SanderNL

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by SanderNL 3y ago
No copilot too?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> Image generation is still terrible and useless Image generation is thriving and now an indispensible part of the creative process. The tools are fresh and still evolving, but the impact even in this early stage is ridiculous. You can e
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Viewing one’s “computer” as a unified whole is a strange illusion we keep chasing after. Apple tries, but it just doesn’t work like that. The “world” is no different. We have different but often overlapping protocols for all kinds of fundam
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by SanderNL 3y ago
And how do I get to the trains? It takes me about 30min to get there, no matter what method I use and I actually live in a city. Then waiting for some train, ten-twenty minutes is not unusual, then riding it, leaving the station. It’ll easi
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You must be fun at parties. It was in jest. I know that’s not-done around here, but I must admit it makes the eventual slip up just slightly more delicious.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Yes. You are just in denial.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Well, in that example the musician makes music and a machine could transcribe it to sheet music. I can see that working and maybe it already does. What would be the equivalent of “making music” in this case? Talking haphazardly about your b
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Yes, the repercussions of this vacuousness are what interest me most. The underlying “systems” and “behaviors” that gave birth to the message are prior to any language model, but there, pre-language, is exactly where all changes happen. The
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You know what happens if people that are not experts talk about something they are not experts in? Physicists are no exception.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Time ends at black holes. Is it even possible to empirically validate such a thing?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
In a world where true dreamers are often sidelined, where the embrace of change is met with resistance, and where society prioritizes incremental economic evolution over the visions of genuine pioneers, we find ourselves amidst signs and pa
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by SanderNL 3y ago
That’s an excellent observation. I struggled with this too and because I am fond of defective analogies this made me think of the meaning of a personal note to, say, a lover. Does it matter by whom or indeed what it was written? The experie
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by SanderNL 3y ago
If said genetic algorithms were used to directly spew forth symbols that represent or point towards human experience (“language”) as if the underlying processes that ultimately form the foundation of said symbols could be approximated by sl
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by SanderNL 3y ago
The software indeed has to do what I do, which is understanding my environment and mentating solutions that are somehow appropriate for either fixing or alleviating any one of the uncountable challenges said environment faces. I cannot even
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I'd say the symbols themselves are meaningless without their ground truths, whatever that is. We can call this "experience" or "thinking". The results of these opaque processes are somehow amenable to be encoded int
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I appreciate the irony.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
This is really quite neat. Love both the idea and the execution.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I would be inclined to agree if the author had enabled comments.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Writing is fine, but publishing is another story. Makes me think of Eisenhower's "plans are useless, but planning is indispensable". Write, but then throw away your shit. IMO and I'm sorry to say it so bluntly, but artic
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I cannot deny your enthusiasm for the matter which I can only applaud. Yet fun as it was, I will now cease my demented rage, but not before profusely apologizing for my irrational and unforgivable lashing out. Also, sorry HN. I have indulge
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> where the government tells the government that the government has to stop excessive surveillance That is how to conflate branches of government. IMO it also is an unfair characterization of the underlying complexity of the situation. I
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by SanderNL 3y ago
In contrast to … ? Systems of government in your utopian visions? You have made a sport out of oversimplifying complicated matters before attacking them unfairly. These “governments” you are so fond of attacking are the best we can do in th
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by SanderNL 3y ago
You have conflated major separate branches of not only government, but also society in general. You then build on top of these simplifications in the most general of terms in an attempt to strengthen your ideas about power and how it is dis
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by SanderNL 3y ago
That too can be expensive.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Oh my, I have seldomly been accused of creationism. To be clear, I can separate the ability from the creature. I don't have a religious or otherwise attachment to the human form specifically. Other than - to be completely honest here -
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by SanderNL 3y ago
The "government" is a behemoth multi-armed monster of gigantic propertions. It is utterly incapable of even observing itself in full. The best we can do is look at parts. You are throwing the separate branches of government on the
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> there's nothing about a liberal democracy that says government must have a massive centralized concentration of power That seems like it simplifies a few things like national security, civic safety of any kind, health care, migrat
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> I think you're romanticizing the present. You might be right, actually. Common bias eh? But I suggest we look at it practically. > Would I prefer to live now than 2000 years ago? Certainly. Is that because of today's syste
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> Have we seen the slightest proof of opposite? Well, for one, I see no competition. I don't know what the technical definition of "special" is, but I'd say being the only one counts for something. > What senses mi
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I think this is romanticizing the past a bit. I'd hesitate to call it real power as well. You could not just go against someone of let's say senatorial class or god forbid, the Emperor himself, without substantial (military) backi

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