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by d4ng 3mo ago
Very interesting. I imagine though that the 17 model is reasonably consistent. I wonder what parallels there are with other areas of mathematics.
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by d4ng 3mo ago
Actually I’m not alluding to anything specific. I just wondered whether the 17ness of wallpaper groups and fundamental particles was some sort of mapping from a related common object. Obviously a long shot as previously mentioned.
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by d4ng 3mo ago
It's a reasonably sized prime number regardless of base.
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by d4ng 3mo ago
There are also 17 wallpaper groups. That always seemed like a funny number. I know it's a long shot, but is there a relation?
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by d4ng 3mo ago
Is claiming that the year when the orange man first came into office a mistake, or a hallucination? Does the answer change based on whether it came from a human or an LLM? How about citing legal cases that don't exist? I would say this
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by d4ng 3mo ago
LLMs are trained on a model of the world. We rely on them to produce output that correlates with our experience of the world. When we talk about truth, which is simply a word in language with various connotations, and which is a word that i
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by d4ng 3mo ago
Words are inexact abstractions, and meanings change over time. If they can't think, how can they even hallucinate? Remember the old definition of "computer", and how its usage shifted from humans to man-made machines. I just
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by d4ng 3mo ago
Why are LLM mistakes said to be hallucinations and not simply mistakes?
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by d4ng 3mo ago
What do you mean by universal truth in this context?
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by d4ng 4mo ago
Two of many things to answer: 1. Why must an industry provide public good? How do you define public good? If it must, can your claim be proved objectively without relying on feels? All these articles decrying gambling, crypto and prediction
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by d4ng 4mo ago
You are right.
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by d4ng 4mo ago
You are not objectively wrong. You have simply defined an incoherent abstract system in language. The claim you have made simply does not compute in the system in question. Regardless, that claim is not a claim about the objective world, ho
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by d4ng 4mo ago
Agreed-upon, as in subjective.
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by d4ng 4mo ago
2+2=4 is only a formal truth up to the axioms of arithmetic and how we denote numbers. The statement is not statement with regards to objective reality.
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by d4ng 4mo ago
Know of any more?
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Luddite(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by d4ng 4mo ago|2 comments
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by d4ng 4mo ago
Maybe it’s more about the journey and not the destination.
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by d4ng 4mo ago
So what do you think the true reason is that the market is so backwardated? (another genuine question)
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by d4ng 4mo ago
Oil prices are indeed determined by the expected future cost, including expected future reserves, and not only current reserves. Futures expiries extend quite far. Where does your short term reserves claim come from? Genuinely interested. R
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by d4ng 4mo ago
Options on crude oil futures settle in the underlying (futures), which settle in the underlying (oil) at expiry of the futures contract. Futures positions can be closed without giving or taking delivery. You give some interesting ideas to t
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by d4ng 4mo ago
Everyone’s talking about an oil price spike if stocks are depleted, but the heavy backwardation of crude oil futures tells a completely different story. Who is right? Are crude oil traders, who I’m sure know exactly how much remains in rese
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by d4ng 4mo ago
Purpose and meaning are ultimately subjective.
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by d4ng 4mo ago
This is very naive. Many people have incentives to manipulate the financial markets, also with real world consequences. Should we ban financial markets as a result? Do you really think that there are no people, who have bet on the price of
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by d4ng 5mo ago
Why must things have a purpose? If something has a purpose, can it be an objective purpose?
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by d4ng 5mo ago
Previously everyone was running. Now everyone is on a bicycle. The power each person expends remains approximately the same. The people still running are left behind. The first person to get home after work from running is now the first per
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by d4ng 6mo ago
The current price reflects the discounted pricing of future events, the effects of those events, and the probabilities of those events. When certain events occur, and other previously predicted and priced in events become impossible, the ma