altruios

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by altruios 2mo ago
What has the elon-verse been spewing out that has you in such an altered state?
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by altruios 2mo ago
Elon did that twice, actually, in real life!
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by altruios 2mo ago
Costco isn't perfect, and things slip through still. For example: this is a minor annoyance, but comes readily to mind. https://www.costco.com/p/-/orgain-organic-protein-and-superf... The problem is labeling
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by altruios 3mo ago
pulse audio's pain points were in setup for me, and in setup alone. using it has been a breeze.
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by altruios 3mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI relevant link. I remember watching this video with the takeaway: if you want it secure, build it yourself... which is what I am currently doing.
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by altruios 3mo ago
> Any tool that tries to enhance a low quality image or video is just going to be making up the missing data. So there is some things that instinctively don't sound correct here. A frame may not contain the info to enhance, maybe it
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by altruios 3mo ago
What are you even trying to say: "undercut the professor"... The further you try to constrain this topic into this illformed analogy the weirder it becomes. If we start off with a better analogy...
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by altruios 3mo ago
This is a silly perspective, inaccurate, and out of bounds framing. Public libraries, in this instance, is curated data from all the internet, obtained through not legal means (I don't have a problem with this other than lack of attrib
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by altruios 3mo ago
> "...I am a computer program that generates responses to your prompts based on what my training data tells me is most likely to be correct and sensible." This is correct only for a toy mental model of what an llm is capable of
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by altruios 3mo ago
I agree with this. And also think that we should train and select for trustworthy models. I also agree that these models may never truly be trustworthy.
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by altruios 3mo ago
Regardless of how correct they are, they assume liability: which is a metric that you do not improve with more bookkeepers.
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by altruios 3mo ago
does this assume a maximum of one malicious bookkeeper?
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by altruios 3mo ago
...again: liability is the key issue. Cost savings a not exactly an isolated issue here.
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by altruios 3mo ago
Why would I want both a less accurate book keeper and to incur all of the liability of doing the books myself?!
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by altruios 3mo ago
AI only needs to be better than a human, which is also fallible. But I would only accept AI note taking if it was reconciled (in a timely manner) by a human listening to the audio recording and verifying accuracy. Without that, it's an
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by altruios 3mo ago
Besides the reward of a more capable brain, the reduced effects/risks of dementia, the contrarian need to argue, the altruistic desire to help neighbors with difficult problems, the selfish urge to daydream... yeah, there are people fo
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by altruios 3mo ago
The most compelling reason to learn to code is exactly the same reason to read lots of books (fiction or otherwise). It exercises your brain. A brain that can easily sort, parse, and understand basic logic and control flow is more resistant
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by altruios 3mo ago
If AI was a productivity boon: wouldn't a company employ the same or more employees to capture more market share at a competitive edge. Shedding employees because they are more efficient seems like shooting yourself in the foot to try
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by altruios 3mo ago
...well actually... There are more combinations than merely having only X, or an XY combination. And there is more fuzziness even in the Y and X expression, as you said. It's fuzzy all the way down. The tale of Binary results has alway
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by altruios 3mo ago
I do not believe it exists. If it is never, then it must not exist. proofs I would accept: (for Christianity) Biblically accurate angels descend onto earth, to everyone, and submit themselves to scientific testing, which conclude they are m
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by altruios 3mo ago
> Someone who does not believe in god will not be convinced to believe by a proof of god's existence. But of course that's not true. I would believe in a God with proof of their existence. I simply have not encountered such pro
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by altruios 3mo ago
One idea that stuck out to me was an array of giant thin solar powered spinning metal Crookes radiometers magnets in a line to make a railgun-like launcher. Materially cheap to do. Related, but not exactly what I was thinking of: https:&#x
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by altruios 4mo ago
> Fiat currency isn't just a matter of belief or stories ... Then how do we, as a society, determine how much a dollar is worth?! We do use force to enforce the stories we tell about fiat. But 'believe this story about how much
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by altruios 4mo ago
Thank you for the clarification. Music is weird. My understanding was the well-tempered clavichord was one of the oldest deviations (that was written) from the concept of just intonation: you learn something everyday.
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by altruios 4mo ago
We actually have multiple names for all the notes - which have a 'reason' to exist. A B-double-flat and an A-natural, and G double-sharp exist, distinct for notational purposes... yes, it sounds dumb. Music IS arbitrary in a lot o
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by altruios 4mo ago
Reading causes your brain to hallucinate. Visualization is a muscle: reading is the weights at the gym.
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by altruios 4mo ago
My assumption with their intent: is that red tokens come in 'slot' a-b, and blue tokens go in 'slot' c-d - Positional encoding determining data/text. I don't think is guaranteed to actually work, it's a hy
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by altruios 4mo ago
> The response is to refuse to use Microsoft software. Use a Mac Or Linux: an actual FOSS OS.
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by altruios 4mo ago
What money is, what it represents, is value. But value is a complete opaque quality. At best we have an approximation: an 'expectation' of value. Expectation results in people paying for more for misprinted coins. Expectation is t
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by altruios 4mo ago
I thought the ridiculousness was plain to read, still included the /s at the end, and yet...

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