Eisenstein

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by Eisenstein 5mo ago
Its 36% for Q1 2026. * https://i.imgur.com/3gDVMCk.png
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by Eisenstein 5mo ago
There is nothing that says that if thoughts are not made in brains they must be supernatural. You are making conclusions not based on evidence or argument.
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by Eisenstein 5mo ago
You are attacking a strawman without answering the question.
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by Eisenstein 5mo ago
A fire is something that happens externally and has observable actions. An internal state is not. Your thoughts may take a physical form but that form cannot be demonstrated. Unless you can show me telekinesis then you have only intuition.
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by Eisenstein 5mo ago
That perspective is 'biological exceptionalism' and requires that there is something specific to biology that allows consciousness while precluding anything not biological. For that to be convincing there must be a mechanism and n
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by Eisenstein 5mo ago
So are saying that if we made a computer out of neurons that it could be capable of consciousness whereas an electronic one could not?
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by Eisenstein 5mo ago
Would you say that displaying image of something on a screen qualifies as actually happening? Writing data on a storage medium? What about a roomba vacuuming a floor?
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by Eisenstein 5mo ago
> you can easily construe it to imply that he believes there's something fundamentally special about human consciousness that cannot be reproduced by a machine. On the other hand you could interpret his perspective, which I think is
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by Eisenstein 5mo ago
With consciousness and AI multiple problems are being smuggled into a single question. 1. How do we determine consciousness? 2. How should we handle moral consideration of a non-biological system? The first question is a red herring. It can
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Emergence of Wasp Dope in Rural Appalachian Kentucky(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by Eisenstein 5mo ago|1 comments
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
That clarifies things much better than the original statement, but rejecting arguments you have conceived of which fail does not preclude the existence of those that do not, and thus the original question still remains.
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
I concede that the my question was loaded, but the assumptions behind it are grounded in practical experience. Regardless, I have not committed myself either to the existence of an argument, I just stated that its existence was not a condit
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
> If you read these further, researchers believe this effect does exist, but only insofar as priming the model for the answer it was likely to give anyway and only when queries are in-distribution. 'Demonstrably' means one thin
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
1. Free markets do not exist 2. If free markets did exist they would not conform to the theory that people are using when they think of what free markets are, since people do behave rationally, power dynamics are real, and no consumer can h
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
Without the argument being explicit then there can be no retort to it, so closing your mind before hearing it demonstrates that the argument itself is irrelevant. One could thus conclude that the existence of a valid argument is not itself
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
What would you think of a person who said that they are already convinced that an opposing view could not be correct without even hearing the arguments for it?
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
The first sentence of the first paper you linked: "Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has demonstrably enhanced the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) on tasks requiring multi-step inference." I think it would be helpful if
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
I don't see a contradiction. What they are saying is that no amount of non-ambiguous presentation can make poor content acceptable. They never said the presentation was meaningless. Example: A friend has died and consolation is given.
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
You make a good point. I had the impression they were using 'pretend' as a Chinese Room shortcut in that they are asserting that it is incapable of reasoning and only appears to be capable from the outside, which is completely irr
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
Why can a colony of ants do things beyond any capabilities of the ants they contain? No ant can make a decision, but the colony can make complex ones. Large systems composed of simple mechanisms become more than the sum of their parts. Econ
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
> Right, and then look at any number of research papers showing that CoT output has limited impact on the end result. Which research papers? Do I have to find them? > We've trained these models to pretend to reason. I have no ide
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
The people who advocate for not anthropomorphizing are afraid of the implications of integrating these systems into society with implicit human framing. By attributing to AIs human qualities, we will develop empathy for them and we will sta
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
Whenever there is something in the news about quantum computing I check a particular blog written by someone in the field who seems to have a good perspective on it along with the expertise to evaluate it properly. Here is his take on the 2
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
Complete individual freedom as a concept is not a human right. There has never been a society oriented on it and it is not self evident why it would be beneficial for society as a whole to allow an individual to do whatever they like. If yo
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
Is that something we want though? Why would it be beneficial to let money be used for anything without restrictions? Society has always relied on interdependence, not complete individual freedom. You have to make the case for it.
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
The hypotheticals seem to be in line with reality though. This business model works because the people who make money are the ones who are in control of whether to do it. Liquidating a large company in bankruptcy can get a lot of the money
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
If you give the friend the money as a gift, you have nothing to do with it, right? if you give it to him as a loan to inflate his assets and don't disclose that then you are committing a Federal crime.
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
What do you use for storage?
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
Zero Water deionizes water. It removes anything inside of water with an charge, which is a lot of things, but not everything. It gets depleted pretty quickly if there are a lot of minerals in the water and is generally used after RO because
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by Eisenstein 6mo ago
I think you may be misunderstanding the concept of 'human problem'. A human problem is caused by humans, it isn't something like transportation. That is a physics problem. An example of a human problem is cheating; you can&#x

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