dan_mctree

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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Eh, he still seems pretty smart. The issue is more his narcissistic traits, pettiness and emotional weakness
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
In just these decades, our software has already surpassed the ability of dogs to drive cars. And that despite the fact that dogs are a whole lot closer to humans than machines are to humans
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>It wouldn't have. Make your game as a sketch with whatever sketching tools you have...but don't expect technology to rescue you from needing other humans to make it good. AND DON'T UNDER-RATE OR UNDERPAY THOSE PEOPLE. &gt
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
It should be at least broad enough to compensate for some movement of the earth, considering it was observed for at least some days
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Dune 2000 was pretty good back in the day. I enjoyed its gameplay and its art looked great for the time. It felt about the same tier of fun as C&C and Red Alert, though perhaps a bit less replayable due to maps feeling rather samey. Cer
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Similar experience, I asked it to prove the square root of 2 is irrational. It seemed to try to pretend to do the standard proof using even numbers, but then randomly made a weird leap and declared victory: "we get 2k^2 = q^2. Since q^
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
>That is all to say: frontier physics is utterly unlike religion, where so may claim to KNOW the truth, where the most tenuous claims are literally gospel, where there is little desire admit counter-evidence There's frontier theolog
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
>the other to either accept things without questioning them or even try to find proof for something you already believe, ignoring all contradictions. I feel like this isn't at all what most religious people are doing and that you&#x
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Strongly agree. The main reason we got so much out of physics and chemistry has little to do with the statistical methods and peer review they employed, and much more with how obviously some things were repeatable when found. You need basic
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
From what I can tell on the map, it indeed seems quite a heavy long tail, with what was surprising to me, particularly heavy emissions from midsized industrial sites. The top 50 emitters make up about 4% of the total, which is a lot, but pe
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
>Yes, it'd be nice if oil refineries were run tightly enough that they had no local emissions, but those refined products are all going into the fuel tanks of jet planes, ships, trucks, power plants and personal vehicles, from whene
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Malnutrition is common in the west too, though it more often takes the form of unhealthy overeating. Lack of physical exercise and lives lived inside also contribute to poor every day health. You're right that sanitation and maternal h
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Poverty in the west is often of a different kind than in India. Deep poverty in India can look living in self build house in a slum, with no or low and irregular income most of which goes straight into food and necessities. Deep poverty in
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Pretty sure it's much harder than Chinese. The depth and abstraction of the concepts involved and the density of these concepts in these lines vastly eclipses anything in any natural language
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
>yet everything we actually need to survive is intact. Unfortunately we now rely on our machines to survive. If they'd suddenly disappear, we'd have a bit of a massive problem. We just wouldn't do very well without our hea
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
I'm confused about the conclusion. The way you laid it out, it seems that it could well just be electric signals from the conscious mind triggering the carousel. In which case the experiment would just show that the conscious thought h
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
> Other times things suck and you just have to show up and do your best Yeah, and being in the middle of a burnout means your best is doing pretty much nothing (depends a bit on the job). Plus, by trying, you're potentially prolongi
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
>properly secured Saying those words and imagining it is so does not make it so. Nothing is fully safe and seeing that attitude makes it even less likely it is
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Isn't that true for software too though? You cannot ever rely 100% on any tool you use, so if you're serious about actually avoiding penetrations and not just about the academic discussion, you're better off using at least a
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
But doctors tend to be pretty good at that part of the job you're describing. It's the Dr House part that often seems lacking, difficult patients often spend years going to different doctors only to keep hearing useless suggestion
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
> except that he continued to not read the language documentation before asking a bunch of questions Can't really blame people for that too much, most language documentation is utterly unreadable unless you already know exactly what
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
What do you think such an understanding would look like? A youtube rando may well have been researching something for a decade too yet be completely wrong (see: many conspiracy theorists), research time is often not particularly relevant. S
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
This is a comment of stunning ignorance. Just because some alien societies will not mimic our rules of addition, we do know for certain it is possible that other societies can build abstract concepts that are isomorphic to those we have. An
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Perhaps the ones you find through google are largely decent quality. If you ask a question yourself, look through new or are chasing some niche bug, you'll find plenty of unhelpful comments critical of question askers who just want to
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
>But it also works in spite of all that. If science only worked when done by the best people, it wouldn’t have changed society as much as it has The vast majority of things in the sciences that have really changed the world are those tha
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
If your 1000 hits is roughly reasonable to you, mind if I ask how you find so many sources? In something I'm interested in, I rarely find even a dozen hits on things that seem vaguely related. And for more than half of those, I can&#x2
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Artists which use AI and become more efficient will drive up supply of art and decrease its price. Additionally, some people who need art might just skip the artist entirely now, leading to less demand. This means some artists may no longe
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
Does it just take a really low res version of the original, and then try to make something out of the noise with the prompt? It's striking how things seem to morph into something else: the blue of the floor becomes a couch and the whit
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
I might be strange but the second seems far more readable than the third to me. The first is of course nonsense.
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by dan_mctree 4y ago
> I do not believe the religious are in some way actually oppressed Aren't they? Sure, western religious oppression is not violent and nothing compared to what happens in say Iran. But there are many circles where coming out as reli

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