abstract values; it's not all about food and fuel anymore.

jassyr · 2 years ago

Even so, the IP is used to make things which require resources. Disney IP is used to make toys, movies, books, etc, that all require electricity, paper, computers, employees sitting and eating, commuting into the office. Or a vaccine patent will be used to make a vaccine which requires a factory to be built and operated, the product produced, stored, shipped, used, and disposed into a landfill.

jassyr commented on Ask HN: People who switched from GPT to their own models. How was it? · Posted by u/ashu1461

jianfgo · 2 years ago

Anyone has a tutorial how to achieve it to own a self-hosted model?

jassyr · 2 years ago

Reddit community r/LocalLlama has great info

jassyr commented on Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf] arxiv.org/abs/2401.16212... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon

hansonkd · 2 years ago

I run a startup that does legal contract generation (contracts written by lawyers turned into templates) and have done some work GPT analysis of the contract for laypersons to interact and ask questions about the contract they are getting.

In terms of contract review, what I've found is that GPT is better at analysis of the document than generating the document, which is what this paper supports. However, I have used several startups options of AI document review and they all fall apart with any sort of prodding for specific answers. This paper looks like it just had to locate the section not necessarily have the back and forth conversation about the contract that a lawyer and client would have.

There is also no legal liability for GPT for giving the wrong answer. So It works well for someone smart who is doing their own research. Just like if you are smart you could use google before to do your own research.

My feelings on contract generation is that for the majority of cases, people are better served if there were simply better boilerplate contracts available. Laywers hoard their contracts and it was very difficult in our journey to find lawyers who would be willing to write contracts we would turn into templates because they are essentially putting themselves and their professional community out of income streams in the future. But people don't need a unique contract generated on the fly from GPT every time when a template of a well written and well reviewed contract does just fine. It cost hundreds of millions to train GPT4. If $10m was just spent building a repository of well reviewed contracts, it would be a more useful than spending the equivalent money training a GPT to generate them.

People ask pretty wide range of questions about what they want to do with their documents and GPT didn't do a great job with it, so for the near future, it looks like lawyers still have a job.

jassyr · 2 years ago

I'm in the energy sector and have been thinking of fine tuning a local llm on energy-specific legal documents, court cases, and other industry documents. Would this solve some of the problems you mention about producing specific answers? Have you tried something like that?