dTal

27 ms·

451.
by dTal 2y ago
This suffers from the same objections as all carbon sequestration "solutions" - why would anyone dump expensive fertilizer into the ocean? How would they haul it there without burning more fuel? How would they make the fertilize
452.
by dTal 2y ago
You speak as if there's possibly one or two alien species. But there are hundreds of billions of planets in the Milky Way. Even if life is 1 in a million, we should expect hundreds of millions of life bearing planets. The place should
453.
by dTal 2y ago
All very relevant points to why human generation ships are unlikely. Totally irrelevant points as to why, out of the hundreds of billions of planets in the Milky Way, it would appear that not one has evolved an organism capable of spreading
454.
by dTal 2y ago
Meta: Why are all the comment timestamps in this thread no older than 5 hours, when some comments are over a day old? You can verify this by looking at some user pages.
455.
by dTal 2y ago
The Fermi paradox does not merely concern the lack of alien signals - it also notes the peculiarity of the absence of alien spacecraft / visitors. The Milky Way is big, but not so big that it's impossible to traverse generationall
456.
by dTal 2y ago
>often printing thousands of lines per flight >with a Shuttle flight costing $27,000 per pound, putting the 59-pound teleprinter in space cost over $1.5 million per flight. That budget calculation is just the weight of the printer its
457.
by dTal 2y ago
We won't last forever anyway. Nothing does.
458.
by dTal 2y ago
Well, yes and no. The amount of RAM consumed by the filesystem driver is negligible compared to the truckloads of filesystem data shoveled through it. If we assume that errors are comparatively rare, the code itself is unlikely to be affect
459.
by dTal 2y ago
Have you considered Syncthing? It's like p2p Dropbox. Open source and works great. Every photo I take with my phone magically appears on my laptop.
460.
by dTal 2y ago
What is the difference?
461.
by dTal 2y ago
Why would they need to lay it out? NASA already did that. In any case, it doesn't cost 100 bucks to print a book, that's absurd. The longest Harry Potter books have 700+ pages and they don't cost hundreds.
462.
by dTal 2y ago
I agree with you that ideally kids would not be browsing PornHub. I'm not sure that requiring PornHub to de anonymize you is a good or proportionate solution. It seems to me that a major driver of intuition here is whether a website is
463.
by dTal 2y ago
PornHub is free. There are no laws against leaving porn where a minor might find it. Arguably, the websites are being held to different standards. You can go into Barnes and Noble and find all kinds of filthy books, and they're not l
464.
by dTal 2y ago
There is no philosophical difference. It's like asking if Usain Bolt is really a fast runner, or if he just seems like it because he has long legs and powerful muscles.
465.
by dTal 2y ago
I side with Dennett (and Turing for that matter) that a "p-zombie" is a logically incoherent thing. Demonstrating understanding is the same as having understanding because there is no test that can distinguish the two. Are LLM
466.
by dTal 2y ago
I think it's a very poor intuition pump. These 'word calculators' have lots of capabilities not suggested by that term, such as a theory of mind and an understanding of social norms. If they are a "merely" a "w
467.
by dTal 2y ago
It is however a highly relevant thing to be aware of when evaluating a LLM for 'intelligence', which was the context this was brought up in. Without looking at the word 'strawberry', or spelling it one letter at a time
468.
by dTal 2y ago
I am curious, when you started writing your comment, did you know the last word of it would be "backtrack"?
469.
by dTal 2y ago
I got the egyptian one right (all of them actually) and I was very confident of it despite not really knowing anything about heiroglyphics. The technique was simply, which one is more stereotyped? The AI one just has the classic figures and
470.
by dTal 2y ago
The video wasn't talking about GPT per se. The world of AI is much bigger than language models - you have to look at the big picture. Language models by themselves give a convincing simulacrum of a thinking, planning agent - what hap
471.
by dTal 2y ago
A mosquito weighs 2.5 milligrams. It also has almost exactly the same hovering power to weight ratio. At 8mm high it is indeed a very tiny "drone", and exceedingly fragile, but it is certainly not impossible.
472.
by dTal 2y ago
By being very small. 15k rpm is 250 hertz. This is slightly lower than the lower bound wing frequency of a female mosquito, which can hover using approximately 100 μW - a tenth the power of this drone. Citations: https://humbug.o
473.
by dTal 2y ago
>Most the 7b instruct models are very bad outside very simple queries. I can't agree with "very bad". Maybe your standards are set by the best, largest models, but have a little perspective: a modern 7b model is a friggin
474.
by dTal 2y ago
Because software is information. It is closer to a scientific paper than a loaf of bread, and I do expect those to be free. I do not expect scientists to work for free, but the marginal cost of copying their output is 0 and the social ben
475.
by dTal 2y ago
I second the Sony Xperia Mini Pro as the best phone ever. I replaced mine enough times that my jeans pockets all had silhouettes worn into them.
476.
by dTal 2y ago
So, regarding the title: "support" is used euphemistically here to mean "permit" (an editorialization not present in the article). This euphemism is usually used by companies who want to de-emphasize their exertion of co
477.
by dTal 2y ago
You know, that's an interesting question. "Newspeak" in 1984 describes two phenomena welded together: that language influences thought (Sapir-Worf), and that government has levers to influence language (which in the book look
478.
by dTal 2y ago
The words "human" and "man" are etymologically unrelated. It's just a coincidence they both have m-a-n in them.
479.
by dTal 2y ago
Yes. "Man" and "mankind" are already low key deprecated terms, because they reinforce a very strong historical bias towards male being the "default" sex. In this worldview, society is made of men, and women are
480.
by dTal 2y ago
>No, it should be for man as in mankind You undermined your own point with such impressive brevity that it could be satire.

More ›