alexilliamson

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by alexilliamson 5mo ago
Perhaps you misundestand the Tennessee Williams quote. He's not saying that Miami is literally in Ohio, just that is has no character.
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by alexilliamson 8mo ago
The current guy is nothing if not a documented professional wrestling fan
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by alexilliamson 1y ago
I have a decent grasp of theory and have seen the value of grinding scales on other instruments. With piano, I'm never sure which fingers I'm supposed to be using or when to move my fingers up the keys. Do you have any guidance?
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by alexilliamson 2y ago
Most likely is that the side with the army and guns turns the blue areas into an occupied police state, and sells it to the constituency as a "civil war", despite it being completely one-sided.
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by alexilliamson 2y ago
Well-defined goal is the big one. We wanted a big bomb. What does AGI do? AGI is up against a philosophical barrier, not a technical one. We'll continue improving AI's ability to automate and assist human decisions, but how doe
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by alexilliamson 2y ago
It would still need an objective to guide the evolution that was originally given by humans. Humans have the drive for survival and reproduction... what about AGI? How do we go from a really good algorithm to an independently motivated, au
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by alexilliamson 2y ago
Do you have examples?
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by alexilliamson 2y ago
I didn't mean for it to be inflammatory, but it's certainly not unnecessary to the conversation. We can both-sides it all day, but the fact is that one side has a militia proudly ready to use force. Like other commenters have su
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by alexilliamson 2y ago
Yes, but only one side has the guns.
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by alexilliamson 2y ago
This is the "limiting harm" part of 2.
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
Congrats on having good parents! However, I believe that most of this discussion applies to those less fortunate poor kids with shitty parents.
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
I'm very skeptical of the claim that most of the kids with good parents in your poor neighborhood ended up in the 1%. Even with good parents, kids can grow up to be dumb and poorly socialized. Also, "poor" as you're usi
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
What happens more often, MSM doing culture war gymnastics? Or people accusing MSM of culture war gymnastics (an accusation which is, itself, culture war gymnastics)?
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
I was sort of with you until the FSD
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
I read all three and had enough hope at the beginning to push through. I really hated the second person, the stream of consciousness prose, the random all-caps, and the relentlessly bleak tone. I think NK Jimison may be a talented writer
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
Ok fine... these replies are making me feel like I should read some more NK Jimison. Broken Earth did not land for me at all, but I hear all the enthusiasm and I'll keep an open mind.
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
I did not initially realize the Hugos worked this way, so I really felt compelled to check out the Broken Earth trilogy. Now, I'm one of the last people to cry "woke", but those books were awful IMO. There is no way the awar
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
With the exception of abortion - which I think is the hardest ideological gap to bridge - I agree that the media and government keep the focus on trivial culture war issues to create the illusion of having multiple options in the voting boo
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
The end results of any statistical exercise (frequentist or Bayesian) depend on something assumed.
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
Why would anyone give control of air traffic or weapons to AI? That's the key step in AGI, not some tech development. By what social process exactly would we give control of nukes to a chatbot? I can't see it happening.
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
No way. That interview was a full month and half ago. Moreover, these days everyone and their brother is going on JRE to complain about "woke".
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
If you're looking for a complex fantasy series that will occupy you for a long time, I cannot recommend Malazan Book of the Fallen enough!
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
AskHistorians is one of the finest things the Internet has to offer IMO
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
There is some good content in the book, but beware that Matthew Walker is a bit of an intellectual fraudster https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/24/why-we-sle...
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
She bought digital and I can play it though.
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
That's odd... My partner bought the game and I can play it on the same device with my profile.
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
Go Cats!
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
Funny thing, I'm originally from Huntington, WV. My fiance has never been to WV, and we're thinking of skipping the trip to Huntington and just meeting my family in Fayetteville for a weekend trip.
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
That Magnolia performance is a standout among fantastic performances. What a great movie.
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by alexilliamson 3y ago
Still really bitter about Inbox shutting down. It was really good!

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