- space_fountain parentIt’s not that open. We can simulate smaller system of neurons just fine, we can simulate chemistry. There might be something beyond that in our brains for some reason, but it sees doubtful right now
- Very cool, this was one of the projects I really wanted to build before I knew better. Trying to understand what was involved taught me so much. I couldn’t find what analog to digital converter and digital to analog converter this uses which would be interesting
I also think a wider bandwidth would be interesting if impractical. Something like recording everything happening on the 2 meter band would be impractical but very cool. I think
- I quoted a source, can you? I did a tiny bit of research. What I can find of early censuses seems to imply that throughout the period of the British mandate their was some immigration of both Jewish and Muslim people, but the fraction of Jewish people in the region grew rapidly mostly though immigration. It seems like it would be convenient if this was true, but it doesn’t seem to be.
As to your second point, idk, it seems to me like probably the Arab side was more at fault several decades ago, but it is the documented goal of the current rulers of Israel to make sure that moderate forces in Palestine don’t come to power. They’ve done everything they can to delegitimize the Palestinian authority. Again if you were a Palestinian living in the West Bank what would you think. What has the peaceful strategy gotten you?
- I'm not sure that any ethnic group has a right to a country, but I think it's pointless to talk about if Jews should have one though because they went and did it. That's done. I agree with you in so much as there's no going back now, but talking about what happened thousands of years ago is a poor way to decide what should happen now, especially when it's done simplistically.
The Jews who moved back to Israel did not have a greater claim to the region through ancestry than the people they pushed out and honestly I don't think it really would have mattered if they did.
Yes it is a bit of a religious war at times, but also imagine you were born in Palestine in the period of the british mandate. Your family likely lived in the region for thousands of years practicing more or less the same faith you did. You would have been forced out of your home in 1948. Your house would literally be given away as abandoned. If you happened to settle in East Jerusalem you might have been given a home in compensation. That home was originally some poor jewish families, but still somewhere to live, but then when Israel annexed the East Jerusalem they passed laws giving the property back to the original owners. Fine, but did you get your home back? No the law was structured explicitly so as not to apply to you. Maybe you were unlucky though and you resettled further into the interior of the west bank. Well then you might see extremist come into your community in the middle of the night and bulldoze your home. I'm not sure you need religion to end up radicalized in this situation. It isn't fair what Israel did to palestinians in the 40s and it isn't fair what they're doing now in the west bank and gaza. It also isn't fair what Arab countries have done to the jews, but the people who live in the west bank have now power over that
- I don't know if it's productive to talk on here, but I'm not the person you seem to think I am. I think Israel has a right to defend itself and I think it has a right to take in refuges if it wants to, but it doesn't have anything to do with your claim that Jewish israelis have some sort of claim to the land owing to ancestral history that isn't shared by the people they literally pushed out. You can read this wiki article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Palestinians), but my read is that the jews and palestinians both descended from a similar group of people. Palestinians are mostly just historic jews that converted
There are things that have moved me to be more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause over the past few years and I think if you haven't listened to Ezra Klein talk about this you should. I think he holds the right balance of pointing out the horror of what Israel has done while holding the context of the horrors Palestine seems intent on doing if given power
- The issue is it’s more like if Americans in mass moved back to Ireland and started genociding the native Irish. Plenty of the Arab population of the region also trace their ancestors back to the biblical period and even if it wasn’t true history in a region doesn’t prevent you from committing atrocities
- I don’t think the article even was so bold as to say his organization distributed pro Hamas flyer. They say someone at the protest did and leave it to your inference that it was the org he leads
- I have a pretty weak opinion of the nypost
Lines like this certainly don’t help:
> He’s been a regular fixture on news programs discussing the group’s disruptive efforts, including an interview on Quds News Network done completely in Arabic
Why is it relevant that he did an interview in Arabic? Like seriously?
As others have said the rest reads as just guilt by association.
To be maximally fair to the other position it has made me reluctant to protest against Israel despite being broadly against them. There are too many people in that movement who are clearly racist, but it’s also unfortunate that pro Israeli forces campaign hard to conflate opposition to Israel with opposition to Jewish people
- The does not seem to be, or it has not been offered so far
- > Secretary of State Marco Rubio shared a link on X to a news article about Mr. Khalil’s arrest and issued a broad promise: “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/nyregion/ice-arrests-pale...
- News coverage seems to suggest immigrants can be detained while moved to revoke their green cards are made, but it’s incredibly troubling that no one seems to know what’s up, the government agents arresting him seemed to think he had a student visa and in general there is so little visibility
- The US has legal reasons now. Ukraine is a sovereign country and would be more than happy to accept US military bases. The US hasn't sent soldiers because they don't want to go to war with Russia
- The us does have the same thing https://www.copyright.gov/mandatory/
- I agree though I have actually noticed that Amazon is more clear about this than they used to be. They now clearly say you’re buying a license not the book and it may have just been a Europe thing but I think it even made me confirm that I knew some of the implications of that distinction.
