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by akomtu 3y ago
In such cases it's useful to occasionally direct all your imagination to the highest ideal known to you, better if it's abstract. This can be compared with trying to hear the finest sound in your surroundings, and making it crysta
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by akomtu 3y ago
In that case you should be able to imagine a 5x5 grid with letters and then clearly see the words along the diagonals?
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by akomtu 3y ago
Well, if LLM suggests "moves", and an Expert Model judges the whole output, then combining the two with a tree search suspiciously resembles the AlphaGo idea.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Inspired by the Quake plot? "The Strogg are cybernetic constructs of unclear origin, which reproduce by taking biological components and fusing them with advanced technology in the brutal surgical process of Stroggification that enslav
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by akomtu 3y ago
Oh, it's far more than that. Virtual technodrugs, or addiction, is one arm of the emerging new order. The second arm is control: fine grained and invasive censorship, history rewriting and so on. The third arm is a much faster discover
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by akomtu 3y ago
It's the ad-tech sector of the web declaring a secession from the internet, for ads can't live under the law of the open web. The new AdWeb is going to look like appstores: websites will need to pay to the adweb owners, and users
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by akomtu 3y ago
This sort of materialistic prejudice is common today. Science is about sticking to proven facts and using strict logic when deriving new facts, but refusing to even consider new ideas isn't science, it's lowly prejudice and adhere
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by akomtu 3y ago
The most progressive way to solve it would be for more male song writers to identify as females and publish songs under theix new names.
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by akomtu 3y ago
If the article was written by the latest version of chatgpt, then the math is fairly decent.
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by akomtu 3y ago
This half is very conservative with tech, and owners of the big tech hate anything conservative.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Fwiw, that's the mechanical basis of many rituals and sacraments that one day will be understood by science. For example, the eucharist ceremony is a carefully designed sequence to produce a certain uplifting current, vaguely perceptib
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by akomtu 3y ago
Public libraries are essentially the temples of knowledge, that is they are places where likeminded people congregate and perform rituals - reading books.
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by akomtu 3y ago
In reality: an AI bot watches the stream of twits, picks those that fit its narrative (preprompt) and tells the users what to think.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Well, sex work corrupts the workers psychologically and aids the addiction of customers. Sex work is a lot closer to selling mild drugs than to mowing lawns. It's hardly the worst thing in our society, for there are far worse white col
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by akomtu 3y ago
Isn't it the key feature of the lower rational mind to draw a boundary between I and not-I, true vs false? It is this type of mind that loves to criticize, as it needs to label every thing as true or false. Seeing things as a spectrum,
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by akomtu 3y ago
These activities are examples of self gratification, they don't give anything to others and are bad for this reason. Imagine a group of cells in your body engaging in this behavior: they grab energy from others, spend it on rattling th
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by akomtu 3y ago
If you were to create a moral code for a bees hive, with the goal of evolving the bees towards the good (in your eyes), that would be a super-bee level morality. For us, such moral codes assume the form of religions: those begin as a set of
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by akomtu 3y ago
I'm surprised the ad corps haven't forked the internet yet: special drm-ed websites accessible only via special drm-ed browsers. At least it would relieve those who want to share knowledge from the presence of those who sell addic
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by akomtu 3y ago
tl;dr cheap employers monetize guilt of the customers and they can do so because the federal gov allows to pay the "subminimum" wage > And today, tipping is down from last year, with a nearly 10-point drop "In 2030 Q3, the
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by akomtu 3y ago
One curious explanation of midlife crisis I've seen was that at the age of 33 the "spark of spirit" completes its connection with its earthly vessel, looks down and expresses its major disappointment with how little has been
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by akomtu 3y ago
Kids of the rich don't need to produce anything. Very often, they inherit the sense of entitlement to the riches, and none of the desire to create anything. At best, they are immersed in the lazy loop of self-gratification; at worst th
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by akomtu 3y ago
Negative mass is an example of how we see the world thru our numbers system and believe it covers all possibilities. Our numbers can go negative, so we believe that it predicts a "secret" reality. If our numbers were discontinuous
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by akomtu 3y ago
Isn't it the basic winning strategy in the monopoly game? Buy up all prisons, then bankrupt your competitors.
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by akomtu 3y ago
an elegant summary of american politics in 2023
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by akomtu 3y ago
It's not a solution, it's cheap bluff. Try to voice this idea on an HOA meeting and tell Ms. Smith that you noticed her kitty outside and that next time you'd "exterminate" it. If you can't do that, how are you
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by akomtu 3y ago
So it's a backdoor for advertisers. This explained why they couldn't just extend the iframe. Should we call them adframes instead?
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by akomtu 3y ago
Another idea: at the end of times, when black holes finish merging into one giant black hole, will it force a big bang like event? If we assume the universe to be a large 3d sphere, what's the topology of space in it if it's just
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by akomtu 3y ago
It looks like you're doing his work. You may try to undercut him by connecting with his managers, get his job, or get fired if he sees your plan. You may try to make it clear to him you understand this arrangement and you're fine
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by akomtu 3y ago
If you were a director at google, would you improve another director's project or start a competing project?
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by akomtu 3y ago
At least it's trained by humans. In 50 years Bard will train humans to be more efficient in its neo-corporate culture, where Bard is the CEO.

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