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by chongli 2mo ago
Read the rest of the discussion. The claim is about text which is in principle incomprehensible to humans. If there exists a text which only one person can understand, that person can communicate their understanding to others, even if that
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by chongli 2mo ago
So you concede the point then. The age of humans comprehending things is not coming to an end . And therein lies the rub. When it comes to intellectual labour: Understanding == Value If a mathematician produces something incomprehensible
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by chongli 2mo ago
No, I gave you a lot more leeway than that. Take any utterly incomprehensible piece of writing from the entire history of civilization and demonstrate its value. You keep falling back on "incomprehensible for some people" but th
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by chongli 2mo ago
And that's the reason she's wrong?
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by chongli 2mo ago
No, not morons, but people who have built a career on string theory. At this point, even if they regret their decisions, it’s too late to turn back now.
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by chongli 2mo ago
You've moved the goalposts. The original claim was about producing mathematics that are in principle impossible for any human to understand . All the stuff you've listed is understood by some person, and that understanding is the
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by chongli 2mo ago
Can you give an example of an incomprehensible piece of writing (any writing, never mind a proof) that has commercial value commensurate with the costs involved here?
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by chongli 2mo ago
We don’t trillions of dollars in LLM investment to build things mathematicians don’t understand. We already have plenty of those, even from ancient times. As to your second point, Terry Tao already has an answer [1]: the proof isn’t the con
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by chongli 2mo ago
Just put no cross-origin resources into my proposal. This eliminates ad networks entirely, including networked tracking pixels and networked ads (banners as well as text). Yes, a site would still be able to host their own ads but advertiser
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by chongli 2mo ago
Please read carefully. All of your complaints were already addressed in my original comment. I have zero faith in government’s ability to regulate these things correctly. Viz. cookie pop ups.
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by chongli 2mo ago
But today, the web is more of an application delivery system … I would prefer not to transact--at all--with any remote system that wanted to freeload on my resources What I really want is a non-executable web. I first started using the we
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by chongli 2mo ago
We’re burning the new library of Alexandria on the altar to a new god.
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by chongli 2mo ago
I’m a big fan of the Webtender [1]. A super old school website without style sheets. Tons of information, nicely organized, and everything loads super quickly, as it should be! [1] https://www.webtender.com/
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by chongli 2mo ago
It allows you to move freight really fast at half the cost That's leaving out fuel prices. The planes may use half the fuel, but aviation fuel has increased 7x in price since 1990. I couldn't find prices for 1969, but if you tak
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by chongli 2mo ago
How is the GGP post (by Animats) trivializing the risk? They're saying "it's a survival issue" and saying the printers became homeless and struggling to feed themselves. Sounds much more like a warning than a dismissal t
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by chongli 2mo ago
The automation features in Apple Home can be set to do things at sunrise or sunset. These track down to the minute the sunrise/sunset times from the weather app data for your location. Your best bet, if you really want an automatic chi
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by chongli 2mo ago
It’s not I who have twisted the meanings of the words, it’s the people who use the word amateur when they mean hack . The word amateur is very old, and for most of its history [1] it literally meant lover and in the case of practitione
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by chongli 2mo ago
The use of “amateur” is indeed a very poor choice. An amateur is someone who seeks to master a skill or perform a craft for the love of the art, not for money. It’s the professional who is looking for the shortcut, not the amateur. The amat
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by chongli 2mo ago
Good espresso is really difficult to make, with the lighter the roast, the harder it is to get right. Most coffee shops can get good quality beans that smell amazing but without a well-practiced barista the shots will be excessively sour or
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by chongli 2mo ago
Question: how is your sense of smell? My friend has the same opinion about coffee as you (he just drinks cheap diner joe) and his sense of smell is almost nonexistent. I, on the other hand, have a pretty good nose and I can pick out peach,
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by chongli 2mo ago
It’s a rant, but not about technology. It’s a rant about her chosen genre being maligned unfairly. I think a more interesting tack on this argument would be to say that hard sci-fi tends to be more pro-technology and soft sci-fi tends to be
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by chongli 2mo ago
I have not heard this critique of Wikipedia before. Can you explain further?
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by chongli 2mo ago
Regardless of whether he really is that deluded or not, what should he do? It's just as easy to imagine his company dying by playing extremely conservative and clutching on to the "golden goose" for dear life. That's wha
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by chongli 2mo ago
YouTube is better than no YouTube. Wikipedia is better than no Wikipedia. But Google today is way worse than first decade Google. There's curves to all these things. It just feels like we're accelerating on the downslope of a lot
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by chongli 3mo ago
Would you say the same about a basketball video game?
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by chongli 3mo ago
Your comment said puzzle. I usually think of those things as made of cardboard or wood (really fancy ones), i.e. jigsaw puzzles. Since they're made of cellulose, you can turn them into nitrocellulose and then burn them very quickly! I
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by chongli 3mo ago
Soak it in nitric and sulfuric acid, let it dry, then light it on fire?
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by chongli 3mo ago
That’s easy: a proper emergency. Let’s say you’re controlling a piece of machinery with an app in the background and the machine starts on fire. Wouldn’t it make sense for the app to steal focus so it can show you some alarms (in addition t
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by chongli 3mo ago
Infinite scrolling + algorithmic ads. That's how Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok all make their money. You get way more ad impressions per hour than from people who click on links and read / participate in discussions (which is wh
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by chongli 3mo ago
Enshittification is the answer. Old Reddit doesn’t make any money. Users block what few ads there are and it’s free so there’s no subscription revenue otherwise. New Reddit is full of ads plus social media engagement-bait garbage. New Reddi

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