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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
It's much simpler and more biomechanical than that. ADHD at its core is a dopamine disorder. Effort without dopamine is extremely difficult in anyone, and ADHD makes it tough for these dopamine mechanisms to get going. Once that dopami
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In my experience frequenting those boards as a former atheist, the vast majority of the militant atheist types were harmed more by their inability to compete in the standard hierarchies of society than they were by any particular Church or
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No, because inspiration comes from the nous, or intellect. LLMs have no access to the nous. They're purely epistemic.
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
/r/atheism is leaking again.
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
There's a large gap between: 1. This interpretation might not be "true" but it is a good-faith effort that respects the text. 2. This LLM is fabricating verses, chapters, and even books of the Bible. If you've used LLMs
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Because the attention-selection mechanism exists inside the conscious experience. If you can't account for the conscious experience then you're missing the recursive relevancy realization that allows us to select from the salience
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
My first college roommate brought the largest CRT I've ever seen. It looks a LOT like this one. He passed away this last year, otherwise I'd ask him how large it was. It took FIVE adults to carry up the two stories to our apartmen
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Yes, the hardware is optimized over time. But the emergent experience of consciousness isn't described in that hardware. If you're a pure materialist, you believe said experience is still present physically—likely in some combinat
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
I fully disagree that the mind can operate without "awareness." We understand neither the how nor why of consciousness. But its not just a parlor trick—consciousness helps us mediate our attention. It's one of the core things
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
What you're describing here is software, not hardware—Cognitive Science is the relevant field, not Neuroscience. That said, your understanding is largely supported by our current understanding of consciousness, attention, and perceptio
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
One can have an aversion to the act itself without considering the consequences. People who have never gotten in a real fight before don't understand that its actually quite difficult to throw a full-strength punch at someone if you&#x
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
> Aside from favoring the long em-dash (—) This is a huge improvement over previous GPT and Claude, which use the terrible "space, hyphen, space" construct. I always have to manually change them to em-dashes.
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Gen X voted Trump more than any other generation. Millenials are shifting that way.
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
This is a joke, right? If a company is underperforming, then the underperformers are the first to go. Market economies require efficiency. Capital flows in the direction of success. Impeding this flow with regulation is a great way to creat
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
> I think you're dismissing the people such as myself that would note you as an idiot without comment and move on wanting nothing to do with you. Sounds to me like you failed the test.
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
Have you used Gemini? With the built-in RAG I actually find it way better than both Google Search and OpenAI for search. I think Claude still wins for overall chat quality but Gemini is amazing for Search, especially when you're not ex
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
This isn’t true. Fiber is actively expanding in many markets.
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That’s semantics. It started as an X project and was pulled out into Alphabet under Larry when they made the Alphabet change. Now that Sundar is CEO at both levels the distinction between the two entities has become fuzzy again.
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Cloud. Waymo.
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LLMs have access to the space of collective semantic understanding. I don't understand why people expect cognitive faculties that are clearly extra-semantic to just fall out of them eventually. The reason they sometimes appear to rea
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
The color is part of it. I put a greyscale filter on my phone and it’s insane how much it’s reduced the device’s ability to suck me in and keep me staring at it.
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by heyjamesknight 2y ago
The reproducibility crisis and general decay of academia has given us a few decades of bad science. Entire fields have been built using massaged statistics to deny common sense in the pursuit of tenure. We're just now "unlearning&
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
We work with non-technical founders. I've written a version of this post—although not as comprehensive. My main advice for all aspiring founders is the same: You cannot be waiting. You must be executing. You can't wait for fundi
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
Hey mate, everyone decided to dunk on you instead of actually being helpful. HN is full of nerds that look down on people like you. Don't take it to heart. AI isn't magic: it just does things people do, really fast, and at enormou
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
And then at the top of that stack, we’ll have a single, master model controlling everything. We could call it the Master Control Program.
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
> It's net-positive activity full-stop, not just economic activity. Net positive for who? It doesn't seem to be a net positive for Ukraine, who have effectively lost an entire generation of young men. > in longer timescales
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
> The ROI is the mitigation of a third world war by a mad despot and the consequential preservation of lives that would otherwise have been lost. It's a hugely valuable investment once you look at the historical costs of appeasement
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
Borrowing money to pay for things that don’t provide value to the average American is Broken Windows at its best. Every $ we send to Ukraine is borrowed from future generations. You don’t borrow money to spend it on things that don’t give y
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
I belong to a social group of dads from my son’s school. Most of them are blue collar conservatives. They all have pickups. Not one is opposed to electric, as long as the details make sense. But these are camping, fishing, hunting folk. Eve
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by heyjamesknight 3y ago
You left off: 5. Cut your losses and keep whatever cash stores you can for the storm to come. We have zero insight into what the Spotify execs are seeing. Maybe ad revenue is already down. Maybe subscriptions aren’t renewing. Maybe costs ar

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