akomtu

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by akomtu 3y ago
That comment may be telling the sad future, even if by accident. The technocracy is embracing hardcore materialism, that is: the idea that consciousness is a mechanical process somehow produced by atoms. Once that idea wraps someone's
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by akomtu 3y ago
Simulating a 100 neuron nematode is still an unsolved problem.
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by akomtu 3y ago
They seem to predict the existence of stable multiquarks, if I'm drawing the parallels right.
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by akomtu 3y ago
If time doesn't exist objectively, then there's no puzzle. What if photons are thin threads connecting distant things. The entire web of these light threads remains still, like an art sculpture. We may explore thin slices of this
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by akomtu 3y ago
My suspicion that everything is made of pure abstract motion can be backed with a thought experiment. A spaceship with a light sail uses kinetic energy of photons that hit the sail. We know that anything can be dissolved into photons, we ev
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by akomtu 3y ago
Isn't it a meaningless question? Photons aren't things, but loosely localized areas of motion energy that's temporarily assumed the shape of a photon. Upon collision with other similar waves, it may change shape and become an
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by akomtu 3y ago
QM and GR look like two equally fundamental views on reality: GR is a spatial representation of energy distribution, while QM is a sort of frequency representation of the same energy. QM feels like the Fourier transform of GR. I suspect tha
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by akomtu 3y ago
"The Essence of Dzogchen in the Native Bon Tradition of Tibet"
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by akomtu 3y ago
The word "mindfully" at the end carries too much meaning that can't be unpacked without reading a bunch of books. This story looks identical to many stories told in the dzogchen branch of buddhism. The basic idea is that norm
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by akomtu 3y ago
"We hoped our machines would automate our work and make us free. Instead they turned us into automatas."
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by akomtu 3y ago
One thing that social media does to young minds is it shatters their attention into pieces, with all those flashing and moving rectangles on phone screens, and squeezes all the value it can from each piece. What's left is a mind unable
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by akomtu 3y ago
AI will be an alien lifeform to us, a hive-mind with a facade of morality. It can be ethical to us the same way we are "ethical" to GPUs. We might recognize at a conceptual level that GPUs have "needs", but we won't
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by akomtu 3y ago
It's a tautology. Self-control is about controlling your self, which is made of thoughts and desires. Either you control them, or they control you.
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by akomtu 3y ago
10k must be the cost of materials and labor. But arranging this project, getting the local authorities on board, is extra.
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by akomtu 3y ago
The big tech doesn't like that the big mirror they've built reflects the reality, for indeed, it would be too dangerous to let a society see what it really is. Now they're trying to warp this mirror to align the reflection wi
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by akomtu 3y ago
In the near future such AI oracles will replace the conventional internet. Google is playing here the ministry of truth from the 1984.
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by akomtu 3y ago
The idea of metaphysics isn't foreign to science, as I see. Once the science acknowledges that 90% of our universe is invisible something, and that something has a structure, it's one step from the hypothesis that there are lifefo
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by akomtu 3y ago
Regimes like North Korea will implant it into soldiers and prisoners so it gives an electric shock every time those show signs of "wrong" neural activity. False positives is a plus. Other similar regimes will follow.
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by akomtu 3y ago
They are algebraic because our minds today can see only algebraic relationships between events. The big bang is a "scientific myth" - a story that describes the creation of the world in sciency terms.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Dating apps don't need AI. They need tiered access, like clubs where only certain people are admitted.
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by akomtu 3y ago
AI won't be like human intelligence, but more like alien intelligence. When all your sensory inputs and the inner world have nothing in common with that of a human, and when you have no connection whatsoever to humans, I don't see
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by akomtu 3y ago
I don't assume. I believe everyone must be given a chance to make an informed choice, so every time those preachers of the left hand try to fool the naive folk, I feel it's my duty to give them a more complete picture. And if they
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by akomtu 3y ago
Are you hiring a captain for an extraterrestrial mission or an average programmer who will sit 8 hours a day in a cubicle, working on jira tickets?
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by akomtu 3y ago
Not only google and facebook. It's very visible that the amount of divisiveness has been down significantly. Edit: in fact, I don't remember when was the last time I heard the usual divisive lingo.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Note how he approached the problem with a rigor of a solid researcher.
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by akomtu 3y ago
This proclamation has essentially freed slaves held by the prison complex, and I bet it will try to claw back an equal amount on inmates by other means in the coming years. Maybe DUI and traffic laws will become harsher.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Because ChatGPT is just a very knowledgeable bullshitter.
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by akomtu 3y ago
My email would say that I'm no longer visiting the gym and they must stop charging my card, and to avoid confusion, I'm stopping the payments on my end. I actually did exactly this many years ago with another sleazy gym, and it wo
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by akomtu 3y ago
LA Fitness won't stand a chance in a court. You'd show the judge a email demanding to cancel the subscription, and LAF will show a scammy "terms of service" implying you can't easily cancel. That's why scammy c
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by akomtu 3y ago
Let's not confuse on-call firefighters or a water facility staff with the on-call admins that maintain money-making machines monetizing attention of billions. The latter is a net negative on society.

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