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jeezfrk commented on Why did U.S. wages stagnate for 20 years?   noahpinion.blog/p/so-why-... · Posted by u/paulpauper
mbrumlow · 7 months ago
> The business-owner class benefits from the health system,

That is a new argument, coming from health care is a right and good for society?

It’s kinda crazy you want to dismiss this simply because it benefits some group of people you don’t like.

In any se your argument is this is worse. And I argue this is good, fair and meritocratic , and sustainable.

While the USA has wealth, you can simply expand your idea beyond the walked garden of a single country and to the world stage. There is no way with today’s tech and cost of labor could we ever give free health care to everybody. World wide there are far more people who exist, than people who exist and contribute back to society.

The dream of unlimited free healthcare can only be archived once > 90% of humans are producing more than they consume, which war are no where near even in the richest of rich, the USA.

jeezfrk · 7 months ago
That seems utterly disingenuous as nearly every single other advanced economy IN THE WORLD has near free health care.
jeezfrk commented on Wildfires are erasing California's climate gains, research shows (2022)   news.uchicago.edu/story/w... · Posted by u/amichail
jeezfrk · a year ago
This is silly.

Inhabited areas everywhere and non-inhabited areas everywhere have had an extreme growth in wildfire.

The gains stay the same be cause they were examples to other human-apes with other invisiible-line kingdoms.

Sum totals for the coal spewing nations and states among us are far worse.

jeezfrk commented on Does current AI represent a dead end?   bcs.org/articles-opinion-... · Posted by u/jnord
yashap · a year ago
I hope so, but for different reasons. Agreed they spit out plenty of gibberish at the moment, but they’ve also progressed so far so fast it’s pretty scary. If we get to a legitimate artificial general super intelligence, I’m about 95% sure that will be terrible for the vast, vast majority of humans, we'll be obsolete. Crossing my fingers that the current AI surge stops well short of that, and the push that eventually does get there is way, way off into the future.
jeezfrk · a year ago
Current AI degrades totally unlike human experts. It also, by design, must lag its data input.

Anything innovated must come from outside or have a very close permutation to be found.

Generative AI isn't scary at all now. It is merely rolling dice on a mix of other tech and rumors from the internet.

The data can be wrong or old...and people keep important secrets.

jeezfrk commented on Chain-of-thought can hurt performance on tasks where thinking makes humans worse   arxiv.org/abs/2410.21333... · Posted by u/benocodes
marviel · a year ago
I love backpropagating ideas from ML back into psychology :)

I think it shows great promise as a way to sidestep the ethical concerns (and the reproducibility issues) associated with traditional psychology research.

One idea in this space I think a lot about is from the Google paper on curiosity and procrastination in reinforcement learning: https://research.google/blog/curiosity-and-procrastination-i...

Basically the idea is that you can model curiosity as a reward signal proportional to your prediction error. They do an experiment where they train an ML system to explore a maze using curiosity, and it performs the task more efficiently -- UNTIL they add a "screen" in the maze that shows random images. In this case, the agent maximizes the curiosity reward by just staring at the screen.

Feels a little too relatable sometimes, as a highly curious person with procrastination issues :)

jeezfrk · a year ago
"Nerd sniping"
jeezfrk commented on Life is not a story   psyche.co/ideas/your-life... · Posted by u/Tomte
jeezfrk · a year ago
Nihilism solves so much nothing.

A million more layers of "freeing" yourself and you are back to where you started every time.

An ape granting all impulsive choices the ability to undo anything long-term at all.

Futility is a real thing for some dreamers to accept... but plan-less-ness is not freedom.

It is bondage to short-sighted repeated failure.

jeezfrk commented on Perspectives on Floating Point   eigentales.com/Floating-P... · Posted by u/vimarsh6739
yxhuvud · a year ago
One thing I think would be nice for floating point numbers, is that I'd prefer if there were two separate types - one where NaN and the two infinites are allowed, and one where they are not allowed but instead emit an error. The former would be used by some few mathematicians etc, and the rest of us could use the latter. The upside would be better error handling close to the source of the issue, and better optimizations as the not-normal values throw a wrench into optimizing math.
jeezfrk · a year ago
It would be quite useful to protect other code from that.

It could easily be a compiler-based protection: any opcode that can generate it from two/one normal input must be checked for normal results.

This is similar to how C++ gives few guarantees but "new" and "this" never give null or unallocated values.

jeezfrk commented on Scientists found a way to make sound travel in only one direction   zmescience.com/science/ne... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
cherryteastain · a year ago
We already knew a way - a shockwave
jeezfrk · a year ago
A shockwave does not travel linearly.
jeezfrk commented on Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014)   bbc.com/news/blogs-echoch... · Posted by u/_tk_
slibhb · a year ago
Reminder: Trump was elected in 2016 despite most of the "elites" backing Clinton, and her campaign outspending his 2:1.
jeezfrk · a year ago
October Surprise, 2016. Not subtle.
jeezfrk commented on A Drug Half as Good as Ozempic for One-30th the Price   theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/thelastgallon
zer00eyz · 2 years ago
I like this article but it misses a major point.

If the next revolution is going to be capital intensive (ML at present) then you dont need to lock up engineering talent.

Cull all the staff you don't need, they aren't going to build your next competitor, they cant afford to.

jeezfrk · 2 years ago
The bets on moneybags-centric ML spending has many dead ends.

Draining capital into the wrong ones will be common and easy. Then the bubbles will burst and we will see how much raw capital and debt actually pay out.

jeezfrk commented on Why Bluesky Remains the Most Interesting Experiment in Social Media, by Far   techdirt.com/2024/03/27/w... · Posted by u/hn_acker
willcipriano · 2 years ago
> without conspiracy loonies

The term "conspiracy theory" was invented by the CIA after Kennedy's head exploded shortly after he started to move to withdraw from Vietnam.

It was later used on people who didn't buy the Iraq WMD story.

It was used on people who suspected mass government spying before Snowden proved them right.

Recently it was used for people who thought a US funded biolab experimenting with making bat coronaviruses miles from the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak was suspicious.

You can try to censor untrue things but censoring "conspiracy loonies" means sticking to the mainstream narratives, for that you can go on Reddit and watch CNN.

jeezfrk · 2 years ago
what about all those that turned out to be deranged imagination / fascism / communism / racism / cultic or just plain moneymaking FUD?

You remember all those? Strange. Thst seems to be blocked from you reading it.

u/jeezfrk

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