albatross79

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by albatross79 8mo ago
I give it until the next model that you'll be proclaiming how NOW IT'S THE REAL THING FOR SURE THIS TIME GUYS.
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by albatross79 8mo ago
You're right, it is tempting to dunk on AI boosters every time an article like this comes out and puts a damper on their sci fi fan fiction fantasies. There's just something about a grown person getting all excited like a child th
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by albatross79 8mo ago
"The lemmings can't be wrong, they're all doing it". I think you're overlooking the incentive structures here.
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by albatross79 8mo ago
You seem to be doing a lot of feeling, have you tried thinking? It's pretty cool when you need a break from feeling.
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by albatross79 8mo ago
> If there is no inside to a box, then knowing everything about how the box interacts with things outside the box, is pretty much everything there is to know about the box, yeah. Yeah, that's kind of a biggie. And kind of the point.
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by albatross79 8mo ago
Sounds like you might have gotten lost in abstractions. It's a simple question. There is a box. I cannot see inside. I can model the output based on my input to it. Is that enough to tell me everything I want to know about the box? If
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by albatross79 8mo ago
"And, as for what precisely a quantum field is, this is somewhat mysterious, but generally it is a quantum version of a classical field, where there is a value (e.g. “value of the electromagnetic field”) at each point in spacetime.&quo
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by albatross79 8mo ago
"That which can be measured is a real thing." But this is just mystifying measurement. It's a convention that's been adopted because we've had to regress on the question of what is a real thing. It's not someth
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by albatross79 8mo ago
> Again, your complaints sound like dissatisfaction with the fact that the world doesn’t run on stuff that fundamentally resembles substances we have everyday familiarity with. Ok, so you tell me, what does it run on? Intrinsic curvature
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by albatross79 8mo ago
I'm not interested really in how something behaves, that's an accounting or record keeping task. I am interested in why it behaves a certain way, or what it is. Why does the earth go around the sun? We're told it's becau
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by albatross79 8mo ago
I think probably in the past what one might have expected to find is akin to something like a magical material that couldn't be further probed. That would have been satisfying in a sense because it brings a wonder back into it while co
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by albatross79 8mo ago
"He can't keep getting away with it!" But seriously, how does this degenerate scammer keep getting away with it, it's unbelievable. Has any con man in history operated as long as Elon at this scale? You'd probably h
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by albatross79 8mo ago
Just get a puzzle book
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by albatross79 8mo ago
But the question is "what is the universe made of?", and the answer given is "mathematical abstractions that fit the data".
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by albatross79 8mo ago
It's not a matter of taste. This is like going to a restaurant, expecting a delicious meal, and being brought a dish with a fancy name made out of the actual menu itself. Would anyone go back there to eat?
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by albatross79 8mo ago
Why are we even trying to look deeper? To fit our mathematical curves better? Abstract spacetime, fields, virtual particles, wave function collapse, quantized energy, wave particle duality, etc. This is all BS. And I'm not disputing th
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by albatross79 8mo ago
We're already in the realm of virtual particles, instantaneous collapse, fields with abstract geometric shape and no material reality, wave particle duality, quantized energy etc. The project of physics was to discover what the univers
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by albatross79 9mo ago
What a shithole of a company, why does anyone work there, is it just all H1B slaves there now?
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by albatross79 9mo ago
It didn't, but it got us Trump too, so there's that. Let's see what happens this time.
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by albatross79 9mo ago
Yeah these bums better get with the program. If The Company needs you to uproot your life and move to Timbuktu start packing or hit the bricks pal.
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by albatross79 9mo ago
Because he's not naive?
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by albatross79 9mo ago
Elon proved that "corporate puffery" is more valuable than any product you make or could make. The job of CEOs now is to generate science fiction fantasies and sell those to the public.
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by albatross79 9mo ago
"the apparent is the same as the real", "this two dimensional photo is the same as the world it was taken in" says the tech bro, as he unskilfully attempts to emulate a philosopher.
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by albatross79 9mo ago
It's not even AI, let alone AGI. It's a high dimensional statistical map of language, that's all.
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by albatross79 10mo ago
Because it's a marginal improvement and though useful it's being sold by degenerate tech grifters as the science fiction dream come true to increase their influence and wealth. Everyone is sick and tired of these overgrown teenage
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by albatross79 10mo ago
If you prefer public health policies you prefer the solution for the lowest common denominator.
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by albatross79 10mo ago
The Pied Piper's tune leads you to the river to drown. If you want to survive you need to plug your ears and stay close to him.