dmarchand90

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by dmarchand90 3y ago
My original writing: I'm still not totally persuaded. Firstly I don't think we really can ever be objective regarding the consciousness of external beings. Secondly, I'm not convinced of any your stated requirements being req
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
I appreciate your perspective, but I must respectfully disagree. The primary contention here is the assumption that we have an absolute understanding of what consciousness, emotion, and sentience entail. Given that these concepts are primar
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Certainly, you can frame an argument around the perspective of more advanced beings viewing human behavior as somewhat algorithmic or non-sentient. Here's a suggestion: "It's quite fascinating to consider your perspective on
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
What kind of corpus do we have? Is it largely fragmented segments with a few symbols?
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Can anyone provide an alternative link to https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1678545170508267522 I haven't registered for Twitter since it started and I'd rather not now (though I probably will if it&
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
As others mentioned it's being placed in a very low risk category, which you probably can safely ignore (and, I suspect, is probably only of interest to researchers)
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
When I check per capita for the US(1) and countries in Europe(2) you can see it is droping rapidly. Yes increases in overall gdp is causing overall increases in co2 but we have grounds for optimism. I really do want to emphasize that we nee
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
I'm also in the 'denial' stage(1). Cars are quickly electrifying, CO2 consumption per capita is dropping. I'm also totally convinced we can find more extreme solutions (solar reflection, nuclear powered co2 absorption, e
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
I was thinking of more of a "i have no mouth and yet I must scream" or a black mirror "white Christmas" scenario Edit: to be clear I would still take the immortality like 100%
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Oh yes please. I look forward to being kept alive forever by a machine god with incomprehensible motivations. Lol jk I still don't want to age and die to be honest
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
I used to be more worried about an anthropic argument that we are living in end times. (If population growth is exponential then you are most likely to be born near end times) But, most people have already died https://pubmed.ncb
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Yeah I've never gotten this argument at all. "Humans aren't actually intelligent they're just machines designed to optimize their probability of reproducing "
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
If I understand it would be something like. You used to get a dedicated secretary. But now most of those roles are now handled by computer. So in a sense everyone has had their workload mildly increased. But worse than that the workload is
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
If you work in the US for fang or similar your life is probably much better. I love computers. I love what they do for recreation and keeping in touch long distance. But work hours are longer. Education and housing is no longer affordable f
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
I dunno computers should be world changing. And they are. Yet the lives of ordinary people have hardly improved and are arguably worse since the 1980s
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
I was his TA a couple times at EPFL. He provides a really fantastic set of resources for anyone who's interested in the topic
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
There is precedent for hackernews covering unusually large and important events. Covid, Jan 6th, the start of the Ukraine War. I don't see the problem with some general news of large scale importance, e.g., a hostile mercenary force is
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
For me it's been the opposite. Though in my case it's been more Indian professors who often give extremely good (though sometimes perhaps a bit dry) lectures.
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
I don't understand the negativity. They are giving a complex piece of technology away for free. They choose to simplify the problem. So what?
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
The "we have no moat" essay predicts your behavior very well. The community is now hungry, ready, and primed for a napster/pirate Bay of LLMs. I suspect it will be these sketchy versions that will push the hardware even furth
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Demo video is very impressive. I thought it was yet another GAN, but, no. It's something "mathy". I'll need to read the paper for sure!
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
https://infinigen.org/
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Girl scouts are children selling sugars to adults. Mr beast is an adult who sells sugar to children. Anyway, I don't think he's a scumbag. I think he's a nice guy and I'm sure I would be his friend if we took the same po
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
I thought he was cool until he launched a chocolate line. Really? Is that what we need? Most of his audience is young gen z, and I'm sure the last thing the most obese generation ever needs is someone pushing more sugar on their diets
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
What beef does jwz.org have with hackernews?
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Could you recommend such a "proper" cookbook
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Last update was in 2018. Would love to know how far the guy got https://xav.io/posts/besm-update/
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Nice processor choice... vrchat in mind? Haha
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Japan is a bit tricky to analyze because they tend to have higher dividends than US stocks. And yes even though their total returns have been bad the point is you wouldn't lose all your savings. (Though you certainly would have been be
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by dmarchand90 4y ago
The problem with vr is it is extremely good for cyberpunk raves but very so so at everything else

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