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by breuleux 5y ago
> This may be an accurate description of your personality, in which you're one in a million, or it may be that you're ignorant about the things that actually drive you. The vast majority of people are driven by some kind of des
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But what purpose do these idols or symbols serve, exactly? I'm speaking as someone who doesn't care who came up with relativity and doesn't care whether there is a founding person of computer science or not let alone who that
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Why do we need idols, though? If there was no narrative, no idols, no celebrities, would people be less motivated to do science? Why do we need to lie to ourselves so? > If you're already deeply interested in computer science, of co
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That's pretty neat! Can these be used to efficiently compute rolling percentiles (over windows of the data), or just incremental?
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I'd be OK with just leaving the leaves on the ground, to be honest.
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Surely some goals can bring happiness when they are achieved? I have made some things that I like, and I am happy when I recall that I made them myself. Or if your goal is to cure cancer, and you succeed, wouldn't that bring you happin
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I'd argue that life is its own point. If you organize your metaphysics in such a way that nothing matters unless it leads to a future that matters, then nothing can possibly matter, because by definition value is always postponed to &q
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I feel that it's the kind of scheme that requires too much cooperation from too many people and organizations with conflicting incentives. It's possible some countries would not want the hashes from certain other governments in th
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The US is an ally and it is somewhat harder to punish a nation state than a company. Why would Apple take the risk? China can't exactly reveal that they are banning an American company for not spying on American citizens, and it's
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The db is encrypted and uploaded to user devices. If each country gets a different db, the payload will be different in each country, which does not make sense if it's all supposed to be CSAM. So Apple would likely just say "these
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Presumably Apple would be afraid that, say, the EU becomes suspicious, issues a court order to obtain the hashes, notices they cannot audit the CCP hashes, pointedly asks "what is this", becomes absolutely livid that their citizen
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They have access to a "visual derivative" (which I suppose is their way of saying "thumbnail") but it probably wouldn't help if the adversarial example is normal porn. This being said, once the authorities are conta
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I mean, that's one imaginary scenario. On the other hand, it's quite likely that upon a match the offending picture in full res is stored in an enclave on your device, and/or encrypted in the cloud, in such a way that it cann
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> If hashes are uploaded to devices, they can be extracted and images that clash against it can be created. Many organizations have the hashes, so they could leak nonetheless. Either way, I don't think that's a major problem. I
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Even if we were to call this a "backdoor", it's a backdoor that creaks quite loudly. I mean, what's the attack vector here? The plan, as far as I'm aware, is to upload a list of hashes to each device that have been
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Thanks, that was interesting :) One thing I'm curious about: I haven't read the literature all that well, but my personal understanding of MWI, after trying to wrap my head around it, is that there's probably no branching or
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> For a computer you can buy for the same money that you spend for a MacBook Air a computer with better specs and hardware that you can upgrade. Which specs? When I last checked, the latest M1 Airs were dominating the entire laptop marke
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The clustering could possibly be leveraged into an anti-polarization tool, if you start promoting the content within each cluster that is the least objectionable to opposite clusters. Basically, show leftists the leftist content that righti
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Well, the amplitudes would change: all possible universes "exist", but their existence is not binary, it has a complex amplitude. And the norms of the amplitudes of all universes sum to one. So basically if you have three universe
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My general philosophy about interpretations of quantum mechanics is that insofar that there is an infinity of possible interpretations that are all mathematically equivalent, the probability that we would think of, let alone find the correc
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That's kind of cool. It would also be nice if hitting ( after selecting an expression would wrap it in ()s, if it is syntactically correct to do so. That's the first thing I tried.
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Isn't a simpler explanation that we're just... wrong about what we're feeling? My thought about this is that the feeling of free choice that we have stems from a form of irreducible epistemic uncertainty: we can't know w
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> If you think there is an easy answer, then you do not yet understand the question. There is no easy answer that people find satisfactory , but it very well might be that people's intuitive understanding of their own consciousness
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> Neither random nor deterministic, but free. What does that mean, though? It seems to me that a mixture of randomness and determinism covers all logically possible systems. I don't understand what "free" is supposed to re
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> Our brains are great at filling in information that we expect to be there, so even the parts that we directly perceive don't need to be simulated with complete fidelity. Right, but the simulation is nonetheless bottlenecked by whi
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An event only accounting for 1/10,000th of global emissions doesn't mean it is asinine to worry or complain about it. That very much depends on how easy it is to cut it relative to other sources. If it's easy , it's abs
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In Greek cosmogony (well, one version of it) there is one supreme being called Chaos from which everything else proceeded. If you think of it simply as a being of pure creative energy that created the laws of physics at random (and possibly
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I mean, a god might say that any destiny you choose is good, because it would proceed from the laws of physics, but you could still choose what it is. Personally I don't think it's worth caring about, just like it isn't worth
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> If God's conception of morality is not equivalent to the human conception of morality, then what does it mean to claim that God is good? Nothing I would describe as meaningful, but from what I recall of what (admittedly little) I&
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I don't think it's necessarily as sinister as that. Perhaps God is simply an engineer who loves designing systems that straddle the line between order and chaos and believes that the laws of physics are supremely perfect and anyth

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