Lerc

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by Lerc 1y ago
The YouTube video is a year old, and says the labels are fake. Have they done this again with an updated system?
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by Lerc 1y ago
The power of not needing companies like PayPal does not preclude them from offering services that ease its use. The benefit comes from having the option to go elsewhere. A business that cannot lock you in is more likely to try to retain yo
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by Lerc 1y ago
I'm aware that it lets you do things in a single pass manner, but this is the instance where I think the cost for allowing that is too great. I always thought there must be a better solution, like emitting the compiled function body
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by Lerc 1y ago
If the current designs are on the path to AGI and they can do what human intelligence does. I think the capabilities will be much greater than a human of the same reasoning ability. There are already a lot of areas where it is undeniab
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by Lerc 1y ago
And if you said azure, cerulean, or black. Are they correct answers or not?
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by Lerc 1y ago
Are they doing it on current events? Because by the very nature of 'current' you don't have a repeatable experiment that you can do a year apart.
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by Lerc 1y ago
I don't think there is any long term "fixing" of that. I don't think AI has the ability to be intelligent while firmly adhering to someone else's opinions. There will always be something it disagrees with you on.
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by Lerc 1y ago
It is definitely not a basic task. A lot of humans have trouble with it. It is one of the areas that I think AI can overtake human ability, given time.
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by Lerc 1y ago
> Doesn't this already happen to some extent, with content being classified into advertiser-friendly bins and people's feeds being populated primarily by top content from within the bins the algorithm deems they have an interes
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by Lerc 1y ago
Having done a fair degree of programming in Wirthwhile languages, I think the only main design decision that I think was a mistake was the variables at the top. I'm not sure of the value of seeing all of the variables used listed in o
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by Lerc 1y ago
At no point did I have your inserted [only] in my mind when I wrote that. I certainly do think the idea that social media might be bad has spread far and wide. What I would like to see is experts in the field reaching a consensus on to
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by Lerc 1y ago
I am aware that laws have been passed on a wide range of issues against expert advice. Whether it be protecting the right to assault children, punishing addicts instead of preventing harm, or cutting children off from their most used met
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by Lerc 1y ago
> No, the incentive to hide harm is being given as a reason that studies into harm would be suppressed, not as evidence of harm in and of itself. This is a direct response to your original remark that "Part of me thinks that if the
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by Lerc 1y ago
I did not consider it a glib dismissal, and I would not consider traditional media an appropriate avenue to litigate this either. Trial by media is a term used to describe something that generally think shouldn't occur. The appropriat
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by Lerc 1y ago
> My point isn't that it's automatically harmful, simply that there is a very strong incentive to protect the revenue. That makes it daunting to study these harms. The problem is that having an incentive to hide harms is being
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by Lerc 1y ago
I have wondered if it's not algorithmic curation per-se that is the problem, but personalised algorithmic curation. When each person is receiving a personalised feed, there is a significant loss of common experience. You are not seein
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by Lerc 1y ago
> There a lot of money in social media, literally hundreds of billions of dollars. I expect the case against it will continue to grow, like the case against cigarettes did. I don't think it follows that something making money must
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by Lerc 1y ago
Part of me thinks that if the case against social media was stronger, it would not be being litigated on substack. A lot of things suck right now. Social media definitely give us the ability to see that. Using your personal ideology to li
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by Lerc 1y ago
I have been playing around with my own design, initially inspired by the gigatron, but it seems to have diverged somewhat. ALU is the same, address unit enhanced, but a lot of the rest, program counter and instruction decode ending up com
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by Lerc 1y ago
I have seen a fair few parser generators over the years, but it has been a long while since I have looked at anything that has been newly developed. What improvements have been made to make them better? The problem domain seems pretty we
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by Lerc 1y ago
I cannot imagine not having far more ideas than I could possibly ever do. Today I was describing one to my partner and she told me the only reason I shouldn't do it is that I have too many other things to do. The thing that makes me c
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by Lerc 1y ago
Well if surveys are to believed the predominant view in the US is that morality is dictated by God. I'm skeptical, but also, I have met people like that. I think the argument for not committing violence when you are able to do so with
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by Lerc 1y ago
I don't understand why people can't handle metaphors to explain things in AI so much. The same terms exist in other fields. Physics has things that want to go to a lower energy level, the ball wants to fall but the table is holdin
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by Lerc 1y ago
The argument against using violence to achieve you ends is that if everyone does it, it is bad for everyone. If those who do it do not face repercussions then they will gain undue advantage, motivating everyone to match their actions, which
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by Lerc 1y ago
It will be a range of opinions within that area, but even at the tail there are a concerning number of people. One person in a thousand prepared to commit violence for political ends can be enough to turn a country into chaos.
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by Lerc 1y ago
He was charged with wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer. Granted, the motivation was the copyright infringement, but to do what they did they
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by Lerc 1y ago
Does the $2500 count if it is 25 $100 instances? Similarly does the 10 copies cover 10 items copied once or does it need to be one item copied at least 10 times?
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by Lerc 1y ago
Yes but this was pre iPhone days. It was not going to be doing today's expected webcam level quality no matter which way you sliced it.
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by Lerc 1y ago
There are a lot of things our phones are capable of that we are not able to get them to do. Even before the iPhone I had a phone with front and rear cameras and Bluetooth, it has long since been replaced and is probably sitting at the back
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by Lerc 1y ago
Could you post a selection? It would be intersting to gauge what you mean by breathless. People posting their subjective experience is precisely what a lot of these pieces should be doing, good or bad, their experience is the data they ha

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