Affric

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by Affric 2y ago
Well, it’s certainly invective against psychologists, people with learning difficulties, and IQ. I think he grossly undervalues naive pattern recognition. Natural complex systems are emergent from very simple interactions with mind boggling
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by Affric 2y ago
Great write up too.
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by Affric 2y ago
Yeah it’s interesting. There’s nothing to the video that takes advantage of the video format except the characters. It’s a series of slides with a voice track over it. Generally, YouTube math videos (as a genre) have some form of animation
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by Affric 2y ago
I said short list, not no list. Homelessness is more than sleeping rough too. That is a fantastic picture though.
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by Affric 2y ago
The US is a large country and for its lack of health care I reckon it would be worse. Canada is obviously colder. But Britain is positively grim.
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by Affric 2y ago
Obviously FT is British but I think it can be hard to fathom just how grim Britain is. It’s properly cold. Doesn’t really get warm in summer. Of the developed nations on Earth the list of worse places to be homeless is short.
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by Affric 2y ago
It is jarring and since you brought it up there are very few good analogies in other cultures. e.g. I know a few people go off about lions in European heraldry but lions were at one point spread across Eurasia-Africa. It’s just not a good a
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by Affric 2y ago
100% Arch just shipped a beta nvidia driver as release and heaps of people have found their system broken.
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by Affric 2y ago
Right? I can count the number of times my vim and arch installs has broken without my intervention on no hands.
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by Affric 2y ago
Always people who consider themselves intelligent
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by Affric 2y ago
The AI companies don’t want you “anthropomorphising” the models because it would put them at risk of increased liability. You will be told that linear algebra is just a model and the fact that epistemology has never turned up a decent resul
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by Affric 2y ago
lol, that is a scam though
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by Affric 2y ago
May I ask what sort of environment you’re in? Apartment/detached home? Athens? City? Island?
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by Affric 2y ago
Most people aren’t doing work in interactive terminals thoufh
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by Affric 2y ago
Is that a rhetorical question?
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by Affric 2y ago
If it’s not on magnetic tape…
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by Affric 2y ago
I see where I have gone wrong. Element vs subset. Classic error when thinking fast. Thank you for the thought provoking comments.
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by Affric 2y ago
Isn’t the empty set a subset of all sets? A quick look at Wikipedia indicates that there exist other constructions.
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by Affric 2y ago
I don’t think that fictionality is orthogonal to notability. I do think that something that occurs in fiction is inherently less notable than the equivalent event occurring in real life no matter how popular the work of fiction. I agree on
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by Affric 2y ago
Not at all. Once you start permitting large amounts of fiction in Wikipedia then what’s to stop any sort of fiction being included? Why not just have articles full of lies? Fundamentally fiction is lies. Just because a large group of people
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by Affric 2y ago
It wouldn’t be quick for me and I have done University calculus.
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by Affric 2y ago
True but my view on that is that governments don't want anyone else to be the first with AI AGI... and therefore they will strive to be the first. Kinda like how a big motivation for the atomic bomb was the threat of Germany developing
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by Affric 2y ago
I mean, the numbers for the money in the paper in terms of investment mean that spending is on track for what he’s talking about. 4 to 7 more years is a lot but it’s not entirely outside the realm of possibility. My understanding of the mod
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by Affric 2y ago
I don’t think I have purported to have the answers to those questions. Just that AI has the potential to change every job on the planet and there is a huge amount of money to be made.
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by Affric 2y ago
I have spoken with dozens of other academics who have been using it to iterate both quickly and effectively in both their research and teaching. AI hasn’t seen positive ROI yet but it is producing work of value already.
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by Affric 2y ago
Sure heaps of money will be burnt on hype but the hype exists because of the truth, AI is capable of creating more value than all of humanity put together if done right.
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by Affric 2y ago
Test server from early development put into production?
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by Affric 2y ago
Great call out. Who can claim with a straight face the USA was built on the idea of equal opportunity. Who would say that country that sprang from the metropolises of the east were built on individualism? This kind of capital-C conservative
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by Affric 2y ago
A bit presumptuous of me. Maybe it's just me that thinks you're smarter than everyone else.
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by Affric 2y ago
His mastery of millennial style memes is so rich. You can tell he just believes he is right and everyone else is dumb but he’s just “in it for the lols”.

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