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by cortic 1y ago
It is a criminal offense in the UK to use insulting words in public, or to send any message online that anyone could find insulting or offensive (whether any one does or not is irreverent). The Online Safety Act and Hate Crime Provision hav
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by cortic 1y ago
The neurons in a child's brain might be 'wired' to accept data sets, but that does not make them fundamentally different from AI systems. Are you claiming that a child who is not exposed to 'reason' will reason as w
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by cortic 1y ago
> I implore you to go read up on even the basics of early childhood development. That's kind of like taking driving lessons in order to fix an engine. 'Early childhood development' is an emergent property of what could
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by cortic 1y ago
I'm not sure humans are any different; Humans don't think. At all. They do next token prediction. If they are [raised in environments] that includes lots of examples of the result of people thinking, what they produce will look so
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by cortic 1y ago
>What is so special about services delivered over the internet? The most dangerous people on earth who are not in prison are on the internet; It is an adult place. Making it look like a child friendly place will not change this. But
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by cortic 1y ago
I don't know enough about the different kindle versions to say;
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by cortic 1y ago
I purchased one for £24, 11 years ago, and still use it. Ironically from amazon (code B006GTOYDS) - can't find it in way back machine still have it in my purchase history. Before they started killing the competition. Miles better than
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by cortic 2y ago
So if your training and double your water intake your basically lowering you IQ? (according to the Chinese studies) I wonder the method this uses.. has anyone looked at dementia rates in high fluoride areas.. Particularly in people with h
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by cortic 2y ago
When you are released from prison, they can simple ask you to decrypt the data again, and if you refuse or can't, you have broken a law with another 2 years in prison (5 if they think you could have anything to do with 'terrorism&
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by cortic 2y ago
Sounds like one of these stats where they just invert the cause and effect to get a story; i.e. People who are healing better will obviously walk sooner. Inverted to people who walk sooner are healing better.
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by cortic 2y ago
Flubber? Sorry, I’ll see my way out.
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by cortic 2y ago
>Projects that don't have deadlines imposed on them, even if they are self-imposed, will take a lot longer than they need to, and may suffer from feature creep and scope bloat. Another way to say this is; >Projects that don'
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by cortic 2y ago
Isn't that just selection bias, as diets get westernized so does medical care and so we detect more diseases..
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by cortic 2y ago
> ..individuals basically lose completely their ability to understand and produce language as a result of massive damage to the left hemisphere of the brain. ... The right hemisphere almost certainly uses internal 'language' ei
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by cortic 2y ago
correctly is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, and the selection process in evolution is not random.
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by cortic 2y ago
>> If the answer is "they just don't get access anymore" or "a panel of their peers attests to them", your fantasy authentication system also needs a fantasy species of sentient beings to serve as users, becau
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by cortic 2y ago
The motivations of a person who disproportionately helps western governments is troubling to you? Or is it that you don't consider exposing criminal conduct helpful?
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by cortic 3y ago
https://www.poison.org/battery/stats There are some number of deaths a year from this.
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by cortic 3y ago
They were reducing the speed limit in part of the UK from 30 to 20mph. Some people believed it would save 4 or 5 lives a year. I worked out that it would cost an extra 50 lifetimes a year sitting in traffic. I never posted this as the val
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by cortic 3y ago
Not sure i would say a slime mold has reason and intelligence .. Or if i would then so does a river. Also i think that how it changes its proteins could be considered a language, without stretching the definition of language any more than
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by cortic 3y ago
You know i assumed that was true until right now. But I can't think of a single example of reason and intelligence existing without any form of language. Even insects have rudimentary language, and in fact reasoning and intelligence
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by cortic 3y ago
>Genes encode a ton of behaviors, you can't just ignore that. I'm not ignoring that, I'm just saying that in LLMs we call these things weights. And i don't want to downplay the importance of weights, its probably a si
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by cortic 3y ago
My first answer was a bit hasty, let me try again; We are clearly a product of our past experience (in LLMs this is called our datasets). If you go back to the beginning of our experiences, there is little identity, consciousness, or abili
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by cortic 3y ago
Look at a year old baby, there is no logic, no reasoning, no real consciousness, just basic algorithms and data input ports. It takes ten years of data sets before these emergent properties start to develop, and another ten years before an
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by cortic 3y ago
If humans are basically evolved LLMs, which i think is likely; Reasoning will be an emergent property of LLMs within context with appropriate weights.
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by cortic 3y ago
>proof or any logical argument All of human progress has happened through open discussion; i thought this was obvious. We gain immunity to bad ideas by hearing them within public areas where people can argue for and against them honestl
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by cortic 3y ago
>The value of saying what you want is not held higher than the value of not being discriminated against. Alternatively; The value of maintaining current discrimination is high enough to motivate laws protecting racists from exposing the
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by cortic 3y ago
> The risk of being debanked by two independent banks _at the same time_ seems lower than crypto. I use 3 separate banks for this reason. But honestly, the 'reason' for dropping me might be a 3rd party risk assessment that flag
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by cortic 3y ago
RE: - How unusual are we in the universe? To me this question is in answer to the Fermi paradox, the great filter .. is it behind us? Its important to answer because if its not behind us, then; not wanting to be hyperbolic but, we are abou
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by cortic 3y ago
What a load of guff! Let's say a power station fails unexpectedly. There are several options. 1) Expect politicians to do their job in times of emergency. 2) Rolling blackouts.. or maybe build or incentivize through fines and regulatio

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