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by dTal 4y ago
0 effects on what? For whose benefit is this simulation? The thought experiment implicitly privileges the observer.
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by dTal 4y ago
Be careful what you optimize for. Clearly the thing you actually object to is Disney squeezing money out of things. Maybe just make that part illegal, and forget the copyright?
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by dTal 4y ago
Is there a reason the sex pronouns are all over the place? It makes it needlessly confusing.
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by dTal 4y ago
In what sense is your "experience" (mediated through your senses) more valid than a language model's "experience" of being fed tokens? Token input is just a type of sense, surely?
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by dTal 4y ago
Years? There are already competitors. I just spent all evening playing with Claude ( https://poe.com/claude ) and it's better than davinci-003. To be fair it is easy to radically underestimate the rate of progress in thi
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by dTal 4y ago
>was that pleasure not real even if the sound was exactly the same? Not as real as the pleasure obtainable by spending all that money on hookers and blow instead of hideously expensive snake oil. Money can buy happiness, but it's no
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by dTal 4y ago
>Oh right, it's unethical and immoral do to that to other humans (though how much better are we for doing that to animals?). This seems like a good juncture to point out that not everyone does do that to animals, and if you truly be
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by dTal 4y ago
If cloud was cheaper than on-prem, all the cloud providers would simply rent from other cloud providers in an infinite regress asymptoting to 0 cost. Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/908/
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by dTal 4y ago
This is the definition of median, surely?
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by dTal 4y ago
Sure, if you don't mind constant undervolting. In my experience the only way to get a 3b+ to run reliably is to power it directly from the 5V header pin.
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by dTal 4y ago
https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/pull/73/files
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by dTal 4y ago
The flaw in this delightful analogy is that boyfriends don't typically sell their girlfriends to each other.
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by dTal 4y ago
The problem isn't with "philosophy", which is at the heart of any inquiry into truth, as evidenced by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph... . There are many perfectly fine artic
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by dTal 4y ago
I mean, a global shutter is still useful even in one-shot mode.
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by dTal 4y ago
Brian Griffin : Hola! Um... me, me llamo es Brian. Ahh, uh, um... Let's see, uh, nosotros queremos ir con ustedes. Migrant Worker : Hey, that was pretty good, except when you said, "Me llamo es Brian," you don't need the
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by dTal 4y ago
Go deeper - they are now writing text about how writing text about rogue AIs might create a rogue AI... https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy
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by dTal 4y ago
Eh... I have a T480. It's advertised at "17+" hours. With the 72Wh extended battery fitted, it has a total of 96Wh energy storage. With some small effort tuning (making sure the nvidia GPU is properly powered down etc) I can
948.
by dTal 4y ago
Is it though? My understanding was that TrackIR was nothing more than an IR webcam surrounded by IR LEDs, that also served as a dongle for the freely downloadable "driver" which contained all the tracking code. With OpenTrack, a w
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by dTal 4y ago
The 68k calculators are indeed delightful machines. You've found TIGCC - you should also be aware of GCC4TI, a fork of TIGCC due to the original maintainer not accepting contributions, and GTC-IDE which is an independent (non-gcc) C co
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by dTal 4y ago
Not a dev board, but the cheapest used Z80 machine might be a Texas Instruments graphing calculator. Ebay's full of them for pocket change. Even comes with a screen!
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by dTal 4y ago
I don't think it's because of the IR filter. I have removed filters from several color webcams and they always see IR as purpley. I think it's the bayer filter - the different color channels clearly have different sensitiviti
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by dTal 4y ago
The velocity of an average air molecule at normal atmospheric pressure is about 1000 mph, so yes - brisk indeed. Of course the mean free path is only a few dozen nanometers, so it'll take about 10^10 collisions before a molecule reache
953.
by dTal 4y ago
I hardly think it's pedantry to point out that if you think higher pressure = better, pressing "gently" is an odd choice. A full grown adult standing with their full weight on their Aeropress can achieve about 4 bar of pressu
954.
by dTal 4y ago
>high pressure >5. Press gently Does not compute?
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by dTal 4y ago
It's not that something inside has transitioned to a gas, it's that water has evaporated, shrinking the white and enlarging the air bubble (the shell is permeable to air). The egg is probably still safe to eat until it actually st
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by dTal 4y ago
Guns are a problem. Yes, America has an incredibly violent "macho" culture for a so-called first world country, in general and not just as it pertains to firearms. It's probable that the high rate of gun ownership is a symp
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by dTal 4y ago
Are you saying it's routine for cell phone companies to sell live fine location data to the highest bidder? Can I get a source on that? Horrifying if true, enough to make me switch back to landlines.
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by dTal 4y ago
I don't follow - you say "Google is guilty of not verifying it enough", then you turn around and say it's bad that people "demand that megacorporations control access to your products". Which is it?
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by dTal 4y ago
That's besides the point.
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by dTal 4y ago
Why are you even asking "basic questions about biology"? "It's not my job to educate you" is a response borne of extreme frustration with being repeatedly asked the same basic questions (that can easily be answered

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