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by altruios 2y ago
You must observe before doing experiments. Otherwise you would not know if you are asking the right questions. It takes a lot of observation before you can gather enough data to ask intelligent questions. you can ask questions before gather
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by altruios 2y ago
The experience of qualia doesn't define any test. By what metrics would we even test it against? Are qualia orderable in any way? Do they have weight, a size, or substance? Do processes of material 'exist' physically in any m
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by altruios 2y ago
How much attention do you need? ...is probably an important question too.
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by altruios 2y ago
Well: it's the generalization that a large corporation is communicating with an agency as a whole entity - thousands of employees aware, top to bottom - as opposed to just 1 or 2 people at the top receiving secret orders. It is strange
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by altruios 2y ago
Aye, a universal mount is possible if you have a custom housing for each mount type to match the backplane. Using BMD equipment might run afoul of patents... I don't know enough about the legal end of equipment manufacturing to say. Bu
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by altruios 2y ago
will* (Almost?) all mounts have their own focal distance from the backplane. I don't know of any two that share the same distance.
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by altruios 2y ago
I'm left handed and play the piano. I think if I had a learned on a reversed piano - it would not transfer to a regular piano - I would be able to play better. What which hand is responsible for (melody, accompaniment/rhythm) have
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by altruios 2y ago
Study does not exactly imply that left-handers are the cause of the violence, just corelated to societies' total violence. Perhaps we are exceptionally annoying to right-handers. This 'um, actually...' post would then be a sa
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by altruios 2y ago
Informally: it would seem that of course social media exacerbates the spread of any social contagion such as bulimia, anorexia, 'alpha'-ness, etc... Maybe it also helps to immunize people to those same contagions as well: that see
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by altruios 2y ago
That would be a serious magic trick, as that's the explanation given to the rubes. Some sort of auto-shuffling machine with some computer vision to match the shuffling in real time... still a magic trick, a different kind of impressive
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by altruios 2y ago
IRC still is around. Pretty sure most of the user base is human still.
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by altruios 2y ago
I remember a similar argument made since the 1980's... 40 years later and a lot of stall-outs... It could be hubris to assume we know enough yet to replicate our 'kind' of intelligence. Just as it might be hubris to assert AI
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by altruios 2y ago
well... Which parts of the (skin) cell are alive? Here are the options: 1: All of it is irreducibly together alive. 2: Some of it is alive, some of it is not. If 1: then life is made of non living material. If 2: repeat the above options wi
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by altruios 2y ago
Excellent point. To which I point out: we have exited various agreements before.
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by altruios 2y ago
like I said, I don't think this is relevant now. We don't know what sentience IS exactly, as we have a hard time defining it. We assume other people are sentient because of the ways they act. We make a judgment based on behavior,
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by altruios 2y ago
Why should companies live forever? If they have 'personhood' then they need to die at some point... otherwise we have cancerous monstrosities we see currently. That is what happens when any component of something larger (society)
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by altruios 2y ago
If I amass any kind of political power: I'd set copyright for a maximum of 5 years, patents for 10 years, trademarks for 20. It would kickstart innovation, settle fair use of training data, and protect the internet archive. On the down
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by altruios 2y ago
Not just a mp3 file. any media you have purchased can be format shifted by you for archive/personal purposes. regardless of DRM/copy protections. What is illegal is redistribution (thus the copyright). Again: ianal. But this is ki
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by altruios 2y ago
Such a translation would be "format shifting" which is protected under US/UK law (IANAL).
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by altruios 2y ago
I can run legally an mp3 through a calculator. No one can dictate otherwise - it's my machine, and purchased media to do with as I (privately) please. This does not interfere with copyright. To legislate otherwise would be insane - as
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by altruios 2y ago
So at what point to we consider the morality of 'owning' such an entity/construct (should it prove itself sufficiently sentient...)? to extend this (to a hypothetical future situation): what morality does a company have of &#
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by altruios 2y ago
What 'kind' of AI is it? the article doesn't say.
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by altruios 2y ago
My understanding is the way the tokenization works prevents the LMM from being able to count occurrences of words or individual characters.
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by altruios 2y ago
God is not physically real. Neither are numbers. Both come from thinking minds. God is an egregore. It may be useful to model the various religions as singular entities under this lens, not true in the strictest sense, but useful none the l
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by altruios 2y ago
I think you presume too much of private entities, which would always put their financial interest first (lead gasoline science studies come to mind, tobacco/cancer obfuscation... etc)... you can't trust a private company not to ac
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by altruios 2y ago
I am amazed you are being downvoted for advocating increased funding for reproduceable studies. The Replication crisis is real, and can be avoided if more effort is put in not to discover something new, but instead to verifying the old info
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by altruios 2y ago
You are describing something that violates system setting for it's own benefit instead of the end user. You are describing malware. Benign malware is still malicious, even if it does no active harm. Intent (of how the software operates
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by altruios 2y ago
thank you! Sorry, tone is very hard on the internet sometimes. Any sass would be directed at mono-lingual-future dreamers.
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by altruios 2y ago
>Sapir-Whorf? Can’t that just be put to bed by now? Said by someone who only speaks one language? Nice Idiom: shame if something were to happen to it. It is SO EASY to prove this (literally just talk to any multilingual and watch their e
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by altruios 2y ago
Well, speaking in different languages facilitates different modes of thinking which results in different thoughts. Some thoughts are easier to have in one language than another. It takes all sorts to make a world and multiple languages mean

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