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by ganzuul 5y ago
I wish to discuss bicycles in terms of cybernetics but I get accused of heterodoxy...
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by ganzuul 5y ago
If it interacts with its environment, it evolves. Environment and genetic evolution are in constant interaction. This is a definition of karma.
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by ganzuul 5y ago
Harping on about it makes it worse. - This is action against your self-interest. Alignment has to be self-motivated.
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by ganzuul 5y ago
You obviously make an exception for yourself. Why is that?
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by ganzuul 5y ago
Do you mean to say that a sense of self is inherently a locus of suffering?
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by ganzuul 5y ago
While I have great compassion for anti-nativism, in the past few decades we have made immense sociological progress. If it is possible to create life that is incapable of shame or suffering and yet capable of enjoying its existence for its
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by ganzuul 5y ago
Deleting the reward function ends the game.
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by ganzuul 5y ago
This is quite exciting. Thank you for sharing.
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by ganzuul 5y ago
Qualia.
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by ganzuul 5y ago
Algebraic structures which self-heal by convergence to idempotence would enumerate this space.
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by ganzuul 5y ago
> a good image classification architecture can fit in a tweet , and a complete description given in ~1000 bits So Boltzmann brains are a dime a dozen? Is that what we are?
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by ganzuul 5y ago
What exactly do you think you are doing right now then?
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by ganzuul 5y ago
Oops how did this get here I'm not good with computers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Seberg
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by ganzuul 5y ago
> A Federal standard (21 CFR 1030.10) limits the amount of microwaves that can leak from an oven throughout its lifetime to 5 milliwatts (mW) of microwave radiation per square centimeter at approximately 2 inches from the oven surface. S
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by ganzuul 5y ago
Have you ever looked inside a very dirty computer? It's quite simple.
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by ganzuul 5y ago
Women are widely known to be more attentive and dexterous in e.g. electronics assembly. Surely this translates to the domestic kitchen as well. Sexist? Please, shove that word. This is simple facts about life.
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by ganzuul 5y ago
That article doesn't seem to talk about safety at all.
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by ganzuul 5y ago
The specific scenario I have in mind is a student living on their own for the first time, cooking with a microwave in their room. Many catastrophic fuckups that we were quick to forget took place during this phase in life. You might take ap
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by ganzuul 5y ago
You need a basic level of competence to be allowed in the kitchen. - That is where most domestic accidents happen. Funny how kitchen stuff was thought to be women's work once.
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by ganzuul 5y ago
I remain in awe that we trust the very cheapest plastic under repeat load and thermal cycling to form a -40dB seal, turning 700W into 70mW. Also, it seems that the outer metal shell of the device forms an active part of the circuit, so if i
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by ganzuul 5y ago
Getting used to it doesn't mean it's good. There is much better UI design available to us. I don't think I said anything untrue; only hurtful.
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by ganzuul 5y ago
I got the additional impression that there are bounds to how freely the reader can interpret the narrative. Thus freed from endless mental contortion to make the argument work, the reader can assume that they are not too ignorant to underst
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by ganzuul 5y ago
Ah, refutable.
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by ganzuul 5y ago
I could never come to terms with the tattered and worn user interface experience for an application that is so prominent on the desktop. Perhaps the widget system is glamorous underneath, but to accomplish its job of getting out of the way
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by ganzuul 5y ago
In the west we simply don't recognize that system as democracy. For your officials to not take bribes means their relatives get offended that the office doesn't get them special treatment. That is feudalism. It means you built not
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by ganzuul 5y ago
...Falsifiable? The author uses a lot of words and seems to appreciate brevity, but isn't the entire article summarized by this one word?
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by ganzuul 5y ago
If you start doing the right thing now not only can you beat the competition, you don't need a grace period.
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by ganzuul 5y ago
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." - Thomas Aquinas
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by ganzuul 5y ago
They have collected vast stores of environmental data in their genetic material. I'll bet you real money they know they have to collect water before anyone knows there will be a drought.
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by ganzuul 5y ago
It's almost as if life on the planet isn't all about us.

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