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Why are reposting stories from 2023? Has cobalt come back in the news? As far as I know most battery producers have been shifting their battery chemistry to reduce the amount of cobalt. This should come as a relief to the readers of this article, right?

Comment · 5 months ago

I think you make a good argument. An LLM can't "be tired", so it is clearly lying and/or mimicking what a human does.

But I have two counter-arguments: - maybe the LLM thinks it is tired, because it thinks that it is a human or behaves like one. And thinking you are tired while not really being it is something humans happen to do. (And humans are conscious right?) - alternatively, maybe the LLM says it is "tired" in a colloquial form, i.e. it is not really "tired" but it has something analogous to it. Maybe it is annoyed by the conversation and decided to use that word?

Comment · 6 months ago

Oh that's interesting! In my mind we are now on the cusp of being able to scan all these archives and have them be read by LLMs (in a first pass). Do you agree with that assessment, or am I being naive here?

Comment · 1 year ago

I'd recommend Fedora with Gnome, though KDE is also quite good. You get a stable distro with still recent libraries.

Comment · 1 year ago

> To put this discovery into perspective, the newly found deposit represents more than half of the world’s annual gray hydrogen production

Only half the yearly production, and yet we're nowhere near anything resembling widespread adoption of hydrogen.

Comment · 2 years ago

This already exists! There's a company called Carbon Robotics that has a prototype of a robot that eliminates individual weeds with a lazer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2s-0wgQWXM

I'm also looking forward to this technology being widely available and helping solve the issue of herbicide run-off, and later additionally the same for pesticides and fertilization.

Comment · 2 years ago

So the article mentions "regularization" as the secret ingredient to get to a generalized solution, but they don't explain it. Does someone know that is? Or is it an industrial secret of OpenAI?

Comment · 4 years ago

That's only one example, in a voting system that is easily gamed with vote-splitting. Do you have any more examples to show us? You mention Germany, well in that country the best buddies of Putin are the previous Christian democrats and the socialists, while the biggest opponents are the greens under the leadership of Annalena Baerbock.[1]

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/world/europe/germany-russ...

Comment · 5 years ago

Good news! https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1348785240819466242?s=1...

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Comment · 6 years ago

Fn+Backspace is only for characters though! To delete files you need Cmd+Backspace.

Comment · 6 years ago

> Our Constitutional amendment process is sclerotic, but there is nothing to suggest our Republic is inherently flawed in the way Athens or Rome were.

Analyses abound about [what's wrong with American democracy](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:Problems_with_the_curren...). The nail in the coffin though, will be the first part of your sentence. The American Constitution is notoriously hard to amend, which means that it is just too easy to maintain as it is by those who benefit from the status quo. We can already see this by how the will of the majority is routinely ignored through unequal representation. My opinion is that this is not sustainable and will have to be resolved through unlawful means, exactly because of the unflexibility of the law.

Comment · 8 years ago

What's the problem with Wallonia?