nickhammes

Even if it's nowhere near a majority of the power, I'm surprised passive cooling from solar plus some electricity isn't worthwhile enough to be universal. It's a small impact, but also cheap enough it'll pay for itself, and many orders of magnitude more efficient than trying to get a datacenter into space, and figure out how to cool it

It depends.

If the threat is "we're about to have a fight you won't survive", your critique is valid. If the threat is "you've just been poisoned, and will succumb within a few days", then giving them the time to put their papers in order really won't harm the speaker at all. Though maybe it isn't entirely effective as a threat. If the threat is "I can take actions that will end your life, but all I'm telling you is it's happening soon" it works as an ominous threat, and a sincere offer (though they'd probably better hurry).

Honestly if we brought back the ransom note aesthetic, people might find it a breath of fresh air compared to the low effort chat gpt posters they see today.

A judge can draw conclusions of adverse inference, but the fifth amendment limits that rule in criminal matters. I think evidence tampering is the more relevant concern here, but also ianal.

It's expected you'll pick it up on the job!

I know a few people though work who are interested in self-hosting LLMs. There are people in real life who are some amount of pro-LLM.

Most people here are somewhere between neutral and very opposed, so I wouldn't say the community is split, but there are certainly a range of perspectives, and I can understand where a large chunk of them are coming from, even beyond those I agree with.

My mental model is somewhat orthogonal to this, 100% efficiency by definition is the most I can sustainably do indefinitely. I can probably do 150% if I really need to, but not for very long at all, and I'm usually between 85-105%.

If I'm doing ~30 hours a week of work I've been asked to do, or needs to get done, and doing 8-10 hours a week of whatever I think is important to prioritize, I'm probably in a pretty good place. I don't tend to get overly rewarded with more work, and I'm still recognized as doing valuable and important stuff by my teammates.

If someone is doing way more than 40 hours in a week on more than a very rare occasion, some layer of management has failed, and if it's the norm, the whole system has failed. I'm well aware that may be working as designed, but I would contend it was simply designed to fail.

Though to be fair, a lot of plans are at least easier if you start out with massive amounts of money.

Dairy doesn't affect me in that way. I suppose the lactose intolerant should beware. But the most voracious cheese eaters I know are mostly lactose intolerant, so they probably won't.

Grilled halloumi is phenomenal, grilling it changes the proteins in a similar way as cooking meat does, and it's imo the best vegetarian (non-vegan) substitute for meat in a grilling context for that reason. I've also found a lot of meat eaters enjoy it as its own thing too.

Insofar as "modern societies" refer to the people who hold power in them, I'm not so sure modern societies are interested in handling these kinds of problems.

I agree with the sentiment of what you're saying, but I think this is actually not quite the right rule.

Some things schools teach don't really have a clear factuality, like skills. Sometimes it's hard to determine the facts, like you might encounter in high school literature class, "what did the author mean when they said this" might have multiple reasonable answers, but the author died, so we can't ask them. Sometimes there are even cases where we teach things that aren't accurate, because the nuance is too complex, like teaching 3rd graders that you can't divide by zero, because introductory calculus isn't developmentally appropriate for their math skill. Even simplifications like "sex chromosomes are XX or XY, and that makes you a boy or girl" that can cause harm if people don't learn the nuance, are an example of teaching things that aren't really accurate.

I would say schools should seek to teach kids the baseline knowledge to understand the world, and the skills to sort fact from fiction, to analyze why people say and do what they do, and continue to learn and grow in the information landscape we live in.