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by dsign 3y ago
I wonder what would happen if there were not politicians, if the parliament of Europe were the sum of all its citizens voting for laws in some sort of mega-stack-overflow consensus system. A part of me wants to believe this madness would en
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by dsign 3y ago
I wouldn't be too surprised if a few thousand low-level metabolic bugs like this one are responsible for a lot of suffering. But it would be difficult to fix them without knowing the knockdown effects in the metabolism. That's why
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by dsign 3y ago
It must be hard to get those experts out of the bushes. First, there is the fact that not every expert out there is after the money or working 60 hours a week, or even 40, or work at the office. Second, there is this thing about how much of
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by dsign 3y ago
I hope that I'm projecting that there is such a thing as oppression. It comes in degrees, from unbearable to so subtle that it can be called something else. It matters not. In absence of any coercion--and coercion can be incredibly sub
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by dsign 3y ago
The sooner we believe we are just squishy machines, the sooner we can start finding a new set of legs on which to stand, philosophically and morally speaking. If what makes an individual better is their capacity to be good and to create, th
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by dsign 3y ago
> The lack of long term memory, of an emotion center (that reacts to external stimuli) are big limiters to anything like a consciousness emerging. But I'm also optimistic that those are problems that can be solved and that I am cer
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by dsign 3y ago
Is there any voice color/timbre change service that can be used for music production? Some sort of system that preserves the phonemes, the pitch and the timing of the input speech while changing the timbre.
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by dsign 3y ago
For a side-hobby of mine (writing), I imagine what would happen if current trends would continue. Thus, big caveat, it's all just thought experiments, not realistic predictions of any kind. For this particular scenario, the public Inte
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by dsign 3y ago
The devil is in the details, and I for one fear the effect on prices that will ripple all the way down to the European consumer (they are sky-high already, and taxation is super high as well), but if it works, it works. What I'm really
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by dsign 3y ago
I regret very few things in life, but here is one that nags me with particular poignancy. Back in the day, I was a poor college student in a third-world country, and I was traveling from college to visit my parents. Public transport didn&#x
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by dsign 3y ago
This is super-cool! It's incorrect to say that living things are "machines", because machines are what humans make with their hands and tools[^1]. But we damn well function like machines. No immortal soul by default, no divin
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by dsign 3y ago
The current crop of LLM are better aware of all the state of the art in NN architecture than yours-truly. They know things such as the number of layers used for X, Y and Z, the class of cost function which is popular with a specific archite
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by dsign 3y ago
All of those things you say are correct, but scientists are doing it anyway[^1]. In that paper, you will see there are ways to "compress" the amount of computation needed. Five years ago, I would have said that we were further aw
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by dsign 3y ago
I have never understood how can we, in the same breath, admit the horrifying death that await us all, and also parrot that Gilgamesh story or the like about how futile is to resist. Sure, the blood of the virgins doesn't work, but now
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by dsign 3y ago
:-) It is said[^1] that the God of the Jews ravaged Pompeii because of polarized views on the matter of sexuality. A bit later, they won the war for the heart of Western culture. So, yes, those bros had those statues and depictions for the
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by dsign 3y ago
> And how do you know upfront that the mass surveillance is worse than the alternative That's not a real disjunctive. In my current country, where politicians are accountable and mass surveillance is not (yet) a thing, the country i
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by dsign 3y ago
If I were a government, I would let the police do its job without mass surveillance. Also, not all problems can be solved. Or, if I were a government, I would command all companies and individuals to drop what they are doing and work non-st
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by dsign 3y ago
> The crazy thing is that I don’t believe it encountered anything like this in its training set, it was able to put pieces together which is near human level. When asked, it easily explained the shortcomings of this solution (e.g interfe
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by dsign 3y ago
> The mix of young male students and booze was often a powder keg for violence. “culture of the times” was also in that mix, I bet they would have been quite murderous even without the booze. To my knowledge, a bunch of monks in a monast
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by dsign 3y ago
Complicated solutions are, well, complicated. How do you know that doing x results in less net emissions? Action x is, very likely, part of a graph that starts at one point on the globe and spreads all over. Is it possible to honestly tally
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by dsign 3y ago
The humanoid-looking robot would make it more refined, no doubt about that, but all these applications can do without it: - Make it process customer-support requests. - Make a virtual nurse for when you call the clinic. - Make it process vi
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by dsign 3y ago
Hmm… has anybody being at Habana[^1] recently? It’s like naming a company “Pyongyang”. In couldn’t use any of their products just because of the halo of “bad things”[^3] that covers the country that crumbling[^2] city is in. And Intel will
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by dsign 3y ago
I tried it out and liked it a lot. That the produced audio is at 44100 kHz creates a lot of possibilities. I’m not a music expert, so take this with a grain of salt, but here are some of the uses I see for stableaudio: - Generating samples
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by dsign 3y ago
> A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay I just read that one, bought straight from Amazon. It's so bad that it made me chuckle. > Which actually turned out to be a big crowd pleaser Crowds are weird.
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by dsign 3y ago
My bet would be the drawers of one publisher. The number is far too low to be even "two publishers." Anything that a publisher is legally entitled to store in their hard-drive is likely a work that an author already polished for u
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by dsign 3y ago
I guess the OP is referring to how communist countries are/were big in personality cult and general brainwashing. Marx and his ideology when they were happy with the soviets, Ceausescu later when the political winds changed. Generally
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by dsign 3y ago
Good as this is, it's missing the parts which lie outside browsers and it doesn't have much regarding mobile devices. In a matter of decades or shorter, I expect the following to happen as well: * Governments will give themselves
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by dsign 3y ago
Thanks!
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by dsign 3y ago
I struggle mightily with "on"/"in". It's a funny thing; English native speakers will tell you that there are rules: "in" is for "inside" and "on" is for "on the surface",
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by dsign 3y ago
Jesus, no! Not all of my teachers were great, and most of the knowledge I got, I earned on my own. But they were part of a world that had nothing to do with the world of my parents--my teachers were learned , where my immediate family was

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