green_man_lives

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by green_man_lives 4y ago
Preface: I say this as a leftist who believes in reparations and cooperative ownership of capital. When I hear fundamentalism I think less about the proseltyzing aspect and more about the divergence from the core ideology. Fundamentalist is
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
The core plot of Snowcrash is loosely based on this theory.
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
In the beginning of his book he spends a chapter explaining exactly what he means by consciousness. I'd say the first few chapters are worth reading since it does a really good job of de-obfuscating the term consciousness, and also has
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
All of this research using GPT to simulate an internal monologue to produce agents reminds me of Julian Jaynes theories about consciousness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in...
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
> I don’t disagree that we should try to gear our society towards producing less dangerous people. It sounds like we have very different ideas on how to achieve that, though. My personal opinion is that the threat of severe punishment is
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
I don't think you get the point.
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
> I don’t understand how one could care so much about protecting dangerous, crazy homeless people from harm. This is some Hammurabi thinking. It's not about protecting "Osama Bin Laden" (although justice should be blind an
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
spot on
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
https://abc7news.com/sfpd-budget-defund-the-police-departmen... Police budget was lowered in 2020, that's from a decrease in tax revenue though, not ideological. https://www.sfexaminer.com/archives&#x2F
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
I don't know if people really comprehend that it's a national issue and not localized to any area. Inequality + years of segregation and neglect + drugs have been left to fester and our only tool against these issues has been a bi
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
What an insightful comment.
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
1. Police have never been defunded. San Francisco PD budget is up 5% from 2019. This is similar to every other city in the US (LAPD has $250M more in funding after George Floyd). 2. "Defund the Police" usually means diverting mone
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
> Oaklahoma City I'm sorry, I'm sure this was an innocent typo, but seeing a "tech bro" mythologize the midwest and then misspell Oklahoma is just too funny. You realize OKC has a higher violent crime rate than SF rig
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
I don't really have a background in ML or anything but how generalizable is this? Is the goal to have a trained model for each specific using this framework? It's pretty amazing, I love seeing anything robotics related in the brow
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
Nothing in particular other than knowledge that I can use across domains. I don't want to know how to write an interpreter per se, but I want to understand the steps from text to machine code. I think it has already yielded benefits in
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
Eh I'd say he's just popular among the edgier anti-establishment people of all shades. He was pretty explicitly anti-progressive in his manifesto and also would most likely be labeled as a reactionary by the "far-left",
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
I have a question about the book. I haven't been able to ask anyone else because I don't know anyone else who is working through the book. Is the first half of the book boring or is it just me? I wasn't really expecting the s
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
I never said that it was. I just explained why this time was different. Innovation always hurts people but it benefits enough people that there's not massive social unrest. I am not making a moral assertion here just pointing out the q
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
I supposed if the gracious techno-overlords are gracious enough to grant the underclass a nature preserve where they can keep living in a labor-powered society then sure. Somehow I feel that bulldozing ghettos would be the more realistic ou
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
The first time around (and every subsequent time) the tools used for production, lets call them capital, made laborers more efficient and cheapened goods and drove wages up (mostly). In all of these cases there was still the need for a labo
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
The Luddites were not protesting technology because technology is inherently evil. They were against the capitalistic ownership of the means of production. So far technology has enabled use to increase economic output which means rising sta
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
When I read his book, the thing that stood out to me was his intellectual enthusiasm for almost ANYTHING. Like Feynman "training" ants, it was a level of curiosity I didn't even know could exist. I've tried training myse
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
Not sure why people are downvoting. This is pretty accurate.
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
I would assume that most of the early Mesopotamian societies were the same. IOUs were the first form of currency, used for trade and bookkeeping. But after a while you'd see consolidation of wealth in the hands of a few, which would ha
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
It sounds like the things you listed are prerequisites to having a family. Something people have been able to do for hundreds of thousands of years without transportation or high-paying tech jobs. That's the point I was making. Our mat
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
I do think that life is better with the internet, but a counterpoint I'd like to make is that humans are very quick to adapt to material change. Someone who goes from making $600 to $8000 a month will see their stress levels reduced bu
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
> Taking care of a neighbor is none of my business because other peoples' lives are none of my business. For a lot of human history this was simply not the case. I am not saying that this level of social cohesion is better or worse
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
I posted this comment elsewhere, but I think the marginal utility of our advancements is definitely decreasing. The internet itself is just a method of getting information, most of which is garbage. To use an analogy, let's say the tel
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
If I was being cynical I'd say that this is just an article designed to get clicks by confirming people's biases. To anyone who disagrees with me, ask yourself. What is the most important thing in your life? I can with certainty s
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by green_man_lives 4y ago
I would tend to agree with this with the addition of the fact that labor rights have degenerated too. The relationship between working people and let's say "capital" used to be more tenuous. This had ramifications for politic

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