Unlike a lot of people on here I think I don’t have fundamental problems with DRM, but I think consumers absolutely should be guaranteed more rights over the things they buy. Maybe something like.
* access is non revokable and if any part of the drm scheme stops working the provider must provide a drm stripping tool
* access is transferable
- User queries were at least historically useful to train smaller models from larger models. You need to know the kind of questions real people ask to train a model that’s good at answering those questions
- Retirement is about having other people take care of you. If there are less people overall there are less resources to care for the elderly who aren't working. With expanding populations this is easier to manage because the fraction of people who are elderly is smaller, but it can be a huge drain if that changes. This is about resources and no amount of financial engineering can solve it, though financial engineering will probably keep people off the streets
- A large class of people who loan money are people looking to fund a retirement. This will be devastating to them
- The law requires Oracle who hosts their data companies that provide cdn services to stop working with them. The law did require them to suspend service, but not quite as soon as they did and nothing had changed legally
- They shut down before the law required them to (by a few hours), and now they’re back despite no changes in law or action by the president. Biden had already issued an executive order, nothing changed
- But this isn’t an inherit limitation is it? LLMs can be trained with private information and can have large context windows full of private info
- I hear people say this kind of thing but it confuses me.
1. What does inherit limitations mean?
2. How do we know something is an inherit limitation
3. Is it a problem if arguments for a particular inherit limitation also apply to humans?
From what I’ve seen people will often say things like AI can’t be creative because it’s just a statistical machine, but humans are also “just” statistical machines. People might mean something like humans are more grounded because humans react not just to how the world already works but how the world reacts to actions they take, but this difference misunderstands how LLMs are trained. Like humans LLMs get most of their training from observing the world, but LLMs are also trained with re-enforcement learning and this will surely be an active area of research.
- Russia is fighting a war of attrition in Ukraine, I think they might have worried about over extending too or just logistically been unable to devote significant resources
- I think I agree both books were good and "A Deepness In The Sky" was better, but I would warn everyone that I thought both books used dramatic irony (showing us that characters were evil while hiding this from main characters) to hold attention to a degree that I kind of hated. And in "A Deepness In The Sky" sexual violence was used repeatedly to illustrate how evil the main characters were. I found it unnecessarily and a bit in poor taste.
On the other hand I think both books developed ideas wonderfully and there are bits of them I keep coming back to, even if I'll probably never reread them
- I think somehow there were a series of miscommunications. This kind of sub token manipulation task is hard for an LLM for somewhat predictable reasons. Knowing those limitations are important, but don't come up too often in practical circumstances. Outside of contrived examples counting the number of letters in a long word is pretty rare.
I took your response to be arguing against a message I'd read to be saying something like the above. Especially when you basically seemed to be saying that limitations like this are important in everything but toy applications. It's uninteresting because it doesn't point towards larger problems with their use in the kind of application they're being used for and are intended for unlike prompts that point to weakness in logic or propensity to hallucinate.
- LLMs can clearly solve problems that computers up to now couldn't. They can't solve all problems and this should definitely be a cautionary note to anyone who wants to use them as an artificial general intelligence, but this take seems no different to someone looking at a punchcard computer and going, it can't even recognize typos or categorize images, what good is this? We've already had human computers who can do everything these can do, and can recognize images and notice typos
- Exactly, the question is this move in the non profits best interests? It's definitely in the best interest of the people running the non profit but I think many of the early donors wouldn't feel like this was what they were signing up for
- I think the problem is early employees and investors were convinced to invest their time and money into a non profit. They were told that one of the reasons they should donate/work there as opposed to Google was because they were a non profit focused on doing good. Now when it seems like that non profit is successful that all is being thrown out the window in service of a structure that will result in more profit for the people running the non profit
- I'm playing a bit of both sides here. I do think it's interesting that we so automatically feel like the cases are different. I used something old because I think we understand it well and I do think in the elevator case our instincts are pretty justified. The fact that we can add sensors and get near 100% reliability is a big part of why in that case it isn't very reasonable, but ML is statistical. It's not the kind of thing that you fix by adding one more sensor or one more if statement. I think some anti ML people use that to mean it's unworkable, but I'd hate to hold off on replacing drivers for example just because the kind of errors that a robo taxi makes feel more like in theory they would have been avoidable with better training while we just go and forgive drivers for letting their mind wander for a second
- I wonder how much of this is that LLMs are worse than human developers (they are much more error prone right now) and how much of this is that we want someone to blame. When the elevator operator closes a door on someone fingers that's an honest mistake and/or we can fire them, but when the automated elevator bruises some 12 year olds finger that's a big problem that needs fixed
- It varies, but as the article says it can be used for things like drug discovery. Imagine there's a new virus running rampant. It works by using a very specific protein to latch onto a cells so it can pull itself in. You would like to develop a drug to stop it doing that and one way to do that is to find a protein that wants to strongly latch on to an important part of the virus. If it's holding onto the virus the virus probably won't be able to penetrate cells because you're engineered protein will get in the way. This is part of how antibodies work to stop viral infections naturally