aerodexis

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by aerodexis 3mo ago
so you're saying the difference b/w extrapolation and interpolation is subjective unless the difference is defined tautologically?
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by aerodexis 3mo ago
The more I read these think-pieces on AI the clearer it is to see that they have very little to do with LLM technology, and are really just talking about the collapse of the set of values constructed during the enlightenment. The sociocogni
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by aerodexis 4mo ago
It's rare to see posts like this with such pure, crystalized ideology.
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by aerodexis 4mo ago
I am personally very excited by the development of a medical AI-harness that would 1. operates against a well-defined DB of medical studies 2. intakes my basic demographics, vital signs and medical history 3. quantify uncertainty wrt a spec
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by aerodexis 4mo ago
I like the idea of small, artisinal, solar-farm-to-desk DataCenters.
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by aerodexis 4mo ago
wow - so you pmuch baked this kind of testing into your day to day work. Might not be a bad startup idea to create a harness that can do this automagically.
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by aerodexis 4mo ago
How do you go about comparing models? Personally, I've found that the quality of output is overwhelmingly dictated by the quality of the input I give it - and that the quality of input differs massively depending on the task at hand, h
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by aerodexis 4mo ago
Given that today there's a concerted effort to effect a similar invention today wrt AI, this book is highly relevant.
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by aerodexis 4mo ago
> I think the only way to find out what data is meaningful is to collect and analyze more of it So the idea is to just muck around with data, then ???, then make people healthier? To a hammer, every problem looks like a nail I suppose. I
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by aerodexis 4mo ago
Having children is profoundly more fulfilling and pleasurable than the surface-level pleasures you listed. "hedonism" doesn't create a lack of children, if anything people are not hedonistic enough, but for economic reasons p
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
Sounds like subsidiarity to me
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
People become tech-overloads because they are blind to these sorts of beauties - and that'd be fine if it wasn't for the fact that we have collectively allowed these people to come to power and have fallen for their empty promises
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
Just following orders huh...
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
I have yet to read the whole thing - but I agree that the Church's view of intelligence is not to the level of sophistication needed to counter the Valley's pantheistic view of intelligence. I think that is because of how Aquinas
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
Humanity was not made to scale quickly. The trouble we have nowadays is that there is no backpressure, largely because the systems that generated that backpressure were dismantled in the name of "freedom" and other myths.
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
The "we must do it or someone else will" logic is pernicious and dehumanizes both the enemy and the supposed good-guy. I cannot count how many times it's been used after the first couple answers to "why are we doing this
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
If you abstract away the specific claims made by new New Atheists (either the leaders or the footsoldiers) and analyze it from a purely sociological point of view - it behaves identically to any other religion or faith - especially when yo
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
There is a control dimension, because humans require some degree of limitations in order to thrive. Ultra-individualism breaks down entirely the moment you think about actual society (like actually considering children) rather than utopian
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
The invention of the "dark ages" is really interesting, and afaik it was created in order to create a "this time it's different" sense of ahistoricity. Very similar to the "year zero" idea in communism, an
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
> religion is primarily for control of the people. Thats why you see a lot of rules in the bible. thank God the world has moved past this kind of 2010s New Atheism.
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
The most depressing thing of all is when ppl encounter "bootstrapping" and only see "control"
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
I was working from a design-doc, not code. "look at @design-document and generate a TLA+ specification for the interactions between local and remote"
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
No one is entertaining the possibility that this was done on purpose?
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
I did this myself a few weeks ago and the technique that helped me the most was to compare the TLA output against the race-conditions I could construct by hand. I worked iteratively and unit-tested the model by constructing a model that did
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
I don't disagree - for a long while I believed that the study of "consciousness" was the result of a linguistic mixup and best dealt w/ via Wittgenstein. However, if you move past surface appearances, you can think about
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
People have made due with conceptual fuzziness, I think it's disingenuous to suggest that discussion is impossible without absolute conceptual clarity. All you are saying is that using these terms does not allow you to have a specific
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
> with things like religious beliefs and human ego meaning that people come to the discussion with a major bias and fixed views rather than even being open to any rational discussion. You're forgetting that attempting to have a &quo
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
So it's through the senses that one attains mathematical knowledge?
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
Reading and writing are related, but separate activities. One's capability to write code can degrade independently of one's ability to review it.
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
> I simply envy those who were privileged enough to experience the 90s cyber-romanticism Why would you envy the opportunity to believe in a fiction that has been shown to be wrong, and that exacerbated the problems that the guy is trying

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