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by coldtea 5mo ago
Even if we assume transformer models as intelligent (quite a big leap of faith), this just proved that humans are even more special: not only they are intelligent beings, but they can also create intelligent technology.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Also 20 years since he set the tone every later guy kept making the same or worse... Not to mention he was never punished even for blatant violations, has been trusted with positions of power and influence since, and is making a public poli
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by coldtea 5mo ago
You can trivially get glass lenses nowadays. It's a prescription option. In any case, no scratches on my non-glass eyewear either.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Most believe whatever marketing material or sponsored "expert" advice is presented to them for "proper care", without actually checking. At least glasses clenaning is a harmless area - people do the same for supplements,
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Use a clean microfiber cloth. ANYTHING ELSE will scratch your lenses up. No, it wont. I'm cleaning mine for decades with anything at hand (cotton shirts, napkins, etc) and not a scratch. And of course there's the little fact
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> The British empire has been completely wound down, other than a handful of small overseas territories. Just because Britain couldn't afford it anymore. And after bloodshed, in India, Kenya, Cyprus, Malaysia, and elsewhere. Not ou
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> What land did Tony Blair grab? You can disagree with the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq without making the exaggerated claim that this was part of some kind of long-term imperialist occupation. Yeah, just a few decades years, to sec
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Which is orthogonal to what I'm responding to, which was that: "First to market is the winner even with an inferior product. See whatsapp and telegram" My point is that this not true, and that "first to market" usua
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by coldtea 5mo ago
I don't think you understand how stories work. Or what makes these two stories tick.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> I think you're misunderstanding me. There's no barrier to writing this story but about a toaster: you literally just type different words. And you're misunderstanding me. There is no practical barrier to writing this
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Oh, no. When you add thermal sensing and offsetting ambient temperature, you can add all kind of "seemingly" intelligent features like feeling the emotions of the bread, and creating the perfect toast without hurting the cute
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by coldtea 5mo ago
And they're wrong. Whereas, unless your claim is that rock and gasses are sentient, we're right.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> The UK doesn't have some imperialist policy of land grabs It has centuries of exactly that at a global scale, and continued post-war neo-colonial land grabbing and pressuring, plus eager participation in all the imperialist games
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by coldtea 5mo ago
For the core "cat" uses, how it's better than bat? Things like "Archives: Explores zip, tar, tar.gz, 7z, and rar as interactive directory trees showing uncompressed stats" I'm pretty sure bat doesn't do.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
For many of those automations, we're worse off for them. Like not being able to get some actual human when you call support, and talking to some fucking automatic system. This includes many of the " 1990s through the 2000s" o
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> By that definition nothing should ever be automated. Many things shouldn't. Understanding is one of them.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> You could go through and change all the points in the original story to be about a toaster instead. It would require you to edit text, but there is no barrier to doing that. Yes, there very much is a huge barrier. The copy and the ori
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Take a simple mechanism which has exceedingly low number of inputs and states and create a narrative around it to convey it as intelligent. (...) For a toaster, I can rewrite the think as "They're made of metal strips!",
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> I think humanity deserves to be debased in part because it's awfully egocentric and insist on being special in the universe. It is special in the universe unless proven otherwise. Aside from the animal world (also on Earth too, a
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> I'm not noticing a "cognitive decline" per se The funny thing is, maybe not noticing one can be the actual sign of it :)
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Might be. But after having read the original, it could just as well be the weights version and still be about us to begin with. I don't see how "you could do that with a toaster" still. The whole point between the original an
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> But it doesn't really give a reason to accept the analogy, it just asserts it. It's not a paper or a proof. It's a story. Doesn't want to prove the analogy, it wants to convey it.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Not having yet read the original story, this reads fine on its own. And I didn't see it as much as a literary attempt for art's sake, but more of a dialogue-based technical parable trying to convey a real-world insight. Kind of li
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> You guys have an anti-AI bug and it's eating you alive and blinding you to the future that is unfolding For the moment what is unfolding is a dystopia shoved down most people's throats, whether they want it or not. And the b
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Probably not you, but on this very forum there are plenty who will argue that LLMs / AI are entirely deterministic and that given enough time, a chisel, and sufficient clay tablets, any AI output can be calculated by hand. Any pa
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by coldtea 5mo ago
M4L is basically a plugin sdk. It loads as a VST would (roughly), just with access to Ableton UI elements. Ableton Extentions if a first class api to Live, kind of like AppleScript.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Far too much of Ableton's secret sauce is hidden away behind Max for Live The other way around. Ableton exposes some internal modules to Max for Live as Max for Live modules. What Ableton gets from Max for Live is not internals,
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Don't kick yourself. It's not possible with Google Docs either. All these collaborative document editors have been mostly gimmicks/wastes of time.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> First to market is the winner even with an inferior product. See whatsapp and telegram I don't think so. We use Excel not Lotus 1-2-3. iOS and Android, not Palm and Blackberry OSes or whatever mobile shit MS had first. We use Gma
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Not everybody on HN is from US or takes patriotic loyalty over tech. Purely on tech, those are better. In 2015 GoPro was better - for a while the only real game it town. But they did stupid moves, and missed obvious plays.

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