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by brotchie 3y ago
Insane to me that, given a multi-year lead in tech, capability, talent, the USA is shooting itself in the foot re: innovation around AI. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory... damn
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by brotchie 3y ago
I learnt to code primarily by writing IRC bots for these groups + wrote an auto-trading FXP client in C++ that looked for pres dropping in top site channels, and automatically FXP couriered to other topsites. I wish I'd know back then
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by brotchie 3y ago
I feel like this right here is what the singularity actually feels like. With minimal effort, humans hookup AI to do some job, and things "just get better" rather than entropy taking its natural course and many things (without
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by brotchie 3y ago
Simple size of 1, but you're correct in how a heroic dose psilocybin trip completely cured my existential depression, to the extent I can't even relate to the struggles of my past self. It certainly FELT to be a property of the tr
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by brotchie 3y ago
I’m seeing content posted to YouTube dominate anything from streaming to the extent that we hit up YT on our TV 1st before any streaming service. We’ve been binging “Best Ever Food Review Show” and it pretty much destroys any travel food sh
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by brotchie 3y ago
After 1st psychedelic experience “damn, everyone should try this”. After further experience, no longer a huge proponent. A new user has to make a mental commitment that they will be changed and they themselves take responsibility for that a
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by brotchie 3y ago
Yeah. I’ve done some handy waves experiments for science (generally don’t like THC as a drug). Watch a super intellectual YouTube video that’s at the bounds of my understanding (e.g. Leonard Susskind’s Stanford lectures on quantum physics).
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by brotchie 3y ago
The highest utility purchases that have sometimes been non trivial $$$, other than experiences (Rally Driving, Scuba Diving, MIG welding course) are home optimizations that I use every day: 1. Bidets in every toilet, never going back to toi
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by brotchie 4y ago
Greg Egan’s Incandescence is along these lines except replace star in the trail of a black hole with asymmetric asteroid around a black hole accretion disk.
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by brotchie 4y ago
re: Calculator examples, I kinda see them both as information systems that achieve a result but there's a phase difference in where the information is stored. Similar to how space is 4D such that with relativity going faster in a spati
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by brotchie 4y ago
+1
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by brotchie 4y ago
Yep, the tipping point for me was seeing a demo of GPT-4 writing code, then being shown exceptions where the code failed, and successfully fixing the code given that feedback. Seems that for any task where you can generate an error signal w
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by brotchie 4y ago
I’m curious. If I’ve spent 8 hours getting the perfect prompt, fine tuning a few LORAs, mixing them, choosing between 8 different checkpointed stable diffusion models, and have done a bunch of in painting, does this constitute a copyrightab
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by brotchie 4y ago
"There have been no major breakthroughs in the academic discipline of artificial intelligence for a couple of decades." umm... ok...
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by brotchie 4y ago
I felt the same way about the gym. Now I go 3-4 times a week and are in great shape. There's a few things I've optimized that make it real easy and sticky as a habit: 1. No cardio. I'd always procrastinate going to the
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by brotchie 4y ago
If it's a proper MVP that needs code and can't be validated via concierge or other no-code approach: - React Vite Typescript (React Query and Hooks*) - Python Flask Backend - SQLite or just fsyncing a JSON file to disk
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by brotchie 4y ago
Amazing advice. This technique is what got my PhD thesis across the line. Word vomit and just concatenating together all my current work into a single LaTeX project. Once it existed as a single document and I could start to “see” it as a th
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by brotchie 4y ago
Hell yeah. Been thinking about this in my spare cycles a lot! The missing thing when interacting with GPT3 was building up layers of re-usable abstraction that could be mixed together: i.e. a prompt that's great at summarization, a pro
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by brotchie 4y ago
Intractable in the analytic sense, or intractable numerically… or both?
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by brotchie 4y ago
Yup, feel like there's a "strong attractor" to a non-biological super intelligent end-game for any civilization and this happens relatively quickly once their species enters an external-to-biology recursive self-improvement s
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by brotchie 4y ago
I'm in the same boat as you: how exactly did the psychedelic experience affect a long lasting change. Here's my story of how psilocybin cured my existential depression. I had other insights during the trip, but this is my after-th
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by brotchie 4y ago
I’m convinced at this point having read almost every book on the topic, hundreds of threads across the web, and many an in-person debate, that individuals actually have wildly different experiences of consciousness. For me, the hard problem
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by brotchie 4y ago
Lido and Coinbase
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by brotchie 5y ago
+1
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by brotchie 5y ago
Modafinil is a pretty amazing drug. The come down after one use isn’t too bad. But if you’ve been using it daily for a week, the comedown is BRUTAL: pretty much feel like you have zero energy and feel like laying prone for 8 hours. Once did
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by brotchie 5y ago
+1, EGreg gets it :)
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by brotchie 5y ago
I feel like web3 continues the trend (in a good way) of the financialization of everything. The primitives of web3 effectively enable the fine grained economic measurement and distribution of every element of value-exchange, and gives folks
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by brotchie 5y ago
Currently working out how to create "wall art worthy" generative Standard Model-based particle interaction plots using Physics-accurate Monte-Carlo simulation. Motivation: Have a blank wall and want an "artistic" Standar
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by brotchie 6y ago
Well, OP was the one who suggested to build a Reddit clone, my side project is something else :) re: gRPC, largely pragmatic because of familiarity with protos and RPC interfaces defined in terms of protos. I wanted a typed API definition t
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by brotchie 6y ago
Generally I find that trying to solve problems begets more problems (i.e. side projects beget side projects). Choose a tech stack and start building a Reddit clone, and you'll quickly hit roadblocks and get ideas. Started a new side-pr

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