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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
He used the detective/crime dialogue format to deliver sci-fi.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
> Anything you actually want to write about, you have to shoehorn into the crime novel. Isaac Asimov figured that out!
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I can confirm that all of this checks out except for the chemical "resonance" in the cones in the retina. It is fascinatingly complex how the molecules are tuned to selectively absorb energy in particular bands of the visible spec
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
In the retina I believe it is chemicals that selectively resonate to different optical wavelengths. Those then trigger the action potential. (Actually, it’s in reverse, iir— darkness is maximal firing rate and light inhibits the rate of fir
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Clearly consciousness isn’t a unity or it would be a one thing. Instead, by unified we mean it is integrated or harmonized— like a song made of many elements but harmonized into a whole. A whole has elements of unity, but necessarily contai
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
This is what synthetic data might support— based on mashing together the implications of massive numbers of concepts…
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Rocket Cars in Cleveland(wsj.com)
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
You are a good writer. Like the original post.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Now is a good time to spend with families and do work that feels satisfying. Much change is coming.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I mean, “scaling compute at inference” actually means “using an LLM agent system.” Haven’t we known that chains of agents can be useful for a while?
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I think they’d expect as much from Dario. He designed GPT3…
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
There are a lot of high frequency electrical patterns in the brain. Individual neurons have a max frequency of less than 200hz (most less than 100hz), but volleys of neural populations can phase lock to much higher frequencies. The hair cel
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
So, this is just an RL trained method of having multiple GPT4o agents think through options and select the best before responding?
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I got the same vibes, fwiw.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Why can’t one simply search ChatGPT (on the web UI)?
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
1. Does everyone hear the same tone? 2. What tone or tones are typical? What frequency or frequencies? Sine wave? Sawtooth? 3. Can anything shift the tone? Eg, drugs? Attention?
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I can only write with papermate felt tip. And I love me some dotted paper.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
There is no way today to have the experience of looking down at the earth, silently, from a few thousand feet. I think an LA to Las Vegas route could be viable. You aren’t limited by volume— only weight. You could have huge vaulted ceilings
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Congrats on 10k karma :) One could ask: how is this different from automatic call centers? (eg “for checking accounts, push 1…”) well, people hate those things. If one could create an automated call center that people didn’t hate, it might
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Robots will be better than humans at parenting in no time
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
“ It now seems clear, though, that by unifying thermodynamics with the theory of computation, we ought to be able to understand life as the predictable outcome of a statistical process, rather than regarding it uneasily as technically permi
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
From Drake’s Prayer: “…grant us also to know that it is not the beginning, but the continuing of the same unto the end, until it be thoroughly finished, which yieldeth the true glory”
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I disagree that sleep is necessarily unconscious. It’s like a coma — but is the internal world still running? For instance, maybe we are conscious in different phases of sleep but not others.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Dreaming is clearly both sleep and conscious
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Are we unconscious when we sleep or do we merely lose the capacity to remember? How could we tell the difference?
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
An alternative to the “ball on rubber sheet” model of gravity is “twisting a lump out of a sheet of silly putty.” You get the same curvature without relying on gravity to serve as a model of gravity (which always bothered me a bit) For clar
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
God, my daughter says she “just wants to be normal.” Hard for me to understand. Can’t tell if it’s TikTok, living in the Netherlands or the happily weird father figure.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Great documentary on 80s magic mushroom users in Australia. Worth a watch. Nothing on indigenous use, though…
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I love this topic. I helped with a book chapter about psychedelics in human cultural history. We discuss the 118 mushroom-shaped carvings on Stonehenge (more likely to be amanita muscaria than psilocybin mushrooms). Another story we explore
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
“This tutorial also exists on Google Sheets using Anthropic's Claude for Sheets extension. We recommend using that version as it is more user friendly” Interesting UI choice!

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