ftxbro

this is the guy who every nerd thinks they are, when in reality we just watch youtubes and shitpost on forums

> We’ve all been Marl at one time or another - half consciously scrolling in bed, in line at the airport with the announcements blaring, reflexively opening our phones to distract ourselves from a painful memory.

> agreed to destroy all of the NFTs in its possession

this feels like regulatory capture

buddy got cancelled on twitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lewin#Sexual_harassment

OK but that's not what he said. There is a big difference between

> At Apple, we believe that climate change is one of the world’s most urgent priorities

and

> At Apple, we believe that climate change is the world’s most urgent priority

but also imagine believing that a big tech CEO's public words have meaning...

> Is it an average between 2 and 3 over all weights?

Yes I think it's an average where different quantization levels are used for different layers or weights. Here are more details about the quantization scheme: https://github.com/turboderp/exllamav2#exl2-quantization

This is quantized down to 2.5 bits per weight, whereas single precision accuracy is 32 bits.

it's possible or even likely that his opponents like deterrence but don't like family punishment

> The organizers of this intriguing prank started out by enlisting the help of Eric Boschman, named Belgium’s best sommelier in 1988

OK so they got a famous and trusted sommelier to lie for their story. What does that prove?

> To be clear, I oppose family punishment. Why? Because I am a retributivist. That’s right, I think that inflicting suffering on vicious wrong-doers is morally praiseworthy even in the absence of any deterrent effect.

He is using family punishment as a strawman. If you say he is bad because he thinks it's morally praiseworthy to inflict suffering, he will argue that if you like deterrence so much then why don't you inflict suffering on families that should deter them even more lol

Maybe he had the same attitude on covid origins. The origin doesn't matter for mitigating the pandemic and it's better for NIH and international relations if it comes from only a bat and not any lab. This is what public officials do because perfect is the enemy of good. Ideally he probably wanted 100% truth but if he could get 70% truth and everyone is on the same page, so much the better.

imagine you are at nasa and you have to deal with all these internet people who believe in alien technology on earth

> You dealt the hand you're given.

> AGI, God, CEOs, and figures like Paul Graham, Elon Musk

hacker news pantheon just dropped

> Even with an open mind, you look at the scientific data that is available to you, and what do we have as evidence that it’s a lab leak? Nothing but the coincidence that it evolved in a city that people were studying these types of viruses.

I'm not anti vax or anti mask and I like that Fauci stood up to Trump to dispute things like “Hydroxychloroquine is going to be a cure,” or “the virus is going to disappear like magic next month”. I'm not a Trump fan or Fox news enjoyer. But what Fauci is saying about the lab leak evidence and gain of function stuff is misleading. Some irresponsible people did some bad stuff and covered it up, and Fauci is helping the cover.

> may be guilty of a “cover-up” (Tucker Carlson’s words) regarding the origins of Covid

i'm glad to see that rolling stone isn't politicizing the covid origin question

> are these just YOLO’ing their way forward until they run out of cash

this is like every company

gpt 7 will be hunting us down

soon we're going to be drawing triangle shapes on a whiteboard

> there have already been 23 extreme weather events in the US this year that have cost at least $1bn. The current figure surpasses the record of 22 such events set in 2020

also inflation

yes good point the emergence of superintelligent ai is a good parallel. but also i'm not sure we don't have a cold war lol

i mean we still have nuclear bombs. maybe nuclear bombs are our generation's nuclear bomb

probably it's flagged because it's so obviously true

imagine posting such a hot take in september 2023

are our real brains boltzmann brains that have internal qualia and come alive with the rich structure only to lose it when we die

> It turns out that tiny, engineered nanoparticles that can target specific immune cells may be a way to treat both cancer and cardiovascular disease.

> It seems to be moving between people and animals quite easily.

> satellite imagery, social media networks, national security science

it sounds like some spy stuff

that's a lot of money