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by goldfeld 4y ago
But why could it not have soul (if not a soul as coupled as ours) along with when it has consciousness, and are the two concepts surely distinct?
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by goldfeld 4y ago
[0]if we get a bit quantum (or God for some), then backtracking could happen by collapsing the dead-ends and "changing" history to stay with what turns out to be the solid plan. Could emergent conscience on AI's neurons do th
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by goldfeld 4y ago
N.B. to self: study more Foucault to grasp this.
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by goldfeld 4y ago
Well, one way citizens are brought to their knees is precisely because big cos have much unchecked power, directly or indirectly through the state (lobbying and bribe corruption.)
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by goldfeld 4y ago
That makes it even less of a "dark pattern", because you can host Substack on your domain and can download list of both free and paid subscriber and move elsewhere, so that, by using email, Substack habituates readers to THE WRITE
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by goldfeld 4y ago
And made, even, to help me write out a series of tutorials on ChinesePython[0], a topic which intrigued me for years but I always found daunting to learn (along with learning Chinese), what with the lack of materials that used English, so I
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by goldfeld 4y ago
No, but it is always a moral decision somewhere to fight vigorously, and it is money thrown not at making things right. Oh but it is always done, it is routine, etc. Well? If a company is built to act, on behalf of board, as selfish as actu
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by goldfeld 4y ago
If we get a bit quantum (or an act of God for some), then backtracking could happen by collapsing the dead-ends and "changing" history to stay with what turns out to be the solid plan. Could emergent conscience on AI's neuron
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by goldfeld 4y ago
Does it matter the portion of the smaller company? The parent company is responsible for its actions, and that is enough. A giant corporation that does outright damage (and is caught out) should get a sentence as to be repressed in the beha
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by goldfeld 4y ago
If they spent such an inordinate amount trying to escape, that is not part of deterrence, it is a gamble that big boys can take and they took and it didn't go as well. That gamble, or at least a good part of 7 billion, is their own fau
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by goldfeld 4y ago
Well, you know I really like your username!
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by goldfeld 4y ago
In Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?, a dissenting peasant has to be lashed out by the barin's command, who thinks he is still landed gentry but in reality is being fooled by the compassionate and loyal to the bone downtrodden peasa
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by goldfeld 4y ago
I would have named the award "The Year of the Alligator".
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by goldfeld 4y ago
There is a market opportunity here for a GPTesque thinking machine who actually masters and knows their greek ancients well. I knew it it was a lack of refined Platonic understanding when ChatGPT said it could not comment further on the Rus
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by goldfeld 4y ago
If it just decides on a single token at a time, can it backtrack and choose differently under that operation, given the next tokens? What I wonder is, how can it plan ahead and output meaningful (to us) responses, like working code or usefu
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by goldfeld 4y ago
Explosion of blogs and cheap copy was already rampant, but it's true that it is magnified. On the other hand, do you consider niche sort of content[0] a net negative, when these tools let fewer writers or writers with fewer hours creat
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by goldfeld 4y ago
> At the same time - convicted murderers are freed to volunteer to fight against Ukraine and are given state honors, with laws being written threatening severe punishment for reporting the details of their past. I guess it's a retur
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by goldfeld 4y ago
Also came here wondering just what did those two currencies put together was supposed to mean, and shortly considering whether CAD here could mean an unusual and localized autocad file format.
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by goldfeld 4y ago
"In the Magnificrab, some unusual powers of the Crab's mind are revealed. His own version of his powers is merely that he listens to music and distinguishes the beautiful from the non-beautiful. Now Achilles finds another way to d
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by goldfeld 4y ago
As regards both AI plugins as you mention, and “Emacs anywhere”, I compiled a list of Emacs ChatGPT plugins[0] along with each having an easy issue/tasks for others to help linked below, and on the next installment of this newsletter I
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by goldfeld 4y ago
Thanks, and very nice mailing list, I’m checking it out!
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by goldfeld 4y ago
Very interesting and congratulations for working in the field of ethical software!
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by goldfeld 4y ago
I wonder, for Chinese speakers or even learners, we could do AI prompting as needed with ChinesePython[0] even though it is not pseudocode but actually a running environment. 0: https://chinesememe.substack.com/i/103754
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by goldfeld 4y ago
Relatedly, but not charity itself, I try to stimulate open source communities by issuing a periodical[0] with easy tasks for beginners to contribute. By getting new people into open source they can hopefully become long term vectors for goo
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by goldfeld 4y ago
Why would you be absolutely no fan of a sure technological improvement? Is it because of the personal threat to professionals? Not commenting personally on you here, but I am very surprised at programmers' lack of nose for opportunitie
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by goldfeld 4y ago
On the other hand, I think semi-business productivity will skyrocket. Just think what the landscape for open source will look like in even a year. There will be lots of cool motives that are not for profit greatly enhanced by AI, and I thin
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by goldfeld 4y ago
Oh, do not you worry, that path is called SNES emulators and teen crackers reverse engineering new releases' product activation loops. Curious teens are a staple of civilization.
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by goldfeld 4y ago
Regarding point #1, I also launched something that is the volunteer idea of the OP, or just a journal with weekly themes of projects needing help, some AI related. Investing the time in this case is simply a volunteering or not decision. [0
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by goldfeld 4y ago
Not even novel or programming tasks alone, I use it to edit a Chinese newsletter[0] and it can never correctly guess the Chinese rock song from title and artist, always picks some pop tune instead, and otherwise mixes lyrics of separate son
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by goldfeld 4y ago
True, I had not thought about the survivorship bias, literally genetic I guess.

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