allears

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by allears 3y ago
Um, a "world model" in the context of AI doesn't mean a map of the globe. It means a model of reality as humans perceive it, with all of the cultural, social, historical, etc. associations. And that is what AI plainly does no
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by allears 3y ago
Yeah, but even if you pay for it they'll still collect all your personal information. This is just a misdirection on their part. It's not the ads that are the problem (well, they're part of the problem), it's the privacy
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by allears 3y ago
In order to research something, you first need to define what it is. There are a lot of mental phenomena, some subjective and some measurable, that may or may not be components of "consciousness." "State of mind" is a ve
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by allears 3y ago
I've been violating just about all of his rules, all my life (and I'm in my 70's) and have never gotten food poisoning as far as I know. Well, except for once at a restaurant, but that dish was brought to me straight out of t
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by allears 3y ago
Probably the difference in solar installations.
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by allears 3y ago
With help from the internet and a little effort, you can remove those popups, McAfee ads, etc. When I set up a PC for somebody, I always take care of that stuff. After you get rid of the crap, it's a fairly usable OS. And, of course, t
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by allears 3y ago
Nice idea, but not useful unless each DAW manufacturer supports the format. And there are a lot of DAWs.
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by allears 3y ago
I tried to use their site to get help with a locked-out Google account, but they had no answers.
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by allears 3y ago
Bunch of blather. For one thing there are definitely babies born with ambiguous genitalia. For another thing, the author is conflating "sex" and "gender" which are two different concepts. Not only that, but among other s
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by allears 3y ago
Psychedelics are not necessarily a feel-good, euphoric kind of drug. They will put you more in touch with reality, both external and internal. Ultimately, that's a good thing, but that's why set and setting are so important. And i
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by allears 3y ago
Fabulous! Amazon now offers customers the option of paying to look at ads. (Edit -- I see that there will still be an ad-free tier, but it will cost an extra $3 a month. Doesn't affect me anyway, I'm not a Prime subscriber.)
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by allears 3y ago
Because it's totally normal for an author to publish 2 or 3 books a day, but 4 books is just suspicious.
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by allears 3y ago
I don't use smart home devices -- there aren't any features there that appeal to me. But my understanding is that it's entirely possible to set up a connected home that doesn't depend on cloud services, or on devices con
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by allears 3y ago
Um if you read the article it says that quote was actually from Charles Manson.
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by allears 3y ago
They should also measure the CO2 emissions of a human at resting state vs. a human engaged in the act of writing. This would reveal the exact 'cost' of human writing.
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by allears 3y ago
As long as it's by invitation only, I won't be able to try it. I wonder how many other people are in my situation?
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by allears 3y ago
I don't use cash much, except at the farmer's market and for small purchases. But I do pay a lot of bills by check. I get quite a few invoices in the mail with a tear-off enclosure and a reply envelope, so I write maybe 5 or more
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by allears 3y ago
tl;dr -- You can't. The article talks all around the subject without coming to any conclusions. The title is total clickbait.
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by allears 3y ago
Then I guess I must be an ultra alpha macho male since I never post at all.
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by allears 3y ago
Their conclusions are based on the output, without having any idea of how LLMs work. LLMs are very good at generating plausible language, remembering previous input, and sounding very similar to a human. But self-aware? Nope.
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by allears 3y ago
The company spokesperson wanted to promote his product, and the article's author wanted to write an interesting story, but there's a fair amount of misinformation about audio in there. For instance, "digital recordings don&#x
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by allears 3y ago
Anybody have a link that avoids the paywall?
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by allears 3y ago
Exceedingly uninformative. All this information has been known for months. This is corporate boilerplate, for reasons unknown.
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by allears 3y ago
paywall.
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by allears 3y ago
No, I don't think that follows. The current model of neurons firing, even if it can be simulated by a computer, does not explain consciousness. Whether the source of consciousness is non-physical, or whether there is some physical expl
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by allears 3y ago
Nope. Nobody is "programming" neurons. And anyway, nobody so far has explained how neurons firing leads to consciousness.
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by allears 3y ago
This is an excellent essay that says better than I could why AI is not, and will never be, "conscious" in the way that a human is conscious.
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by allears 3y ago
Only if you think that white cotton tshirts are the only kind. Apparently that's what hipsters go for these days. I prefer triblend fabrics and interesting colors.
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by allears 3y ago
Well written, but entirely from the point of view of gaming. Not being a gamer, I wasn't familiar with any of the examples. And the 'how to use them' section briefly mentioned using various modes with certain kinds of chords,
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by allears 3y ago
I use a plugin called Zoompage to make the type larger, and Stylus to put everything in dark mode. I kind of like the minimal interface. People can always customized browser settings if they want to, and the site is refreshingly straightfor

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