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Comment · 2 months ago
It is specialization at scale.

It’s paying hundreds of thousands of RLHF’ers from every subject and through some dystopian income stream.

It’s decent money don’t get me wrong, but you aren’t paid at if a task isn’t completed in time for example.

Comment · 2 months ago
Takes the rogue having access to the $$$$ models though.
Comment · 2 months ago
The perfectly rational actor myth in economics will have Mary doing all sorts of things she doesn’t actually do. Mary just really likes peaches and the whole construct of rational actors is a fictional superstructure. Same with this idea of intelligence levering all our behavior.

Maybe Mary keeps intelligently finding new ways to find scarce peaches, but her ultimate benefit is eating the peach. It’s that human desire if anything.

Comment · 2 months ago
It’s the same rehashed idea of the perfectly rational actor in economics.
Comment · 2 months ago
All I know is the Taylor Farms Creamy Ranch from Costco gave me the worst stomach aches for 4 days and horrible gas
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Longer slower running burns more fat because your body isn’t forced to use as much glycogen as faster paced running.

I guess the answer for optimizing time is to get a home treadmill if removing the commute to a trail/track will make the timing work.

Comment · 4 months ago
My house and street and surrounding streets still aren’t on Google Maps after a month post closing (new development). It’s on Apple Maps and Uber; Amazon and FedEx deliver.

Google Maps feels like I’m constantly in an A B test for how bad it can be and I’m always getting the bad side. It repeatedly doesn’t update in CarPlay, showing the same miles to destination as I progress.

It doesn’t label streets well either. I try to manually find routes in SF and I have to switch to Apple Maps because not enough streets are labeled no matter how much or little I zoom.

Comment · 4 months ago
Ya and this leads to the point that if the simulation is so complex, which I take to mean is so like the real thing, then the near-perfect simulation and the actual thing must be highly similar physically.

And digital circuits are not physically similar to biological brains yet. So we shouldn’t conclude they have the similar consciousness property.

Comment · 4 months ago
That’s like saying simulating a supernova and a supernova are both extremely hot.
Comment · 4 months ago
Well if you go that route, a computer simulating digestion has almost no physical features in common with actual digestion of a stomach. The same holds for consciousness and brains and computers. Them saying it’s just instructions is shorthand for pointing out the physical differences of brains and computers.

It’s all just particles, but the higher level differences are vast, and only brains are implicated for first person perspectives via science.

Comment · 5 months ago
Anyone tried to buy paint recently?

$611 for 2x 5 gallon buckets just to do my garage.

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Yes state schools are. That’s why it’s so competitive as well. $4-$6k at the state school vs $50K+ at private.

There’s one state school for my program within 100 miles of me (physical therapy assistant)

And a four year program is still 2 extra years of tuition even at the subsidized amount, and most would work fewer hours if at all because they need high GPAs.

Comment · 5 months ago
Rad tech is like $130k+ per year in the Bay Area. And if you specialize even more. I know one in a hospital in Marin making $150k+.

That much pay for a 2 year program is very hard to beat.

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