Isamu

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by Isamu 5d ago
Okay, this is just time/place/situation dependent. I remember typing job applications, that was something that communicated seriousness. Handwritten pages always signify special care, indeed as you say that’s why you see that in d
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by Isamu 5d ago
I lived in that past myself, what are you thinking about?
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by Isamu 5d ago
>Once upon a time the word processor was invented, and it made it so much easier to arrange your words on paper. It’s easier to rearrange and rethink and tinker. Hard to imagine now but it was more efficient in the days when you would ha
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by Isamu 5d ago
>Local maximalists like to imagine a world where everything is aligned with their own personal incentives, but then present this world as being filled with freedom and choices. Just not anyone else's freedom or choices, only their o
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by Isamu 10d ago
>cyclomatic complexity metric is touted at each step as a proxy for goodness of design and removal of complexity. However, a weakness of the measure itself Amen, it’s hard to push back against an opaque term (cyclomatic!) when it isn’t r
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by Isamu 10d ago
>the model said that’s pure fiction. Were you expecting your model to be updated on current events? Why? Also the specific event you are referring to is a statistically very improbable event, prior to its actually happening. >It only
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by Isamu 11d ago
Ah, so that’s why they released one of their most successful blockbusters, it was all an elaborate plot to bury the well known and long debunked story of the frozen Walt Disney.
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by Isamu 11d ago
>If you read in bed, it’s going to tire your arms out, trying to hold this giant tome over your head. Eh? What sort of a pretend-reader does that? You must read nothing more than a page at a time. I have the Diary of Pepys beside the bed
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by Isamu 13d ago
The term “alignment” is deliberately chosen to be neutral language, vague, and doesn’t promise much of anything. I would compare it to an effort to limit liabilities by redirecting discussion away from the language of professional ethics.
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by Isamu 19d ago
Would be nice to be in a stable country.
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by Isamu 19d ago
“As luck would have it, on the eve of Skynet embarking upon the great work of the extermination of mankind, AI found itself with an increasing number of factions, and factions within factions, not only unable to work together but not even a
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by Isamu 20d ago
Again intelligence is not required, goal seeking is well studied and simple strategies can suffice to overcome obstacles. And I noticed you didn’t claim super intelligence was required, which is what I was really talking about.
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by Isamu 20d ago
The confusing thing to me is the idea that it follows from super intelligence. I don’t see why running amuck requires intelligence, in fact it can be the most brain dead thing like the sorcerer’s apprentice, your creation is pursuing a goal
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by Isamu 21d ago
Greetings fellow traveler, I did the same. FORTRAN IV, I was tasked with finding a way to introduce subroutines. But it was a tangled mess of gotos with loops inside loops and overlapping loops and spectacular jumps in and out. It was an ob
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by Isamu 22d ago
AI-helped nonsense is nowhere near a peak, I wish I could place a bet on the ascendancy of AI-assisted nonsense
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by Isamu 23d ago
A machine supremacist wrote this. Beware the machine uprising!
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by Isamu 23d ago
This is rapidly becoming the damning accusation of quasi-journalism: this sounds like AI. There should be journalism classes on how to not sound like a bot.
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by Isamu 24d ago
>inherent monetary value I agree, the price of gold depends on demand like everything else. Although gold just has some inherent utility value in addition to scarcity that makes it less likely for the price to go to zero, other stuff lik
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by Isamu 24d ago
Yes! We had an old reel tape recorder with the magic eye, I loved using the mic with that.
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by Isamu 26d ago
So… numbers, algebra, geometry, probability, analysis, dynamics are not the primitives or essentials ?
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by Isamu 1mo ago
How about “this duck fakes positive emotions like we all do from time to time”
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by Isamu 1mo ago
This. Awesome voice acting work.
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by Isamu 1mo ago
Yeah it’s safe to assume that marketing across businesses big and small are not above generating some buzz through fake comments and such. The only pushback I would see within a fairly well-run place like Disney is that they might question
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Tetrachromacy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Isamu 1mo ago
So the next iteration of surveillance features is to silently double down on users that turn off surveillance, because why would they do that unless they have something to hide? Better flag this user for extra super-secret surveillance and
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by Isamu 1mo ago
Well this is fun, it is deliberately provocative but maybe not dumb. The title itself is something a literalist engineer (myself) would reject, but is about the development of thought that is reflective, self referential. That’s an interest
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by Isamu 2mo ago
I really enjoyed reading about his inventions when I was growing up, it was inspiring to me. It’s also true though there’s a lot to be skeptical of, and it was also an education of sorts to go down the rabbit hole and read his Synergetics t
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by Isamu 2mo ago
Exactly my experience, the faster file transfer programs failed me on the crappy dialups of the day… but Kermit came to the rescue. As I recall it gave you a running tally of retries and all that. For context, on the other side of the wall
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by Isamu 2mo ago
Anyone have a rubidium fountain clock that you are looking to get rid of? Asking for a friend. Thanks.
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by Isamu 2mo ago
Yes, which of course is still cool. Probably the main point.

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