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by carapace 2y ago
The second law of thermodynamics would like a word...
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by carapace 2y ago
Evolution. The human species has only existed as such for ~100,000 years. Almost all human societies have failed. We should spread knowledge far and wide for the same reason adaptive mutations spread through a population: shit happens. Ro
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by carapace 2y ago
Let me see if I can put into words the objections I have to "AI in education" First of all, what is "AI"? I mean that in a literal operational sense: can you even explain the math and machinery that you're talking
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by carapace 2y ago
Stuff that happens at compile-time is O(0) (well, technically it's amortized over the number of times you run the compiled code, eh? Huh, how does JIT compilation affect Big-O analysis?)
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by carapace 2y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05370 > Our experiments on the LibriSpeech and VCTK datasets show that VALL-E 2 surpasses previous systems in speech robustness, naturalness, and speaker similarity. It is the first of its
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by carapace 2y ago
There's no "even with that"!? Planes fly. If they don't fly people die. This is not an acceptable regression.
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by carapace 2y ago
Planes are falling out of the sky. I'm a fan of nuance but we're a little past that now.
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by carapace 2y ago
One interesting and useful model is Dilts': behaviour capabilities beliefs values identity Each level structures the level before it.
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by carapace 2y ago
I think it was Richard Bandler who said that we all have "multiple personalities" it's just that they have the same name and incomplete amnesia (for each other.)
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by carapace 2y ago
> two different functions ... have the same implementation Then they are not different functions. > It would seem like there is no way to disambiguate a function apart from its current implementation. Right, that's the whole poin
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by carapace 2y ago
Yeah, so much this. Thank you again. :)
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by carapace 2y ago
(Thank you! It means a lot to me that someone "got it"! Cheers and well met.)
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by carapace 2y ago
s/your/you're/
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by carapace 2y ago
> Wow, it seems I was not able to satisfy your sky high metaphysical expectations either. You didn't even try. Your argument, if it can be called that, seems to amount to "what if metaphysics doesn't matter?" which i
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by carapace 2y ago
> Seems that nobody will ever satisfy your metaphysical expectations. How am I the asshole here? OP was like "I'm going to go live in the Internet" and I'm pointing out that's a fantasy. What's your beef?
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by carapace 2y ago
Yeah, that's a factor here, I'm not very good at CT. (It's weird. It seems so simple, but when you actually get into the weeds things are flying around and morphing and it all falls apart (for me.)) Again, thanks for tryin
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by carapace 2y ago
If I write "I am alive" on a piece of paper does that make it a living being? If I carve Aleph on the brow of the Golum does it become a man? How big does the pile of switches have to be before it changes from "what" to
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by carapace 2y ago
> A software program running exists. What is "a software program" in your concept? You can't put "a software program" into a wheelbarrow. You can print out code and put that in a wheelbarrow, or write it to a di
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by carapace 2y ago
> it is all just neurons activating and making your muscles move. > ...and subjective awareness.
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by carapace 2y ago
How do you know?
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by carapace 2y ago
All those things are answered well enough by evolved programs ("instinct"), it's only hunting (and later war) where you get, yeah, adversarial training. Hunting in groups requires intelligence and communication to coordinate
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by carapace 2y ago
Gregory Bateson I think it was either in "Steps to Ecology of Mind" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steps_to_an_Ecology_of_Mind or "Mind and Nature: a Necessary Unity" or both.
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by carapace 2y ago
You're talking about evolution, I'm talking about thought. (Bateson said they were the same thing, just one faster than the other, but that's a bit heavy for a sunny Sunday morning.)
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by carapace 2y ago
> You are confusing two things. I doubt it. The essence of the question is the definition of "you" in your sentences. Who or what is "you"? (In fact that question is the short wide path to enlightenment, if "you&
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by carapace 2y ago
I thought it was understood that vocal language grew out of sign language used by hominid hunting groups? It seems to me that "action selection and the sequence of actions" reaches it's zenith in pre-linguistic animals in hun
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by carapace 2y ago
There is no "the Internet". There are computers, and wires, and silicon and electrons and photons, and there are cells and nerves and brains, but there is no "the Internet" in the real world. > your direct connection
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by carapace 2y ago
Thanks for trying. I feel like either I've gotten really stupid recently (always a possibility) or maybe this paper is not very good at explaining string diagrams. :(
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by carapace 2y ago
Ah. > They're exploiting the "sliding equality" referenced at the bottom of page 7. That was confusing too, and for the same reason: those are three topologically equivalent diagrams. So vertical height between nodes on di
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by carapace 2y ago
Thank you. > If you translated the two diagrams into classical notation, you’d get the two terms at the top of that page. So the vertical height is meaningful? Not just the arrangement of nodes on the string? It seems like an ambiguous
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by carapace 2y ago
On page four it seems the only difference between the second and third string diagrams is that the 'h' node is lower on the XY string, topologically the diagrams are identical, is that a typo?

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