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by czl 2y ago
> Also, lighter bodies (relative to size) make us (in our natural form) extremaly capable long distance runners. Humans' ability to run long distances effectively is due to a combination of factors, with the ability to sweat being o
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Reaching light speed isn't just an engineering problem—it's a fundamental issue in physics. The laws of physics (as we know them) prevent any object with mass from reaching light speed. Notice however that our minds, like the inst
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> biology will create constraints. If you're male, you may be able to bench 200kg, but probably not 500kg unless your biology allows it. On evolutionary timeframes what biology allows can evolve and the hard limits are due to chemis
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> There IS a correlation between intelligence and brain size (of about 0.3). Here is a page that shows what such a weak correlation looks like visually: https://resources.nu.edu/statsresources/correlation It also ex
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> Evolutionary history points towards brain size being limited by a combination of what is safe for the female hip width and also what amount of energy cost can be justified by increasing the size of the brain. If bigger brains lead to h
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> I don't see why progress will be a straight line and not a sloping-off curve. Technological progress often appears linear in the short term, but zooming out reveals an exponential curve, similar to compound interest. > You shou
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Adding a parameter X to your definition expands it as follows: > When Bob invests labor into X to generate financial gain, and Tom utilizes the results of Bob's labor on X without compensating Bob at his requested rate. However, thi
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The output from an LLM is like the path a marble takes across a surface shaped by its training data and answers to “why” questions just continue the marble’s path. You may get good sounding answers to your why questions but they are just go
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> I assume the just hire humans to solve… An incorrectly formalized problem is a different problem and a solution to any formalized problem still useful for AI training because such solutions can be mechanically checked for correctness a
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> If we made all car occupants wear a helmet we would reduce head injuries for occupants in car crashes. But that would be ridiculous. Effective helmets would likely need to be tethered due to their mass. I believe modern car race helmet
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> my information was exchanged only between the two parties with my consent, on an encrypted channel Say WhatsApp is found to have a security hole that has been leaking data to 3rd parties. What may be the fate of dentists / doctors
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Correct. We use paper receipts for shopping and paper ballots for voting. Automation is fast and efficient, but there must be a manual fallback when power fails or automation is unreliable. This wisdom is echoed in some religious practices
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Imagine a news story about a dentist that violated HIPPA (or equivalent) laws because they used Whatsapp / Facebook to share medical records. Will this news story be about a hero vs someone who got into trouble?
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To maintain stable short-term prices, active regulation of currency supply is necessary. Without it, currency value fluctuates with supply and demand, making prices unstable. In the long term, a small amount of inflation is needed to discou
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> Effectively, they (LLMs) can't think new thoughts. This is true only if you assume that combining existing thought patterns is not new thinking. If they can't learn a certain pattern from training data, indeed they would be s
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While it's true that the volume of bad writing is increasing, our ability to analyze and refine this sludge is also improving. Just as spell check and grammar check give instant feedback why not AI instant feedback about writing qualit
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> There is the old Carlin bit about "for there to be an average intelligence, half of the people need to be below it". This is true for the median, not necessarily for the average.
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Yes, do not rely on it for assessments. It generates ratings of 7 or 8 because those ratings are statistically common in its training data.
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The idea is to have the current system create a backup paper trail from which you practice resuming from for when computers go down. Nothing about current process for you need change only that you be familiar with falling back to paper back
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> It is a critical problem if your entire record of life-saving drugs you've given them in the past 24 hours suddenly goes down. Will outages like this motivate a backup paper process? The automated process should save enough inform
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The concept of a Universal Turing Machine (UTM) suggests that, given enough time and memory, it can compute anything that is computable. By extension, if human cognition is computable, a sufficiently advanced computational system could, in
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> we just assume everyone knows what we know. Yes, the "Curse of knowledge" cognitive bias can cause the intelligent to be unintelligible.
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> an organism is the one saying "I" and not the cells or tissues An organism is a colony of cells and in that colony only some cells are responsible for thinking / communication.
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Aim enhancing guns exist. Example: TrackingPoint Precision-Guided Firearms: uses a computer-controlled firing system Tracks targets and calculates variables like distance, wind, and angle. Only fires when the gun is perfectly aligned with t
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> it proved the correct decision through virtue of the fact that the story continued (and they weren't all killed off in episode one). In the show’s fictional plot, the decision seems correct because the story continued and the char
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In a free economy decision power over wealth accrues to those under whose watch wealth compounds fastest. You may disagree with the inequality that results but history shows it is difficult to compete economically with groups that run free
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The purpose of a currency is not for investment but to keep circulating in the economy. Low steady inflation ensures this happens. Inflation also clears up debts which would otherwise compound. Nobody forces you to store wealth long term us
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Embedded software?
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> then he would be voted out of office in (max) 4 years. Assuming the abuse of power does not prevent this.
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> Was it the murder of their mistress? Then obviously not official. Why obviously? If mistress is causing "harm" to other official actions would it not be official duty to prevent this harm? You and I may not buy such a defence

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