NateEag

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by NateEag 3y ago
good gracious. I think this poem might be worse than the original. Indirection, subtlety, and allusion are absolutely critical elements in poetry - maybe even fundamental. There is not a hint of that in this autocompleted piece of dreck. It
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What did you enjoy about reading it? What was the plot? Which characters leapt off the page, so real you could swear you met them last year?
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> So defrauding millions to accrue QALYs (for whom?) is morally acceptable? Under most utilitarian theories of ethics, I think it's morally required, if you can show the fraud really does yield a significantly higher QALY count. The
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> So you have to add atheism to the requirement. Yep, you're absolutely right - I forgot to specify that. Most utilitarians don't believe in transcendence, in my experience - not believing in it is usually why they're util
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> I mean, living unethically today in order to affect future lives positively is not for me. Though it is an almost-inescapable conclusion of being a utilitarian and significantly smarter than average. If you can defraud millions and put
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I have a similar gut reaction to companies using virtuous adjectives in their names. That said, if a company really does value doing things differently, what are they supposed to do? Not say so? Try not to make a profit, guaranteeing they w
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Anyone who actually reads the New Testament closely will see that modern American evangelicalism is not especially closely related to what those texts actually say. (Obvious example: the texts don't claim "inerrancy" anywhere
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For some of us, the sideways reach / horizontal flexion for the mouse (thumb trackball, in my case) can cause wrist or arm pain. It's not about desk space, it's about ergonomics.
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> There's a Christian/Bible story called The Unmoved Rock. Where did you learn this story? I'm curious, because it's a cute little anecdote/illustration, but I'm fairly confident it's not in the Protest
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Why is it important for science to look good?
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I have resolved many, many git conflicts. I am perennially lost in all but the very simplest spreadsheets.
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Let me know when you've built that non-hallucinating "AI" and shown that it cannot hallucinate.
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Full extinction seems unlikely, yeah. Reverting to low-tech after civilizational collapse... that one seems far too plausible to me. And we've used up loads of the easily-accessed coal and oil. industrial revolution 2.0 may not actuall
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More or less, yeah. There are different stenography systems, each with their own shortcuts and abbreviations, but at core they're all about producing large volumes of text with minimal physical effort at very high speeds. Those interes
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It's a bit clumsy, but yes - this is a clunky version of explicitly stating your own emotions and what's giving rise to those feelings. Putting those things out clearly in the open during difficult discussions can be incredibly po
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We don't know. The nature of consciousness is an unsolved problem. We do know that LLMs fall into a certain category of mistake that most educated humans look at and go "HA! What was it thinking??" It's not that humans d
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Helion is planning to use induction to generate electricity from the fusion reaction's generated magnetic field, IIUC: https://www.helionenergy.com/faq/ (See "How does Helion generate electricity from fusion?
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Ehhh... that's pretty black-and-white. It's definitely possible to hurt someone by indulging their hypersensitivity, but it's also possible to hurt someone by completely ignoring them when they tell you "what you said hu
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The more-formal, older name for it is "mondegreen": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
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Coma patients are actually alive, though, and have been known to come back. If you believe that dead people have come back, you're religious. ...this might be controversial, but I'll argue that thinking you'll live again if y
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Ahhh, thanks for explaining.
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...to not meet St. Pete. The rest was so good I had to fix the rhythm.
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Watchbird(gutenberg.org)
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This reminded me to look up Vasalgel again (a single-application, non-hormonal, long-lasting, reversible male contraceptive that is unfortunately not yet commercially available), and I see that it seems to have taken a meaningful step forwa
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I had surgery under general anesthesia for the first time in my life a year or two back, and it was very enlightening. Specifically, most people who have general anesthesia talk about how strangely different it was from sleeping. It was vir
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> The idea of a superintelligence becoming a bond villain via freelance software jobs (or, let's be honest, OnlyFans scamming) is not something I consider an existential threat. I can't find it anything other than laughable. Co
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If you assume without evidence that recursively self-improving intelligence massively by thinking is possible, then it follows that severe existential risk from AI is plausible. If a software system did develop independent thought, then
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You're welcome. That's perfectly fair. FWIW, I wasn't trying to say that the position should be "supernatural by default" - just that there's a lot more to account for in NDEs than what you've described, a
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You should read something other than Sue Blackmore on NDEs. There are weirdly consistent reports of a whole lot more phenomena beyond what she outlined in _Dying To Live_ thirty years ago, which is more or less what you've summarized h
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I agree that NDEs are weird and give some hints that _something_ is out there. I think it more likely NDEs are a hint that the supernatural isn't fiction than that they're a consequence of being simulated. Per the above discussion

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