Vampiero

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by Vampiero 2y ago
If there's one consumer base where the consumers will mindlessly buy every new product despite the price or the fact that it's the same thing as the previous model, it's Apple. It's a brand for people with money who want
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by Vampiero 2y ago
> Well, you move the type checks from the database to the app, effectively, which is not a new idea by any means (and a bad idea in many cases), but with JSON, it can actually work out nicely-ish, as long as there are no significant rela
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by Vampiero 2y ago
> "Act impulsivelly without thinking" will be much better, because they will think too much by default. But the telltale signs of ADHD are a hyperactive mind AND an acute impulsivity. Overthinking goes hand in hand with being i
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Well maybe next time OP will actually do their analysis and figure out that the project is DOA before even writing one line of code.
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Processing but for webdevs?
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by Vampiero 2y ago
Optimize a creature for "survival" over billions of years and you get behavior like this. It doesn't require consciousness however. And it's quite hard to ask a spider whether it is conscious or not.
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by Vampiero 2y ago
I'd agree with what you're saying, but the jump to "not believing in superintelligence" doesn't make sense either. Are you implying that humans are the absolute peak of intelligence or that computers can't ever
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by Vampiero 2y ago
The technology is on par with a Markov chain that's grown a little too much. It has no notion of "you", not in the conventional sense at least. Putting the infrastructure in place to allow people (and things) to be blackliste
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by Vampiero 3y ago
it means that AI isn't limited to ChatGPT on the web interface. AI can also be a robot with sensors (like a camera) and an internal model that processes sensory information and turns it into knowledge. Humans would only be needed to bo
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by Vampiero 5y ago
Feedback. Our brains are circuits, rocks are not. No matter how hard you try, rocks are never going to rearrange themselves if left to sit. Self-organization is very common in nature, and I find it easy to believe that consciousness is an e
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by Vampiero 6y ago
Talk about having your priorities backwards...
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by Vampiero 6y ago
There's a difference in mentality between people who make either argument. The "PL-elitist" crowd looks at programming languages from a computer science perspective, while the "PL-pragmatist" crowd (for lack of a be