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by akomtu 2y ago
What you're looking for is called christian gnosis. Early Christians commited a cardinal sin when they banished gnostics because simpletons couldn't understand their wisdom. What's left is a shell of christianity. Simply put,
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by akomtu 2y ago
AI remains a pile of transistors, no matter how convincing their output is, just like brains remain a pile of neurons, until there is a binding principle that rules them all. This binding principle is what gives us the inner moral compass.
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by akomtu 2y ago
This rhetoric is quite convincing. I think in a matter of decades a more polished version of this, written by an AI, will become a powerful ideology that squashes the spark of humanity not by force, that can be resented, but by convincing t
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by akomtu 2y ago
It's not intelligence that separates us from machines, but "connectedness to the whole." A machine becomes alive the moment it's connected to the whole, the moment it becomes driven not by an RNG and rounding errors, bu
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by akomtu 2y ago
How does it compare with https://github.com/webfft/webfft.github.io ?
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by akomtu 2y ago
It's not surprising in the light what the US celebrates on the 4th of July.
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by akomtu 2y ago
It's the UK's aristocracy, most likely. They own nearly everything in the UK, haven't earned any of it, and the last thing they need is the invasion of rich self-made entrepreneurs.
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by akomtu 2y ago
Magnetic field is that aether.
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by akomtu 2y ago
My view on this is more metaphysical. We have that inner self in us, that is the source of all life, meaning and happiness, and there's our persona in which our inner self is only dimly manifested. The right cause makes our inner self
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by akomtu 2y ago
> quitting is a last-ditch effort at self-preservation. Can you imagine a red cross nurse suffering from burn out? She may work for food and her life may be hard by most standards, but what she does is in harmony with her true self, and
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by akomtu 2y ago
A rich man won't be attracted to heaven in the first place, for it's a place for people who enjoy giving something to others and rarely think about themselves. Hell, on the other hand, would mesmerize a typical man of ambition for
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by akomtu 2y ago
"Ambition is the first curse: the great tempter of the man who is rising above his fellows. It is the simplest form of looking for reward. Men of intelligence and power are led away from their higher possibilities by it continually. Ye
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by akomtu 2y ago
Shadertoy has plenty of fluid solvers, e.g. here is a 3d solver: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wlG3RW
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by akomtu 2y ago
Holomorphic functions are solutions of the u_xx+u_yy=0 diff equation. Differential meshes seem to be made by a similar equation.
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by akomtu 2y ago
To drag the humanity in a different direction. Notre Dame and other great architecture is inspired by great archetypes, it's a well crafted expression of those archetypes to the extent it's possible in stone and concrete. Simply l
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by akomtu 2y ago
> The challenge of understanding how quarks are bound inside exotic hadrons is the greatest outstanding question in hadron spectroscopy. They must be more like knots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_(mathematics)
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by akomtu 2y ago
Sorat? https://anthroposophy.eu/Sorat
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by akomtu 2y ago
Very well done! And only 300 lines of code. I'd suggest adding this: dot.onclick = () => setTimeout(displayHighlightsPopup, 50); In addition to that, if possible, your highlighter could show all domains with highlights. Another usef
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by akomtu 2y ago
Imagine if someone bought a royal permission to "own" the image of Mt. Everest, hired a bunch of gangsters and tried to chase and beat up everyone who dared to look at the mountain without paying a fee? That's the modern copy
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by akomtu 2y ago
Twice a century, the humanity gets a push: an influx of ideas and visionaries, both good and evil, who give the people enough energy to roll for another 50 years. This was the case in late 70s and will be the case again in late 20s, that is
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by akomtu 2y ago
"Although there are many times in life you’ll consciously decide to act in a certain way, this is the exception, not the norm." IMO, that's the most important idea there. Your personality is what you've created to live a
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by akomtu 2y ago
An estimate is really a probability distribution, that often resembles a Gaussian distribution and thus can be captured with two numbers: the average and the variance. Combining multiple estimates together would involve some math around the
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by akomtu 2y ago
A simple trick to solve nearly all freezing problems: move the computations to a background thread, aka Worker in JS terms.
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by akomtu 2y ago
"If you’re lucky, the meaning game you play in your α-to-40 years will have been designed by a tradition of not-entirely-malevolent 40-to-Ω sociopaths." "And finally, you may choose to seek truth. This is an optional, meaning
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by akomtu 2y ago
My understanding is that machine learning today is a lot like interpolation of examples in the dataset. The breakthrough of LLMs is due to the idea that interpolation in a 1024-dimensional space works much better than in a 2d space, if we n
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by akomtu 2y ago
Imo, you can make good money, and do some good, guiding the numerous laid off developers on the business pastures, if only you figure out how to scale beyond the usual personal couch model. Perhaps some sort of QA platform with paid access:
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by akomtu 2y ago
AI can be thought of as the 2nd stage of the creature that we call the Internet. The 1st stage, that we are so familiar with, is about gathering knowledge into a giant and somewhat organized library. This library has books on every subject
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by akomtu 2y ago
It's going to look even more mesmerizing if you imagine how tweets propagate in this cloud. It would look somewhat alive.
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The Company is an imaginary construct. The reality is that there is a group of people with common goals who work together towards those goals. Very often those goals are simply making money by any means possible. Working with them doesn&#
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It can make Doom a reality. Iirc, the plot was that UAC used a quantum detector of some sort to find suspicious background noise on Mars. Further research discovered the source of that noise.

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