Paracompact

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by Paracompact 4mo ago
I assume you're actually a gamer, and not just an economist speculating on a market you're not exposed to? Because I don't know how to reconcile your comment with my reality. There are tons of live-service single-purchase g
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
The knee-jerk reaction to pointing out any failure modes of AI with, "but meatbags bad!" is a tiring strawman to deal with. It immediately turns the discussion into something else.
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
The first time I played, I believe I killed only Undyne and none of the others. I couldn't easily figure out her mercy gimmick, and I understood her to have agreed to live by the blade, and by extension, die by it. Given her relentless
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) and Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights) are two other important writers in this category.
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
What are some examples?
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
I wouldn't personally lose sleep on whichever way loot boxes were legislated. If their contents are easily converted into real-world cash, I would say the company bears some responsibility for the actions of any black markets, perhaps
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
Counterargument: Any "specific" wording of gambling would have condemned this activity. On average, vagueness in law generates more loopholes for corporate criminals to hide behind than it generates discretion for judges and jurie
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
The borrowed money isn't free from interest. There's no numerical sense in borrowing money at 5%+ interest to fund an investment appreciating at 3%. Some schemes might advantage it further (such as leveraging your mortgage with yo
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
> I, and most people I know who have invested in home ownership over the past 30-40 years, have done way better than we could ever have in the stock market or 401k. https://www.macrotrends.net/3072/us-house-price-ind
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
Could've been a good rule: Unless the XY problem is so severe that X is impossible, you can't heckle or post Y solution unless paired with X solution.
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
> some technologies end up in some sort of 'background', used by everyone and not receiving any thought from anyone. Maybe that's some sort of practical proof of their "neutrality", in the sense of being somethin
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
I mentioned the semi-prohibition on buttons not because it's particularly important, but rather because I don't think there's any rational case to proscribe them specifically. (Any more important technology I could cite would
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
> [The Amish] carefully evaluate the potential impact of every new technology on the community. The decision is a purposeful one, governed by the criterion of the common good of the community. Counterpoint: buttons . Without proclaiming
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
We have (for now) restrained ourselves from the more vicious applications of technology to war, in the form of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Although I could see the argument being made that such has not occurred for strictly h
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
> will the Vatican research if God can express himself in LLM? Such would be dangerously close to divination, in the style of reading tea leaves or Ouija boards.
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
Indeed I don't mean to downplay the usefulness that AI can have in the self-evaluation process. It's a wonderful engine for discovering information either general or specific to one's project. > interactive discussion dril
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
What it actually suggests is that the AI's response to these questions of judgment have little correlation with the thing it's judging. Sure, you can get it to be complimentary, if you want it to be. Sure, you can get it be critic
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Prof or Hobo?(proforhobo.com)
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by Paracompact 5mo ago
Never trust a skinny chef.
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by Paracompact 5mo ago
The topicality of this deep-cut joke is incredible.
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by Paracompact 5mo ago
Indeed, specification of what "understanding" even is is one of the hard problems that would have to be solved before answering such a question! Nobody disagrees, for instance, that an LLM has no understanding, awareness, or even
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by Paracompact 5mo ago
> why don’t we have a dedicated organ that can sample blood with laboratory like precision and make anomalies available to the conscious mind beyond whatever faculties we currently have? "My triglycerides are at 220 mg/dL"
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by Paracompact 5mo ago
https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/K00-K95 Evolution really looked at this big long list of gastrointestinal diseases we as humans can suffer from, and thought that traumatizing amounts of random nausea, cons
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by Paracompact 5mo ago
I've been pondering for a while a question that is exceedingly unlikely to ever be answered within my lifetime, because as a prerequisite it assumes a framework strong enough to answer several very hard questions in philosophy, neurosc
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by Paracompact 5mo ago
YouTube is essentially a social network so fair enough, but is some external force compelling you to use Windows or an iPhone?
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by Paracompact 5mo ago
He's right, the Godel theorems have nothing to do with existence of models satisfying this-or-that. Such would be "semantic" truths. The reason Hilbert's program survived Löwenheim–Skolem is that Hilbert was a formalist
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by Paracompact 5mo ago
Me: Math PhD, found an internship through my school's internal postings (company has something of an intern -> employee pipeline from my school), interned for a couple summers, got hired after graduation. And yes, it is mostly a tec
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by Paracompact 5mo ago
I agree so much with the both of you, to the point it's difficult to avoid cognitive dissonance one way or the other. Software people do what they do better than anyone else. I mean obviously! Just listening to a non-software person di
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by Paracompact 5mo ago
Fair point. Being small and shadowy is a sufficient condition to avoid litigation, but not a necessary one. Another sufficient condition is having billions of dollars to throw around. Unfortunately, archive.org is well known, well loved, an
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by Paracompact 5mo ago
Don't know if it helps your musings at all, but there's a good chance that if a high-profile crawler like archive.org disrespected their robots.txt, that archive.org would be faced with lawsuits (or some other form of pressure). T

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