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by akomtu 9mo ago
Dao is the way of life, it teaches the proper way to live. This teaching exists in every culture. Westerners call it the Way, Indians call it Dharma, Chinese also call it Fa. The simpler it looks, the higher its level. Its written forms hav
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by akomtu 9mo ago
> In Demons, the revolutionary circle does not have a coherent plan for social transformation. Its members have various ideas, many of them contradictory. What they share is not a program but an orientation—toward destruction, toward the
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by akomtu 9mo ago
Sure, that will work, but it's log2 passes + temp framebuffers. As for overhead, I'm afraid it will eat a couple fps if you run it on every frame. In practice, though, I'm not sure that finding the exact maximum is that valua
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by akomtu 9mo ago
That's what EXT_float_blend does. It's true, though, that you can't find the global min/max in webgl2. This could be done, theoretically, with mipmaps if only those mipmaps supported the max function.
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by akomtu 9mo ago
You may be right, but for a different reason: the majority apps on Apple and Google appstores will be 100% AI generated crapware.
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by akomtu 9mo ago
At 1M points it hardly makes a difference. Besides, 1 point -> 1 pixel mapping is good enough for a demo, but in practice it will produce nasty aliasing artifacts because real datasets aren't aligned with pixel coordinates. So you h
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by akomtu 9mo ago
Emm.. no, you just do one render pass to a temp framebuffer with 1 red channel, then another fragment shader maps it to an RGB palette.
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by akomtu 9mo ago
You don't need webgpu for that. It's a standard vertex shader -> fragment shader pass with the blending mode set to addition.
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by akomtu 9mo ago
"Accounts payable: 11111. In 1 hour. John Wick. Excommunicado." The essence of prediction markets.
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by akomtu 9mo ago
Imo, the opposite is true: you'll find out who you are only when you have given up all those false identities animated by you.
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by akomtu 9mo ago
This innocent looking idea represents a shift in mentality: embracing laziness and giving up control to AI. And the latter needs to offer surprisingly little.
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by akomtu 9mo ago
That theory, or mental model, is a lot like a program, but of a higher kind. A mental model answers the question: what if I do this or that? It can answer this question with a different level of detail, unlike the program that must be execu
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by akomtu 9mo ago
The solution, then, is to add comments to every difficult line of code and have an LLM check that comments match the code. Then you get precision and reliability of machine language + readability of human language
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by akomtu 9mo ago
Guardrails? OpenAI openly deceives users when it wraps this text generator with a quasi personality of a chatbot. This is how it gets users hooked. If OpenAI was honest, it would tell something along the lines: "this is a possible cont
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by akomtu 9mo ago
AI makes it possible to do active ads, for example: "gradually steer users in group A to do B and C." This is possible because AI imitates humans so well and many have made it their secret most trusted advisor. Imagine your best f
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by akomtu 9mo ago
It seems there is a rule of thumb: the top 10% holds half of the assets. top 0.1% $23T (those with $46M) top 1% $52T top 10% $113T (those with $2M) It also seems to apply to spending too: "Consumers i
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by akomtu 9mo ago
AI is a blender for human culture: it shreds our culture into slop, dumps it into uniform briquettes and adds a bright plastic wrap with ads.
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by akomtu 9mo ago
It's very similar to what europeans did to american indian tribes a few centuries ago: they gave them alcohol. A neutral substance by itself, which could be used for disinfection or to light up fires. But it has a destructive side too
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by akomtu 9mo ago
Great book. Its first part could become a sci-fi novel, and that's probably how many of the great novels were written. Its second part makes me think that you have a high spiritual foundation, despite your hardcore scientific attitude.
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by akomtu 9mo ago
AI is built by violating all rules and moral codes. Now they want rules and moral code to protect them.
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by akomtu 9mo ago
This is obviously a collision between our human culture and the machine culture, and on the surface its intent is evil, as many have guessed already. But what it also does is it separates the two sides cleanly, as they want to pursue differ
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by akomtu 9mo ago
> Big picture, you could fight AI downstream by capitalizing on it near term. Trying to beat a demon long term by making a contract with it short term?
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by akomtu 9mo ago
Google, who feeds us bite-sized content with LLMs, wants us to make long-form content for its LLMs. That's almost demonic creativity.
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by akomtu 9mo ago
"AI" will mindlessly rehash what you feed it with. If the training dataset favors A over B, so will the "AI".
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by akomtu 9mo ago
Sounds like AI fanatics are running the show.
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by akomtu 9mo ago
So, you effectively have 20-50 developers of your caliber doing work for you for free? You must be running your own company now. The reality is probably simpler: you've automated a good deal of busywork that you would never have done o
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by akomtu 10mo ago
> Only a slave quantifies its existence through productivity > If I can turn myself into a mechanism that takes input and consistently works towards some goal... This is, in fact, a quasi-religion, if you think about it. Its central d
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by akomtu 10mo ago
> why smart, very technical people can't just talk about LLMs honestly Because those smart people are usually low-rung employees while their bosses are often AI fanatics. Were they to express anti-AI views, they would be fired. Then
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by akomtu 10mo ago
In that case, LLMs must be written off as very knowledgeable crackpots because of their tendency to make things up. That's how we would treat a scientist who's caught making things up.
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by akomtu 10mo ago
The fault is well known: chatbots are bootlickers. They always praise users and never criticize them, so chatbots are quickly promoted to the personal advisor position. The AI of Sauron of technological age.

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