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by gizajob 5mo ago
An immigrant on a student visa was recently elected (or selected by the Green Party because of proportional representation) to be a member of the Scottish parliament. So it’s finally reached the point in the UK where citizenship confers alm
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by gizajob 5mo ago
This confuses so many people - the Uk has a series of constitutions and a very strong and historical legal basis for rights. It’s not strictly codified in one purposely written document but it does exist. And it’s a mistake to say if there’
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by gizajob 5mo ago
You’re tripping m8.
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Including the right to randomly get shot in school.
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by gizajob 5mo ago
That’s a lazy take. My spidey senses tell me otherwise.
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Kinda fine with it. I’ll put my email details into my signature for a few hours if you want to message me directly.
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Mostly owned by Elon who has 84% of the voting rights. Completely his entity and it can’t be denied that the value of an interesting space business has been massively inflated by tacking a worthless AI business onto it.
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by gizajob 5mo ago
I’m unemployed / unemployable.
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Hello Joe. Is the system working?
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Is it better than the Erlang documentary?
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Does on emulation of a liver produce bile?
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Why, what do you do for a living? What do you guess I do for a living? I don’t really ever have cause to put many personal details about myself on HM.
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by gizajob 5mo ago
This company is so beyond creepy and disgusting.
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by gizajob 5mo ago
I meant “roll your own” LLM for use not build new ones.
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by gizajob 5mo ago
I really don’t get it - why not put a Mac Studio with 128gb of ram on every engineers desk and be like “engineer, engineer your local LLM”. Makes no sense to be spending $20-30,000+ per year on cloud providers when Qwen et al are available.
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Yeah but surely it is though, obviously.
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by gizajob 5mo ago
I’d stay that my belief about other humans or cats or dogs wasn’t really an assumption based on some kind of proof that had to be constructed from a ground of doubting. I’d say it was the type of hinge certainty upon which my world depends
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Ok then, when my GPU runs No Man’s Sky, I don’t get confused and think it’s running a universe and that universe is real, nor that anything about that system is conscious. When I close the game and load the LLM, I still don’t think the same
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Quantum physics isn’t shenanigans, it’s completely fundamental and necessary to the brain and its electrochemistry. To say “yes but we can create a model of the brain which doesn’t need all that, we can model the classical physics or a redu
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Well I said I’m “enough of” an empiricist, not that I was denying what you lay out. But in the case of such thought experiments that can be begun with a small empirical circumstance such as a small group of individuals and then logically ex
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by gizajob 5mo ago
I’m enough of an empiricist to want to deal with reality it is. Thought experiments about things we “could” be doing or “could” implement and then already know the result of because we can rationalise out the consequences of the thought exp
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Aren’t, right now, not can’t.
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If you could do that practically and in reality, and get back to us with the results so we can debate them, that would be great.
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by gizajob 5mo ago
I wouldn’t say they’re anywhere near “full generality” because that would include believing untruths and passionate rages, existential angsts and the crazed obsession of heartbreak. Your definitions depend on us being computers who think. S
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by gizajob 5mo ago
It is difficult when humour and trolling are forbidden. It was easier to tell Slashdot posters were conscious. We could easily reach the stage soon where your agent is responding to my agent and we just leave them to it to run HN automatica
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by gizajob 5mo ago
You sound like you’d enjoy “I am a strange loop” by Hofstadter.
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We already effortlessly overlook this issue in other sentient and suffering beings by shooting them in the head and eating them, or catching them in nets so they can’t breathe and also eating them.
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Why do you have no inkling that your spreadsheet or terminal emulator is conscious, yet when that same machine is running an LLM all of a sudden we’re debating its consciousness? Anthropic seems to have chosen their in-house philosopher wel
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Right, got it. Thanks for the info.
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by gizajob 5mo ago
Seems bizarre to have a Shariah-compliant index fund comprising companies that are all levered with huge amounts of debt financing.

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