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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Theres already no expectation of privacy in public. Its fine, the panopticon already exists. Democracy is great we can elect legislators that enact laws that align with our values. The trick is making sure that the "law enforcement&quo
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Also as a US citizen I am totally unsurprised to hear about multiple law enforcement agencies continuing to conspire with eachother to violate rights and break laws with no consequence. I would love to see a federal ban on any law enforceme
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Ive got nothing against free will. Its just an idea thats important to some religious beliefs. Its just kind of pointless to talk about when were talking about neurology and the source of consciousness. I do wish the ever increasing stigma
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Old hoagie is more of a mindset. Anyone of any age can be an old hoagie if they like, all one has to do is practice getting upset when one sees anime girls, believe in the coming AI apocalypse and use Emacs.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Its such a grift. It honestly is pretty gross to see so many otherwise intelligent people fall into the trap laid by these people. Its cult-like not just in the unshakeable belief of its adherents but in the fact that its architects are hig
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Does Docker need this "cartoon" of an otter to get the point across? https://github.com/docker/docs?tab=readme-ov-file or this "cartoon" of an octopus? https://github.com/docker&#x2F
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I Feel like were having two different conversations here. Who said anything about optimism? Are those the two options now optimism or doomerism? No space left for anything approaching realism? I criticize blind techno-doomerism for its use
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
At the risk of repeating myself, yes the LLM hype is quite overdone and annoying. What you say is true people have bought into a fantasy which is wholly unrealistic. Unfortunately your view is altogether tiresome and much harder to scroll p
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Yes the LLM hype can be annoying. Equally if not more annoying is the smug disdain of those who criticize it. Even more annoying than that is people too caught up in "the world" and "serious matters" to read some sci-fi.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Because as I've said above, the state of the agent determines what choice it will make. The state of the agent is determined by outside stimuli just like everything else. This conversation here is a great example why I consider the ide
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Yes this is true. Also the agents choice depends entirely on the state of the agent at the time it makes the choice. The contemplation is just another process that is determined by the state of the system. Like I said its interesting and th
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Yeah psychology is interesting but not only does it not really have anything to do with the article but it also doesnt provide anything particularly compelling as far as the whole question of "free will" goes.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Its the state of a system that gives rise to the contemplation. Nothing is free from determinism its determinism all the way down. The interesting question is what are the myriad factors that contribute to the state of a system at a specifi
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
The question is rather what circumstances gave rise to the system that would make a given choice. Thats all "free will" is: the current state of a system that gives rise to a specific choice. Free will as its commonly understood i
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Great explanation! It seems obvious now and the explanations about bowling balls compressing springs make sense finally. Thanks!
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
OK so I was totally confused by the Oberth effect and how it could possibly be and so did some research. Now I have no idea why or how kinetic energy has a quadratic relationship with velocity, but it does. Something something work somethin
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
We are already doing this. In fact for the next generation of frontier models the primary electricity cost is running inference to generate training data for these models. As Llama 3 has shown us scale of training data is more important tha
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I have a pocket knife in my pocket (perhaps not quite as mass produced as what you were imagining) whose handles are made of G10 which is a composite material made partly of epoxy. It has been 3d machined into its current shape.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
The first and third examples were in the office and the second examples was on a hike on a public trail.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
In my social circles youre far more likely to be mocked if you spend a lot of money on new clothes or cheap/low quality clothes. Its expected that you buy something high quality from a thrift store and wear it until it wears out/s
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I object to the characterization of a pocket knife as a weapon. They are tools first and foremost. First of all they are pretty much useless as a self defense weapon and going around stabbing people is already illegal. I used my pocket knif
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Paywalled and not interesting enough to find a way around, also whos being held accountable? I as a man have never been held responsible for the violent actions of some other man.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
This seems like a good thing. I would not trust US police to hold themselves to literally any standard of ethics as far as automation of this sort is concerned. I can easily see departments ignoring the outputs that dont fit into their agen
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Try a Three Rivers Manufacturing Shadow. Same lock as a Benchmade but better quality control and IMO a superior design as far as ergonomics and practicality go than anything currently on offer from Benchmade. I love my Benchmades but when c
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
Boker makes good knives and German knives in general are known to be very high quality. The makers I mentioned earlier are in a different tier though and probably cost twice to 3x as much and have much tighter quality control and generally
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I was recently gifted a PST from somewhere around 1986 - 1989 Ive struggled to precisely date it. Its been carried a handful of times, retains its leather sheath and still has the shaving sharp factory edge. Its beautiful and since you brou
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
China actually does manufacture some very high quality pocket knives, they mainly OEM for American designers but the machining is actually very good.
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
I cant even think of any swiss knife manufacturers except for Victorinox. They are cute and handy but not even in the same world as the knife manufacturers mentioned above. For instance the SAK in my pocket currently has ever so slight side
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
But I have still used GPUs as graphics processing units for game and little else this entire time as has everyone I know. Who decided on this nonclemature change? Because it certainly doesnt represent the primary use case...
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by MeImCounting 2y ago
You should look at some USA made pocket knives. American manufacturing is still alive, well and expensive. Three Rivers Manufacturing, Chris Reeves Knives, Oz Machine Co, American Bladeworks, Koenig Knives and others are doing the best mach

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