Paracompact

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by Paracompact 2mo ago
Our values satisfied through friendship and ponies.
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by Paracompact 2mo ago
What's wrong with asking the user on account creation and OS install?
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by Paracompact 2mo ago
What's bullshit? You mean to say the dishwasher buyer would legally be on the hook for billions?
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by Paracompact 2mo ago
The quote about ineffable/divine/mystical is indeed the one I was implicitly referring to. No worries, I should've been more clear. Most math people I know don't have a religious conviction in Platonism or anything, but
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by Paracompact 2mo ago
You can't remove the humans entirely and still be said to be in the business of doing math. On that I fully agree. We should still be spending the same number of hours on math, just with different tools (you might even call them oracl
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by Paracompact 2mo ago
> Every single knowledge worker is going to face this kind of crisis. It will be worse for people who cared deeply about their craft, but the crisis will have the same shape. Normally I'm very sympathetic to the plights of those soc
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by Paracompact 2mo ago
Irrelevant to your point, but drug users dying is more often the result of a dealer cutting their supply with something dangerous than it is the result of purity.
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
My honest first impressions, since I think the project is well intended: This writeup is itself AI, and I would venture to call it slop. The Calibration section is borderline uninterpretable, and I challenge any non-author who claims to und
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
In REBT (rational emotive behavioral therapy; a cognitive behavioral therapy focused on rational introspection) the excessive "need" language is identified with "musturbation": https://psycnet.apa.org/doi
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
> Yet, people still seem surprised when I tell them I'm not willing to run a slop cannon and excrete software which is _good enough_. Cue the usual propaganda: "Oh but that's just real life," "it's the natur
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
No one else has mentioned it here, so on account of my own experiences I feel the obligation to say: Be aware of this developing into suicidal ideation, if it hasn't already. I get the impression (again, mostly my own experiences, proj
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
There are three people in this thread with this "personal" problem.
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
Too late, we now exclusively stock NicoSugar broccoli in the stores. I mean, I guess we chose it? It's not the market's fault that the human brain likes sugar and nicotine.
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
Why do some Americans build their whole political and philosophical personality off of 1A maximalism? I'm an American, and it's a great principle. Freedom of speech deserves to be enshrined in the Constitution as a Good Thing, up
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
When it came time for website owners to decide whether they (1) would remove unnecessary cookies, (2) receive consent from their users for extra cookies via reasonable banners, or (3) circumvent consent from their users for extra cookies vi
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
"Manually" would be a charitable reading. Most of these prompts and answers appear AI generated. On your average HN front page submission, there is literally no effort too easy nor too important that won't be offsourced to th
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
Wretch, huh. I don't think we want you here.
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
Their argument would be, "If meth is a negative externality, we should just tax it instead of banning it in stores for kids to buy." Kids may die, but I'm sure with all that extra state revenue we'll get a nice park or m
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
Most disorders in the DSM-5 are defined by polythetic criteria, i.e. meeting X out of Y symptoms from a list for a given duration of time, or by conjunction of polythetic criteria. These definitions are socially constructed and statisticall
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
> Obviously, understanding someone else's proof is much easier than writing your own. Unrelated, but once you get to a more mature level, say grad school and above, I can say this is not always the case! Just like it's easier
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
Looking into his biography, it seems that he was indeed pitching the engine not as a means of efficiency, but as a means of avoiding mistakes in mathematical tables. It would have done Babbage well to insist he couldn't possibly solve
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
> You (a smart human) should be able to converge on it by cross-examining your LLMs. What makes you think this is fundamentally different from cross-examining ELIZA? There is no guarantee that the LLM will help you converge on anything.
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of idea
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
Indeed every AI enthusiast has to find within their heart their consistent position between the two extremes: - Regulation like this is dangerous because the accessibility and capability of open-source AI training and inference are limited;
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
> Sharing ideas gets people thinking and the fact that someone else already extensively thought about something doesn't make my thoughts less relevant. If anything, by sharing it I could get a comment pointing me to a book or paper
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
> If this post or your comment hadn’t been here, I’d have been doing and thinking about something else. Is that good or bad? I don’t know. Indeed the consequences are not thought about often. My motivations for commenting are for cathars
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
> You essentially coupled "I used to do this thing, and now I'm really credentialed but I don't do this thing any more" with "the ones most capable of elucidating existing ideas can be the ones least motivated to
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
> This statement, combined with the previous one, is interesting, to say the least. It could easily be taken as self-aggrandizing. Not self-aggrandizing. There are very few things that I consider myself "(among the) most capable&quo
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by Paracompact 3mo ago
> So it must be that a key ingredient to blogging is simple: have a willingness to state something that seems obvious to you but nobody else is saying it. Or if someone else is saying it, just link to them and say, “Yes!!! This!!!” As a
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
I work as a federal contractor. It's very true (epistemic status: my managers and project leads tell me as much and I act accordingly, I don't deal with it directly nor understand the bureaucratic larger picture). You will not get

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