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by drdeca 3y ago
Ok, sure, I agree with the part of that first statement before the "like everyone exaggerating is saying it is". (I'm not contradicting the "like everyone [...] it is", just not endorsing it.) I don't hate Elon
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by drdeca 3y ago
I suspect your reasoning is also motivated, though I don’t know by what. There are things I’ll give credit for. I suspect the “community notes” feature is overall beneficial (though I haven’t seen it much firsthand because I use a very outd
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by drdeca 3y ago
The effects that a drug has on a person are not a consequence of its legality. By Starbucks I assume you are referring to caffeine. The effects of consuming coffee on behavior are, substantially different from those of consuming alcohol or
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by drdeca 3y ago
Headline seems sorta misleading? I don’t understand what happened well enough to be confident of that though.
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by drdeca 3y ago
Yes, it's true that changing the strength of stuff would change the possible values for the discretization scale that wouldn't cause problems, but, it shouldn't be that changing the strength of gravity, 100% of the time force
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by drdeca 3y ago
> If they don't use something unless it's free, that's because its value is 0. I'd say that it is because the value is less than the transaction cost of any payment, not zero.
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by drdeca 3y ago
I don't even have a problem with what ads I'm shown being based on some information about me. I'd happily provide additional information which I think would, if it were used, result in less ads being wasted on me (showing m
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by drdeca 3y ago
"a higher dimension"? If you mean to suggest that our reality is like, a (3+1)D slice of something bigger, I don't think we have much reason to suspect that, and, even if it were true... Well, ok, I suppose maybe we could con
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by drdeca 3y ago
That seems to be assuming the speed prior (or perhaps memory-use prior, or some combination of the two). The Kolmogorov prior (i.e. the program length prior) doesn’t have that property.
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by drdeca 3y ago
"Planck constant" isn't the same as "Planck length". Please don't say the former when you mean the latter. In addition: no, the planck length is not at all likely to be a consequence of discretization for the p
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by drdeca 3y ago
I don't think position is likely to be discrete, but, while I also don't really think that angles are discrete, angular momentum *is* discrete, coming in multiples of hbar, the reduced Plank constant.
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by drdeca 3y ago
First, as a religious person: no, contrary to what you seem to be saying, dismissing superdeterminism isn't "religion". Second, dismissing superdeterminism is not, as you seem to say, "contrary to observed reality".
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by drdeca 3y ago
SU(1) is the trivial group. SU(n) is the group of unitary nxn matrices with determinant 1. There is only one 1x1 unitary matrix with determinant 1, and in fact there is only one 1x1 matrix with determinant 1 period, namely, the 1x1 matrix w
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by drdeca 3y ago
Skinner_ is saying that the description which nomel interpreted as describing "an alternative to the thing being called dogma" and as "tradition", was a description of the thing being described as "dogma", and
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by drdeca 3y ago
It resembles lossy compression in some ways, but in other important ways I think it doesn’t? Like, if one has access to such a model, and doesn’t count it towards the size cost of a compression/decompression program nor as part of the
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by drdeca 3y ago
Is it though? What of the e.g. choice of prompt, guidance scale, maybe a specification of a pose, etc.? Or, is the distinction you are making based on there being an image before the model is used?
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by drdeca 3y ago
What? Why would randomness matter to this? If, hypothetically, it were possible to do a QFT simulation of an entire human, but where no true randomness was used in the simulation program, only a cryptographically secure (relative to an adve
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by drdeca 3y ago
The issue, I think, is that the word "Feminism" isn't used as having a consistent meaning? Like, it is kind of a coalitional word, I think. Of course, there are a number of ideas in common amongst the various ways it has been
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by drdeca 3y ago
They said that because the word philosophy is from “love of wisdom”, not “love of truth”, as was claimed?
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by drdeca 3y ago
What's a concept?
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by drdeca 3y ago
I’m not making a claim that it is “objectively incorrect”. I am merely attempting to discourage this kind of usage, because I this it is a better course for language for it to not be used in this way. (Also, whether it is included in dictio
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by drdeca 3y ago
Literally?
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by drdeca 3y ago
In addition to what the other reply points out (that the LHC and such are not sufficient to produce a black hole), another calculation I've seen shows that, even if it had produced a black hole with mass given by the energy of these co
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by drdeca 3y ago
Is this a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy reference / joke ? About how they destroy the earth in order to make a travel route? If not, what do you mean?
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by drdeca 3y ago
I don’t think “lower dimension” is a pejorative, just, contrasting with the “higher dimension” claim. Like, just literally a lower dimensionality (on account of the fractal dimension, where the metric dimension is less than the (integer) to
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by drdeca 3y ago
well, the comment was about "the majority of humans", not even like, specifically "90%+ of humans" or something like that. I'm pretty sure that the majority of humans would agree that the type of random-murder I des
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by drdeca 3y ago
Are you taking the RLHF into account when you say so?
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by drdeca 3y ago
How are you defining “drug”? Or, I guess maybe I should be asking “how is ‘drug’ defined in the field which is the context that your statement that it doesn’t make sense to classify alcohol as a ‘drug’?” if you are using a standard definiti
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by drdeca 3y ago
[disclaimer: I don’t know what I’m talking about in this comment] Could you say like, auto arr = new int[a*(b+1)]; int \* arr2 = (int\*)arr; for(int i=0;i<a;i++){ arr2[i]=arr+(i*(b+1))+1; } and then be able to say like arr
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by drdeca 3y ago
At the most basic level: “don’t go into a town and pick a random person to murder”

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