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by benchmarkist 2y ago
Money is a meme, there is no value it can measure other than whatever delusion people collectively agree to call "value".
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
There are no assets for digital currencies so the words you're using to describe it are ontologically nonsensical. It's numbers, binary sequences, in databases. The only thing that makes it all work is your belief and faith that t
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
Bitcoin is actually just a bunch of numbers. Whatever value you think you're storing with it is always denominated in fiat which is very ironic.
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
Just the top of the cancerous industrial iceberg. Eventually people will figure out that consuming non-renewable resources at unsustainable rates and poisoning the environment with industrial toxic waste all in the name of profits and progr
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How close is AI to human-level intelligence?(nature.com)
3 points by benchmarkist 2y ago|4 comments
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
The scale will make the inevitable collapse much more spectacular than any previous one in recorded history. I don't have any strong opinions on tar containers but I doubt it's any worse than whatever people are consuming every da
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
Industrial society is self-terminating.
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Foundations of Algorithmic Thermodynamics (2023)(arxiv.org)
4 points by benchmarkist 2y ago|0 comments
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
Then you better stop wasting time on places like HN.
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
So do you realize the absurdity of your original statement or do you want to keep going?
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
It's just formal game but you still haven't managed to write down the state space nor specify the transition probabilities for a single atom let alone a person.
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
Great, we're making progress. Give me the dimension of the Hilbert space, the wave function, and the unitary operator that corresponds to your daily activities in terms of a Markov chain. Take all the time you want to figure it out.
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
Why would I learn anything if we're going to have AGI in less than 3 years according to silicon valley luminaries like Sam Altman? He's rich because he's super smart and everything he says is correct so you sir should get wit
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
That's a lot of words and yet I have not seen an actual proof of equivalence. Do you even know the definition of a Markov chain?
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
What are the states? I didn't say give me a count of the states. I said give me the algorithm for determining whether any given state of the universe corresponds to whatever human you are reducing to a Markov chain. I don't care i
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
I've seen this nonsensical equivalence several times now so I'm going to make an example out of you to prove a point. Define the state space for the human Markov chain.
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
I suppose then you have spent a lot of effort advocating for this cause or maybe you know a few advocates off the top of your head you could point me to so I could learn more about this desperate effort to deploy nuclear power plants.
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
What have you seen in terms of pollution?
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed to go nowhere. - Jacques Ellul
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
Most work is fake so this should not be surprising.¹ ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
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GCC Compiler vs. Human – 119x Faster Assembly (2023)(ashvardanian.com)
2 points by benchmarkist 2y ago|0 comments
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
All my responses are always of utmost sincerity.
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
Beam search just traverses different paths and assigns each path a probability of being correct. The paths with the higher probabilities are kept and the ones with lower probabilities are pruned until the search terminates with an "ans
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
They're not baking anything in. Reasoning, as it is defined by AI marketing departments, is just beam search.
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
AI marketing departments are fond of anthropomorphic language but it's actually just regular beam search.
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
Those distinction are irrelevant for an AI because it is a pure form of intelligence that simply computes answers without worrying about P or NP complexity classes.
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
A really heartwarming story about a billionaire's aging mother.
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
Gold is actually priceless.
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
For humans it's very hard but it will be a breeze for the AI. I thought HN was a community of builders. This is an obvious startup opportunity.
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by benchmarkist 2y ago
The AI would learn from llvm as well.

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