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by birdsongs 7mo ago
Yeah. It's a smoothing function. Just an averaging of all of our writing. (Which, imo, makes it bland and boring.) My favourite people, interactions, stories are all from those who are outside of that bell curve peak. I want weirdness
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
Inflammable made me so angry as a child/teen when I found out. I read it in our encyclopedia set but we didn't have a dictionary, and this was pre-internet. It was in the context of hydrogen and I could have sworn it was flammable
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
I only skimmed the book, but I think this is an artifact of the embedded engineering side. (Something I do professionally.) I've seen a lot of new people come into my team as juniors, or regular C/C++ engineers that convert to emb
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to be so defensive either. It feels like so many people comment in bad faith these days, I think I am hasty to react sometimes. I thought it was just a red herring argument to detract from the article. But you&#x27
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
1) I specifically qualified my horror to the tech domain "Either way this makes me nauseous in a way I haven't experienced much with tech." 2) Multiple things can be horrible at the same time. Being upset at this doesn't
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
This is naive or in bad faith. Sure, a neuron is a machine. 200,000 neurons connected in a matrix is a brain, albeit a very primitive one. Ants have 250,000 neurons in their brains.
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
My concern is creating literal sentience in a box. I don't, personally, think it's unfounded for me to have that concern, given that we're growing masses of human neurons and teaching them to perform tasks. I'm not going
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
No. We don't understand our own sentience. I don't know how we can be so confident as to not think it can evolve here using literal human neurons that can learn to take input signals and send output signals. I don't think thi
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
> What do you mean? What is this class of people in your mind? I'm specifically talking about this presentation in this article (the video and release details of CL1 doom). Did you read it / watch it?
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
Replying to myself: how long before one of these with the neuron count of a corvid and trained on pattern recognition gets plugged into a drone? This is a very dark path, and I could not trust the people in charge less.
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
I looked into it. They're not feeding the framebuffer to the neurons, but have a "signal" when an enemy is on screen to some of the tissue's inputs, and how to locate it in the x/y axis, and have outputs for the cha
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
Hah. Post codes are just weird and non standard. I've had times travelling where the point of sale asks me for a zip code after using my non-US card. I learned from a cashier to type 00000 and it has always worked.
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
The best times are when US ecommerce sites try to confidently lint foreign addresses, even when they allow shipping there. I've had them tell me I need 5 digits for my postal code in Norway, which uses 4 digits. I selected Norway in th
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
Yeah, absolutely. I came from the US, so it was a bit harder than a Schengen move. Not sure if you qualify for that or need a skills visa like I did. But essentially I applied, a lot on LinkedIn. This started early 2021. Took about 8 mont
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
> and majority of the time you will not be working with native English speakers, usually people who speak multiple languages at all times, if you're only language you know is English you are the minority and people will have to work
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
I found "quiet" packing tape recently. I bought it, while highly skeptical, for my last move. It was barely more expensive. I don't recall seeing it before. Super pleasant, did not make the rip crackle squeal sound at all.
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
I don't follow. The poster above my comment complained that graphene os was lacking a list of features is already has, so I corrected that. > Yes, but do these enthusiasts care at all if it meets some need for the users? ... And how
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
> You now speak rudimentary Danish." Så, norsk da. :)
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
In what ways has the pursuit of perfection harmed the good in their development? (Your words, I don't agree.) Graphene does everything you're asking, except for the niche fixed location feature you specifically want, which you&#
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
This is the real answer. Palantir aggregates massive amounts of data, and they are not stupid enough to not use online ad profiles. They track everything . I mean, sexuality, race, age group, mental and physical illnesses, income, job&#x2F
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
Not arguing, it's just interesting I read the opposite, it felt human to me, and I usually have a good spidey sense here. Maybe it's a combo of handwritten and LLM polishing? Or just a case of a good writer, whose typical output w
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
Agree. The shocking part of the history for me was those few planes in the 60's that were literally torn apart by turbulence. I never knew that. I looked it up, BOAC Flight 911: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_F
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
Same, but it was late 90's and I had found a Quick Basic compiler on our Windows 95 laptop. It had the ability to compile EXEs and I felt like I'd discovered some old magics. Like, this thing was just sitting here? All I had to
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
I adored Encarta. My aunt had the multi-CD set, I still vividly remember the animated landing page, clicking on cool pictures to navigate. Having to switch to CD#2 because the article you wanted wasn't on there. It actually felt magica
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
> That mission carries across everything we do, from our work with the US government Can you expand on this? Because currently, the US government is not someone I want the companies I use to work with. > The only thing we took from Pa
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
> In other words I don’t see why any of this is somehow uniquely wrong to the OP. Did you read the article? It's a dark pattern. It is an act that takes 3 minutes to perform. Yet it takes multiple days of reading legal documents to
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
Right? Any definition of "a god" that a LLM will hold is going to be problematic to work with. No one wants that personality on their team, much less in the wild. At best it's absolute in its power and intelligence. At worst
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
Neither of you know the answer to this, in any scientific or statistical manner, and I wish people would stop being so confident about it. If I'm wrong, please give any kind of citation. You can start with defining what human intellige
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
Wow, thank you! This is really validating for such an odd experience. That happened (and still does) with my second language, absorbed mostly through immersion/native exposure on a day-to-day basis. When I go into that language mode an
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by birdsongs 8mo ago
It also had a total of 2 users, if that. It doesn't hold. This is a prototype aircraft that requires no license and that has been mass produced for nearly the entire population of earth to use.

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