If every other measure is equal, and there are 30% more human fingers created, that means EA is 30% more efficient, by this measure. 13-fingered soccer players.
i can’t believe I read this whole article. They somewhat buried the lede with the paragraphs about emailing farmers twice and that was it. Apparently shoe leather and knocking on doors was not an option. They did also go to a conference and have coffee and pet cats though!
@buttcoin - this is a real sentence in a real news article:
Crypto exchange Binance said it will add dogwifhat (WIF) to its listings, lifting the Solana-based token's price back into the black for the day despite a sell-off in the wider meme-coin market.
rootclaim appears to be yet another group of people who, having stumbled upon the idea of the Bayes rule as a good enough alternative to critical thinking, decided to try their luck in becoming a Serious and Important Arbiter of Truth in a Post-Mainstream-Journalism World....
@gerikson@skillissuer In 6 months he's going to juice up and shave .6 seconds (3%) off his own personal best time in the 50M freestyle that he set 11 years ago.
edited to add **tl;dr:**Siskind seems ticked off because recent papers on the genetics of schizophrenia are increasingly pointing out that at current miniscule levels of prevalence, even with the commonly accepted 80% heritability, actually developing the disorder is all but impossible unless at least some of the environmental...
@gerikson@Evinceo An obscure French opera from the early 1700s. Google tells me that this is an Alexander quirk.
Act III
Adraste proclaims his determination to raise all other gods against Jupiter. He calls upon Juno, Jupiter's wife, to join him in avenging Jupiter's unfaithfulness. Juno sends Adraste away so that she can plot her revenge. She takes on a disguise as Beroe, Semele's nurse, to enact her jealous hatred of Semele, made even stronger when she sees Semele's beauty.
@AcausalRobotGod@saucerwizard
Yud has been warning about the AI takeover for 20 years. During this time:, The North American Union has issued trillions of Ameros, Tesla summon from NY to LA debuted, the Mayan calendar counted down to doomsday...
"Alenichev didn't just put in one phrase to see what would happen. He brainstormed ways to see if he could get AI images that matched his specifications
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Try as they might, the team was unable to get Black doctors and white patients in one image. Out of 150 images of HIV patients, 148 were Black and two were white. Some results put African wildlife like giraffes and elephants next to Black physicians."
“ We have unusually strong marketing connections; Vitalik approves of us; Aella is a marketing advisor on this project; SlateStarCodex is well aware of us. We are quite networked in the Effective Altruism space. We could plausibly get an Elon tweet. ”...
looks like the X logo that was erected above X / Twitter HQ has been removed
the SF Department of Buildings just uploaded nearly two dozens more complaints it received about it re: unsafe strobes, sandbags holding it up, lighting starting to "droop" off
@MattBinder@alexzfinley ——- I just went to read Matt’s tweet to see this and I inadvertently clicked the “X” logo to close the tweet. I can’t be the only one that has done this. An x has meant “close window” in computing for a while now.
Sam Altman says instead of Universal Basic Income, there should be Universal Basic Compute, where everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute (nitter.poast.org)
Thank you sir, I didn’t know the way to fix ailing welfare states was to make ChatGPT available to all....
18+ Honor Levy is the latest from Dimes Square. Truly breathtaking text production.
holy shit, it’s Ready Player One for race scientists...
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 April 2024
Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!...
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 17 March 2024
As suggested at this thread to general “yeah sounds cool”. Let’s see if this goes anywhere....
18+ Is the "g factor" just a rebranding of IQ, or is there any scientific basis for it?
The Wiki page is voluminous enough to approach gish galloping, and the Talk page is almost as big en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)...
"we have 700m people in our network. We think it's not unreasonable to at least get 50% more people as a result of personalization, culturalization, deeper, more immersive experiences." EA exec on AI (techraptor.net)
goddamn, did chatgpt create his answers
We started a charity to alleviate wild fish suffering. We spent $30k trying to contact fish farmers via email. This didn't work, so we gave up. We consider the project a success. (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
Rationalist org bets random substack poster $100K that he can't disprove their covid lab leak hypothesis, you'll never guess what happens next
rootclaim appears to be yet another group of people who, having stumbled upon the idea of the Bayes rule as a good enough alternative to critical thinking, decided to try their luck in becoming a Serious and Important Arbiter of Truth in a Post-Mainstream-Journalism World....
worst tech/crypto songs of all time?
inspired by...
somebody gave Thiel idea of methhead olympics (www.independent.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11485138...
Hi, I'm Scott Alexander and I will now explain why every disease is in fact just poor genetics by using play-doh statistics to sorta refute a super specific point about schizophrenia heritability. (www.astralcodexten.com)
edited to add **tl;dr:**Siskind seems ticked off because recent papers on the genetics of schizophrenia are increasingly pointing out that at current miniscule levels of prevalence, even with the commonly accepted 80% heritability, actually developing the disorder is all but impossible unless at least some of the environmental...
The Big Lie (nitter.net)
Aella and company want to put GM bacteria in your mouth (www.lanternbioworks.com)
“ We have unusually strong marketing connections; Vitalik approves of us; Aella is a marketing advisor on this project; SlateStarCodex is well aware of us. We are quite networked in the Effective Altruism space. We could plausibly get an Elon tweet. ”...