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811.
by drdeca 4y ago
Why would you want a pinterest reupload of an image, instead of the actual source?
812.
by drdeca 4y ago
Again, no, their claim is not “even if the probability is super low”, but rather, that the probability is substantial.
813.
by drdeca 4y ago
“Superstition” is just as much an abstraction over a general pattern of things happening as “government” is. You say “show me a government and I’ll listen”; I say “Show me a superstition (and an explanation for in what sense you have shown
814.
by drdeca 4y ago
That a technique can possibly fail doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have a decent chance of helping
815.
by drdeca 4y ago
If it helps them, why wouldn’t it help other people?
816.
by drdeca 4y ago
I think I’d say that it knows what a giraffe looks like and some aspects of their behavior. I’m not sure if it (in a sense) “knows that a giraffe is an animal” though I wouldn’t be too surprised if it does. Though, I guess maybe that is a
817.
by drdeca 4y ago
I meant that their facial expression, look in their eyes, etc. is an unconscious (and therefore harder to fake) signal of whether things are going well for them. I didn't mean that people are happy when they intend to communicate tha
818.
by drdeca 4y ago
Happiness is a thing, but the thing it is, is roughly just “whatever internal state is (largely involuntarily) reflected outwardly in order to indicate to others that things are going well (typically compared to some baseline) in one’s eval
819.
by drdeca 4y ago
The world doesn’t exist now , and hasn’t since 2012.
820.
by drdeca 4y ago
Angular momentum would still be conserved when you cut the wire though? Also, couldn’t you just as well frame all the linear momentum in terms of angular momentum? ... hm, I guess one question is, how would we describe a world where one is
821.
by drdeca 4y ago
I think one just, looks at the parts that look emptier, so that there is less nearby stuff to get in the way of seeing the stuff further away (and this from a longer time ago)
822.
by drdeca 4y ago
Huh?
823.
by drdeca 4y ago
They were talking specifically about the Proof of Stake model that Ethereum is working on moving to. They were saying that, while some proof of stake chains may use stake for governance, that the protocol for proof of stake intended for use
824.
by drdeca 4y ago
Feeding snakes?
825.
by drdeca 4y ago
Proof? The point aiui is mostly arguing that the FDA errs too much on the side of caution in this area, and the trade-off would have been worth it to approve earlier. Not insinuating that like, there was some corruption (or laziness or some
826.
by drdeca 4y ago
what part of the analogy do you object to? Is it just that it isn't literally desecrating a corpse? Do you have an alternative example of "something which a shove is especially useful for and which which could be lucrative, but wh
827.
by drdeca 4y ago
I'm conflicted on this issue. I think it harms the people who use it, and I have been harmed by my use of it, but at the same time I am uncomfortable about such a ban-through-law due to speech issues? Not that there's any valuable
828.
by drdeca 4y ago
Thanks!
829.
by drdeca 4y ago
How does this differ from Functional Decision Theory? Or did they just change what they call it?
830.
by drdeca 4y ago
I suspect that a company is still a natural abstraction in the sense described by John Wentworth (wrt “information at a distance” and such).
831.
by drdeca 4y ago
> Money flows in one direction only, toward the top. This, taken literally, is clearly false (the wealthy do in fact buy things and pay for services / employees). So, as you don't mean it literally, what do you mean?
832.
by drdeca 4y ago
I believe this is referring to the entanglement between parts of the system
833.
by drdeca 4y ago
The meaning of the word "nurse" is determined by how the word "nurse" is used and understood. Perhaps what "nurse" means isn't what "nurse" should mean, but what people mean when they say &quot
834.
by drdeca 4y ago
It is true that many of the neurons don’t seem appropriate (e.g. mixing two largely unrelated concepts), but, well, that particular issue isn’t a problem with the hypothetical I describe, because “this neuron represents ‘either a fire truck
835.
by drdeca 4y ago
By “theorems” do you mean “theories”?
836.
by drdeca 4y ago
Sorry, I don't know what you mean by the thing about "the y-coordinate corresponds to the centre of the circle" . Do you mean that the y coordinate is the y coordinate of the center of the circle? or, is the y coordinate a po
837.
by drdeca 4y ago
Are you familiar with the "circuits" thread on distill.pub ? ( https://distill.pub/2020/circuits/ ) Messy and complex, yes, but not altogether immune to analysis. And, if the training data is diverse eno
838.
by drdeca 4y ago
The Bekenstein bound seems to suggest that the human brain is only finitely more complex. (And, if the mind is more complex than the physical/material brain, then, unless whatever else the mind is has a non-material influence on the ma
839.
by drdeca 4y ago
I agree that the arguments for it being impossible are, rather unconvincing. However, I do think there is an important difference between "in principle" and "in practice". I agree that there does not seem to be any funda
840.
by drdeca 4y ago
Why is the word “he” in quotes? Are you implying that they’re tr nsg nder or something? But you don’t put “his” in quotes, so that probably isn’t why? It is confusing.

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