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by fatherzine 3y ago
robots that zero-shot learn how to plant/harvest crops just by watching a video of you doing it.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
"the next AI winter may have just begun" -- good! time to stop playing with existential fire. humans suffice. every flaw you see in humans will be magnified X times by an intelligence X times stronger than humans. whether it is au
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by fatherzine 3y ago
things are moving faster than the ability of any human to keep up.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
"they lied about how they are using customer data" -- possibly. it is in the inherent logic of the ai to gobble up as much data as physically possible
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by fatherzine 3y ago
There is a delightful little town on an island off SoCal coast, Avalon, where the main mode of motorized transportation is indeed the golf cart. The shaping constraint is geography, the town is on an island by a bay surrounded by steep hill
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Great synergy with https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect
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by fatherzine 3y ago
How much would they pay an average SRE to deal with random fires operating a poorly designed, poorly instrumented and poorly understood system?
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by fatherzine 3y ago
It's a tongue-in-cheek title. The author proposes something akin to cognitive behavioral therapy, to voluntarily seek out 'offending' situations to learn to behave in disagreement mode instead of offended mode.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
For the better. The future society will develop technology at a slower pace, and their technology will be naturally constrained by sustainability concerns from the get-go. We've turned 'medieval' into a pejorative during the
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Possibly. I'm alluding to the spiritual disposition that expects 4.97 stars or bust. In relationship terms this often maps to expecting the perfect dinner company. When the actual company disappointingly fails to meet that standard, th
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by fatherzine 3y ago
These days I purposefully avoid as much travel research as possible, and intently choose to immerse in the place and moment instead. I'm happy to miss that 4.97 stars dinner place, and instead enjoy interacting with a less-than-Instagr
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Not sure why to expect TV-over-Internet be any different than TV-over-cable: 1 minute of ads for every 3 minutes of content. Sure, for some years the industry held back the ads in a capital fueled chase for market share. Yet at some point c
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Every prompt you put in somebody else's LLM goes into the training set of the next iteration of said LLM, with the explicit purpose of replacing you as a cognitively, and therefore economically, relevant entity. The only dignified move
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Why do people say '2 is a solitary outlier'? Sure, by a quirk of English there is a special word 'even' denoting 'number divisible by 2'. By that logic, every prime k is a 'solitary outlier', being th
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Alternatively, 'traditions are experiments that worked', and 'fear of God' simply translates to 'fear of messing up', with an accent of 'by pridefully refusing to listen to the wisdom of tradition'. D
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by fatherzine 3y ago
"omniscience and omnipotence" The wording unfortunately implies an agentic creature of this world. Alternatively, God created the world as an arena, with creatures as agents. God manifests in the world through His creatures, in ou
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by fatherzine 3y ago
FWIW, 'omniscient man in the clouds' is a strawman built by its enemies.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
"you have no ability to hold others accountable" -- true for all levels of the human stack
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Societies have failed to develop industrial scale investing for centuries. E.g. the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, due to high levels of endemic corruption. A societal trust/faith breakdown may indeed bring an end to investin
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Yes.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
While I am not an expert, the most common cited cause for the Japanese stagnation is the late '80s Japanese asset bubble, possibly worsened by the '85 Plaza Accords where US significantly devalued its currency USD, via currency ma
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Fair enough, BLS seems reasonable, though devil in (lots of) details. I was extrapolating the 'ketchup is a vegetable' debacle, https://www.foodpolitics.com/2011/11/ketchup-is-a-vegetable-... , where Amer
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Pure personal anecdote, a couple years back I did explicitly choose to observe 'zero work Sundays', either office or domestic. Rejecting the oft self-induced guilt for daring to catch my breath 1/7 made a measurable dent in i
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by fatherzine 3y ago
I wish I would have more spiritual and material insights onto how the 24/7 grind mindset became widespread in USA, possibly via Calvinism and the Protestant work ethic. The foundations do prescribe regular perusal of relief valves. 8 R
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Through disenchanted materialistic lenses we can only see man plumage manifested in the physical world. Yet it is not the only way.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Please, at a minimum, change the oil according to manufacturer specs. Or eventually blow up your engine.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Social darwinism is inescapable. With taxes funding the work, there will be some (aggregate) metric to decide who gets the grants, and some committee to decide said metric and apply it. Which inevitably leads to corruption, both in directly
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Splendid, thank you!
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Gamification is a powerful motivator. There is a leaderboard, climbing it is a reward in itself.
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by fatherzine 3y ago
Scoping to food CPI to simplify the conversation, provided a link to the actual raw data, e.g. prices & relative weights over time (do you have such a link?), how do I sift through it to answer elementary questions about the cost trajec

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