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by barnacs 1y ago
> Thinking is using what you know to come to a logical conclusion What LLMs do is using what they have _seen_ to come to a _statistical_ conclusion. Just like a complex statistical weather forecasting model. I have never heard anyone arg
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by barnacs 1y ago
I guess our definition of "thinking" is just very different. Yes, humans are also capable of learning in a similar fashion and imitating, even extrapolating from a learned function. But I wouldn't call that intelligent, think
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by barnacs 1y ago
But it's only able to answer the question because it has been trained on all text in existence written by humans, precisely with the purpose to mimic human language use. It is the humans that produced the training data and then provid
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by barnacs 1y ago
In my view, absolutely yes. Thinking is a means to an end. It's about acting upon these motivations by abstracting, recollecting past experiences, planning, exploring, innovating. Without any motivation, there is nothing novel about th
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by barnacs 1y ago
To me, it's about motivation. Intelligent living beings have natural, evolutionary inputs as motivation underlying every rational thought. A biological reward system in the brain, a desire to avoid pain, hunger, boredom and sadness, se
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by barnacs 2y ago
Proof of work essentially allows for a periodic leader election, where the leader has sufficient time to propagate its state update along with a verifiable proof of authority in a permissionless decentralized system. Decentralized cooperati
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by barnacs 2y ago
Exactly. Lightning minimizes the use of the globally consistent ledger, which inevitably has to make trade-offs due to the "trilemma". You set aside some funds on the global ledger and then you can use those funds to transact in a
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by barnacs 2y ago
I think it all comes down to relativity and the speed of light. There is no single, universal, true ordered state (ledger/db). Participants need a conflict resolution mechanism to figure out whose truth is correct. One must rely on a l
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by barnacs 2y ago
> if we prefer to outright shut down online advertising Yes, please. Both online and offline. Advertising is probably the most useless, annoying and wasteful industry out there. We could have pull-only databases of businesses, products a
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by barnacs 3y ago
Think of it this way: Intelligent beings in the real world have a very complex built-in biological error function rooted in real world experiences: sensory inputs, feelings, physical and temporal limitations and so on. You feel pain, joy, f
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by barnacs 3y ago
Might as well just xdg-open files in a directory in alphanumeric order by name as a "presentation" at this point.
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by barnacs 9y ago
I think what's more relevant here is Marx's theory of alienation. In order for people to work less hours at their job there would have to be strong local communities and a kind of socio-economic framework to support constructive,
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by barnacs 9y ago
Sure, LN alone might not be enough to serve the daily transactions of billions of users. Still, it proves how layers built on top of the blockchain can improve the efficiency by several orders of magnitude with some reasonable trade-offs. L
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by barnacs 9y ago
> How is this expected to work with 7 billion people using it for every tiny financial transaction? https://lightning.network/ tl;dr: a network of off-chain, transitive payment channels. two on-chain transactions (to fun
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by barnacs 10y ago
It wasn't stolen, we're giving it away. And not just the web, but our freedom. If you're using services that support surveillance capitalism or you are working on such products, please stop. Thank you!
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by barnacs 10y ago
> Large corporations need hordes of people doing boring work in a reliable and predictable, easily manageable manner. That's what machines are for. We need to embrace automation. > Society needs what large corporations produce No
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by barnacs 10y ago
Don't rely on laws to fix this. Simply don't sign employment contracts that don't work for you. I think a lot of the HN crowd can afford that.
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by barnacs 10y ago
I don't understand why the segwit softfork and a block size increase would have to be mutually exclusive. As segwit generally improves the protocol (makes it more efficient, fixes a transaction malleability issue, increases capacity an
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by barnacs 10y ago
In my experience, the only interest of most for-profit corporations is maximizing next quarter's profits. If they can get away with raising the prices to the extremes to achieve that, they will. If they have to offer their services for
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by barnacs 10y ago
I don't think it matters much what the business model is. As long as software services are provided by centralized, for-profit entities, exploitation won't stop. A free, open source, peer to peer infrastructure is the only way out
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by barnacs 10y ago
I think too much specialization in the name of economic efficiency is harmful as it causes alienation and apathy. If say this lawyer is required by a law firm to work on cases that end up harming the poor and then donates some of their sala
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by barnacs 10y ago
Another potential catch is that they will graudually throttle your cpu speed if you load it too much. I guess this is not unreasonable for the price, but they don't mention it anywhere on the site and market it as "guaranteed&quot
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by barnacs 10y ago
10/18/2016 > Distrust certificates with a notBefore date after October 21, 2016 Just in time!
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by barnacs 10y ago
Those may be the very same people who play music, build stages or give water to overly wasted kids at summer festivals. Or they might fix your motorbike better and cheaper than your local mechanic if you asked them to. Or they might not. Ei
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by barnacs 10y ago
Are you suggesting the majority of those people are completely, utterly useless? Useful contributions don't necessarily have to be intellectual. They may be able and happy to provide art, joyful company, social skills, physical assista
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by barnacs 10y ago
It may take way more than 5 minutes. My experience with let's encrypt so far: - the name of their tool was changed form "letsencrypt" to "certbot", breaking my cronjob - for daemons that try to access the cert/
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by barnacs 10y ago
I believe basic human nature includes curiosity. Living in a society means one will naturally seek the appreciation, acceptance and respect of their peers. I think these alone will eventually lead most people to contribute something useful
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by barnacs 10y ago
> I would think the laziest possible way to workaround this would be to use a CDN like Cloudflare to proxy all traffic to your site. Interesting. Where are all these warnings when a CDN man in the middle attacks your connection? Or when
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by barnacs 10y ago
See, that's just it. There's a spectrum of involvement. I may not want to run a campaign, go door to door to collect signatures or spend days in council meetings. At the same time, I do want to vote directly on issues I have a str
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by barnacs 10y ago
> If the same security demands were required when postal voting was introduced in 1990, it would never have been allowed He has a point there. Transportation, heavy machinery, power grids, cruical infrastructure, healthcare, economy and

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