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by dinfinity 2y ago
I believe this is mainly due to everything ML/AI optimizing for CUDA, with even AMD cards (which are very similar to Nvidia cards) unable to compete due to lack of proper support for CUDA.
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by dinfinity 2y ago
This already happens to you every time you go to sleep and wake up. You have absolutely no way of discerning whether the consciousness you are now experiencing is a new consciousness created by your body when you woke up, or whether it is
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by dinfinity 2y ago
Until you define "actual intelligence" and how the (human) brain produces it, it is nonsense to state that a "prediction model" is not "actual intelligence". It's just a form of the no true Scotsman fallac
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by dinfinity 2y ago
Given the kids active at DOGE, the "move fast and break things" mentality, shown lack of regard for security, and the ridiculous level of access they have, the entire agency has to be the biggest and softest attack surface of the
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by dinfinity 2y ago
I understand the hesitation, but that's the thing about this: It's even simpler than cataract surgery (where they actually _replace_ your own lenses instead of just flopping one in front of it), which is very very common, and very
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by dinfinity 2y ago
Unsure if this will work for your case, but I am _very_ happy with my implanted contact lenses. They sit behind my iris and optically function as normal contact lenses. No hassle, just a straight up body upgrade. See https://en.w
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by dinfinity 2y ago
> This is framed as being a time saver, but I'm positive for a lot of people they just don't want to read the full text Yes, those can be very much the same thing and it does not mean that people don't want to use their br
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by dinfinity 2y ago
They took your advice and changed it to "Mysterious illness".
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by dinfinity 2y ago
Agreed, although for me it is not about the responses, but about what it does for me: If you take your posts seriously (and I generally do), you try to construct a comment that is well-written and well-founded. In that process sometimes I h
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by dinfinity 2y ago
One of the most effective things to do in coding (and many other things) is to always do a self-review: Before you turn over a changeset for review, review it as if you were reviewing some one else's code. It sounds superfluous, but it
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by dinfinity 2y ago
Citation needed. Psychonautwiki (very much the most reliable source on these matters) mentions nothing about negative effects of combining MDMA and ketamine: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Ketamine Even calling it &#x
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by dinfinity 2y ago
It's a blanket fix for all bad trips, but it really does work: Do some MDMA first (just enough to feel the effects, don't go all out). It will put you in a positive state of mind and allow you to experience all the crazy mind-alte
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by dinfinity 2y ago
That is one really, really impressive monkey. If it were true. Probably just a bad description of reality.
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by dinfinity 2y ago
I also did not understand why it would lower blood glucose, but that is due to my lack of understanding cells. I asked some help from ChatGPT and got this info: "Inhibiting a mitochondrial complex (e.g. one of the electron transport ch
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by dinfinity 2y ago
Isn't it? The key metric is what fraction of things do actually align with factual reality. The Ouija board is a terrible analogy, because it _never_ aligns with reality. In my experience of using LLMs for various tasks, in _a lot_ of
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by dinfinity 2y ago
There are already solar panels you can just plug into a normal electrical socket. I'm not sure they're an amazing idea, but there definitely already is consumer-grade tech: https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/do
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by dinfinity 2y ago
Wayback Machine? How about just Googling? You think the names of _the CEOs_ of some of the _biggest_ corporations on this planet are going to be hard to find on the internet?
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by dinfinity 2y ago
> that people go to sleep all the time and wake up, and remain the same person You have absolutely no way of knowing that last part is true. You can only see their behavior, which is identical whether they are the same consciousness or a
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by dinfinity 2y ago
> It's inevitably going to be a mere copy of you. You don't get to experience any of it. You can make the same argument for 'you before you went to sleep' and 'you after you woke up'. The only real link you
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by dinfinity 2y ago
No. They're saying that the model they analyzed used mainly information on _how_ to solve math problems from its training data, rather than documents that contained the answers to the (identical) math problems: > "We investigat
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by dinfinity 2y ago
Yes, fat is 'good for you'. Without consuming it, you die. But I would say that in general, 'x is good/bad for you' is a harmful oversimplification. Sugar is also not 'bad for you'. It's not that simp
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by dinfinity 2y ago
Add to that that there was absolutely nothing on the line for the subjects. No life in prison, no jail time, no fine, no loss of social status, just nothing. Nervous or stressed people can say wildly inaccurate things and seem like they&#x2
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by dinfinity 2y ago
Training data is preprocessed, you know. I don't understand why everybody making this argument ignores that. It's not as if the internet before LLMs did not have tons of trash content (which also includes things written by humans
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by dinfinity 2y ago
Affecting the world can happen through people the AI communicates with (people are incredibly susceptible to manipulation) and through any and all digital systems accessible via the internet (anything that isn't airgapped, basically).
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by dinfinity 2y ago
I can imagine this (and thicker mucus in general) negatively affecting olfaction, which is pretty important for survival.
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by dinfinity 2y ago
Trusted entities could vouch for the veracity (or other aspects) of things, especially if they are close to the source. We already implicitly do this: if a news outlet we trust publishes a photo and does not state that they are unsure of it
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by dinfinity 2y ago
The challenge is to determine what is real, not what is fake. I think cryptographic signing and the classic web of trust approaches are going to prove the most valuable tools in doing so, even if they're definitely not a panacea.
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by dinfinity 10y ago
> Why hasn't some immature "simulation master" written their name across the night sky with giant fluorescent penises, for example. Did you not catch the election of Donald Trump?