Mikhail_Edoshin

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by Mikhail_Edoshin 3mo ago
No.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 3mo ago
The problem is not that it limits the wearer's free will. On the contrary, it allows the wearer to exercise it way too effectively on the premise that the wearer already knows exactly who he is and what he needs.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 3mo ago
This is a good companion to the yesterday's HN post of ten steps to happiness. I've read that Malachi Martin described what he called "a perfect possession". I do not know where as I haven't found this piece myself.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 3mo ago
Perfection is a search for truth, the true nature of things.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 3mo ago
(As far as I understood those from AliExpress can also be unblocked.)
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 3mo ago
The real understanding builds on not knowing. Once I realise I don't know something I cease thinking and start watching the thing. Then somehow I understand. We do have a mechanism similar to LLMs but it provides existing knowledge; it
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 3mo ago
This is a military tech.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 3mo ago
We used both terms, the WW term meant the overall event and the other one was for the Soviet part that started June 22, 1941 and ended in 1945, first in Germany, the main victory, the in Far East in the war with Japan. The term itself is ta
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 3mo ago
There have to be some limitations on the language for this to work. For example, there must be no way to specify a neverending loop or to lock something and forget to unlock, an so on.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
It solves a hard problem. For example, it completely insulates the sender from the fact that his transaction is just one among many others.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
There are private efforts in Russia, but mostly they digitize Soviet-time books written in Russian or maybe in other languages spoken in Russia. (As far as I know, that is; I am, of course, not aware of the whole field.) Mir published in Ru
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
It was their own software; and it was long time ago, so I didn't think it was still functioning, but, to my surprise, it still is: https://vif2ne.su/nvk/forum/0/0.htm
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
Everything is entertainment in the modern world. On the other hand, as William James wrote, one of definite characteristics of a religious experience is seriousness. "All is not vanity."
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
I frequented a forum with a two-pane UI with a tree in one page and the text in another. It encouraged long posts; was used for political and historical discussions. And what was amazing was that it had a seamless NNTP backend, you could ea
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
Exactly. C. S. Lewis participated in many arguments about Christianity. He was a professor and had a very good memory (the biography says "total recall") so he was a formidable opponent. Yet he himself wrote in private writings th
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
I actually wanted to write "apparatus"; not sure if this would be any better though :)
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
Thanks, will add that to my reading list. Inheritance is both good and not so good. The problem it solves is in a way unique and the very fact that it solves it is indeed quite a feat. But the solution is rather crude. In a comment nearby I
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
Yes, this is exactly what I'm saying. Objects, closures, co-routines and eventually state machines, which was the first concept, I think, all revolve around the same core thing. We keep returning to it because this is the natural way t
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
Behavior is a good clue. The current model, even with data, lacks behavior. It has a method, which is like a message we send to it. But it does not seem to give it enough behavior, even though we don't make any assumptions about its co
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
Data will indeed be necessary. But data in OOP are interesting: they are not supposed to be directly visible. They are like the method body: there is one, but it is not important what it is. So if we add data, it will be that: class A
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
There was a Soviet philosopher, Evald Ilyenkov, whose books taught me about a "minimal working model". I'll explain it in my own words. People do not think with words: people think with things. Words serve merely as pointers
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
AI is way more similar to a person who is dreaming or has a serious psychiatric disorder. But there is no awakeness or health it descended from and thus no recover.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
A controller has to be at least as complex as what it is supposed to control.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
Russians do not do that. It is contrary to our culture. There was a lord (knyaz) in old times who even warned enemies that he is going to attack them. Of course it is not as advantageous as a covert approach. But it is very Russian. When yo
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
I'd say a common sense "cui prodest" inquiry leads to a much simpler answer, but to each his own.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
If they ever start actually hurling massive objects to the orbit then these will be weapons. The data center functionality will be imitated remotely, if necessary. See "Starlink is a way to give internet to whales" and "Pokém
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
Apparently that story was manufactured and promoted by someone else, don't you think?
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
Space based data centers is a cover for space weaponry.
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by Mikhail_Edoshin 4mo ago
Don't strive to be original. Pursue other goals and the originality will emerge naturally. Accept that it won't be yours because your role is a supporting actor.

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