SanderNL

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by SanderNL 3y ago
I’m loving this.
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I guess I meant to emphasize the fact that while they usually bullshit, they do so in a structured and generally acceptable way. In this case he (literally) rolled the dice and delivered what the tea leaves (literally) told him to.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
There’s the issue of building virtue and good character, which I suspect are ancient and long obsoleted concepts. This pragmatism is understandable, but I don’t think it’s a nice way to live. Of course to each its own.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
This discussion really brightens my day. Only on HN. Edit: I remember I’m (literally) supposed to be annoyed at this. You all dare to question my intelligence, don’t you?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
He didn’t check his work and delivered literally pure bullshit.
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Optimizing for “ramping” seems incredibly shortsighted. Does seeing things through, pushing through the hard bits, the bits that only come up after a few years when your pet project starts spouting fire or some major restructuring happens a
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> I get very frustrated when I see posts on TikTok Well, there’s your problem.
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People keep repeating they have “things in the works” and “massive reserves”, but meanwhile they flail around for years . They could have had a massive head-start, they were the inventors of the transformer for crying out loud. I’m not see
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by SanderNL 3y ago
It’s not better, they just hooked up a calculator to it. Like OpenAI’s plugins, but more opaque and less useful. What happened to Google? Touting this as some achievement feels really sad. This is just catching up, and failing. I’m beginnin
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You've captured a fascinating aspect of AdS/CFT: how information in the interior, while local, can manifest non-locally on the surface, akin to a tug on a knot rippling through its structure. The pseudoknot example underscores the
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Diplomacy Victory? I’m not too sure.. Your friends are just rich, but not numerous. Most of the world hates us in various ways. Culture victory? You did come up with the book of Mormon, which I guess is some kind of achievement. Conquer Vic
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Your comment raises important points. The non-local nature of braiding in topological quantum computing contrasts with the inherent locality of the AdS/CFT correspondence, prompting us to wonder how these paradigms might coexist. Could
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Not disagreeing per se, but I find it interesting to regard Hinduism as anything other than a major world religion.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I think YT is on the crystal meth side actually. Strangely perhaps I find Netflix more appropriate for my kids. I just let them watch a specific episode and there are no ads and the content is adequate. There is at least some moderation.
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> idol-worshiping pagans That came out.. wrong?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Smartphone <> social media It's disingenuous to pretend watching some documentary on planets is the same as scrolling on tiktok. These devices have two faces: one is excellent and you can learn a lot from it, the other is pure cr
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You are not wrong. Let’s wait and see. I actually hope I’m wrong.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I agree, but I actually hope we are wrong. This tech can be amazing. I already like the Oculus with all its warts.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
And I will go on record saying this is nice and all, but fundamentally just some incremental progress. Absolutely not an iPhone moment. The idea of having a fully immersive 3D environment around you is cool, but I haven’t had any VR exper
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by SanderNL 3y ago
First, dumb phones are still a thing and second, safe from what?
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Tokens, actually.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
How about we start writing actual content and stop fiddling with fonts and margins. The amount of useful information being buried in “word” documents is mind boggling. Let’s start treating data as data and style as style. When you type your
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I literally never saw an ORM output anything approaching optimized. It’s mostly.. adequate, which is fine. I guess. It depends. Also have a bit of a history with these “magic migrations”. It doesn’t come close to “we have reached the point”
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> There is no reasoning > elicit some kinds of reasoning I know it's hard, but you have to choose here. Are they reasoning or are they not reasoning? > next word prediction models 238478903 + 348934803809 = ? Predict the next
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Your ability to remember later does not diminish your consciousness in the present. Was all of life in hindsight lived unconsciously after developing dementia? I have had many lucid dreams that I did not immediately recall, but only a bit l
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> The organization of the stuff in between really just becomes a question of standardizing function signatures and organizing modules so humans can easily navigate them. That’s one impressive load-bearing “just” you have in there..
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> I don't get what the conceptual challenge with superintelligence is. Do you believe that the brain that happens to exist inside the naked apes of Earth is the absolute pinnacle of possible intelligence? Well, first of all I do not
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> incapable of any kind of reasoning If this were true the debate would be a hell of lot easier. Unfortunately, it is not.
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The LHC could have produced a black hole that swallowed the earth, so you’re also too late if that were the case. Lots of tech is like that, but it turns out we don’t get anything done if we keep fearmongering.
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My point is that there is no Trinity test. Trinity showed nuclear devices were real. GPT shows language models are useful and can potentially be part of what might be an AGI but nobody showed how, not even in theory . You don’t have to b

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