huurtehoog

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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
Inverted bias doesn't change much my view in practical terms
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
Thanks I was going by the date I glanced at the counter cover
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
Yeah I'm not talking about that one proof, I'm talking about the whole of mathematics. It's not manufacturing theorems, it's an ongoing conversation. It's poetry in the etymological sense, poesis, it's creative
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
Reading Snowcrash, the guy gave up coding because "back in the day" a hacker could do it all alone but now it was all about software factories. That was in a book written in 2000. Software is theory building, as Naur puts it. It&#
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
LLM tools tend confirm what you come to them with, be it unfounded conviction or doubt. I find them quite useless to tell me things I don't know, as verifying what they say shows that any non-trivial claims they make are usually oversi
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
I think I am make a much more basic point than what you're talking about but then again I am not sure what you're tying to say here...
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
That's true of the entirety of mathematics. Its validity is a social construct. That is not to relativize it entirely, but much of what was considered good and sound mathematics in the ancient Agean for example would now fall way short
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
There is a symmetrical presumption in the minds of people that the software representation in their screens is both accurate and capable of altering reality when changed. This is very often violated, obviously, and people find it jarring. A
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
This will either be normal crisis, in which case no point in panicking. Or it is existential, in which case, no point in panicking. If this turns out to be existential, what would anyone be able to do to prepare? Short of politically contro
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
AI, AGI, and intelligence itself are poorly defined. I invite you to add to the literature if you think you have any novel insight, and get it published. Otherwise I'd recommend digging deeper into history, cognitive science, philosoph
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
I'm not talking about OpenAI I'm talking about you > So don't be sad that this 90 year problem was solved, just be happy that is exactly what AGI should be. That sounds like a cult leader.
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
I think you're framing this as idealism vs materialism? The debate is fascinating. I tend to be more of an idealist but I recognize that science is predicated on materialism. I believe we ought to find a complete explanation for how th
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
> Failing to police the use of trademark is sufficient grounds to lose the trademark, which is why companies tend to be overly aggressive in suing people for violating the trademark. Not quite. There is no litigation requirement to renew
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
It's the difference between doing something and asking for something to be done. Forget all the technology involved. One of them is yours, you made it and know it. The other one is something you bought. Quite literally, something phone
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
I offer an alternative translation directly from the original hebrew: "Surely the testimony of misfortune will be imposed at any season"
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
There's a lot of unverified hearsay but the crux of the problem is that there is controversy around using this company's tools, the attribution of the resulting work, and the company for some reason competing with its users. The w
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
I find it infinitely fascinating that everything that ever happens leaves a trail of information that we keep getting better at querying. From understanding what exactly stars are made of, to the evolution of life on Earth, and the exploits
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
So, this company wants everyone and every organization on Earth to use their software, and reserve the right to then tell anyone how the resulting work can be published and credited? Real solid business model there, how could it ever fail?
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
This reads exactly like 'model driven development' and 'language workbenches' hype from 20 years ago. Uncanny. Jet Brains has had that on early access since 2005. Literally 20 years ago people were dreaming about this ne
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
They've gone full cult.
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
Square the circle next Or sell out and do perpetual motion
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
There's a lot of distortion on this forum. Some people don't consider anything less than being overpaid by venture capital furnaces as worthwhile work.
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
> I do not have a political home. I choose what I see as good sense and it aligns with no party. THAT is what a true moderate is. Yeah, purity tests are the hallmark of the political center
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
Technology has no agency. It's merely a word for all the knowledge and tools that people use. The root of it is what people do with and to each other. A bigger lever doesn't change the fundamental fact that there is a person using
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
I think Ted Nelson had a vision but not a good design. I agree with Gwern, his design was a materialization of his vision of a solution. It was not the response to a problem. I like Ted Nelson's ideas but sadly what he built was just n
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
You are advocating for the kind of compartmentalization that got us here in the first place.
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
I think this has as much to do with how hard software became to understand as with the new shortcut to refusing to understand it and the shortsightedness in willing to take it. We lost a lot of traction in the name of ease of staffing and s
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
Yeah, like caffeine is to meth
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
> It is quite shocking how people went from being humble (learn the basics or close the gaps in understanding) to full on authority on everything and berating people 24/7... That was never humility. That was fear. This technology is
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by huurtehoog 1mo ago
If anything, I think this hype cycle is fast exposing just how many people, teams, and companies just don't care about what is correct. They just wanna feel good about themselves and get paid. I for one welcome the fact that this whole

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