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by akomtu 3y ago
This premise about large subsets falls apart when you apply it to maples and oaks, even less it's applicable to free willed creatures gifted with intelligence. If you see a difference between two subgroups, it means your understanding
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by akomtu 3y ago
If the outcome doesn't depend on your actions, there's no point in doing anything. Such a lethargic society cannot function, so to push it into motion the ruler has to use force and cruelty. The people will do the work, not becaus
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by akomtu 3y ago
This example is about generosity. In this case you don't owe anything to your less fortunate peer, but not sharing it is greed and when greed is the driving force of our society, it's not surprising nobody wants to share his wealt
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by akomtu 3y ago
"I wasn't conscious when that or this happened" implies that consciousness is just perception. Neutrinos fly straight thru our bodies, but we don't perceive that, so we aren't conscious of that reality. We can be co
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by akomtu 3y ago
Not everything. For example, how did Wagner create his music? The ability to appreciate beauty stands above reasoning. But your point largely stands, as langugage processing alone allows to build a "linear thinking machine" with s
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by akomtu 3y ago
One argument against ChatGPT's AI-ness was that it's wildly unstable: a small change in the input may become a big change in the output. When that's fixed, GPT will still need memory to learn things, as AI that can't lea
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by akomtu 3y ago
Note how they spin AI-powered thoughtpolice of entire people as a desirable thing.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Thinking is like drawing pictures, and watching those pictures is a different process.
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by akomtu 3y ago
You must have revealed their most guarded secret project.
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by akomtu 3y ago
One way to visualize 4d is using scale as the 4th dimension. Objects that are far along the 4th axis will appear too small or too large.
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by akomtu 3y ago
That's a shallow understanding of my message. I said that it's the dogma that corrupts minds and makes otherwise reasonable people do wicked things. Who created the dogma is a secondary question, for the US has plenty of enemies.
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by akomtu 3y ago
How do you automate sorting clothes? I assume you're getting huge piles of random stuff.
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by akomtu 3y ago
By learning to calmly observe your thoughts and emotions.
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by akomtu 3y ago
If you collect a 50% tax from one village and a 20% tax from another village, it's expected that the second village will eventually absorb all the wealth. It's not surprising because the tax collectors happen to live in the second
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by akomtu 3y ago
What does that efficiency metric optimize for? For most americans, switching to public transit means turning their 1-2 hr daily commute into a 3-6 hr. Most americans cannot afford to live in downtowns or near their jobs.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Many software enterprises are similar to cattle farms: they follow seasonal cycles when at first the farmer feeds his cows and lets them multiply, creating a false impression that the farmer cares about the cows, followed by the harvest pha
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by akomtu 3y ago
The horror of every tyrant: when one of his commanders realizes that he has more power than his boss.
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by akomtu 3y ago
What's the rate of such collisions for trucks and sedans?
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by akomtu 3y ago
"As a dev lead of the github copilot team, I was responsible for creating the first prototype, designing the plan to productionize it, onboarded a team of engineers, blah blah..." Now pocket your 250k sign on bonus + 650k annual c
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by akomtu 3y ago
HN needs a simple feature: a weekly digest view that shows the top 30 most commented posts (it should completely ignore flags and votes).
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by akomtu 3y ago
A few centuries ago the French gov would say it was fighting heresy. Today they are supposedly fighting terrorism. A few centuries later they'll be fighting oldthinkers.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Burglars want to change ownership of things in your house, so why don't we move on to communal ownership where all things are shared? The root of the problem is the "seed of evil", also known as selfishness or the idea of sep
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by akomtu 3y ago
And how do we stop someone from breaking into your house? By moving everyone to barracks.
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by akomtu 3y ago
A ball lightning needs a blob of charged particles and a powerful magnetron nearby to keep that blob spinning.
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by akomtu 3y ago
I'm sure Stripe records all transactions, so if the need arises, those postcards will be quickly traced to credit cards + phone numbers + ip addresses.
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by akomtu 3y ago
I bet many of them were groomed by special agents the same way.
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by akomtu 3y ago
The red team, offence, manufactures crimes, the blue team, defence, solves them. Crime plots that happen to be completely staffed by agents dont get reported.
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by akomtu 3y ago
By far, the biggest danger to people are tyrannies and wars they wage on their neighbors and their own people. Communusm, nazism, maoism have killed so many that only diseases can rival them. Unjust deaths caused by civilian firearms don&#x
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by akomtu 3y ago
The first 3 words carry the same information as: hackers hacked hackable proprietary code. So just "proprietary code hacked" is enough.
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by akomtu 3y ago
By VCs I meant the staff on commission that has a budget and picks bets. They don't own the money, LPs do.

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