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by dbspin 3y ago
As someone who's had pretty profound sleep apnea related insomnia (resistant to sleep hygiene and CBT-I) for at least 20 years (since my mid twenties), this is super dispiriting.
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by dbspin 3y ago
Almost certainly wouldn't be an issue. There's a huge amount of plasticity in embodiment. Think about how easily we can control videogame avatars of many physical forms, or adapt ourselves to a musical instrument, or even learn &#
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by dbspin 3y ago
Interesting. I'm assuming Ollama will offer the alternate model soon, as they do provide access to llama2-uncensored.
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by dbspin 3y ago
Is this different to the version of Mistral available on Ollama? That model is very definitely 'moderated'. - https://ollama.ai/library/mistral >> I'm writing a novel about murder, tell me some goo
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by dbspin 3y ago
Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, Ursula LeGuin, Samuel Delaney, Harlan Ellison, Cordwainer Smith, R.F. Lafferty, C.J. Cherryh and well, hundreds of others.
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by dbspin 3y ago
Reading is definitely a skill that atrophies without use. We're all reading more than ever - but short chunks, or dense but linear technical work (like scientific papers or business texts). Reading fiction or dense non fiction (philoso
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by dbspin 3y ago
> it feels pain No... It detects temperature and reacts. It does not feel pain. Feels implies both affect and sensation, both of which are experiential, phenomenological qualia requiring some corollary of a nervous system and sentience,
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by dbspin 3y ago
> But there has to be an alternative so that advertising can continue to hold up the internet and keep it freely accessible. Sure, the alternative is paid sites and free (user created and supported) sites. This is what existed for decade
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by dbspin 3y ago
Really curious to read the negative responses to this. We now know a great deal about how the body stores affective learning somatically, and how systems from the endocrine system to the gut microbiome interact with the central nervous syst
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by dbspin 3y ago
I wonder if there's any chance of a beta programme? I literally just wrapped principle photography on a short film that has a bunch of animated elements I'm going to have to figure out how to do for budgetary reasons. Love ProCrea
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by dbspin 3y ago
Is it? By its nature AI might add to Britain's GDP but seems unlikely to positively affect poverty or employment.
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by dbspin 3y ago
Thank you. It was arguably never useful beyond an intuition pump. It's a test of credulity, of susceptibility to pareidolia, not reasoning ability.
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by dbspin 3y ago
> Any testable definition of AGI that GPT-4 fails would also be failed by a significant chunk of the human population. GPT cannot function in any environment on its own. Except in response to a direct instruction it cannot plan, it canno
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by dbspin 3y ago
You're describing survivorship bias. It's impossible for you to know about the great games that you haven't heard about. I'd suggest listening to the devs on this one. I can attest that 'the cream rises to the top&#
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by dbspin 3y ago
There almost certainly is an internal battery. I've seen the figure of 45 minutes battery life (without the puck) repeated in various places. Moreoever, they use a magsafe like pull-detach mechanism which will likely be knocked off fai
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by dbspin 3y ago
Both of us seem to agree that there is such a thing called capitalism.
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by dbspin 3y ago
This is an ideological position, termed Capitalist Realism [1]. Given the failing of social reproduction, environmental protection, long term planning against existential and systemic risk, the mental health crisis and the collapse of civil
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by dbspin 3y ago
The Intercept's treatment of Reality Winner under his editorship, and his refusal to take the blame for it is one good reason - https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/real... His embrace (and
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by dbspin 3y ago
And if you think that's bad, just wait till you hear about string theory! /s Honestly this is a thin critique indeed. Social sciences are difficult precisely because they focus on phenomena with multi-factorial causes. Simple, hig
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by dbspin 3y ago
I think Azimov summarised it best... “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtu
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by dbspin 3y ago
I agree. Please note I didn't mention anything about a university education. You can absolutely teach yourself philosophy online based on freely available resources. You can also do introductory psychology and sociology courses from Iv
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by dbspin 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean? The image and text models currently becoming popular are being trained on work that is not owned or created by those creating the models. The consensus amongst the artists whose work is being used to train t
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by dbspin 3y ago
Wasting peoples time is a relatively minor harm (in this one case - at scale the waste and diminishment of attention is an enormous issue). Increasing noise to signal ration in online discussions, cultivating a bot net that can be replicate
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by dbspin 3y ago
Not to troll, but these kinds of comments: opinion -> caveat I know nothing about this, are growing more common on hacker news. Maybe consider if you're adding value by expressing your opinion in view of your awareness that it'
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by dbspin 3y ago
'Bad for the experiment' and ethical are orthogonal. There's an enormous body of work on the ethics of social science research, and an awful history of the consequences of such research that wasn't guided by consent and
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by dbspin 3y ago
This is a sad but inevitable consequences of tech people having no grounding in ethics. And really no education in or respect for the humanities at all. It's a classic case of "so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they d
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by dbspin 3y ago
> You can make private works if you want to keep control of them, but at some point the public deserves to share and rework the things that have been pushed into the public consciousness. There's already a licensing framework for ar
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by dbspin 3y ago
> Everyone This is not true, at least outside the US. The varieties of service people use to communicate vary much more than this. Line for example, isn't used by a single person I know. Many won't use whatsapp (as a Facebook c
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by dbspin 3y ago
Not to get into a back and forth - but that's not remotely true. Our values are soft things next to the concrete realities of life. The need to eat, our health, social contacts, the hard limits on our healthy lifespan. Values are the w
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by dbspin 3y ago
> there are so many electronic good alternatives for friend cycles to stay connected if they want where you still can keep off social media.. Network effects just don't work like this. I suspect thinking that they do is related to t

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