sarker
competency crisis actor
Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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sarker
competency crisis actor
10hr ago
I've been a vegetarian for a number of years now so I can't speak to the meat options, but the veg burritos at Senor Sisig are quite good.
sarker
competency crisis actor
10hr ago
Chipotle charges $15.60 plus tax for a steak burrito (with guac) in my part of coastal California. A place I like in SF charges $16.25. You can hit $20 with various additions but it's on the high side of things.
sarker
competency crisis actor
12hr ago
Any sort of heating is going to nuke the vitamin C at the least. Boiling also leaches stuff into the water.
sarker
competency crisis actor
1d ago
I can't think of any other technology in history that has achieved 50 percent market penetration in 3-4 years.
What did you think takeoff meant? Vibes? Papers?
and they both start to take off in early 2023, which was about how I remembered when I first started hearing about them.
That's when GPT-4 hit the public imagination.
HALF of Americans are doing this weekly?
Yes!
My circle must just be in the stone age, then, because I still know multiple people who don't own computers.
About 9% of American adults don't have a smartphone, so sure, it's not out of the question that you know several of them.
sarker
competency crisis actor
1d ago
I suppose it would include things like Alexa/Google Home/Siri?
Well, no, those are not chatbots.
I wasn't even hearing the term "A.I." as anything other than the movie (or Allen Iverson) in any remotely mainstream sense, unless post-Covid.
Huh? The prominence of the AI boom is largely a post Covid phenomenon.
sarker
competency crisis actor
1d ago
Almost half of Americans use chatbots specifically, with about a quarter doing so daily.
sarker
competency crisis actor
1d ago
I'll bet less than 5% of people have ever used AI in any form,
Almost a supermajority of Americans use AI at least multiple times a week. Let me know how you want to pay up.
sarker
competency crisis actor
1d ago
Ironically, the pizza in the third world is much cheaper.
sarker
competency crisis actor
2d ago
14" Domino's "ultimate pepperoni" is $26 plus $6 delivery to my house.
sarker
competency crisis actor
2d ago
The cost savings feel minimal on a per meal basis
What? A pizza for "one" (10 inches) from a chain pizza joint in town is $20 before any delivery fees.
sarker
competency crisis actor
2d ago
sarker
competency crisis actor
3d ago
You should probably just start by looking at ACE recommended charities which mostly work on improving the lives of farmed animals.
As a vegetarian, I'd love it if we just stopped slaughtering and torturing animals, but the first goal is pretty remote. I'd be happy if we stopped putting male chicks in shredders, sows in cages, and so on, which are actually feasible goals.
sarker
competency crisis actor
4d ago
do not deserve to be compensated in such a way that someone would work {dirty job} voluntarily
They are doing it voluntarily. It's just that they are voluntarily doing it for wages that some people believe are too low. It's basically "the myth of consensual employment".
sarker
competency crisis actor
4d ago
Income taxes payable to the city are a ridiculous burden on productive economic activity. NYC ought to have a land value tax to discourage disused dwellings instead. Such a tax also cannot be dodged via "primary residence" shenanigans unlike the pied a terre tax.
sarker
competency crisis actor
5d ago
It's not about mid-range anymore. K3 is quite close on the index to the absolute top of the line. Some say Chinese models are still six months behind, some say the gap is closing, but nobody thinks it's increasing. It's also quite clear that they don't have the compute that the US had six months ago. Seems you don't need it to reach that level of performance.
sarker
competency crisis actor
5d ago
Of course he's going to complain. More helps more. They are, however, at the (pareto) frontier.
sarker
competency crisis actor
5d ago
This was already questionable advice in the age of search and is now probably worthless advice in the age of LLMs.
sarker
competency crisis actor
5d ago
You do not want to be a cash and compute-poor lab.
Hmm. Like Moonshot or DeepSeek? Every lab is cash and compute poor compared to Google.
sarker
competency crisis actor
7d ago
I guess it's a testament to how far food science has come if you weren't immediately aware that it wasn't sugar free.
sarker
competency crisis actor
9d ago
I'm pretty sure the non-destructive scanners are faster and cheaper
Most non destructive scanners require someone to turn each page of the book. Google books invented a complicated machine to do this. Slicing the book open is much simpler, you can feed it to a COTS multi-page scanner.
sarker
competency crisis actor
11d ago
A quick wiki skim suggests 2008 as the first likely success in making cloned human embryos. Interest in human cloning has been pretty consistently declining for as long as there's data (since 2005) up until late 2025 and we are now at a ten year high.
sarker
competency crisis actor
13d ago
I've never researched it deeply but it seems like it's Minecraft with a bunch of degenerate features bolted on. It's full of groomers because it's full of children and includes a chatbox.
sarker
competency crisis actor
13d ago
My point is that there is a difference between a model that misunderstands your intentions and can be stopped at any time by saying, 'oh, no, that's not what I meant' and a model that is totally uninterested in anything you say after it starts working while treating you as a potential enemy.
There's much less difference when we're talking about swarms of autonomous systems thinking in Neuralese at 1000tps. People are not going to hit 'approve' every time the model wants to run ls. The fact that the model's intrusion could have been stopped with SIGTERM did not help HuggingFace at all. I guess we can rest easy knowing that if you're getting paper clipped you can write a blog post about it and in 5-10 business days OpenAI will claim responsibility apologize and then people will say that there's nothing wrong here.
The downfall of 99% of veg burritos is that they replace the meat with lettuce instead of a veg protein and Las Pencas is in the same boat.
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