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by ganzuul 3y ago
> "we don't know any other reason for the light to red shift" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_metric There are versions of this which do provide another reason for red shift. Personally I kee
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by ganzuul 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundiver https://www.mpg.de/20074327/extraterrestrial-intelligence-qu... The idea didn't die, it grew to an unrecognizable size.
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by ganzuul 3y ago
The definition of transcendence in operation here seems to be informed by death, where a being leaves something behind and becomes something else. There is another definition of transcendence which is not informed by death but by eternity,
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by ganzuul 3y ago
I mean to say young people anxiety is very different from old people anxiety. LSD is probably good for people my age but not a panacea for anxiety. Young people require people my age to be acting like we know something.
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He could have hated it because he thought it was good. People are not one-dimensional.
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Different drugs are useful in different stages of life. Please don’t give LSD to children.
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You demarcate a boundary where your own wellbeing is more important than your control of the integrity of the other person. It defines the existence of a boundary of identity.
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He says “forgive them for they know not what they do”. It is a qualified forgiveness, he does not intend to take revenge on the ignorant.
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by ganzuul 3y ago
Did you set new parameters for the relationship, and they eventually accepted it?
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by ganzuul 3y ago
Forgiveness engages the highest orders of intelligence in us. It is a highly non-linear dynamic which is hard to analyze.
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by ganzuul 3y ago
UNESCO's GenAI strategy talks a lot about fears of students cheating on papers but it does set a poor precedence if teachers seem not to hold up their end of the bargain. Stanford HAI seems to offer some leadership in thought on this i
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by ganzuul 3y ago
You can find A Century of the Self online for streaming. It's long but it gets to the point quickly.
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According to A Century of the Self current Western society is engineered for something like WWII never to happen again. In philosophy post-structuralism followed. It does hinder a single narrative from dominating but it also hinders people
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Not you too.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
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If you believe that “my children are starving therefore I steal” is different from “I steal and my children are starving” then you have an opinion about the direction in which time flows. It is not a given for all people that perception of
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by ganzuul 3y ago
I want a program that reconstructs the landscape from the sound of rolling thunder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_response
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by ganzuul 3y ago
Looking forward to Phrack 77, smashing cognition for fun an profit, where we learn to jailbreak our minds with the aid of internalized neuromorphic instruction set architecture.
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It does seem to have the ability to interpolate between its data points, which technically is a bit creative.
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by ganzuul 3y ago
I am hoping LLMs make radical BBS-like graphical interfaces for themselves. My tests with PaLM2 showed that it has digested a bunch of ASCII art and it can reproduce it, but it didn’t get creative with the ability.
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by ganzuul 3y ago
We learn it, replicate it in ourselves, adapt to it. The superorganism still learns. GAI is not observed in isolation.
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by ganzuul 3y ago
Hope the prop makers got paid up front.
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by ganzuul 3y ago
Interesting. Does this impose a new kind of locality on an otherwise non-local quantum world?
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A Wikipedia edited solely by AI replacing time war with edit war.
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by ganzuul 3y ago
Nations are bad at it, but they are still the most capable platforms for addressing this racial bias. It’s the right tree to be barking under. If we lived in an ideal world the national AIs would become personal AI agents in a decade or two
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by ganzuul 3y ago
So I asked SD to generate a modernist monument. It was abstract concrete shapes with a set of stairs leading to nowhere. Then I asked it to generate a postmodern monument and it was also abstract concrete shapes but some were painted red an
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by ganzuul 3y ago
The feedback is like an exponential function fed to a ReLU. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07091 It was predictable that they hammered out what was impressive about it by trying to improve it with fast iteration towards a
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by ganzuul 3y ago
Reading this felt like darkness.
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Neat. Seems like the process could be be made continuous.
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by ganzuul 3y ago
Neat. Copper is expensive. Good find.

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