I see it as channeling that impulse to worthy ends

dialing it down to merely sanely focused on being correct

yes. but it's not clear that being less-charitable-than-that, while the other slings ad hominems, does worse in this regard

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Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

offering a 'golden bridge' in disputes can be a form of sane-washing

choose your faction:
- I made a vape that's also a hammer
- Hammers are going to become god & change everything
- I tried holding the hammer by the head and it didn't work, this is bullshit
- Hammers are useful tools sometimes
- Hammers? You mean murder-tools, as seen in the documentary The Raid 2?

I don't think the repeated mismatch of what the papers said vs how he tries to use them can be put down to mere lack of diligence

that would totally be me

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bad faith is not established by 'has benefactors that agree with some of his positions'.

if you find actual errors in what he writes, claim the bounty:
andymasley.com/writing/

the extremes: pointing out that the video misrepresents all of the studies it relies on for the headline.

that's not worth anything in this context. andy was doing the same thing before the funding. and now exhaustively catalogued your outrageous misrepresentations. far too many to be accidental.

"once the AI bubble melts down and the tech isn’t really profitable"

timeframe for this prediction?

data point

consider being insanely focused on being correct

the altruists have arrived — Benn Jordan I really hate that I have to take time away from research and meetings to respond to this, but I think this response is earned by the folks featured in my video, the people in communities and legislat...

then he published this www.bennjordan.com/blog/the-alt...

what a dishonourable man

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then your 'obviously happy' claim is false.

everyone with eyes to see notices that the objections are damning, and you're not addressing them.

yes really. allow profit and people have a strong motivator to figure out how to provide the thing.

🙏

why's it called its for you?

it's an *extremely bad idea* to make it shameful to profit by providing essential things

a special story all round, but 'executed tai chi moves and walked out' sits in its own orbit

There are two very different epistemic posture on show here. If you care about understanding reality, you'll engage with one of them while checking sources, thinking critically and pushing back if you find mistakes. The other one: you should flee from and never look back.

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"'impossible' is a very strong claim, much more so than 'didn't work for me'"

and 'figure something out' is a completely justifiable account of what an llm can do, no matter the atomic components of that process.

a human brain is a neuron firer. it generates electrochemical signals based on prior stimulation patterns. where in the process does 'figure stuff out' happen?

(we have to keep making this move because they don't get it yet)

Planes still can't fly there; they're definitionally incapable of it.

Their wings just create a transient air pressure eddy which makes them temporarily appear not to fall.

human brain is a neuron firer. it generates electrochemical signals based on prior stimulation patterns. where in the process does 'figure stuff out' happen?

I am so so sick of accepting cookies. The EU has subtracted a similar number of minutes from my life, on purpose, as an environmental toxin that they would ban.