Zarathruster

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by Zarathruster 11mo ago
I guess we're in a minority but I'm in full agreement. Color passthrough really felt like a game-changer, and I've long wished for a more open, non-Meta alternative. Guess we'll be waiting a bit longer
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
> 2. Their subtitles are just the subbed version's subtitles which are drastically different from what the dubbed VAs are actually saying. I get that you might not like it, but it sure beats the option you didn't list: 4. Has a
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
Yeah I don't know if this is a skill issue on my part, the nature of my projects, the limits of Sonnet vs. Opus, or a combination of all of the above, but my experiences track with all of yours. From the article: > The default mode
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
When I first got started with CC, and hadn't given context management too much consideration, I also encountered problems with non-compliance of CLAUDE.md. If you wipe context, CLAUDE.md seems to get very high priority in the next resp
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
From the linked post: > If you use projects, Claude creates a separate memory for each project. This ensures that your product launch planning stays separate from client work, and confidential discussions remain separate from general ope
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
Super late to this, sorry. > I'm not the one claiming that a calculator thinks. The burden of proof lies on those that do. Claims require evidence and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You're right, I may hav
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
While I agree with you in the main, I also take seriously the "until someone can explain why" counterpoint. Though I agree with you that your calculator doesn't understand math, one might reasonably ask, "why should we c
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
Isn't this just a reformulation of the Turing Test, with all the problems it entails?
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
On a related note, everyone should know about Gell-Mann amnesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
> I think this muddies the water unnecessarily. Computation is not language, even though we typically write software in so called programming languages. But the computation itself is something different from the linguistic-like descripti
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
> Searle &co assert that there is a real world that has special properties, without providing any way to show that we are living in it Searle described himself as a "naive realist" although, as was typical for him, this cam
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
> I remember the guy saying that disembodied AI couldn’t possibly understand meaning. While I don't disagree with the substance of this post, I don't think this was one of Searle's arguments. There was definitely an Embodi
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
> I think I'm still a bit confused... so, in the languages which cannot produce understanding and consciousness, you mean to include "machine language"? (And thus, any computer language which can be compiled to machine lan
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
Well, that was incredibly depressing. Maybe I can lighten things with a funny (to me) anecdote. There are many people who know a lot about a little. There are also those who know a little about a lot. Searle was one of those rare people who
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
I'd quibble with some of this, but overall I agree: the Chinese Room has a lot of features that really aren't ideal and easily lead to misinterpretation. I also didn't love the "observer-relative" vs. "observer
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
> This makes no sense. You could equally make the statement that thought is by definition an abstract and strictly syntactic construct - one that has no objective reality. No. I could jam a yardstick into the ground and tell you that it&
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
Ah ok, gotcha. > When you said, "consciousness can't be instantiated purely in language", I took you to mean human language No, I definitely meant the statement to apply to any kind of language, but it seems clear that I s
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
> The Chinese room is an argument caked in notions of language, but it is in fact about consciousness more broadly. At this point I'm pretty sure we've had a misunderstanding. When I referred to "language" in my origi
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
Sorry, I've reread this a few times and I'm not sure which part of Searle's argument you think I mischaracterized. Could you clarify? For emphasis: > "consciousness can't be instantiated purely in language"
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
> No, his argument is that consciousness can't be instantiated purely in software, that it requires specialized hardware. Language is irrelevant, it was only an example. It's by no means irrelevant- the syntax vs. semantics dis
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
Not sure I'd use those criteria, nor have I heard them described as hallmarks of consciousness (though I'm open, if you'll elaborate). I think the existence of qualia, of a subjective inner life, would be both necessary and s
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
Quick definitional help for anyone who clicks on your link: the term "intentionality" in this context has a specialized meaning. In reference to mental states, it's the property of being about something, as in, "Alice
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
I came to say this, thank you for sparing me the effort. From my experience with him, he'd heard (and had a response to) nearly any objection you could imagine. He might've had fun playing with LLMs, but I doubt he'd have fou
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
Of all the things I studied at Berkeley, the Philosophy of Mind class he taught is the one I think back on most often. The subject matter has only grown in relevance with time. In general, I think he's spectacularly misunderstood. For
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
Cynical, but correct. I've long maintained that these trials, much like those we encounter in the school system, are only partially meant to test aptitude. Perhaps more importantly, they measure submissive compliance.
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
I'll leave it to others to make the argument for why Jungian psychology (and by extension, MBTI) is/isn't bullshit. But since nobody has mentioned the alternative yet, the framework used by anyone in any scientific capacity i
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
On the other hand, Python does have "from some_library import child_module" which is always nice. In JS we get "import { asYetUnknownModule } from SomeLibrary" which is considerably less helpful.
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by Zarathruster 1y ago
That sounds like gemini: https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1m2hkoo/did_gemini_...
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by Zarathruster 9y ago
You and me both! But apparently the IP is tangled in such a mess (Jackson Estate, Lucasfilm etc.) that it'd never be worth Disney's while to bother.
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by Zarathruster 9y ago
King of Dragon Pass has a lot of problems as a game, but as a roleplaying experience (where 'role' doesn't just mean 'tank' or 'ranged DPS' or such) it really has no equal, IMO. What I find fascinating is

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