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by customguy 2mo ago
That's when you say others shouldn't use it while you use it. I don't like the parts of the city that are full of concrete and (edit: lacking) trees. I still walk or drive through there instead of making a huge detour, I stil
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by customguy 2mo ago
The employment is temporary, what follows a net negative, is the idea. And "AI" as a concept has has no agency. This is all about humans who seek to further concentrate wealth.
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by customguy 2mo ago
Yeah, and it's not necessarily mobbing to only tell people you really like about your party. But where it occurs, people never admit it to themselves and justify it in such a way, so that justification is meaningless. All wars of aggre
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by customguy 2mo ago
For a one time coin flip, sure. For a lot of them, depending on the stakes, that can be very, very wrong. https://www.google.com/search?q=why+99.99+accuracy+is+not+en... It doesn't take a lot of thought experiments to
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by customguy 2mo ago
Not having clear, objective criteria enables arbitrary decisions (not against OP, I mean in general.. and in general I dislike this pattern a lot). On the extreme other end of the spectrum would be 100% objective criteria, and companies b
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by customguy 2mo ago
> human beings on average will only go through the work if they are FORCED to go through the work So force them. We still see green colored things in more detail than, say, blue stuff, because once upon a time we relied on that to bett
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by customguy 2mo ago
> It has been getting easier to create creative works over time When it comes to writing, paper and pens, and then typewriters, have been rather cheap for a long time. Computers made it even cheaper, but it was already so cheap that wasn
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by customguy 2mo ago
> Scanning books by taking them apart into singular pages and scanning those pages is faster and cheaper. AI training is a numbers game, so they want faster and cheaper. It's faster and cheaper to do all sort of shitty things and pe
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by customguy 2mo ago
> so now electricity consumption is even higher Which is not great because it's wasteful, so you're making the same "moralistic argument". Unless your point is just that it's hypocritical, of course.
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by customguy 2mo ago
> Moralistic arguments that using air conditioning is harmful to society Can you name one? That isn't the same argument as against all needless waste? What I'm seeing is we can't even talk about shutter designs without t
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by customguy 2mo ago
Going for an AC before you even have shutters or anything on the outside is like sending an audio file of you reading a pdf per email because the "record reply" button is right there, but figuring out where on the filesystem the P
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by customguy 2mo ago
Couldn't you say ageing solved immortality? If nothing makes space for subsequent generations, there is no evolution, so anything that does evolve will outcompete it sooner or later. I (literally) never see any of that acknowledged by
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by customguy 2mo ago
> I think behind a lot of the enthusiasm around AI is a dream of being able to manifest things into reality without having to get into the details. Ironically, that I don't have to skip the details is the one thing I like. Mind yo
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by customguy 2mo ago
My point isn't to talk you out of doing what works for you, but simply to disagree that you can "approach determinism". You can get more and more predictable, but with determinism, you don't need to predict and make educ
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by customguy 2mo ago
I stand corrected, and frankly, since that misunderstanding made me a bit "mad" on behalf that person, I think I would have written my response very very differently if I hadn't made that mistake. I want to apologise for that
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by customguy 2mo ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you_can%27t_be_half_pregnant I know what a miscarriage is, and that you can't have percentage% of one. Same difference, so this attempt to guilt me into pretending 99% deterministic
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by customguy 2mo ago
My point is that a percentage of deterministic makes no sense. Just like being a bit pregnant doesn't. Take "proper" UI. You can activate a field, and even if it takes 20 seconds to finish the activation animation, start typi
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by customguy 2mo ago
You can reduce pregnancy to 0.00001% and there'll still be a baby. As in, "you can't be half-pregnant". A tool is either deterministic (within some limits [0]) or it isn't. [0] For example, for the purpose of driv
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by customguy 2mo ago
> The greatest accomplishment in my life is my math PhD, earned before AI got useful [..] Yet I both acknowledge rather than deny the impending death of mathematics as we have engaged, it for the last couple centuries, and am far more ex
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by customguy 2mo ago
> you can’t climb to the moon, you need rockets for that. We don't live for rockets or the moon, but for ourselves. Anywhere we can go to only at the price of our despair we have no business going to.
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by customguy 2mo ago
... or infighting, or self-destruction, or doomscrolling... the pressure will go somewhere but not necessarily into channels that relieve it. That takes more effort and persistence, and also a society (our consumer societies hardly rate a
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by customguy 2mo ago
Ohhh. I have no real knowledge of electricity or electronics, but I know transistors are very fundamental so if you squint a bit, you might say this is what we set in motion when we program, or even just use a computer! Or at least some of
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by customguy 2mo ago
One very tiny silver lining in all this will be leaked prompts. E.g. we all know how a non-apology reads, and call them out as such already, but when you see "write a really contrite apology without actually conceding anything while s
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by customguy 2mo ago
I believe in the KDE / Magic User Interface way, users should decide what they want a button or a checkbox etc. to look like, and then everything should conform to that. And if you really wanted to, maybe made some concessions, and
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by customguy 2mo ago
> What do you propose I do? They asked to stop deflecting. Take that literally. Imagine this page without the comment and the comments hanging off it. "Don't do this thing". "What should I do instead?" Your choic
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by customguy 2mo ago
> Can we start a serious discussion about whether we might be living in a simulation with a troll teenager at the controls? Nah. Power centers consolidate and seek slavery, whatever other differences they may have there is consensus ther
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by customguy 2mo ago
Yeah but you kinda have to have the culture, too, if this is about the the hovering up of anything humans put on the internet. Sampling breaks and making music with the same care they made theirs with is still related to the musicians that
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by customguy 2mo ago
Sure, but when I said a puzzle I was thinking of something more abstract, like software development getting solved. To be nitpicky, I'd say without a mind to pose a question nothing in the material world by itself is a puzzle. It&#x2
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by customguy 2mo ago
> Yeah, if you're using lossless compression like PNG or GIF, adding a lossy step to reduce the number of colors in the palette can help. Depending on the image context it can also backfire, though not so much for photos, but rather
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by customguy 2mo ago
A riddle is not a physical thing but okay, let's say you want to destroy an instance of a riddle that is in a book: how do you know it's in that book without looking, and therefore copying the riddle into your own mind? This is kn

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