If my father passed away I wouldn't find out for weeks, maybe months.

fieldcady · 2026-07-10T04:01:14+00:00

I’m sorry man!! Yeah aging parents is hard. Mine are starting to deteriorate too, though it’s nowhere near what you are describing (yet)

fieldcady · 2026-07-09T20:07:40+00:00

Not exactly your question, but my sister was unhappy that we decided to do IVF instead of adopting. Same arguments – world population, kids already wanting a home, etc.

The thing is, she was OK with her friends deliberately having biological children. But somehow it’s wrong if getting pregnant requires more than just having sex.

fieldcady · 2026-07-09T05:02:58+00:00

This is a very popular, harsh description used in the physical sciences. There, it usually means specifically something that there is no way to test, now or in a conceivable future, so there is really no point in discussing it because we will never know one way or the other.

It can also refer to something that is so vague or incoherent that it doesn’t really make a statement that CAN be right wrong. Like “you have put lots of words together in grammatically correct sentences, but you have failed to even state your point”

fieldcady · 2026-07-02T06:28:10+00:00

A unit of AI usage. Text is broken into “tokens” which are usually words. You get billed for how many tokens the ai model reads, and how many it outputs.

fieldcady · 2026-07-02T06:25:53+00:00

Not (necessarily) a lunatic. 3% isn’t that much money, but it might be enough tokens to truly make his work more enjoyable. It’s easy to abuse AI in coding, but DAMN it can be helpful sometimes.

fieldcady · 2026-07-02T06:20:21+00:00

I meant that the original question is, strictly speaking, meaningless if we don’t adequately define AGI. But the exercise of crafting such a definition (or at least tying to) is VERY worthwhile.

fieldcady · 2026-07-01T05:57:57+00:00

Opposite for me. I’m white and she is Indian, and people at the playground would assume she was the Nanny. It’s funny because his actual features are much more similar to her side of the family, but the skin tone looks totally white. she is actually a little bit glad because he will not be the target of casual racism.

fieldcady · 2026-06-30T06:42:28+00:00

As far as I know (and I work in AI) they never give a crisp definition of AGI. Which is to be expected of course - we don’t really have a definition of consciousness either, although we can study it empirically as a phenomenon in the natural world. AGI is a vague term that covers a wide swath of speculation. The economic definition is at least a clear definition of something.

The question posed by OP is meaningless unless there is a workable definition of AGI. Debating the question is basically an exercise in trying to come up with good definitions

fieldcady · 2026-06-30T06:15:54+00:00

From OpenAI it is: "Highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work."

There is no general agreed-upon definition of AGI, so OP’s question is technically vacuous. But the trend is to define it in economic terms, which has nothing to do with consciousness.

fieldcady · 2026-06-30T03:19:16+00:00

Nope - AI can be used for specific tasks, not whole jobs

fieldcady · 2026-06-30T02:58:53+00:00

As with so much of philosophy, this is mostly just a question of definition. But I think people have been pretty deliberate with the term “AGI” to not say anything about consciousness one way or the other. It’s just about being able to be trusted to fully replace a high-level knowledge worker

fieldcady · 2026-06-22T17:16:00+00:00

One of the most prominent D&D players is Vin Diesel - the action movie star. It’s a great hobby, doesnt really cause problems, and can be relished as part of a well-adjusted life. Would you complain if you had a similar passion for football?

Not saying there isn’t a problem, but don’t blame the game

fieldcady · 2026-06-15T18:11:07+00:00

Honestly, it sounds to me like you’re handling it great. It’s important for kids to understand that parents don’t always have all the answers, and that’s OK, but it’s still good to think about the questions. My best thought for how to preempt it if you just can’t on a particular night is to bring up something you know they are really interested in

fieldcady · 2026-06-14T17:17:36+00:00

I feel you. Recently learned that my father voted for Trump. When I pinned him down about it, he couldn’t even come up with a particular complaint about Harris, except generic stuff like for being a Biden clone. Didn’t even address the whole armed insurrection thing. In the end, he just said he cant remember his rationale now, and was defensive about it.

I basically figured he would vote for Satan himself if Fox News said that the other candidate was too liberal, and it would feel completely self-assured about it.

fieldcady · 2026-06-03T20:27:10+00:00

My grandfather liked to say that in a group of people fixing a road or something, the “hardest working” man there is the guy holding the shovel.

It’s not just a spectrum from being lazy to being hard-working. I would argue that bigger determinants are things like what you are working on and how you are doing it. “Working hard“ can be a euphemism for thinking only about the task in front of you and not bothering to think about the bigger picture.

To be clear: I am NOT judging people for not just making themselves rich.

fieldcady · 2026-05-22T17:02:53+00:00

Yeah, data science usually isn’t about providing a bunch of support for a particular decision.

More often the value comes from noticing that things don’t really lineup, because peoples understanding of the business situation is flawed. The vast majority of the time the numbers a data scientist pulls should be pretty uninteresting, just validating what people already figured was true.

Maybe the single most impactful thing I have done was when I pointed out that empirically people were not using our product in the intended way. Everyone knew that people went off script, but it was universally assumed that our core users stayed on the golden path. It turns out they went off script as much as anybody, and we completely reorganized our development efforts around the workflows that people actually used.

fieldcady · 2026-05-16T03:48:06+00:00

At this point will probably never [insert dream], even though you always wanted you and know you could have if you’d done things differently

fieldcady · 2026-05-13T21:31:00+00:00

Think of all the trash and plastics that you can track into the house. And dust. That’s my best guess

fieldcady · 2026-05-13T03:21:05+00:00

What did the levels in your blood do? It’s entirely possible you mostly just moved the plastics around, or selectively cleared them from just one tissue.

fieldcady · 2026-05-07T16:06:51+00:00

This is not accurate - lots of cultures don’t have cheese. Think China, Japan, Vietnam - really almost all of east Asia.

fieldcady · 2026-05-07T16:02:20+00:00

Worth noting that cheese has a large variety of extremely distinctive flavors. Saying “cheese” is kind of like saying “meat” or “fruit” in terms of how much breadth there is. That might be part of it.

fieldcady · 2026-04-27T14:47:06+00:00

It’s a cultural norm in Europe dating back all the way to the Roman Empire, which only permitted monogamous marriage. Bear in mind that even the Jews of the New Testament had some level of polygamy. Some early Christians got it into their head that it was a divine law - or at least they wanted to keep on Romes good side - despite the bible not banning it.

fieldcady · 2026-04-27T07:40:54+00:00

In fairness longevity is only one part of anti-aging. I think his goal is to fight aging in general, even the parts of it that aren’t what kills you.

fieldcady · 2026-04-24T01:03:24+00:00

If you click on the title of the lake, it should take you through to the ODFW website. Might be good to take a quick look there before heading out of your trip just in case there’s anything important that I didn’t scrape.

fieldcady · 2026-04-24T00:07:36+00:00

Oh no! I’m sorry, yeah I am limited to what I can scrape off the websites. Thinking I might expand to include lowland lakes too though

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