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541.
by dbspin 4y ago
An arms race of sorts is inevitable. Your reactive armour will be worthless in the face of my active measures. Innocent casualties are inevitable, but they're the price we pay for freedom.
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by dbspin 4y ago
Wouldn't and indeed likely couldn't. Cameron's talent in the early years was writing very fast paced films with stock characters - but adding a richness and depth to those in theory cliche characters (especially the women) th
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by dbspin 4y ago
Sure. I'm Irish. I've been a professional writer for about thirteen years. Formality of sentence construction is context dependent. In prose there's usually little purpose and no solid grammatical rule for retaining superfluo
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by dbspin 4y ago
Here's a background on some of the arguments - https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-aga...
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by dbspin 4y ago
This has already been replied to but no, this is not a 'God of the gaps' argument. As I mentioned it's a thread in ongoing research on cognition. There's a good summary of some of the perspectives in this space here - h
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by dbspin 4y ago
Writer here, it's a terrible sentence. "I know Bill carried within him deep currents of spiritual yearning that he found easiest to express through the beauty he saw in all places wild." "Deep currents of spiritual yearn
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by dbspin 4y ago
> there is nothing known that we can't approach with our tools of intelligence, so to speak. Such things may necessarily be unknowable. If there are classes of observations that we are unable to make, or problems that we are unable
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by dbspin 4y ago
> What about a simple test: it means being able to create better versions of ChatGPT and StableDiffusion. This doesn't follow at all. An ant will haphazardly create a better (fitter) version of an ant simply through breeding and nat
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by dbspin 4y ago
Success in adjusting diet does not require '100% compliance for the rest of your life'. It requires serious changes yes, but even frequent slips as part of a largely altered diet won't discount it. This perspective - as well
550.
by dbspin 4y ago
This is unfortunately completely untrue. Obesity, especially severe obesity, underlies the diabetes and heart disease epidemics. However obese people, particularly in the US and Western Europe, now represent a sufficiently large lobby (no
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by dbspin 4y ago
No but they do feel - with measurable physiological correlates and emotional processes we can empathise with. There's nothing comparable in LLMs as they currently exist. No simulation of experience or emotion. There's no argument
552.
by dbspin 4y ago
It's common in Ireland.
553.
by dbspin 4y ago
In a word scale. Scale matters. How is one locust different to a million? How is hand copying a manuscript (highly controlled in medieval Europe) different to a printing press. These models will and are already having a profound economic im
554.
by dbspin 4y ago
The book is worthwhile just for its opening chapters which outline the various perspectives on consciousness prior to the point it had been written. Some of which have been obfuscated in summary since.
555.
by dbspin 4y ago
British comedians Lee & Herring brilliantly satirised this in their sketch show in the 90's - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbhFA7JY_I
556.
by dbspin 4y ago
Not to knock your fitness achievements (well done). But OP pretty clearly isn't in the earnings bracket to afford a personal trainer.
557.
by dbspin 4y ago
Totally agree with this. I have an older (late 50's) gay friend who considers himself 'over the hill'. He talks constantly about how hard it is to find someone etc. However, by comparison to myself and my other straight frien
558.
by dbspin 4y ago
Couldn't agree more. It's the most rapid descent from prestige television to soap opera in television history. Just took some people longer than others to realise it.
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by dbspin 4y ago
Toot! on iOS is great.
560.
by dbspin 4y ago
Musk has a long track record of lying about his intentions and his products prospects. It appears he plays the part of an authentic well intentioned engineer whose principles and good sense override his politeness, well enough to fool a hug
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by dbspin 4y ago
Novelists using researchers isn't a secret, and it's not shameful. Not sure where you picked up this idea.
562.
by dbspin 4y ago
By definition you can't want something you're unaware of.
563.
by dbspin 4y ago
Disagree - even if 'dollar shave club' happen to be the ideal razor company for you, once you purchase their product you are still subjected to their advertisements ad nauseam. Frankly I have zero sympathy for companies who can no
564.
by dbspin 4y ago
That's not clear at all.
565.
by dbspin 4y ago
It lifted my country as well as dozens of others out of developing world status. There's a huge delta in national wealth between post soviet nations who joined the EU and those that didn't for example. A rising tide raises all boa
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by dbspin 4y ago
EU citizen here. You are not representative. The EU is an incredible boon to civil rights, national wealth and our consumer protections are enviable.
567.
by dbspin 4y ago
As a writer I feel like lots of commenters on here are missing something important. Caveat, I know Julian slightly. We're not friends, but the writing world really is that small. This is not about how many hours he's speculated to
568.
by dbspin 4y ago
Likely, but probably more for the full bellies and access to medical care than the aesthetics, which truly have become stultifying.
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by dbspin 4y ago
Perhaps, but the site above doesn't seem particularly effective. I have an alt for reasons of convenience I use about equally regularly to my main. It's not even listed on the set of likely candidates. Meanwhile I've five spu
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by dbspin 4y ago
Human's at scale are fungible. "Destruction of productive and healthy societies by prolific but unhealthy ones". I hesitate to use the word dog whistle, but this is pretty inarguably racist. Unless you'd like to clarify

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