FloorEgg

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by FloorEgg 4mo ago
Sure, so is calculating my taxes with pen and paper and no calculator, or doing a bathroom renovation without any power tools, or hiking off into the forest without any clothes or supplies, never to return.
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by FloorEgg 4mo ago
It's not just being ignored, I was down voted and argued with for trying to make this point.
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by FloorEgg 4mo ago
During the pandemic money printing things got very weird. It created a lot of leverage and bullshit companies and bullshit dev work which led to artificial demand for software developers. We are still in the post-pandemic hangover. If you l
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by FloorEgg 4mo ago
And I guess that's a big part of my frustration. I don't know what the politician actually said. I don't see any link to the/an official statement in the article. I'm just an old man shaking fist at clouds. I'm
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by FloorEgg 4mo ago
I don't think one balances a lack of nuance with more lack of nuance. One avoids nuance for clicks or to propagate a narrative, sew division, distract, etc. Again. As I said in both my comments, I'm not criticizing the ban, I&#x27
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by FloorEgg 4mo ago
I'm actually not really criticizing the decision so much the article and communications around it. If student learning outcomes are crashing and they desperately want to turn them around I understand why they would take dramatic action
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by FloorEgg 4mo ago
Wouldn't it matter a lot how AI is being used? I would assume if children are allowed to use AI without rails as a shortcut it will undermine their learning, and it's used for feedback and as a patient tutor it would accelerate th
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by FloorEgg 4mo ago
Surely there are times when using that pattern is a great way to communicate the point to be made. The problem is LLMs over-use it and apply it in lots of cases when it's not appropriate. My low-confidence theory is that it's an a
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by FloorEgg 4mo ago
The author might be human, but used an LLM to help them draft the letter. Something I do sometimes is brain dump into an LLM and have it help me organize it, and then I iteratively refine what I want to say. 20 some odd years ago I read zen
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
> I'm not aware of any serious debate about whether children should be persuaded/inspired/encouraged to learn things. Kind of an odd thing to say given decades of pedagogy research in this debate exactly. Maybe you are jus
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
That sounds right to me. I like that model and will remember it, thanks.
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
I'm not the parent comment author, but my guess is that they probably meant persuade or inspire as much if not more than coerce. Most respectful interpretation and all... Why is it obvious that an educator should do their best to teach
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
While my experience relates to learning in higher-ed, I completely agree with those three categories... Though a helpful nuance may be that it's a spectrum, not hard boundaries, and every subject/exercise can have a distinct relat
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
Also it's a race, with theoretically exponentially compounding gains to the winner(s). So trading 10% dilution for capital that will exponentially compound, may mean that e.g. a 10% dilution now results in 50% greater market cap in 5-1
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On The Energetics of Large-Scale Computation Using Astronomical Resources(drive.google.com)
4 points by FloorEgg 5mo ago|0 comments
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
That's nothing... at the current rate, datacenters will consume the total energy input of earth's biosphere by 2100! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GQbS34OkMF6q9r0ZyuSv...
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for, but Karl friston free energy principle seems to me the most scientific theory of consciousness. (At least that I've come across)
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
My intuition is that a single unit of consciousness is a wave/particle interaction, and that the kind of consciousness we experience has a particular volume and shape, some parts of which are fairly consistent between people and some p
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
I think that these companies are going to have to, and will, invest in some sort of validated identity context to avoid the lowest common denominator. The first challenge is making sure the guard rails work and are robust. Companies are sti
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
> I really don't see how this could be meaningfully different than human empathy unless we want to draw an arbitrary line around "must be able to live autonomously" to be considered "intelligent". I use a distin
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
Has anyone come across a clearly articulated case for LLMs being conscious but in an entirely different way than would be intuitive to us? I often think of LLM consciousness as like tiny fish popping into existence, swimming through vector
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
Appreciate the clarification. That makes sense.
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
> Central banks have been buying gold aggressively since 2022 as a response to USD reserve weaponization > The headline can be erroneously interpreted as de-dollarisarion. These statements appear somewhat contradictory. If reserves ar
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
Our views definitely intersect. On a long enough time scale my opinion is "of course humanity will go extinct", but the interesting and very speculative answers are in exactly how and when. It's highly plausible to me that hu
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
> Which would only be the case insofar that there exists categories of work we do better than AI at that juncture. I'm pretty sure this is incomplete. It's more like whether people find the work rewarding enough to be worth doi
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
Being able to discern what is and isn't in our control helps tremendously in doing what is right and constructive. The fact that some people opt out of engaging with AI, I think is healthy for society as a whole. If that's within
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
Whenever a method to do work more efficiently comes to be and propagates at scale an explosion in diversity of work emerges. This happens at every level of abstraction in nature and has recurred throughout history all the way back to the da
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
Yep I read the article. I disagree with the implication the author is making with this though: "But there’s a difference between an observation about the past and a law of nature, and the optimists consistently confuse the two" Fo
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
It won't be one large one, it will be thousands of little ones. Every time this happens throughout history (and I mean going all the way back way past industrial revolution, to dawn of agriculture, to the earliest documented history, t
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by FloorEgg 5mo ago
This transition does too. It's just not clear to most where yet.

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