archibaldJ

14 ms·

91.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
This is crazy. I'm an an early DallE2 user. And looks like Stable Diffusion is much better than DallE2 (at least for these genres of gen)
92.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
A class of things starts to become generic when they are predictable and summarizable by words to a degree where people can form mental representations of them to a higher accuracy. > here's some art from a modified Stable Diffusion
93.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
> When saying "I saw a bird" compared to "I will see a bird", a Kusunda speaker might indicate the past action not by tense, but by describing it as an experience directly related to the speaker. Meanwhile, the future
94.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
oh wow this cracks me up in ways unbeknownst to me, almost in the same fashion as the first time I experienced the surreality of VR ping pong. There is something strange about human reactivity (and interactive humourous side-effects) that w
95.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
Take psychedelics and meditate together with your life-long partner and to discover some long neglected parts of your body and cells and sensors as you sense the universe As within so without As above so below It is through a greater discov
96.
Ask HN: Best way/apps to manage & free up macOS disk space?
2 points by archibaldJ 4y ago|2 comments
97.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
This is how music comes about! From breathing!
98.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
Here is how I’d argue that consciousness is (hugely likely) not computation: First we still don’t understand how time crystals work. There are some nice recent advancements though https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3176680
99.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
So it basically reinforces the many-world interpretation, which makes perfect sense, and it’s the most mathematically minimal of all too. Resorting to some kimd of retro-causality mechanism really shows how many people are uncomfortable wit
100.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
Seeing this guy's low quality PR and his viewers' low quality PR that followed reminds me of GPT3. Sometimes we are all like GPT3. I think the difference is some werid meta-abstraction level mechanism to decision-making related to
101.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
> ...the idea that there will be or should be a "ruling class". There will always be a "ruling class" the same way that there will always be dependency hierarchy in the cost structure of things (eg from compiler desig
102.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
this gave me weird dream last night;) pretty surreal I iterally dreamed of some none nonsensical problem and in the dream I was like wait a second I have seen the nonsensical solution before (which happened to be one of the AI that doesn&#x
103.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
so the ether went into the ether ;) & nothing is lost
104.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
> More like a recipe for an omnipresent gerontocracy Sounds like the thinking of a Tier 0 civilization in regards to the ruling class of a Tier 2 civilization (if one day we can prove that such civilizations exist
105.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
Maybe it's not about you avoiding death. You don't avoid death. It has always been about death avoiding you, if you allow some mythicism in this thing called existence. So this has always been a journey about learning to accept an
106.
by archibaldJ 4y ago
On the contrary, world leaders who can live 1000 years will be much further-sighted than those we have now. And we may actually be able to solve hard problems like safe and sustainable nuclear energy, how to build a modern soceity that enco
107.
by archibaldJ 5y ago
and to optimize for serendipity: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1214274038933020672?s=21
108.
by archibaldJ 5y ago
100% agreed. To add my 2¥ I think this aligns with a generalised version of the main thesis of the essay too. It’s just that the modern variation of aristocratically tutored is along the lines of serendipity-induced tutored (meeting the rig
109.
The First Noble Truth(youtube.com)
1 points by archibaldJ 5y ago|1 comments
110.
by archibaldJ 5y ago
Well this drives up demand for the body-guard & security industry. And then maybe the military industry.. Soon we’ll see Meta buying submarines to invest in its in-house defence department or something
111.
by archibaldJ 5y ago
Well.. Do not underestimate the incompetence blighting this world and the potentials and ingenuity in people that want to change. That's what I like to remind myself in uncertain times.
112.
by archibaldJ 5y ago
I gradually stop seeing this as a war just for the freedom of the Ukrainian people. This is a war for the progress of humanity. A war between the new and old worlds. With more breakthroughs in nuclear fusion energy and policies [1], the gra
113.
by archibaldJ 5y ago
Great to see this; once again reminds me to stay away from BS friends in insurance, etc, that talks about "tech" but smells con-artist and pretentious in general, even if you two used to grow up together Can't trust them if t
114.
by archibaldJ 5y ago
basically spaceships to capture photons!
115.
by archibaldJ 5y ago
oh aw i got confused; the projector is doing 3840 x 2160 (while the display is at 1920 x 1080)
116.
Ask HN: Have anyone had success with projector-based work station?
18 points by archibaldJ 5y ago|8 comments
117.
by archibaldJ 5y ago
but wouldn't that open up possibility of having 2 columns checked? (when in a proper sum type you can't be 2 values at the same time)
118.
by archibaldJ 5y ago
exactly; why not look forwards to new industries in 2100s like that of designer drugs and dance-theatres exploring the discourse of higher dimensional manifolds and the holistic feeling that is existence itself It is for these that I'
119.
by archibaldJ 5y ago
> ... Everyone starts driving giant vehicles. That should get our energy consumption up enough for Type 1. That sounds like optimizing for KPI to me, in which case we'll be doing it wrong. The only way to arrive there naturally is t
120.
by archibaldJ 5y ago
> ... if we shared all knowledge with each other and worked towards a common goal ... I believe that will happen before we reach Type 2 at the Kardashev scale. The question now is how do we reach Type 1 asap (hopefully within the next 50

More ›