chordalkeyboard

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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
I was issued a Brother by the US Department of Veterans Affairs and it burned through ink cartridges, I took a semester off and the ones in the printer went bad without me printing anything; when the yellow ink ran out it refused to print i
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> But it's time for humans to quit our nonsense and give way to machines , which require universal standards. I think we should arrange our society to favor humans and program computers in such a way to accommodate humans rather tha
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> The bottom line is, at some point in time, automation is going to reduce the amount of human work which needs to be done Jevons paradox [0] proposes that as automation reduces the cost of labor then people will find new uses for automa
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
Scrubbing Bubbles contains microplastic abrasives.
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How Can We Align the Interests of Bank Shareholders with Depositors?(pricetheory.substack.com)
1 points by chordalkeyboard 4y ago|0 comments
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
Yes to 1. and 2.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
I'm not sure because I've never read anything about cartoon characters in this context but it probably has to do with whether the person recognizes that the cartoon character is an animated drawing or a person.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
"process" includes storing/referencing memories etc.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
>> Our brains treat on-screen faces the same as in-person faces, explains Bradley Bond. He is a communication researcher at the University of San Diego in California. “We assign personhood to people we see in-person and on screens,” h
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
The ape brain doesn't have a separate category for 'people you see on TV' and 'people you work with', celebrities are stored in the same place as your friends except the nature of parasocial relations seems to polar
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> Housing is an asset not inflation. Inflation causes asset prices to rise. > If inflation was running hot persistently at like 6% then long term interest rates would be higher This is not true. > housing prices would fall in nomin
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> 85% of phone users choose Android. Indeed, seems they are not "happy" to buy Apple. > There is an alternative I mentioned this twice, it is also notoriously inadequate and user-hostile as well. Do you have anything to add
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> So if Apple products are “user hostile” then why are enough users happily spending twice as much on iPhones and more on Macs They aren't all "happy" about it, but as I mentioned in the post you replied to, there is not a
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
I think it is reasonable to assert both that distraction has been a problem for hundreds of years and that it is considerably worse now than it had been.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> That must be why developing iOS Apps is so unpopular with developers… Apple products are popular among consumers and developers in spite of their many user-hostile decisions precisely because there are few alternatives, all of which
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
In the Marine Corps, honorably separated Marines are entitled to use their rank as a courtesy title in civilian life. Wearing jewelry to celebrate and pay homage to one's service is hardly influencing the public.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
I'm not aware of a military tradition against retirees wearing jewelry that is a throwback to their service, quite the contrary in fact.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
I would infer that it is likely that there is a connection.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> Flesh and understanding are separate concepts. The experience of being human is a separate concepts from understanding. The experience of being human is what allows me to infer meaning from the words, phrases, sentences, etc. that a hu
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
'conspiracy' is a loaded way to refer to http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> This is what the human brain does. The human brain is embodied in a human flesh and uses language to exchange models and data about the real world with other fleshy vessels. This provides a basis to assign meaning to the language. Furt
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> No. You're wrong. chatGPT only knows of text. It derives incomplete understanding of the world via text. It doesn't understand anything. It combines symbols according to a probabilistic algorithm and you assign meaning to it.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> But it doesn't prove that the machine does not understand everything period. It just doesn't understand the topic or query at hand. It does no say anything about whether the machine can UNDERSTAND other things. No, the type o
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> The problem here is that yes the occasional errors demonstrate certain flaws in it's understanding of some topic. No, they demonstrate that the machine does not understand. > The issue is there are many times where it produce
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> The advent of chatGPT had millions of people on the internet trying to downplay the intelligence of chatGPT by continuously trying to re-emphasize the things it gets wrong. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the criticism. It is
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> It seems obvious to me that if you never intend to sell a bond, the maturity value is a measure of interest. The reason this matters is because in the case of a bank who needs the funds to operate then they very much might need to sell
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> Initial time for real dollar caluculation can be anything. You can ask what your real dollar salary is relative to 1950, or relative to 1951, or yesterday. Regardless of which day's dollars we use as a baseline for comparison, a b
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
As Schumpeter predicted, the complexity of our economy is has outstripped our language and consequently our ability to understand it.
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> What will the real value of a $1 bond be on your balance sheet the day it matures? exactly $1 The real value in future-date dollars will be $1. In present-day dollars it is likely to be less, the ability to refer to which distinction
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by chordalkeyboard 4y ago
> In real terms, you will get back exactly a hundred million. In the npv at that date will be exactly 100 million. you wrote 'real terms' when you meant 'nominal terms.' > $1 after inflation is still $1. It is just

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