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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Someone posted this hour long documentary on shipbreaking in the comments a while back. Both mortifying and fascinating to see this industry up close. https://youtu.be/5jdEG_ACXLw
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Artificial neural networks have departed any biologic principles. ANNs are perceptrons. Perceptrons mimic biologic principles.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> simplified hypothesis There's no hypothesizing at this point. Neurons have been studied in the lab since – checks notes – 1873. Modern neural nets have largely taken Occam's Razor rather than precise biomimicry, mostly du
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
You can only be trolling if you say brains aren’t made of neural networks. Poe’s law in effect
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
You do realize that artificial neural networks are based on the organic ones? Unless you have some dualist interpretation of intelligence that involves some ethereal intangible soul that somehow eludes all detection, nor holds any explan
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I think the confusion comes here in believing that humans have some exceptional mechanic for understanding. Ultimately human intelligence is the product of neural networks. The only thing that's separates us from ML is both scale (
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Its their choice I guess. It's the lack of choice that I'm pointing out. Sheer force of will isn't going to get you employed in a completely different discipline. Labor relations are what allow people to have the financ
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> modify your career and work so it is compatible with or takes advantage of said disruption You say this like it's something that anyone can do. Reskilling takes time, and not everyone is such the tech entrepreneur (or aspirant) a
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Searle's thought experiment begins with this hypothetical premise: suppose that artificial intelligence research has succeeded in constructing a computer that behaves as if it understands Chinese. It takes Chinese characters as in
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I like this because it makes the sugaring distinct. Anyone unfamiliar with the sugar will know there's something different going on, while not really adding much noise.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
How is this different to typespecs and Dialyzer?
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Strong disagree, this is a skill issue. I think the point with Elixir and Nx is that any difficulty in parallel performance is abstracted away
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I too have been waiting for the inner city CRE market to crash for a long time now, but conversions of skyscrapers are generally impractical for all the reasons listed in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=402
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
The daily grind is specifically of a negative connotation. A fulfilling occupation is the counterpoint to that.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> The eyes and visual system works but they have no conscious experience of it. Why? No one knows There's some parallels with epilepsy patients that have split brain surgery, essentially isolating both hemispheres. I can't reme
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
One could revel in the daily grind, I suppose. But mostly I’m just following the premise of this thread, which may not be entirely true, that modern humans are slaves to contrived parameters of success that don’t align with fun. By way of t
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
It wasn’t a fight, it was more like trolling. It could be practicing delay tactics or entrapment or something, but still this implication of this being some kind of evolutionary driven behavior as distinguished from the novel pursuits of hu
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
It’s the human equivalent of rolling wooden balls or something
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Humans are just evolutionarily driven machines that respond to stimuli also, but how is it that we are conscious? What is the bar at which you say consciousness has emerged, and why is that limited to mammals?
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> the problem with characterizing learning as agency This is only a problem if it is incorrect… depending on your moral leaning. Certainly having our automatons self organize and fight for their own emancipation could be a problem for th
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I’ve never claimed consciousness is substrate dependent – I’m of the opposite belief actually – but I’m skeptical of the claim that it would emerge from running hello world. I’m of the strong opinion that self directed and adaptive behaviou
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I don’t believe in free will either. You might like Determined by Robert Sapolsky. That said there’s a difference between a CPU executing a static program, and a human with self modifiable programming and actual existential parameters. Is
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Able to do something by one’s own desires. So certainly not by the programming by another agent. In a sense, self-programming according to its own interests as they evolve over time
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
You’ll probably enjoy this article https://lithub.com/shes-bouncing-the-ball-on-the-uncanny-way...
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I’m not sure if you’re making a counterpoint or not, but this isn’t in contradiction to the notion that all animals including humans are tethered to the joyless daily grind
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
The bird was just goofing around on its back, perhaps aware that its companion might join it. It was more a tease than a fight. Perhaps novelty seeking behaviors are just of broad utility evolutionarily speaking, but there didn’t seem to be
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
As far as we know today, sex for pleasure's sake is one of the unique characteristics of hominid species. For bonobos specifically, it's a means of social cohesion.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Our human problem with "fun" is just that we have other metrics for sucess, that are not that fun anymore. Bowerbirds go to great pains to gild their nests. Humans go to great pains to maintain an aura of success, though the
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
But does your laptop develop a deep aversion to segfaults? I'd imagine agency is a big part of consciousness. The philosophical implication of this is that if you take the agency from someone mentally (e.g., the Ministry of Love in 1
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
If you watch birds for long enough you see them doing silly things that seemingly have no evolutionary benefit. For example, I once saw a magpie, upside down on the floor with its legs in the air. My first thought is that it was hurt, but

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