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by Barrin92 1y ago
if your goal is to deter China don't give your tax dollars to Sam Altman and instead learn how to build missiles and ships again, unless you think you're going to deter Xi with ripped off studio ghibli profile pictures https:&#x2
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by Barrin92 1y ago
Take this with a grain of salt because I am not autistic but my first intuition when reading the paper wasn't that autistic people antropomorphize objects, but maybe its the other way around. Namely that they have less of a subjective
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>They NEED to be able to hire the very best of the best, This is literally why they've chosen Ocaml. Yaron Minsky has often stated that interest in a language like this is effectively a filter and magnet for extremely smart and curi
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by Barrin92 1y ago
Is this one of those AI generated theses people try to submit as a joke? In Gen-Z slang this time? ". Adaptive systems are abstraction layers are polycomputers, and a policy simultaneously completes more than one task. When the enviro
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>The definition of pathological is also a matter of opinion, because we can’t even define what is normal and healthy lol. "She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Egyptians waging war with the Atlanteans. But perhaps with the serious tone of "The Wire". That would never have been greenlit before This is quite literally what the Marvel / Star wars mass media slop is, a sort of syncr
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by Barrin92 1y ago
seniority as in rank, and respect for elders as in filial piety in East Asia are two very different things. Autocracy relies on execution of arbitrary power, and the latter places a limit on it. It's why after the revolution in China,
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>But I'm not an expert on Nietzsche so maybe there is more nuance here. not just more nuance, that's a straight up misreading of Nietzsche. For one Nietzsche rejected any notion of transcendence, free will and was an (idiosyncr
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by Barrin92 1y ago
Just one or two years ago I remember a handful of articles popping up that Gen Z was really into Frutiger Aero, that's the first thing I thought of, with the nature themes and skeuomorphic UI elements. https://www.yahoo.com&
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Kagi is objectively superior to Google/Bing at this point I'm not entirely sure what "objectively superior" is even supposed to mean in the context of a search engine, or how this follows from having 50k users, but t
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>This sounds like an utopian take or a case of "the grass is greener on the other side". Well, it wasn't. It's a take made by the 2nd president of the United States, John Adams: "John Adams said, “Our constituti
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by Barrin92 1y ago
sorry if this is a stupid question because we don't have chlorinated water in Germany, but do people brew green tea or good coffee with tap water? Doesn't it taste god awful? One of the things which I remember from my holidays in
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Yes, they will, but it matters that they get it less often and less frequently. but they won't. Alcohol restrictions are at least somewhat enforceable (although as a sidenote I also find them silly) but you can open a new tab, lite
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One thing that seems underdiscussed to me is that oral culture compared to literary culture seems to have a strong impact on dissemination of hate or mass messaging. My pet theory is that the resurgence of the medium, that so much content i
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not really, it's basically just being anti fragile. Consider any corporate entity that interacts with you to be an Eldritch horror from outer space that wants to siphon your soul, because that's effectively what it is, and keep yo
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It's extremely complicated. The original document he wrote up was 500 pages of maths introducing effectively an entirely new theory. I studied number theory in uni, tried to read it, and understood barely anything of it. Which obviousl
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>simple fact that you can now be fuzzy with the input you give a computer, and get something meaningful in return I got into this profession precisely because I wanted to give precise instructions to a machine and get exactly what I wa
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>Every type of automation ever invented has led to massive job cuts It, never has, in fact the opposite is true. Every type of automation has expanded the economic output so much that it created massive amounts of labor demand, which is
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by Barrin92 1y ago
also, timers. What absolutely killed Nolan for me was when someone pointed out that he's virtually unable to create tension without a literal timer, be that bombs, watches, countdowns, what have you. Ever single damn movie. There'
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by Barrin92 1y ago
> As soon as you mention file, you've lost a lot of people. Attaching documents to an email is the one thing most people can actually do because without it you're unable to deal with your insurance, doctor, tax guy or what ha
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>and other media can be reviewed by people who share the tastes of their audiences -- rather than have their tastes "made" by the nominated ad-friendly elite. There's nothing wrong with taste-making, having criticism struc
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I studied CS in Germany and the entire issues seems completely unnecessary and foreign to me. Our exercises only mattered insofar as they qualified you for the end of semester exam, and that was done on paper and without electronic devices
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The alleged economic incentive suggested in the article, that Google wants to deal with "established big players" is literally nonsensical, something that the article itself arrives at, weirdly enough. "But we later realized
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>you would be hard pressed to find someone who was making adequate predictions about where we would be now back in 2020, much less 2015 Macroeconomic and productivity forecasts from 10-15 years ago are pretty accurate, and if anything, w
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I don't think users really want this for what it's worth, but that's a bad argument. The median (social media) internet user pays exactly zero for anything, so deriving expectations from money is a bit silly. The actual curre
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This entire question to me seems really philosophically confused. The article already leans into the Darwinian framing of communication. i.e. "memetics", "the marketplace of ideas" and so on. I don't even know what&
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> I have no idea how people are learning a language using an app for a few minutes a day They don't but this is also not the point and seems to account for the frustrations expressed in the conversation. Before I decided to get seri
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>It fully ignores the potential for emergence. There's two kinds of emergence, one scientific, the other a strange, vacuous notion in the absence of any theory and explanation. The first case is emergence when we for example talk ab
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It doesn't, but if it did the decline wouldn't just be relative but absolute because active military personnel is actually down almost 50% since its cold war peak. The US military is significantly leaner nowadays across the boar
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>With 3 million employees that is, for context, about as high as it was in 1960 when the US population was half as large as it is today. https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/HQ8pa/full.png

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