CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
> There are broadly two approaches to git commit history: (a) it should reflect the historical development process; and (b) it should be cleaned up and pretty. Can't you have both? Like, before you squash-merge your feature branch i
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Nah, a dirk move is when you jet around the world and find strategically important historical (usually military) artifacts. Or possibly when you drink a lot of tea while solving holistic mysteries.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I think something like at least a quarter of the world's population can at least get by in English, so while yes, there may be a majority that doesn't, that majority is far from "vast".
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by CRConrad 2y ago
HN has a max length of 80 for the headline. Yes, AFAICS the "-lish" would have fit, but not both that and the "esae". Presumably OP shortened down from the error "Over 80!"and just didn't happen to notice
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by CRConrad 2y ago
But as I understand it, to make it actually do anything interesting you still had to write Hyperscript (wasn't it?) code.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Idunno exactly why, but the headline feels somehow slightly smutty.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Fifty horse generations would span about 500 years. No, seems fifty horse generations would span about 100-150 years: https://thehorse.com/16463/when-are-fillies-fertile/
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> You are stating that in order to get Art, Thinking and Judgement we need Proper processes Well yeah, but no -- I was mostly parodying your style; what I actually meant could be put as: in order to get art, thinking and judgement we n
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by CRConrad 2y ago
OK, LMGTFY... Here, in some kind of (subjective!) order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_poor_design#Exam... https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/10-worst-an... https
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Did you mean "Oh goodness, just what the world needs. Another self-righteous AI company"? I think you must have, since we can't say anything about the "character" of their product yet.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Anything "can be argued". (Just give me something interesting enough, and I'll show ya.) It could probably also "be argued" that intelligence is an angry cabbage.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> yeah, but all of the VCSs before git could've claimed the same thing. if that's not a fad, what is? Git being the de facto standard in the space is coming up on twenty years. That's about as far from a "fad" as
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Evolution doesn't breed inefficiencies like that. Feels to me evolution does indeed breed lots of inefficiencies like that.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
There, finally all the alternatives. So, doesn't that show that your original question was meaningless? Because, if there is any non-zero probability that the correct answer is c), should anyone really fuck around with this shit, re
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> ...ridiculous scenarios like being eaten by nanobots (yes, this is an actual example by Yud) Well, borrowed from Greg Bear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Music_(novel) .
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Fujitsu UK Post scandal... As an aside, I suspect Fujitsu is getting a bit of a raw deal here. I get the feeling this software was developed during, and (ahem) "vigorously defended" mostly by staff left over from, the time wh
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The interface between a superintelligent AI and the physical world is a) optional, and b) tenuous. To begin with. Going forward, only if we make sure it remains so. Given the apparently overwhelming incentives to flood the online world
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Why do people always think that a superintelligent being will always be destructive/evil to US? I don't think most people are saying it necessarily has to be. Quite bad enough that there's a significant chance that it
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Participating in the discussion on this page, the GP presumably knew that. They were talking about what it means for them.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
First good argument for collectivism I've seen in a long while.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Operative word there seems to be had.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> From a rogue AGI's perspective, there's a nonzero probability of a random human with a grudge finding the hardware it lives on and just unplugging it. Which is why it obviously will live in "the cloud". In many diff
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Like, there aren't computer-controlled industrial robots that are many many times stronger than humans?!? Wow, and here I thought there were.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> E.g. "This action is good, but what is Good?". Faking thinking isn't “Thinking”. Art is supposed to have some thought behind it; therefore, “art” created by faking thinking isn't “Art”. Should be utterly fucking obv
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by CRConrad 2y ago
But had those people been lying around with no heartbeat for a week or three before they were hooked up to the machine? If they had, then yes, that would actually be resurrection. But what you're describing doesn't sound like it
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> It's not a lie, it's a trivial mistake done by whoever was drafting the document. Yeah, let's see the regular Joe Schmoe get away with how he didn't lie on his CV, it was just “a trivial mistake done by whoever was
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by CRConrad 2y ago
1) “Easy to imagine”? Idunno... What with the WP article showing how one guy got most of the way there in a single human lifetime (considerably less, actually, since he didn't start the project at birth), isn't it much easier to i
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Thanks, saved me writing the exact same thing.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
That wasn't my comment, AFAICS. I think the one you replied to was my first in this sub-thread.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
The question was: > > > Do any country histories remain pure with such a long timeline? (Emphasis added.) And not, you will notice, “Does any country’s politics remain pure with such a long timeline?”. Yo

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