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by cdrini 1y ago
Wow! That's an insanely impressive site! https://www.recursive.design/
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by cdrini 1y ago
Ahhh I think that's it! Oh wow it's really quite a captivating font.
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by cdrini 1y ago
Wow, I've never seen comic sans on mobile before, and... it kind of looks really nice?? I'm not sure why, but it looks totally different from windows! Maybe it's the high resolution display, but the font doesn't look as
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by cdrini 1y ago
I'm not sure most kids would jump through this many hoops. I don't know what will happen in the future, but I'm having trouble foreseeing a future where a sizeable majority of kids have cryptocurrency wallets. They'll pr
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by cdrini 1y ago
I didn't have a debit card until I went to university :P I _think_ having a card at 11 is rare, but not sure. Also maybe gen z/etc are getting cards earlier? Also not sure if parents who do get their kids cards at a young age aren
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by cdrini 1y ago
Controlling VPN seems much easier, no? Since you have to pay for a VPN service, and I imagine most kids don't have a credit card to make arbitrary purchases independently, so it would have to bubble up to a parent.
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by cdrini 1y ago
Hmm I don't think a universal language is implied by being able to translate without a rosetta stone. I agree, I don't think there is such a thing as a universal language, per se, but I do wonder if there is a notion of a universa
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by cdrini 1y ago
That's a very good point! I hadn't thought of that. And that makes sense, since the encoding of the word "sun" arises from its linguistic context, and there's no such shared context between the English word sun and
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by cdrini 1y ago
I would say there's a difference between abstract and complex. A complex topic would take a lot of time to communicate mainly because you have to go through all the prerequisites. By abstract I mean something like "communicate&quo
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by cdrini 1y ago
Hmm I don't think we'd need a rosetta stone. In the same way LLMs associate via purely contextual usage the meaning of words, two separate data sets of lion and English, encoded into the same vector space, might pick up patterns o
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by cdrini 1y ago
Hmm, I'm finding the premise a bit confusing, "understand what it truly meant to be a lion". I think that's quite different than having meaningful communication. One could make the same argument for "truly understan
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by cdrini 1y ago
Hmm I'm not convinced we don't have a lot of shared experience. We live on the same planet. We both hunger, eat, and drink. We see the sun, the grass, the sky. We both have muscles that stretch and compress. We both sleep and yawn
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by cdrini 1y ago
+1, I think the mark of a good argument is to back up assertions and explain reasoning. Although I disagree, I'm seeing well-reasoned arguments in this thread both for and against the claim "AI is inevitable".
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by cdrini 1y ago
I would disagree with that; I want taxes because I get something out of taxes. Taxes are me paying the government for certain services they provide me, like I'm hiring a contractor. As for surveillance/war, although they have been
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by cdrini 1y ago
How do you differentiate between an effective debater using inevitabilism as a technique to win a debate, and an effective thinker making a convincing argument that something is likely to be inevitable? How do you differentiate between an e
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by cdrini 1y ago
Assuming a government that reflects the people like democracy, which is I assume the context of this discussion. And to be clear they are different, but they are very closely related. And the relationship is that law follows and encodes the
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by cdrini 1y ago
Laws in theory encode the morality of the people. The people who believed it was moral to own humans encoded their morality into their legal system.
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by cdrini 1y ago
Very cool anecdote! And agreed, I think we're being a bit "handwavy" about what we mean when we say "language"; it seems like more of a spectrum. I'm not sure where we draw the line between, say, language that
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by cdrini 1y ago
Yeah I think the premise is a bit poorly designed, I would just wave it away and focus on the queue. The coding problem itself is pretty well defined. And I think the premise is intentionally presented kind of poorly defined, which makes me
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by cdrini 1y ago
Both of those things can be true. Just because they didn't have language, doesn't mean they couldn't communicate, it just means they could likely only communicate primarily by showing instead of telling. And it's also cl
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by cdrini 1y ago
I was going to comment on how the rise in obesity is a global phenomenon in almost all countries, but I double checked the data, and France and Spain are, as far as I can find, the only countries with a _decreasing_ obesity rate! So indeed
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by cdrini 1y ago
I was dubious so did a fact check, and it is indeed necessary! Not sure what the reasoning is, I wonder if it's some rule about public swimming which was originally created only for pools? Or maybe there are some wildlife concerns with
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by cdrini 1y ago
Well depends on what you value. Achieving/contributing to something impactful first is for many people valuable even if it doesn't come with fame. Historically, this mindframe has been popular especially amongst scientists.
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by cdrini 1y ago
Hmm, who are you responding to? I don't see a single comment matching your description in this thread.
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by cdrini 1y ago
+1! That's a reasonable take. The takes on here saying Google is a shill for introducing this feature, that no one wants it, that it's useless, are the takes that I found frustrating in this comment thread. But also I might just b
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by cdrini 1y ago
+1 for subtitles. I do think that subtitles don't gain the same level of traction; and people complain about auto-translated subtitles as well (and auto-subtitles on their own!). I think auto-dubbing might be more successful at allowin
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by cdrini 1y ago
Oof a lot of hate for this feature. I agree more configuration would be nice, but at the same time, this is absolute science fiction come to life. Even for people who speak multiple languages: let's say you speak English, German, and F
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by cdrini 1y ago
Based on that last sentence I'm not sure if this is meant to be a serious argument or if you're being sarcastic. But assuming good faith, I would argue that there's nothing inherent to conservatism as it's defined that w
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by cdrini 1y ago
That's a pretty wild definition of conservatism, I don't think even uncharitable historians/political scientists would define conservatism in that way. And in fact it's not a textbook definition; looking at the link you
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by cdrini 1y ago
When I use a normal LLM, I generally try to think "would I be able to do this without thinking, if I had all the knowledge, but just had to start typing and go?". With thinking LLMs, they can think, but they often can only think i

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