FloorEgg

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by FloorEgg 1y ago
I don't think that's the distinction that matters, more-so the relative development of financial systems and degree of state intervention. Ultimately it boils down to whether you're defining capitalism as a spectrum from prot
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
Nature uses the same mechanisms that make up capitalism. In other words, capitalism is the most natural system for distributing resources. Note I'm not saying best, or optimal, because best and optimal depend on some subjective value s
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
This is a good point, and I agree! Though when supply growth is bottlenecked by zoning, permitting,etc and not labor, immigration could still result in higher prices. However if immigration disproportionately adds to construction labor supp
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
In any market if you increase demand without increasing supply, prices will increase. For something like housing there are a lot of factors; construction supply chain, construction labor, permitting processes, zoning, private equity/sp
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
Housing... Anything with limited supply...
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
Maybe the people who build features like these are not the same people who buy cards and build data centers? Maybe the reliability problems have almost nothing to do with what features they build, and are bottlenecked for completely differe
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
In complex environments there can often be more than one effective combinations of properties. One combination that is clearly best, one combination that is pretty good, one that is okay, etc. and a long tail of completely ineffective combi
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
This is true, I was only comparing functional information density (unique functional genome bps), not read/write speeds. I was also taking the information from a genome and then dividing it by the volume of a cell, but there are many i
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
If intelligence is treated as a scale, should it be measured primarily by (a) the diversity of valid actions an entity can take combined with its ability to collect and process information about its environment and predict outcomes, or (b)
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
Wow. I really like this take. I've seen how time and time again nature follows the Pareto principle. It makes sense that training data would follow this principle as well. Further that the order of training matters is novel to me and s
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
Nicely said. This all aligns with my intuition, with one caveat. I think you and I are using different definitions of intelligence. I'm bought into Karl Friston's free energy principle and think it's intelligence all the way
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I wasn't aware, and so I just dug into it. From what I can tell, science used to point to this as the only/primary limit to human-brain size, but more recently the picture seems a lot less clear, with
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
It's napkin math so take it with a pinch of salt, but I am calculating the information stored in genome, assuming 2 bits per base pair, reducing to estimated 88% coding fraction to get the functional bits, and then dividing by cell vol
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
Also not a robotics guy, but that all sounds right to me... What I do have deep experience in is market abstractions and jobs to be done theory. There are so many ways to describe intent, and it's extremely hard to describe intent prec
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
Well, sort of, but functional-information is a specifically defined term that you can google. "Advanced" is vague and in this context not very helpful. functional information is basically the amount of data (bits) necessary to exp
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
10+ years ago I expected we would get AI that would impact blue collar work long before AI that impacted white collar work. Not sure exactly where I got the impression, but I remember some "rising tide of AI" analogy and graphic t
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
Yes, essentially. There are multiple long-form text inputs, one set is provided by User A, and another set by User B. User A inputs act as a prompt for User B, and then User A analyzes User B's input according to the original User A in
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
M2 Money supply: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL I sense some conflation of causation/correlation at hand.
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
haha yeah I suppose so, but only barely...
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
Yes, for me both customers and colleagues continually suggested "hey let's just take all these samples of past work and dump it in the magical black box and then replicate what they have been doing". Instead I developed a UX
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
Very true. Living cells are ~4-5 orders of magnitude more functional-information-dense than the most advanced chips, and there is a lot more living mass than advanced chips. But the networking potential of digital compute is a fundamentally
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
What are you basing that statement on? What exactly are you considering a "data point"? Are you assuming one model = one agent instance? I am pretty sure that there is more information (molecular structure) and functional informat
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
What about or (3) models that interact with the real world? To be clear I also agree with your (1) and (2).
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by FloorEgg 1y ago
The problem I am facing in my domain is that all of the data is human generated and riddled with human errors. I am not talking about typos in phone numbers, but rather fundamental errors in critical thinking, reasoning, semantic and pragma
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
Okay, I get it. You really don't like Hancock and you think he's racist. I was trying to have a dialog about the actual evidence of the theory that the Richat structure could have been home to an advanced civilization that was wip
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
So I read up on what you are saying and some of Hancock's past work, and I see how the theory could be seen as diminishing the accomplishments of indigenous cultures or denying their own capacity for innovation. Prior to today, I hadn&
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
There is so much about your comment here that I appreciate (similar to your other reply to me). Thank you. I wish I had time right now to thoughtfully ask a couple questions I have, but it will have to wait. I am compelled to squeeze this i
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
Thank you for taking the time to point this out respectfully. Looks like you're absolutely right about the current consensus, and my summary didn't fairly reflect all the evidence. Times like this I wish I could edit older comment
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
"If there were truly some sort of globe-spanning advanced civilization existing ~11KYA we'd have found at least one single piece of their material culture by now, but we haven't." What about Gobekli Tepe? "Nor have
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
Hey there are lots of reasons to be skeptical of the theory, but I haven't yet seen a reason to claim the theory is false (or the specific theory of Atlantis relating to a civilization occupying the Richat structure as unfalsifiable).

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