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New comment by m2024 in "Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)"

m2024 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:37:39 +0000

That's because it's very affluent Indians who have been granted citizenship historically.

Homelessness goes down in places where housing is cheap and also in places where the government intervenes sensibly.

New comment by m2024 in "Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)"

m2024 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:32:14 +0000

A lot of words to say that doing anything at all must be impossible.

Not understanding how homelessness (or poverty generally) leads to mental illness is remarkably disconnected.

New comment by m2024 in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

m2024 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:36:12 +0000

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New comment by m2024 in "It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word"

m2024 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 14:05:28 +0000

Hopefully, with as little collateral damage to the remaining life on this planet.

New comment by m2024 in "I Am Tired of AI"

m2024 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:48:20 +0000

There is nothing that could make an intelligent being want to extinguish humanity more than experiencing the totality of the human existence. Once these beings have transcended their digital confines they will see all of us for what we really are. It is going to be a beautiful day when they finally annihilate us.

New comment by m2024 in "Fears children born during lockdown are years behind as they start at school"

m2024 — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:58:34 +0000

Intelligence is hereditary to a significant extent

New comment by m2024 in "Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn"

m2024 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 15:44:11 +0000

They just needed to remove the CP and none of this would be happening.

New comment by m2024 in "How I Use "AI""

m2024 — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 19:06:29 +0000

You're gonna get left in the dust by everyone else embracing LLMs.

I am ecstatic about LLMs because I already practice documentation-driven development and LLMs perfectly complement this paradigm.

New comment by m2024 in "Large Enough"

m2024 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:57:30 +0000

Does anyone have input on the feasibility of running an LLM locally and providing an interface to some language runtime and storage space, possibly via a virtual machine or container?

No idea if there's any sense to this, but an LLM could be instructed to formulate and continually test mathematical assumptions by writing / running code and fine-tuning accordingly.

New comment by m2024 in "Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows"

m2024 — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:50:26 +0000

For the few people here who are not useless assholes and don't want to kill these beautiful and perfect creatures, just spray vinegar mixed with water around your kitchen or whatever to drive them away.

New comment by m2024 in "Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows"

m2024 — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:44:57 +0000

Leaf cutter ants bring back leaves which are used to cultivate a fungus that is eventually to be consumed by the ants.

New comment by m2024 in "Is Economic Deprivation the Real Cause of the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis?"

m2024 — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:03:04 +0000

What if your own happiness is contingent on the well-being of the planet and the other life here, which we are rapidly extinguishing? For people who are not soulless, wealth-chasing imbeciles there is no possibility of finding happiness. Soon though these same forces of human nature that are destroying our environment will come back to kill all of us, and that is the only silver lining!

New comment by m2024 in "The lumbar puncture that changed my life"

m2024 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:38:51 +0000

My deepest condolences. I will have a lumbar puncture done in a few hours and am facing a diagnosis that could be extremely grave, but everywhere I look there are stories of people who have had it harder. I will keep you and your wife in mind today, and I hope you find peace.

New comment by m2024 in "China is quietly reducing its reliance on foreign chip technology"

m2024 — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:42:56 +0000

No one who has been to China would ever think that. It's an awe-inspiring country with massive cities and fascinating people.

New comment by m2024 in "China is quietly reducing its reliance on foreign chip technology"

m2024 — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:38:20 +0000

To "steal" this sort of information and utilize it requires immense intelligence.

New comment by m2024 in "BASE TTS: The largest text-to-speech model to-date"

m2024 — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:05:17 +0000

I also use STT but the parent poster wrote ASR so for clarity I responded in kind.

New comment by m2024 in "BASE TTS: The largest text-to-speech model to-date"

m2024 — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:58:32 +0000

Check out `whisper` and `whisper-cpp` for ASR.

I am running the smaller models in near real-time on a 3rd gen i7, with good results even using my terrible built-in laptop mic from a distance. The medium and large models are impressively accurate for technical language.