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by fluoridation 1mo ago
You could get more bang for your buck. I'm currently freelancing at ~$50/hr and for every sixtyish hours I can live for two months, so I could afford to work half the year at a leisurely pace and not work the rest of the year, or
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
I think there are actions a user may sometimes wish to take that software should simply refuse, ideally. Some actions are, and can only be, mistakes. I don't think it's a bad idea for software and hardware to defend itself against
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
Fair enough. I was thinking of center of mass as equivalent to the centroid and only taking into account geometric shape, not leverage.
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
I'm not equivocating anything, I answered your question and provided further information. Yes, it's a real human and it's also a real copy of the simulated human. Your point?
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
You're just asserting that. Why would the center of mass be further to the right from the vertical bisection? That would make it so the left side has a mass of 12.5 versus 8.5 on the right. If you were to pivot that shape freely from t
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
Fair enough. I expressed it that because I was asking a genuine question, not being rhetorical. That was the argument I used to convince myself that my (unstated) intuition was indeed true and wanted to know if there was something I was mis
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
Huh. The Spanish Wikipedia doesn't mention it either, just has a brief blurb somewhere defining the Latin phrase.
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
I'm saying the opposite, that not erasing a phone is not a crime. Meanwhile, building and not exploding a bomb is a crime.
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
My point is even if it hadn't blown up you would've committed a crime anyway, whereas if you rig a phone to erase its own data upon entering a PIN and the PIN is not entered, you haven't committed a crime. The two situations
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
That's interesting. Where can I read more about this?
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
It's already a crime to build a bomb, so it's a moot point.
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
It's not the exact same situation. Whether it's similar enough to be prosecuted or convicted is a different question.
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
It's 2D because it's the surface of a sphere.
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
Celestia might be what you're looking for.
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
I find that highly questionable as a general description of what intelligence does. That's more like a description of a general knowledge base. When I think of someone intelligent, I think of someone who's able to draw unexpected
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
Intelligence is compression? What do you mean? Intuitively that doesn't seem right. >What I don't understand is why LLMs haven't been able to do this yet LLMs are just trained on what humans have said. Why is it surprising
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
For example?
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
Um, sure, but my argument is that the function will always be continuous, as long as you're slicing a single shape.
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
I'm pretty sure that's incorrect. The whole point of the center of mass is that it's at the intersection of all the bisecting lines. If you slice a shape in two and you don't get two parts of equal area then you didn&#x2
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
Well, I'm listening.
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
Am I being stupid? Isn't this mind-numbingly obvious? Collapse the shape into a function describing the area of the left side if you were to cut the shape at that X coordinate in that orientation. On one end the function has value zero
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
Asking rhetorical questions as a form of argumentation is the Socratic method.
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
You're trying to use the Socratic method to show that the havingness of the book is a spectrum, and I'm taking the position of a hardliner who considers that "having the book" means having the original string of symbols
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
You don't have the book, you have someone else's interpretation of the book's contents, re-expressed into a language you can read. Both steps can involve a loss or distortion of information, either because the translator does
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
>If you have a translation, do you have the book? No, you have a translation. >Even if, like the Odyssey, there are hundreds of wildly varying translations? Precisely why translations are not considered equivalent to the original text
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
In math they shouldn't be computing at all, they should just be performing symbolic manipulations.
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
I'm saying young children shouldn't be led to believe that that's what math is. People should probably learn how to do basic operations, but it should have much, much less emphasis than it does now, and it would be much more
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
>Then afterwards just give them a calculator. If problems were properly designed the students shouldn't even need calculators. In math the specific numerical value of a result is far less important than how it relates to the inputs.
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
I'm honestly of the opinion that teaching children arithmetic (as in, having them perform arithmetic algorithms) is not just a complete waste of time, but actually detrimental as it sours them to the idea of anything labeled "math
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by fluoridation 1mo ago
It sounds like it's still meant in earnest, then. That it's a self-deprecating joke doesn't detract from the sentiment.

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