empath-nirvana

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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
> And, the hallucination problem has only gotten worse, as AI models feed on content generated by other AI models. They state this as a fact, but I haven't seen this yet.
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
Consciousness itself is a magic trick, of a kind.
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
I'm fairly sure its explanation of integration is correct? Maybe not a good answer for a math major, but it's a good answer for his question.
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
Even aside from this skeezy and exploitative business model, there are people who already have sort of para-social relationships with vanilla chatgpt.. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1ba0vha/my
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
This is one of the reasons why I think patents are important, because it allows them to profit from their inventions, and for the inventions to be reused later by others, even if the product was "too soon". They invented innovati
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
> I hadn't heard of the distinction stellar or non-stellar black hole before. While it's possible that supermassive black holes were formed from stellar collapse, there are models where they didn't, while they _know_ that
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
Yes. This is one of the first things people did with chatgpt: can you help me invent a language for a fictional setting with talking frogs. Give me a sample sentence that frogs might say in their language, along with a translation. ChatGP
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
It's pretty much always better to not get into a war than to win a war.
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
If you measure the circumference of the circular enclosure and divide it by the diameter, it's a close approximation to pi.
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
For statuary in particular, it's important to note that Egyptians, and Greeks to a lesser extent, believed that statues of gods were _physically inhabited by those gods_ and could be used to communicate with them, so it was pretty impo
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps This happened roughly contemporaneously to the asteroid strike.
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
I think the headline is a little bit too assertive for a paper that is very tentative, about a topic for which people should be very skeptical. Tracing languages features back 10,000-20,000+ years is a fairly iffy proposition. Proto Indo E
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
Pompeii was a beach resort. You don't go to the Jersey Shore expecting high art.
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
Discovery can happen in a purely mathematical/theoretical context, too.
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
You don't need paper or ink to start working with math. You don't need symbols. You can just do it in your head. That's the beauty of math. The physical instantiation of it doesn't matter.
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
Eventually you start specializing and learning more and more about a particular topic until you know as much about it as anybody else, and then you just keep going. There's always massive open questions because every question you answe
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
Yes, typically the base layer is set theory (with ZFC being the "standard" formulation). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics
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by empath-nirvana 2y ago
Well, given that structuralism as a program didn't exist until basically the 19th century, you can look at the entire history of mathematics to see what mathematics without structuralism looks like. It's sort of hard to argue tha
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
I uploaded the paper to chatgpt and it summarized it, wrote pseudo code and wrote haskell code with very little prompting from me... no idea if it's _good_ code, because I didn't run it and I don't know the domain or haskell,
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
Plato put all writing in the same category as poetry and believed that only person to person dialogue could transmit truth. He didn't have a special animosity toward poetry. He would say that a biography was as useless and dead as a
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
The US already has a 'loan forgiveness program' that works for every single loan _other_ than student loans, called "bankruptcy". It's worked for hundreds of years, and we used to allow it for college loans.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
Schools should be on the hook if students default on their loans.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
Private loans aren't dischargeable in bankruptcy.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
This problem would be solved immediately by making student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. The easy money would evaporate and a lot of colleges would have to figure out how to make money on lower tuitions.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
> The rise of bootcamps and micro-certifications teach people 80% of the stuff in 20% (or less) of the time, and at fractions of the cost as well. It really depends on what you sorts of jobs you're talking about. There's a bun
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
Everyone jumping into AI, but there's going to be a business opportunity for curated sources of information with proof that actual human beings created it.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
I could fill volumes with descriptions of temples and palaces, paintings, sculptures, tapestry, porcelain, etc., etc., etc.—if I could have time. But I could not do this without neglecting my duty. The science of government it is my duty to
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
Rewards cards should be illegal and basically are privately levied tax on the poor and a subsidy to the wealthy.
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
Influence is not a straight line and more than one movie can "change sci-fi forever".
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
> In 1963, the Russian mathematician Vladimir Arnold gave an alternative topological proof of the unsolvability of the quintic in a series of lectures to high school kids in Moscow. ... > Arnold’s insight was to show that if there is

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