PopePompus

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by PopePompus 2y ago
What about general anesthesia? I had a major operation during which most of my brain was definitely offline for at least 8 hours.
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by PopePompus 2y ago
I don't understand why you believe it must experience continuous time. If you had a system which clearly could reason, which could learn new tasks on its own, which didn't hallucinate any more than humans do, but it was only activ
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by PopePompus 2y ago
I love: https://www.theonion.com/bush-finds-error-in-fermilab-calcul...
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by PopePompus 2y ago
NPR used to be a very good news source, but during the Trump presidency it became an advocacy organization: https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-tru...
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by PopePompus 2y ago
I subscribe to the NYTs, and one thing that drives me nuts is their animated graphics which play in a loop on some articles. They aren't ads - they are artworks created for the story, but I find it really distracting to try to read tex
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by PopePompus 3y ago
This video would probably suffice to document the loss, assuming the recharging was done without the utility's permission.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
I think that in reality, most people do a very light pre-wash of many dishes, before loading them into the dishwasher. I know I do. I'd be happier if I could just stick the plates in the sink, and come back an hour later to find the di
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by PopePompus 3y ago
I don't want to pay someone to clean up my messes. That is not the kind of relationship I want to have with another human. But I'd happily pay for a machine that did it.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
But Waymo is essentially building an automated taxi service, not self driving cars to be sold to consumers. Replacing taxis would probably never produce the margins that Apple expects. Self driving cars would only make sense for Apple if
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by PopePompus 3y ago
I don't think so. To my knowledge, nobody has ever been killed by a Roomba. The robot problem is a lot less scary if there are essentially no life-and-death consequences for random innocent bystanders.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Perhaps the entire kitchen sink could be redesigned with robotic dish washing in mind. No bipedal Boston Dynamics style robot washing your dishes and taking out the trash - just two arms built into the sink with automated drains and soap di
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Yup, Google has the attention span of a gnat. I've used Pixel Phones for years, and I wouldn't be even slightly surprised to see that entire product line dropped tomorrow. I'm very glad to see Apple's Vision Pro, becaus
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by PopePompus 3y ago
From the article: "As the red giant tears apart nearby stars, the dense white giant absorbs the shrapnel, a mixture of hydrogen-rich materials that come its way. The tiny dead star then gradually becomes hotter until it reaches a break
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by PopePompus 3y ago
They don't have to be more clever. They just have to be faster to adapt, which is trivial given the glacial pace at which legislation is passed in the US.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
I've signed up and sent contributions to a few "let's build a phone!" projects (like, for example, the neo900). I've come to the conclusion that building a phone is just not something a small group of people can do
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Why is an assembly line needed for a type of computer that has never done a useful calculation?
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by PopePompus 3y ago
I don't think you can say with confidence that the LLM approach will not lead to AGI, unless you understand in detail how human intelligence operates, and can show that no modification to current LLM architectures can achieve the same
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by PopePompus 3y ago
We don't even know why Titan, alone among the solar system's moons, has a thick atmosphere. The idea that we could know how much carbon has been transferred to a subsurface ocean over the course of the moon's lifetime is pret
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Yes, Siri was initially amazing, but it never improved significantly. Several years ago Google's voice assistant was much better than Siri, but it has degraded enough now that it's roughly on a par with Siri. But however disappoin
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Well, they're incompetent - is it a big surprise that they have poor manners too?
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by PopePompus 3y ago
This important milestone in quantum computing allows the production of press releases which prevent quantum computing hype from being completely eclipsed by AI hype.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Yup, the US Constitution definitely needs a right to privacy amendment. It is of course spectacularly difficult to amend, but an amendment that ensures a right to choose abortion (and other reproductive privacy issues) plus strong digital
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by PopePompus 3y ago
I think the handwriting was on the wall when the VAX 8600 was introduced. It was introduced 7ish years after the 11/780, and was only a few times faster. Today, in the twilight years of Moore's Law, a factor of a few speedup over
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by PopePompus 3y ago
Yes, the Anti-doomers will be right many times, and wrong at most once.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
I assume he has trademarked the word "Flow" and is licensing it to the company for a few million dollars.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
It is amazing how frequently Wikipedia is vandalized. It happens several times per second. Much of it is removed automatically by bots that will roll back edits which contain strings like "qeqeqeqewqeerrttt". On weekends, you
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by PopePompus 3y ago
"...would have been happy with the service if they hadn't gone and stolen my money." That's a pretty big caveat, though.
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by PopePompus 3y ago
I thought litigation or the threat of litigation resulted in the 6502 not being pin compatible with the 6800. How did the Apple 1 get around that?
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by PopePompus 3y ago
I realize that tank armor is weak at the top, but it's amazing to me that a few kilograms of explosives dropped anywhere on a tank can disable it. Are these drones even using a shaped charge?
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by PopePompus 3y ago
> I've written Python professionally for 20+ years. I've extended Python with C for funsies, but have never, not once, needed to do it at work. Well, different folks have different experiences. One of the first Python-related t

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