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by altruios 1y ago
Maybe a randomized walk is the optimal healing algorithm barring any directive force? A local maximum. It can use the endocrine signaling though... and other directive signaling. So maybe those wear with time? Maybe not just any electric si
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by altruios 1y ago
> There clearly are processes, like oscillations, that require material to some extent, but are not material themselves. And that's the problem with the materialist camp. If the oscillations, dynamically integrated, are the source o
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by altruios 1y ago
Cutting costs are not inherently good. Junk food can be cheaper than healthy food, it's not good to save on money now at the cost of spending thousands on medical care and insulin in the future. Or to paraphrase Terry Pratchett: "
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by altruios 1y ago
Censorship is a tool to combat misinformation. It's taking a sword to the surgery room where no scalpel has been invented yet. We need better tools to combat dis/mis-information. I wish I knew what that tool was. Maybe 'inocu
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by altruios 1y ago
One-shot prompting: agreed. Using a node based workflow with comfyUI, also being able to draw, also being able to train on your own images in a lora, and effectively using control nets and masks: different story... I see, in the near future
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by altruios 1y ago
> They can't buy up enough small players to make it work. We just don't have the data to track that. KKR, Blackstone, and Bain Capital, all buy up small time contractors, as well as real estate. They absolutely have the money t
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by altruios 1y ago
Not everyone needs a home, no, that is not the assumption. It does make the assumption that it's bad to buy twenty houses and live in only one while also opposing more housing contraction. 'Abolish rent' is still a good read.
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by altruios 1y ago
'Abolish rent' is a good read. One thing we can do to drive down property prices without driving people out of their homes is to tax the ever-loving-bejebus out of second (or more) Single family homes, for individuals and corporat
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by altruios 1y ago
Do you mean empathy, by emotional connection? If that is the case: I disagree that rage is the natural response to a loss of empathy AND switching to an analytical mode of thinking. I don't think rage (an emotion) stems from analytical
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by altruios 1y ago
I disagree that removing an emotional connection removes emotional responses of hate and wild dehumanization. I would categorize all such interactions as emotional. I argue that it is in fact the opposite: Having no analytical consideration
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by altruios 1y ago
Relativistic speeds can contract the length of any object as measured from an outside observer. If an object the size of 1 Planck length travels fast enough: you won't be able to measure it, as from your position it would be smaller th
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by altruios 1y ago
Tree(n) is considered computable. BB(n) surpasses Tree(n) by - at most - when n=2645. And likely shortly after BB(100). Now consider the following definition for an exponentially faster growing number: HyperTree(n) is where the Tree functio
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by altruios 1y ago
'actual' or 'true' randomness is a rabbit hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness It really depends on the exact definition of what you are quantifying 'random' to be. There is no p
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by altruios 1y ago
I can not take you seriously. You contradict yourself. > Magic is fake. > There is only black magic. You are talking about demons. Your link is to a facebook post... I can not take you seriously.
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by altruios 1y ago
There is nothing more free than the freedom to be who you really are. Going to rewatch the Matrix tonight.
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by altruios 1y ago
I have trouble reconciling this point with the known phenomenon of hallucinations. I would suppose the correct test is an 'infinite' Turing test, which after a long enough conversation, LLM's invariably do not pass, as they e
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Volumetric 3D Printing Is FAST [video](youtube.com)
2 points by altruios 1y ago|2 comments
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by altruios 1y ago
New research produced this clever idea. I've been looking for a 3D printer for a while now. This came on my feed and I'd thought I'd share this here. I'm excited for a more refined printer using this tech.
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by altruios 1y ago
you are mischaracterizing... again. No one wants to sue a police officer for doing their job. They want to sue them when they commit crimes. No one should be above the law: especially those that enforce it.
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by altruios 1y ago
Who said anything about lower pay? Higher education would increase their market value. Private insurance would also make their wages higher since the city wouldn't have to have a slush fund to payout for their mistakes. Higher standard
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by altruios 1y ago
You are characterizing police brutality - what we want to curb - as something they are trained to do… this is disingenuous at best. If a police officer kills someone innocent, or enters the wrong house and shoots someone… they absolutely sh
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by altruios 1y ago
a good cop would not be “ruined” by being held accountable to their actions. Do not excuse evil. > I think most intelligent people are going to model out the expected outcome of their career choices at least intuitively And yet we have d
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by altruios 1y ago
Yes. In the same way doctors are intelligent without qualified immunity. If doctors gain qualified immunity: I would expect the quality of doctors to go down. Qualified immunity only attracts bullies, and opportunists. Qualified immunity re
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by altruios 1y ago
Police should be held to the highest standard: as they have a monopoly on legal force. The end of 'qualified immunity' and the start of personal insurance akin to what surgeons have would do a lot to reform the police. They should
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by altruios 1y ago
'Just' is a loaded word here. In image gen: comfyUI gives a node-based workflow that gives a lot of room for 'creative' control, of mixing, and mathematically combining masks, filters, and prompts (and starting images &#
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by altruios 1y ago
How does irrelevant information supplement the point? It's only a distraction. Your interpretation of their post seems quite generous. They made a single statement, and didn't back it up with anything like what you are saying they
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by altruios 1y ago
whataboutism, in display. Off topic comment that will derail conversation.
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by altruios 1y ago
GOOD! These NEED to be regulated HEAVILY. Dark patterns make everything worse, there is no valid reason to use them. NONE. Short term gains from such patterns do not offset the harms these patterns cause.
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by altruios 1y ago
Nothing about this is regional to Australia. Every government should put out this kind of PSA. Dark patterns make everything worse in the long term for short term gain.
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by altruios 1y ago
I agree that all of these are dark patterns that have been folded into most websites. We should not implement these patterns, or allow them to be implemented unchallenged.

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