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by hliyan 2mo ago
Surprised this article didn't explain the categorical imperative before appealing to it. Here's my interpretation of it, although some would say that (4) is a utilitarian interpretation(even though it's globally utilitaria
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by hliyan 2mo ago
Yes, but awful relative to... our brain's presets, which are an artifact of the world it evolved in. So in my view, there's nothing fundamental about it. Kant would say that the true nature of reality (noumena) are unknowable beca
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by hliyan 2mo ago
Can the reasoning not be: 1) Our brains are evolved prediction engines 2) It is more beneficial and urgent to predict danger (e.g. approaching predator) than benefit (e.g. approaching prey) 3) There are always more negative outcomes than po
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Clicks Communicator: First Look [video](youtube.com)
3 points by hliyan 2mo ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 2mo ago
Long ago, I heard this advice on some ancient management tape: "never let a piece of paper cross your desk twice". It stuck with me and I've got into the habit of immediately answering, archiving or on occasion setting a snoo
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by hliyan 2mo ago
Ah, MIDI files. The only type of music you could realistically download from the internet back in the day, and you had to wake up at ungodly hours so that your dialup modem would not rack up a massive phone bill.
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by hliyan 2mo ago
"Protocols, not platforms" should have remained the philosophy of the Internet. Alas, we are here.
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by hliyan 2mo ago
Sri Lankan here. We've had this type of ceramic filter here for at least 35 years: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0182/4859/7582/files/Ultra...
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by hliyan 2mo ago
Perhaps this will help: commerce, free market and capitalism are three different things. Commerce, or trade, has existed for millennia, even among tribes and villages. The free market emerges when there are multiple producers of a good or s
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by hliyan 2mo ago
There is currently a multi-billion, if not trillion, dollar industry (advertising and marketing) that is convincing everyone to behave the opposite way, i.e. maximize consumption with no regard to negative externalities. If we simply curb t
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by hliyan 2mo ago
The problem with fast feedback loops is that they filter out long term signals. The problem with data driven decision making is that data is numeric, and the act of counting is necessarily an act of approximation, by which we erase the diff
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by hliyan 2mo ago
When I first watched Interstellar, I never thought the day when "TARS, what's your honesty setting?" is a real question would only be 10 years away.
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by hliyan 2mo ago
Recently, I had some ideas I would normally just put up on a blog, in the public domain for anyone to develop on top of. Now, I'm feeling slightly reluctant because an LLM will ingest it, remix it and serve it in response to a query by
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by hliyan 2mo ago
Yes, if it's to provide full safety coverage, it has to be rolled out at telco level including mobile connectivity, which is where this solution runs into red tape.
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by hliyan 2mo ago
There's a better network layer solution than trying to block visitors at every host or at the endpoint devices' OS/application layer. I know because a company in my country is already testing such a thing in private beta. A r
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by hliyan 2mo ago
Question: we currently emulate neural networks by performing matrix math in synchronous clock CPU architectures. Would it not be better to abandon synchronization and etch neuron synapses directly in silicon, keeping only the weights variab
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by hliyan 2mo ago
Looking at the last few minutes of messages, I get the feeling that all it takes is a handful of motivated (i.e. jobless) malicious individuals to make an entire community or a corner of the Internet look like it has devolved into barbarism
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by hliyan 3mo ago
I worry that at some point, the physical device won't matter. Border authorities will know your email address, and could force you to log into your account on a device they supply. Five years ago, I would have called anyone even bringi
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2x the productivity of our R&D org in 9 months(ideas.fin.ai)
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by hliyan 3mo ago
Not a historian nor economist, but to my layman's mind, these revolts seem like a recurring phenomenon whenever long running economic cycles reach that point at which the aristocracy overreaches while trying to suppressing growing publ
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by hliyan 3mo ago
Perhaps similar to a command line utility? Arguments could be passed as URL or query parameters. And perhaps a /help route can return the supported arguments.
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by hliyan 3mo ago
Thoughts about serving pure text (not HTML) so that someone can pull this using a curl command, awk the output and do various things with it? Wish more sites did that.
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by hliyan 3mo ago
I don't think we have to go that far back. Plate tectonics, submersion and weathering does a good enough job of wiping the slate clean off the surface of the Earth, that any evidence of earlier hominids developing pre-industrial, coast
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by hliyan 3mo ago
Kobo stylus is similar. Closest experience I've had to actually writing on paper. Quality of thought too, is closer to that of actual paper writing, compared to typing.
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by hliyan 3mo ago
In my view, it's theoretically possible for a combination of the author's iterative prompts + evaluation with Wolfram Alpha to activate the weights that encode the language that describes the constraints on these polynomials (from
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by hliyan 3mo ago
I suspect the LLM was able to synthesize a counterexample because of the availability of a lot of prior work: > The Jacobian conjecture is notorious for the large number of published and unpublished proofs that turned out to contain subt
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by hliyan 3mo ago
Thankfully it's not happening in my organization because we happen to have a sane, incremental strategy. But it's telling that you perceive any criticism of AI code reviewer burnout as "sticking your fingers in your ears&quot
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by hliyan 3mo ago
This part toward the end of the article resonated with me: > If you’re being asked to review huge volumes of terrible AI code, just assume that the organisation is going to burn you out and fire you. You will not convince the person drow
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by hliyan 3mo ago
I remember an Apple ad from a while back where a hydraulic press crushes a bunch of musical instruments. Your "grey goo of the average" analogy resonates for me because these videos feel like what would ooze out if we take all rel
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by hliyan 3mo ago
Helium is a noble gas. It forms no bonds and is unable to produce even a simple molecule, let along the complex ones needed for life.

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