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by carapace 4y ago
I've seen two pictures of OpenAI annual retreats (something like that.) They're group photos of about two hundred people: employees of OpenAI and their friends and relatives. There are no black people in the photos. I'm ju
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by carapace 4y ago
> Civilization has multiple goals. No. There is only one goal: defeat entropy. ("Evolution".) > money is for feeding hungry children Who then (ideally) grow up and become (eventually) old, eh?
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by carapace 4y ago
> what kinds of roles or areas do we think might be somewhat immune to this effect? On what time-frame? Permanently immune? You have to postulate that there's something a human can do that a computer system just can't. To me,
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by carapace 4y ago
To me it seems clear that most people are going to become a kind of peasant or serf, effectively "owned" by their techno-corporate silo. Programming as a human activity will resemble professional sports or writing: a handful of w
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by carapace 4y ago
I dunno, it sounds to me a little bit like the concept of "opportunity costs"?
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by carapace 4y ago
> savings may be partially offset by health care costs associated with increased longevity This is the thinking of an insane person. Taking care of the elderly is what money is for , yes? I mean, "increased longevity" and cari
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by carapace 4y ago
When they understand and can manipulate psychological "archetypes" (or whatever they find in the structure of our minds) and we let them make our kids' cartoons and games...
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by carapace 4y ago
Here: https://gtoolkit.com/
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by carapace 4y ago
"Well, that explains a lot." Cheers!
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by carapace 4y ago
"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell, Strange Loop Conference, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwicN2u6Dro > This talk introduces liballocs, an infrastructure which exposes the dynam
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by carapace 4y ago
No, ChatGPT hallucinates because it has no senses (yet.) Put humans in a sensory deprivation tank and we start to hallucinate too.
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by carapace 4y ago
Cheers! Richard Chuang recorded and posted them on YouTube. I saw this on Blinn's homepage ( https://www.jimblinn.com/ ) and I thought folks on HN would enjoy it.
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by carapace 4y ago
I was about to write an old-fashioned Wu anti-aliased circle-drawing routine for a simple C-like language (it has no structs nor unions yet, for instance), is that something that might be an interesting test case? Worth opening an issue? G
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by carapace 4y ago
Well, I think I just retired. Even knowing this was coming, it's still a bit unnerving. Sad too, but it's for the best. Let the machines program the machines. Schmidhuber's Gödelmachine. The automatic scientist .
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by carapace 4y ago
> there are plenty of wise people in the world and if we listen to them, they will tell us how to solve all our problems and live happily ever after. Sure, and that's kind of the point: just listen to wise people. > Once AI becom
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Jim Blinn and Ed Catmull – graphics class at Berkeley (1981)(youtube.com)
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by carapace 4y ago
First. connect them to empirical feedback devices. In other words, make them scientists. Human life on Earth is not that hard (think of it as a video game.) Because of evolution, the world seems like it was designed to automatically make
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by carapace 4y ago
I've lived here nearly half a decade. We had thunder and lightening storms when I was a kid, then almost none for the last decade or two. This years' storms are heavy but not out of line w/ my personal experience, for what
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by carapace 4y ago
As a kid in the 80's I could clearly see the handwriting on the wall, and it was pretty disheartening to see nearly all the grownups put their heads in the sand. Environmentalists have been derided as silly hippies for decades. So ye
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by carapace 4y ago
Meaning no disrespect, and I swear I'm not just being contrary for kicks, but it now sounds (to me) like you want to be using Common Lisp? It sounds like you're fighting your tools with your tools.
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by carapace 4y ago
> Generate clutter-, ad-, and tracker-free article pages to share I miss hyphens.
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> absolute clusterfuck that is cross-platform development TCL/Tk
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We don't need automatic mistake-makers, eh?
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(OMG! He's so young! No sideburns!!) Consider that these laws describe the perfect slave. SPOILER ALERT! One of the interesting corollaries that Asimov explores in a couple of works arises when the robots become more intelligent than h
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by carapace 4y ago
Or when people are carrying out post-hypnotic suggestions. They will come up with plausible reasons for their behaviour if asked. Scott McCloud talks about this in "Understanding Comics" as well, where he calls it "closure&q
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by carapace 4y ago
FWIW it sounds to me like you're using what effectively amounts to fancy 3D printf, eh? In other words logging/printf help "visualize" non-geometrical entities.
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I hear you: people have been "doing it wrong" voluminously and for a long time. Ergo, fancy debuggers come in handy. > This is normal... That's the part that I have a problem with. We have leavened our entire complex c
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by carapace 4y ago
> never proceed without [total] confidence in your understanding The fellow I learned that from was apenwarr, FWIW.
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Seems as good a hook as any to hang this rant... > a good debugger supports different kinds of breakpoints, offers rich data visualization capabilities, has a REPL for executing expressions, can show the dependencies between threads and
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Unless you will cite something specific it's hard to discuss it?

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