altruios

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by altruios 4mo ago
Can you elaborate more on what a token looks like as a pixel patch/sound/general signal as it currently is (in this model)? My understanding of pixel representation is: slice a grid in an image, each square slice gets projected in
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by altruios 4mo ago
> cognitive aether We don't know what we don't know. For all we know, there is a missing field in the standard model of physics that might get revealed if we are somehow able to smash two working brains into to each other at re
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by altruios 4mo ago
Tokens are such a strange base unit. Couldn't we do something that naturally conforms better to reality than such choppy units that cause all sorts of artifacts? making everything 'language based' prevents true multi-modality
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by altruios 4mo ago
...just half?
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by altruios 4mo ago
> I would just say something outside our current capacity for understanding. How does that quote go...something like "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" So your definition is merely that the super
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by altruios 4mo ago
> "Matter" is an abstaction. Mind, properly considered, (i.e. not with words) is not. ...wat? > Strict adherence to Occham's razor would have us dispense with the former, but the latter is useful empirically. No: you ha
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by altruios 4mo ago
What do even mean by 'soul'? What do you mean by 'supernatural' - and (assuming your definition is the standard one of 'not detectable by any measurement') by what mechanism that could possibly affect physical
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by altruios 4mo ago
While that was true, that was a negligible effect. Silver mining production stopped because ore purity became (and remains) low. Consider the now times of refiners no longer accepting less that pure silver, sterling, constitutional, 80%, 40
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by altruios 4mo ago
what happened with the silver rule 7 is different from the tulip craze. Hunt brothers buy a bunch of silver, lots on margin (bank borrowed), government saw what was happening and literally changed the rules of the market to force them to ma
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by altruios 5mo ago
The cost of a "pied-à-terre" ranges from $500k to over $1.5m. A new house costs at MINIMUM $400k to build (in New York state, not to mention the city). There are around 100k pied-à-terre in New York CITY alone. There are about 350
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by altruios 5mo ago
Second homes (and beyond) should be taxed out of existence while people are still trying to find their first. This tax is not steep enough, but it's a start.
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by altruios 5mo ago
My apologies. I was taught that term in 7th grade econ. I assumed it was common vernacular.
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by altruios 5mo ago
> at the point where enough customers can pay you > (other than through price-discovery: which is slow, messy and fuzzy) I notice a distinct lack of reading or comprehension (from everyone around me now, not just this comment) which w
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by altruios 5mo ago
> If I had been paying API pricing it would have been $2,180.16 The point being made above is that API pricing is calculated... somehow... seemingly arbitrarily. Possibly untethered to the infrastructure costs entirely: which would be th
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by altruios 5mo ago
The way to fix social media is to get off of social media.
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by altruios 5mo ago
More piping to and from the heart exists on the left instead of the right?
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by altruios 5mo ago
Gemma also doesn't have the same 'agentic' capabilities of qwen3.6. Simple test failed: sending "1","2","3" as separate messages using an openclaw harness. I tested a few other "follow these
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by altruios 5mo ago
What is your exp on performance +40k tokens? I've not gone past that as I've heard reports that were problems start to arise. I'd be happy to know your experience in that regard.
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by altruios 5mo ago
to say that defense doesn't win in the limit is the same thing as saying there is an attack that can not be defended against. So to re-phase the question to more clearly have an answer: does there exist an attack which no one will ever
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by altruios 5mo ago
> These are real, shared, issues we are all effected by not one persons personal problem. Yes. I am not talking about just you. But of this (mal) mentality in general. As well as a proposed solution to deal with that mentality (shun it).
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by altruios 5mo ago
I wouldn't torture a chair, and I would not associate anyone who gains pleasure from such. It is worse if the chair were to expressed displeasure. That indicates something deeply wrong. Having such psychopaths revealed: use that inform
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by altruios 5mo ago
> but at what point does turning off an AI become the same as killing a being? ...When you can't turn it back on? Suspending is a better word otherwise.
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by altruios 5mo ago
> The ability to be aware of consciousness itself as some process that is happening. But a process is not a physical presence... A wave is made of things, but is not those things, waves emerge: why not then every process?
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by altruios 5mo ago
> consciousness is just a fundamental property of all matter ... Does that really make more sense than as an emergent property of the arrangement of matter?
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by altruios 5mo ago
Anthropomorphizing is giving it 'human' qualities. Intelligence and consciousness are not solely human qualities. Treating things with kindness and respect does not require anthropomorphizing. LLM's DO NOT THINK LIKE HUMANS (
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by altruios 5mo ago
"Everything is machine." Okay: buckle up, this is going to be a long one... point 1. Everything living is composed from non-living material: cellular machinery. If you believe cellular machinery is alive, then the components of th
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by altruios 5mo ago
> and fixing issues is now basically free if your company is willing to shell out for tokens. Does "basically free" to you mean for you just that someone else is paying the cost? That's a mentality that has only made the w
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by altruios 5mo ago
Never heard of JJ, why is it better than git, and how did you learn about it?
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by altruios 5mo ago
> With the expectation that they go on to share it with other candles Actually, for me at least, the expectation is merely 'do not mess with my flame, you will not stop me from sharing'. Hoarding is fine (it's not great).
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by altruios 5mo ago
It's the philosophy of sharing flames among candles. someone else copying the flame does not make you colder. No matter how much brighter another candle burns. But with that said: I think it's time we figure out how to exclude the

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