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by calf 3mo ago
A restoration artist would not invent eyebrows because they would have worked under a theory of the sort "human faces are especially sensitized to human interpretation so if the noise image does not strongly support a feature then it i
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by calf 3mo ago
I also think to do STEM well, one needs to find that inner child.
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by calf 3mo ago
Then that is a category error because you are assuming people on HN need to act like philosophers 24/7.
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by calf 3mo ago
Yes, one might call these… evolutionary algorithms…
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by calf 3mo ago
I never said anything like that, but if you're making a simplistic appeal to information theory then I rest my case.
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by calf 3mo ago
Jesus, I took 4 years of Electrical Engineering and at no point did any professor make this brilliant analogy. It would have helped many students, including myself.
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by calf 3mo ago
That's not fair. To most users this would not be an obvious thing to do, unlike software/scientific/analytic uses of LLMs. So it's not a matter of inability but rather awareness and know-how. Then secondly, humans learn
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by calf 3mo ago
One plausible reason I thought of that we may not understand neural nets is that by their nature their power grows with ever-more complex connections and weights. So it is like the opposite of logical systems, in that the very design of n
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by calf 3mo ago
No it's because they think they're saving the world.
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by calf 3mo ago
Is this what the prompt means by proof strength gap, or is that something else entirely? (Sorry not a mathematician.)
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by calf 3mo ago
Your comment is clever but plainly unkind. If you truly care about philosophy you would say something more constructive. It is in no comparison to my explicit criticisms, whatever you may disagree with about them. My general opinion is the
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by calf 3mo ago
I'm not going to waste my brain cells trying to prove a negative that my comment doesn't have fallacies, but I will say that I meant every word of what I wrote while on my phone commenting casually in an online forum, not for a r
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by calf 3mo ago
Why is refusal to carefully and patiently explain the wrongness of prestige theater, "physics envy"-type conversations an example of not being well-versed in philosophy?
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by calf 3mo ago
1. I never claimed philosophy was easier. The previous commenter blankly claimed the opposite on the basis that they are a teacher . I am making a simple meta-observation that if they get to do that, then I get to claim I was literally bor
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by calf 3mo ago
As a counterargument, it is a bad degree if philosophy led you to jump a foregone conclusion that "AI will surely render knowledge specialization by humans useless". It is literally very badly taught if four years of such an under
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by calf 3mo ago
I was born a philosopher, people were telling me to study philosophy when I was in high school. But instead my formal education choices took a more circuitous route that included the fine arts, physics, electrical engineering, computer engi
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by calf 3mo ago
But then how is analytic philosophy a philosophy.
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by calf 3mo ago
Sorry, what's the significance of finiteness? The upper bound on an NFA is exponential steps of state transition splitting, thus P ⊆ NP ⊆ EXP, the class of exponential time algorithms.
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by calf 3mo ago
You are being too patient. Reading this, just look at their contradictory behavior, one one hand they thrice called you lazy, curious, and upset (all ad hominems, attacks on motive), meanwhile they outwardly frame themselves as a steward of
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by calf 3mo ago
Well that's the basis of rationalism. Many important truths don't depend on the details of someone's state or someone's life history. To require it is to commit an ad hominem and destroys rationalism. For example whether
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by calf 3mo ago
Why can't it be the other way around, you don't know that I am out of spoons too and rather than talk about why I am out spoons I should not be expected to validate other people's vibes or spoonfeed them... And so forth. As a
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by calf 3mo ago
I don't understand your argument, why precisely is contemporary app development thought to be so simple that it is not even worth thorough property testing, let alone FV? Isn't that attitude (on the part of the industry as a whol
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by calf 4mo ago
See, that's the thing. If you are saying Law of Excluded Middle matters for justification of using proof by contradiction, then we are suddenly really talking about the justification or not of classical versus non classical logics. Tha
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by calf 4mo ago
It's interesting that even a child can do it, but actually explaining it clearly gets confusing. One problem is that as soon as you use "Suppose A then following steps S we get not A", but a hidden, implied premise is the sti
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by calf 4mo ago
This is not Apple's fault and it is just the beginning of AI. Unlike every other software/algorithm/program known to mankind, AI based on neural networks threatens to extract exponentially the entire humanity's supply of
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by calf 4mo ago
I honestly have no idea what you are actually talking about. Government printing capital? What does that even mean? And patterns are meaningless, what is the mechanism and the underlying relationship? Whatever you heard stock analysts say t
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by calf 4mo ago
Yeah I keep reading comments about "semiconductor boom/bust cycles", but they ignore that Moore/Dennard Laws were in a totally different regime back then, and they ignore the external factor of AI. So I just don't u
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by calf 4mo ago
Unfortunately, somebody doesn't understand the concept of structural incentives. Also, do not reply to me any further, your sarcasm is not welcome. It is incredibly rude.
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by calf 4mo ago
Having to buy fancy headphones to solve a social problem is what makes it a class issue. That's the subtle error in the typical response.
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by calf 4mo ago
The exact answer to that requires using the cognitive capacity of empathy.

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