empath75

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by empath75 2y ago
> If we're calculating the entropy of dice rolls (where the outcome is the 'message'), and I know the dice are loaded but you don't, my entropy will be lower than yours. That's got nothing to do with entropy bein
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by empath75 2y ago
What the demand is, is institutional fealty to Donald Trump. Trying to interpret it as anything else is going to lead these institutions into poor decision making. Harvard is doing the right thing.
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by empath75 2y ago
> The point is, it's eating your seed corn. I've seen arguments of this general shape and form many times about this, and yes, this is true. In general, Harvard should not spend down it's endowment when it has other sourc
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by empath75 2y ago
"Sequential thinking" is one that I tried recently because so many people recommend it, and I have never, ever, seen the chatbot actually do anything but write to it. It never follows up any of it's chains of thoughts or ref
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by empath75 2y ago
Permanent residents have the right to own a gun in the US. The supreme court has upheld many many times that the fourth amendment applies to all people within the borders of the US.
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by empath75 2y ago
> As in that seems like there isn't a "large number". --- > “But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of
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by empath75 2y ago
It happens to be the case that he's not a citizen or claiming to be a citizen, but he wasn't given due process, and there's absolutely nothing stopping them from picking anybody up off the street, claiming they're here i
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by empath75 2y ago
Yeah, but that's just another example of communication-without-language
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by empath75 2y ago
Language is not just "communication" and not every communication is language. Bees and ants communicate information chemically, but they're not using a structured language. Dogs may growl to intimidate or yelp if they get
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by empath75 2y ago
I have backpacked around places where literally the US funded decades-long civil wars that devastated the country, and people do not blame you for what your government does. Even in places like Nicaragua where the government is _tremendous
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by empath75 2y ago
> But it's becoming clear that within a few more years, computers will be far better at absolutely everything than human beings could ever be. Comparative advantage. Even if that's true, AI can't possibly do _everything_.
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by empath75 2y ago
Not sure that I agree with that. People have been imagining human-like AI since before computers were even a thing. The Star Trek computer from TNG is basically an LLM, really. AI _researchers_ had a different idea of what AI would be lik
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by empath75 2y ago
The video says up to 100km. With a jet moving at mach-whatever and air-to-surface missiles they can launch from 200+km out, not super useful in practice, even if it worked at night or on cloudy days.
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by empath75 2y ago
Really the only meaningful change was locking the cockpit during flight from the inside.
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by empath75 2y ago
I think counter-intuitively, a lot of the anti-corruption reforms in congress basically destroyed the ability of congress to write compromise bills, because you could no longer buy people off by building a highway in their district or whate
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by empath75 2y ago
They have only _ever_ been able to enforce their rulings through the acquiescence of the other branches. There's no enforcement mechanism in the constitution, and neither is judicial review, for that matter. If the president wants to
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by empath75 2y ago
I think you actually _should_ assume that he's acting rationally, just that his motivations aren't aligned with what you think they should be. Trump has a mafia mentality, and the purpose of the tariffs has absolutely nothing to
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by empath75 2y ago
> He can "do" essentially anything, per the supreme court. This is often said, but it's not true and it has nothing to do with anything that Trump is doing. What they ruled is that he can't be _prosecuted_ for most a
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by empath75 2y ago
The check on everything that Trump is doing is _impeachment_, and congress can't get it's shit together to protect its own power. The whole design of the federal government was that ambitious assholes in Congress would keep ambit
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by empath75 2y ago
I had chatgpt generate a flow chart with mermaid js for something at work and then write a scott mccloud style comic book explaining it in detail and it looked so convincing, even though it got some of the details a bit wrong. It's _s
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by empath75 2y ago
The vast majority of people wouldn't notice any of that in most contexts in which such an image would be used.
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by empath75 2y ago
On a message board? Do you have theories about whether people on this thread understand or don't understand what they're talking about?
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by empath75 2y ago
Is there any way you can tell whether a human understands something other than by asking them a question and judging their answer? Nobody interrogates each other's internal states when judging whether someone understands a topic. All
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by empath75 2y ago
> Or a team loses that would have won because of said penalty and does not go to the world championship. What if they lost the bet because they missed a goal because they slipped on the ice? What if they missed the goal because they blo
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by empath75 2y ago
I think a lot of people didn't read past the first paragraph because of the paywall, but this is actually about Edmund Halley (the comet Halley), and his attempt to explain the wandering of earth's magnetic field by positing that
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by empath75 2y ago
I was responding to the parent argument that the pun couldn't have been written by chatgpt, when that is literally the _only_ pun that ChatGPT comes up with.
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by empath75 2y ago
me: for a science article come up with a pun about purple being imaginary ChatGPT said: "Purple: Just a pigment of your imagination." --- me: For a pop science article: finish this sentence with a pun There is something unique abo
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by empath75 2y ago
Sure, but the pretense is that the game is a self contained reality and once the game is over, everyone has a life they can go on living. Tripping someone on the way to scoring a goal is _unfair_, and there is a defined penalty for it, but
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by empath75 2y ago
This whole thing is based on a serious misunderstanding on the role of penalties and fouls in sports. One can take a penalty strategically, for example to stop an almost sure goal, with the consequence of whatever the penalty is. That&#x2
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by empath75 2y ago
You could use LLMs to give you rough passes at a translation of the texts probably, but they're pretty bad at catching the interesting/surprising details.

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