edgyquant

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by edgyquant 1mo ago
I don’t know where consciousness is but I think if we accept that you can simulate a brain exactly that doesn’t prove consciousness of a model as consciousness is a metaphysical concept really
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
I dislike this analogy because a nation is not a person grocery shopping and anyway if a single grocery store was the only way to get food that would put me in a very lopsided relationship with them and the power dynamics in such a case are
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
The chips act used tax dollars and subsidies to incentivize companies to build here. This and tariffs on semis are not much different the only difference is with a tariff you only pay the tax when you buy imported goods
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
Services can’t fight a war or feed you. A nation that wishes to be a real power must be able to guarantee it can feed and protect its people.
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
From what I understand having the dollar be our main export is a reason why we haven’t had real industrial policy. We export dollars so we have to buy from overseas.
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
Not if you make it extremely costly with tax policy and tariffs.
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
Are brains responsible for consciousness? Or are brains a tool that our consciousness uses to understand the world?
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
Sometimes I think so, I don’t visually see anything in my mind it’s all just thoughts about things like I can feel the image but can’t actually see it. However I have taken psilocybin mushrooms and when I do I can literally visualize things
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
Context is important. 100% tariffs on Canada is stupid, 100% tariffs on China because we don’t want any industry dependent on a major military adversary is something worth discussing even if the answer is to not do that in the end
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
100% agree
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
I have never met anyone who thought other countries paid the tariffs. Im sure they exist but this seems more like something retractors say to make themselves feel smarter than people in support of tariffs. People who care at all about tar
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
Unfortunately in our hyper partisan, sound bite, climate you can’t discuss the trade offs of tax policies anymore you either support the party line or you’re the enemy.
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
This is an example of “person pretends to not understand a simple thing thus naming conversation impossible”
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
Notice how I used the words “core business” but that they didn’t do business at all
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
It’s just called ai-code I’m new to eMacs so this popped up but had a bunch of issues I was trying to debug https://github.com/tninja/ai-code-interface.el
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
What are people’s workflows for using eMacs with generative coding? I’m trying to get a workflow where I can generate code and approve it like a PR (maybe leave comments for a next round of generation) but I’m new to eMacs and the ai codin
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
Neither of those companies core business model was serving llms
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
The video of the girl crying about Hellen Keller being fake was hilarious regardless of how true or not any of it is
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
Does this stuff really matter when you get down to it? How much does it being true or false change the average persons daily life?
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
I would say you should seek advice from someone has lucky and successful as Paul Graham but I wouldn’t take his public Twitter as advice it’s entertainment period.
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
Policy is about trade offs, you can disagree if they’re worth it but that isn’t what people do. They instead dig in their heels and pretend policies designed to incentivize local production don’t work because local production doesn’t exist
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
Or perhaps people are thinking longer than you and realize it’s a problem America isn’t domestically producing these things? I can not stand that trade offs and thinking about domestic production cant be done because otherwise smart engine
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
I work on real projects with paying customers with the occasional mvp here, but I tend to select for people who have distribution so mvps become apps that need maintenance almost every time. If anything maintenance is where it gets easier
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
I dislike these comments just as much. What do you want people to show you? Most of us work on projects for other people where tasks that used to take a week take a day or less. It’s also a no true Scotsman as nothing we could show woul
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
MCP is at its simplest just a way to describe what the different api endpoints do to an llm and we need some protocol for this. MCP works and is a fine protocol for this
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by edgyquant 1mo ago
In what way does it not look real? On the contrary a significant portion of the population seems to be totally swooned by Iranian propaganda and is not aware they are a malicious actor and have been for decades conducting much worse things
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by edgyquant 2mo ago
According to polls democrats are the worse side, they are the most unpopular party maybe in history and are at an extreme low in terms of their approval rating. Trump is almost 20% more popular than the Democratic Party and they are pollin
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by edgyquant 2mo ago
Social issues are just as important to voters as the economy and attacking them for caring about this issue, one that very clearly the people have asserted their opinion on, is dumb. If dems would stop dying in the hill of unpopular social
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by edgyquant 2mo ago
The last few elections have been the most active in history, especially in 2020 essentially everyone voted.
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by edgyquant 2mo ago
Skill is the terminology the industry has adopted.

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