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by dmreedy 3y ago
https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/beyond_earth_detail.html this is a neat book on the history of unmanned spaceflight. Take a look and see how long it took to get a probe into orbit. Into someone else's orb
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by dmreedy 3y ago
The untold want by life and land ne’er granted, Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.
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by dmreedy 3y ago
To quote Mitch Ratcliffe, 'A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.'
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by dmreedy 3y ago
> businesses wouldn't benefit from having poorer consumers, so it doesn't make sense to increase productivity at the cost of consumer power. I think your logic is impeccable here, and yet we frequently see businesses making dec
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by dmreedy 3y ago
For what it's worth, and at the risk of sounding like I'm nitpicking, traditional Luddism is not dismissal of technology as overhyped or smoke-and-mirrors. Quite the opposite; the technology is recognized as very real and very i
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by dmreedy 3y ago
I can't deny that the similarities are strong enough that it weakens some of the philosophical underpinnings of the argument. But I am also wondering these days whether we are all just LLMs at the core of it.
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by dmreedy 3y ago
I guess my attempts at leading the conversation where I wanted it to go were not as subtle as I had hoped. I absolutely agree the system is in dire need of some attention. I think a lot of the reaction you see around this new iteration of t
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by dmreedy 3y ago
> Something like ChatGPT is hard to train to lie without it being demonstrable with experimental evidence. See, I consider the functional definition of what current generation LLMs do to be "lying". Not out of malice or moral f
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by dmreedy 3y ago
I agree with the first part of your comment. I'm not sure I can follow you where you take it though. > ChatGPT has a nice clear style and will probably help make these laws more accessible. If the laws are not meant to be read in th
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by dmreedy 3y ago
They may not generate garbage per se, but they do generate bullshit. Or if you want to put it more positively, they are consummate improvisers. The amount of guidance they require cannot be understated, since while they demonstrate phenomen
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by dmreedy 3y ago
You've begun the conversation, but what is the next step? You've identified that people feel threatened. Why do you think that is? It strikes me that pride is rarely a defensive response. What are the things they should be focusin
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by dmreedy 3y ago
Tongue contact might be sufficient (in linguistics, two of the axes of "pronunciation space" are "dental" (whether the tongue makes contact with the teeth) and "palatal" (whether the tongue makes contact with t
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by dmreedy 3y ago
Yes, societal institutions have a flywheel effect of normalization on those who pass through them. This is foundational to a cooperative society. They provide a background context to evaluate actions within, and define oneself in, or agains
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by dmreedy 3y ago
Tobacco, in the form of Phillip Morris, is still actively advertising in the sport, albeit rather more indirectly now. Ferrari counts among its sponsors a brand called Mission Winnow, which had prominent billboard space on the car through 2
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by dmreedy 3y ago
> Some are going to ask: "If he was good at his job, why fire him?" I would propose a slightly more cynical model: It might not look good if it goes public
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by dmreedy 3y ago
A "bipartisan coalition cut from the same cloth" does not sound very "bi", nor very "partisan" to me, beyond the absolute barest colloquial use of the term to describe the fact that there are two choices of the
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by dmreedy 3y ago
I thought they did a really good job in the NOVA The Planets miniseries as well: https://www.pbs.org/video/cassini-spacecraft-final-moments/ which is in general full of some pretty excellent simulations, arrange
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by dmreedy 3y ago
Didn't he?
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by dmreedy 3y ago
I'm not sure that that should insulate them from criticism? In fact I think much of the criticism towards Buzzfeed is precisely around how good they were at the medium, and what they used that medium for/what that medium could b
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by dmreedy 3y ago
> By those with low self-esteem Exactly the prejudice such old money would (and to your point, still does ) hold against "merchants".
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by dmreedy 3y ago
> Surely Cato the Elder's writing Cato was, incidentally, a novus homo, not born into a Patrician family. His father was a pleb and a soldier and a farmer, and he was as well. > Other fictional writing I read suggests engagement
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by dmreedy 3y ago
While this is all true (and I think the parent is mostly a joke...), my understanding is that the Roman aristocracy that Tiberius was born into considered themselves Farmers in the same way that the modern American politician identifies wit
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by dmreedy 4y ago
I think more likely there are just a lot of 4chan users on this site. And some subset of those take perceived attacks like these quite personally.
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by dmreedy 4y ago
Grammar is far from a definite set of rules, and can be modeled just as descriptively as accent.
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by dmreedy 4y ago
Tutoring assumes the skill is valuable to learn, that there is a need for more people who know how to do it. We don't really tutor people how to write too much assembly anymore, or hand-compile code. So if you're arguing that Chat
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by dmreedy 4y ago
> this is not a system that is designed to reason For what it's worth, neither are we, really. Not disagreeing with anything you're saying, just musing. > superhuman levels of reasoning This one has always stumped me a bit t
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by dmreedy 4y ago
Do not equate "conversational natural language" with "trivial" either. We've been working on that one a lot longer than frontend.
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by dmreedy 4y ago
The author of the comment did not choose to leave on some sort of anthropocentric principle, rejecting the idea of using AI in a Butlerian polemic: they were fired by their client and replaced wholly for a fraction of the price. The only mo
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by dmreedy 4y ago
Martin Shkreli also attempted this defense.
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by dmreedy 4y ago
While I take your meaning here, I would suggest also that natural languages are even more stupidly information-dense. And while the rules of their logic are not as hard and immutable as the semantics of programming languages, they do have

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