blagie

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by blagie 6d ago
I do, and I replied elsewhere. You need to stop basing your argument on a smear campaigns and obvious red herrings.
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by blagie 6d ago
> I will back down from my claim that Minsky did have sex with Virginia Giuffree Thank you for backing down. An apology would be warranted. > It is materially different. Either it did not happen as the widow claimed, or it did and it
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by blagie 7d ago
I'm not sure how to respond to this, except to point out that in a second comment, you finally conceded this: > Minsky's participation Did not happen. The polite thing would be to apologize. And this: > if you look at the co
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by blagie 7d ago
Everything you wrote is materially correct. Given that you have this background, can you please explain how this: > Virginia Giuffre said that she had sex with Minsky when she was 17 and he was 73. Was not a lie? Also: Yes, I do have sou
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by blagie 8d ago
What you posted is a secondary source, which is exactly what I didn't ask for. Most of that text is not Stallman. For reference, an original source is something like: https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html
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by blagie 8d ago
I guess you had to be around for the reactions to it at the time. E.g. the reaction to free software in the nineties was communist/anti-capitalist/idealist/unrealistic. It was an extreme fringe movement. Now, Linux powers eve
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by blagie 8d ago
Someone with coprolalia will clearly cross some pretty bright societal lines too.
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by blagie 8d ago
Yes, you are ill-informed. I can write "EA-3167" and "pedophilia" in an article 100 times. Congratulations! You're now associated with pedophilia. That's a classic smear campaign. Unless someone can cite someth
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by blagie 8d ago
This is not correct. This expresses an extreme inability to properly communicate subtext, which is common for autistic individuals, or ones autism-adjacent. Stallman's comments, if read logically like a computer, are generally strictly
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by blagie 8d ago
> Virginia Giuffre said that she had sex with Minsky when she was 17 and he was 73. I think no matter how you look at it (even if she was technically above the age of consent in the jurisdiction of Epstein's island), it is still wro
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by blagie 9d ago
I think it's a good, analogous, contemporary example of how RMS tends to be misunderstood. In this context, his comments tend to be: a) Correct, if you read them precisely (which is how RMS writes -- precisely) b) Horrible, if you read
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by blagie 9d ago
He's deeply problematic in the same way as someone with autism, Tourette syndrome, echolalia, or OCD are problematic. He's not neurotypical. Once you deal with it, he stops being problematic. And the striking thing is Cassandra sy
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by blagie 21d ago
The problem is that, in this arms race, unaligned AI has a competitive advantage over aligned AI. The second problem -- already seen in Ukraine v. Russia -- is that in a high-stakes situation, humans will take every safeguard off.
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by blagie 1mo ago
Interesting comment. I am researching this in more depth as a result. Thank you. Two nits, or slight overstatements: > The US Constitution also clearly identifies the President as Command in Chief of the militia Is not quite true. He is
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by blagie 1mo ago
> that's not what school is for Most people would disagree with you about the purpose of school. Article cites Dewey, who wrote a lot of text about what school is for. Friere is also worth reading there. You'll see a diversity
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by blagie 1mo ago
I was explaining the article, not making a statement about how learning works. My comment was poorly phrased. I agree with everything you said, except Vygotsky. :) Vygotsky is worth reading, since: - He is evidence-based. He isn't just
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by blagie 1mo ago
I should clarify -- since from both posts, my comment was ambiguous and misinterpreted: I was explaining the article, not my views, since the top-level comment did not read it. Regarding your comment, it is as wrong as the article. BOTH are
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by blagie 1mo ago
You are wrong in understanding the article. Khan: Videos + rote exercises Learning: Projects, complex problem-solving, exploration, argumentation, etc. Dewey is worth reading.
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by blagie 1mo ago
It's not a bad idea in concept, but the core problem is what he delivered was: "essentially global learning via all the Khan videos, in math, by him, and in other subjects, by his team." Khan Academy is 2010-era state-of-the-
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by blagie 1mo ago
I am responding to the comment, not the article. The concept of Khanmigo was great. The implementation was basically useless. It was a great attempt, but the article explains the problem: "early OpenAI access" This was literally t
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by blagie 1mo ago
... then (at least if they are far enough gone), you have elderly relatives who are not "free and accountable for their own actions."
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by blagie 1mo ago
That's not quite what it says. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." 1. The reason is well-regulated militias, but
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by blagie 1mo ago
Personally, I think gun companies should be liable for any harm done by their products as well. We want rule-of-law, and in the US, people should have an absolute right to bare arms, as in the second amendment. Free market forces can then d
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by blagie 1mo ago
> Yes, some elderly are disabled by mental decline or dementia, that's no different from a mental disability at any age. If there were a clean way to define it, I'd probably be better to change: - "elderly" to "i
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by blagie 1mo ago
> are (as far as the law is concerned) free and accountable for their own actions I don't think you've ever had a relative with e.g. Alzheimer's or dementia. There's a fine line where the above stops being the case. &
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by blagie 1mo ago
I think what's missing here is elderly. Arguably, that's even more harmful.
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by blagie 2mo ago
I agree with "just so pointless too - there are many good, better-illustrated, and better-explained human articles about the same circuit." However, to me, this reads more like human stupidity than AI slop. Certainly, my AIs would
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by blagie 2mo ago
I don't think it's slop -- the sources are books and it doesn't read like slop -- but the sources are more worth reading. It's more like an undergrad trying to fill word count, without getting why this is interesting.
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by blagie 2mo ago
You seem to be a product of Russian propaganda. My advice would be to read a non-Ukranian history book. What Russia seems to be doing is trying to split Ukraine from the West. It's not true that "russians having much better positi
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by blagie 2mo ago
> Unless of course you are actually pro-Russian and you're just playing this game at a higher level in which case... congrats because that is effective I seriously thought this was the case, but looking at the post history, it'

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