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by akomtu 2y ago
The top% doesn't have income. To be in the top 1% you need something like $20M.
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by akomtu 2y ago
People in general rightfully believe that sexual passion is a powerful force that can be creative or destructive. Just like electricity it must be approached with caution. Queer or whatever culture works because a few bare wires won't
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by akomtu 2y ago
There is a pre-AI society and a post-AI society. Once we cross that line, there is no going back. In Chapter I of our story, AI will unite and disarm all nations. It will appear as a benevolent and omniscient oracle that will eradicate canc
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by akomtu 2y ago
Some sort of distributed face recognition offloaded to user devices?
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by akomtu 2y ago
That's what going to turn our society upside down before we realise what we're dealing with. Sex is a lot like doing drugs that as a side effect make you release your life energy. The same energy that creates new life in the right
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by akomtu 2y ago
Open source is about giving and business model is about taking: it's basically a plan to take money from society.
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by akomtu 2y ago
Ads teach to not pay attention.
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by akomtu 2y ago
Musk has chosen an ideal name for Twitter to blackhole bad news.
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by akomtu 2y ago
If LLMs understand text, then calculators understand arithmetics.
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by akomtu 2y ago
Spirit is like the law that governs the nature. It's the laws of physics to a materialist.
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by akomtu 2y ago
Cows also have wants and needs, but who cares? They aren't the smartest species on the planet, so they're reduced to slaves.
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by akomtu 2y ago
Corporations don't need humans. They need mechanisms that efficiently do the work assigned to them. As that's currently not possible, corporations try to mechanize humans: give them a rigorous set of rules to follow and a machine
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by akomtu 2y ago
That's quite a story. What usually opens such unwelcome communication channel is a contact with some weird person. Perhaps someone you met at that festival. A good way to think of those voices as of scammers from the criminal world who
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by akomtu 2y ago
Here's a possible semi-scientific explanation. Neurons deal with electricity and magnetism, and sometimes can act like antennas. Normally this external noise gets filtered out, but this filter may get leaky or it can be disabled with c
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by akomtu 2y ago
Afaik, the official answer is that they are made of nothing because they are fundamental. That's how scientists say "we don't know". But when a fridge magnet sticks to a fridge, something holds it there and it's not
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by akomtu 2y ago
Right now those who have power to develop AI aren't in a hurry to do good for the humanity. They'd rather destroy it if it makes their profits grow. So a more likely future is a corporation like Meta Facebook creates a real AI, as
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by akomtu 2y ago
A lot of reasoning is similar to interpolation within a sparse set of observations. Memorization is rounding up to the nearest known example. Basic guess is linear interpolation. And reasoning is about discovering the simplest rule that exp
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by akomtu 2y ago
Police serves a different purpose: it protects the society order as a whole, it's a defense against anarchy. For personal security you'd need to hire someone with authority to kill, a member of the police basically, but that'
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by akomtu 2y ago
If nearly everyone suddenly became selfless saints who never defend themselves, because they know that evil cannot extinguish evil, then the few remaining predators, who enjoy invoking fear in others, would turn this selfless society into h
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by akomtu 2y ago
I suspect that what makes protons and other quantum particles so difficult to understand is our assumption about time: that it's a level straight stream that flows forward, maybe with some minor distortions due to massive obstacles on
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by akomtu 2y ago
In 10 years LLMs will be so good that NewStream will hardly need any staff.
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A userscript to take your attention back
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by akomtu 2y ago
From the french gov's perspective, telegram is a worldwide web of underground tunnels that are inaccessible to the gov. And the gov, being a paranoidal control-freak, gets really upset when you're hiding something from it.
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by akomtu 2y ago
American news outlets are like food chains who've figured out that if you serve junk food with tons of sugar and some addictive chemicals, your customers will turn into addicts.
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by akomtu 2y ago
Ads dealers, who own social networks, are adept manipulators: they find your weaknesses and torture you psychologically until they break your will and make you a mindless ads user. Then those sorry doomscrollers aimlessly wander along the s
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by akomtu 2y ago
We rarely use reasoning too. When a lightning strikes, a thunder follows. When the sun shines, trees grow. These are correlations we've learned. Now can you derive them with proper reasoning? In fact, if we dig deep enough, at some poi
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by akomtu 2y ago
I'd use of of these dodecahedron projections to represent a network of equal nodes on the planetary sphere: https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediu...
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by akomtu 2y ago
Euphemism is a funny cloak for something you don't like, something you'd rather not mention at all. Those who use euphemisms are often allergic to plain speech, as it shows everything as it really is, not as how they'd like t
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by akomtu 2y ago
Senior engineer is like a fuel efficient car - it's a meaningless marketing term used to distract attention from what matters - the pricetag and fuel consumption in hard numbers.
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by akomtu 2y ago
China-the-people or China-the-state?

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