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961.
by exe34 1y ago
Very little observing involves just the eyes. much of what we observe relies on millennia of assumptions. if we don't consider alternatives that we would normally reject out of hand, we can miss things.
962.
by exe34 1y ago
that's not what an open mind is though. an open mind is one that is willing to question what is inside as much as it is willing to question what is outside. a side effect of questioning what is inside leads to allowing some of what is
963.
by exe34 1y ago
my favourite sci-fi idea about this is that the aliens know we love shiny things so they give us a comet to look at while they have their annual picnic somewhere nearby.
964.
by exe34 1y ago
That should stop all the LLM posts right in their track!
965.
by exe34 1y ago
I have no idea what a buttcoin is, sorry.
966.
by exe34 1y ago
To have enough by your definition and to feel like one has enough are two very different ideas of enough. The Cynic has enough if he has his cloak and found some food in the garbage can. He feels like he has enough. You might feel like that
967.
by exe34 1y ago
He points out their foolishness - he has what they will never have. Enough.
968.
by exe34 1y ago
The Cynic on the other hand knows how to enjoy life with just enough. He is free, a spy for the gods.
969.
by exe34 1y ago
that's an original definition, you should publish it in a journal of psychology!
970.
by exe34 1y ago
The old "oh I just came up with that exact set of necessary and sufficient specs" in agile meetings.
971.
by exe34 1y ago
try the bottom half of the population!
972.
by exe34 1y ago
if they want private information, they should buy it on the open market like every other company!
973.
by exe34 1y ago
I have autism and I like using that kind of comparison when writing.
974.
by exe34 1y ago
I suspect mental health issues are a big glowing neon sign that says "bully me".
975.
by exe34 1y ago
and for those of us who are not fluent in gibberish?
976.
by exe34 1y ago
BINGO! (this always gets brought up every single time, like a mantra that people have to keep saying to convince themselves. So it's on my bingo card.)
977.
by exe34 1y ago
>Nobody should be expected to come up with a reason why it is not intelligence. I'm not asking anybody to come up with a reason why it's not intelligence. I'm telling people they're wrong when they do try to justify c
978.
by exe34 1y ago
even worse, the local services have also been gutted and lobotomized, so once one of these outbreaks gets to CONUS, they'll be praying hard and dropping like flies.
979.
by exe34 1y ago
Living life alone makes your life shorter, but it sucks enough that it'll feel a lot longer anyway, so it balances out!
980.
by exe34 1y ago
my nixos with just xmonad works really well, I haven't noticed any degradation in the last 10 years of updates.
981.
by exe34 1y ago
As opposed to most humans? Have you tried reasoning with somebody "just trying to do my job sir"?
982.
by exe34 1y ago
the way it goes is that a device/program of some sort displays a broad number of behaviours that previously was believed to be a future sign of artificial intelligence (e.g. somewhat coherent text, Turing test, giving the impression of
983.
by exe34 1y ago
> Even low-IQ humans can in principle learn how to use Lean to represent a multivariate system. That's an article of faith. In principle, elephants can fly at least once.
984.
by exe34 1y ago
It's almost as if thinking carefully about words leads to the realisation that words are approximations that are meant to describe, not prescribe.
985.
by exe34 1y ago
Unfortunately, whenever you try to exclude LLMs from the holy church of intelligence based on what they can't do, you end up excluding a whole lot of humans too.
986.
by exe34 1y ago
Unlike the NI number, which you can't legally work without...
987.
by exe34 1y ago
> Overall, I'm also very conflicted about NixOS. I liked the promises, but in practice, it falls short for me. for me, I've learnt to live with the limitations - anything I can't get to run on nixos I just won't bothe
988.
by exe34 1y ago
Apologies, it seems to move every few months. https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/dem...
989.
by exe34 1y ago
he stopped 7 wars! including star wars.
990.
by exe34 1y ago
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2025.02....

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