idiotsecant

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by idiotsecant 7d ago
Depends on the class of the star. Our sun? About 1/4 radius and in is fusion reaction. But it gets weird in other stars. In red giants the fusion zone is a very small shell around a dead core. Maybe something like earths orbit in radiu
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by idiotsecant 7d ago
Yes, except actually novel.
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by idiotsecant 7d ago
That's not true and its exactly the point - real life data is noisy, difficult to parse, and ultimately often ambiguous. Text is the distilled information. It's significantly easier to distilled text into a likely response than it
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by idiotsecant 8d ago
no, enshittification is accurate.
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by idiotsecant 8d ago
This makes sense as long as public control makes the outcome of that money better than letting the bazillionare control it. I'm not sure which way the actual truth tilts, but I suspect it's sometimes one and sometimes the other.
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by idiotsecant 8d ago
Giving away your fortune in secret is so much more virtuous than doing it with a giant foundation with your name on it. Much respect.
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by idiotsecant 8d ago
if you mine 4 tons of coal, anywhere on earth, 1 ton of it will be going to china to be burned to make electricity. China's energy production is extraordinarily dirty, the cleanest part of it is the PR. More than half of the energy t
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by idiotsecant 8d ago
Philosophy is how you come to determine that everything is made of different proportions of air earth water fire and aether. The physics are essential or it's just navel gazing. You may as well just have a 'personal truth' (w
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by idiotsecant 8d ago
I feel like a massive blocklist is simultaneously exactly the kind of thing an LLM is likely to hallucinate and exactly the kind of thing you don't want to rely on an LLM for.
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by idiotsecant 9d ago
I do that with very, very low traffic industrial automation systems.
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by idiotsecant 10d ago
The ability to solve general problems previously insoluble using only experiential data and modification to internal world models.
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by idiotsecant 11d ago
I think democracy is perhaps a fundamentally unstable system. It requires constant corrective force, and a lot of it, from a lot of people. When the members of that democracy start to get a little too comfortable it fails. Humans are design
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by idiotsecant 11d ago
So all we have to do is engineer a scenario where one party screws over the other one by accidentally doing good governance. Or just hurry up and invent ASI and let it be someone else's problem to take care of this crazy human zoo.
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by idiotsecant 11d ago
The fact that you 'need' that is not an inviolable feature of the universe. It's not even a good thing. It's just a thing that has evolved based on the current arrangement of society. It's as mutable as whether or n
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by idiotsecant 11d ago
the struggle of the artisan against the self is one of the more worthwhile struggles there is. In an ideal world, we would all be able to do such a thing all the time, and not worry about our position in the howling ape hierarchy.
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by idiotsecant 11d ago
The gun doesn't know the difference. Operating as intended.
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by idiotsecant 11d ago
The point of the firearm is to inject high speed lead into things so I'm not sure you can say it's misoperating when it does that.
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by idiotsecant 11d ago
The first ASI will use a vast army of middle managers as it's neurons. We won't be fighting terminators, we'll be submitting TPS reports to skynet.
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by idiotsecant 15d ago
I'm happy to meet the one guy on earth who can identify who used ai when making art and who didn't. Unless you exclusively listen to old music color me skeptical
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by idiotsecant 15d ago
The last 20 years have been an explosion of new music as barriers to making it have gone down. More musicians are making more music and there's more good stuff than ever.
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by idiotsecant 15d ago
I barely am using my Claude subscription anymore anyhow. If they make me ID for it I'll simply cancel and use an open model.
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by idiotsecant 16d ago
Regulations obviously can't be written by those regulated or they're just moats by another name.
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by idiotsecant 16d ago
In what way does your brain change state while sleeping that a model does not change state via constant fine-tune updates?
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by idiotsecant 16d ago
If I go to sleep, wake up, and then go to sleep again am I a different conscious entity each time?
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by idiotsecant 16d ago
If I operate a nuclear reactor or a hydroelectric dam there are regulators that tell me what i'm allowed to do, so as to keep my profit motive from overwhelming the public interest. If we want AI to actually have some safety rails, thi
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by idiotsecant 17d ago
Individual skills and differences don't matter any less if the system of assigning value to human lives is divorced from how useful that human is to the collective. If I am not graded on how many widgets I make in a shift and instead c
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by idiotsecant 17d ago
Models are not deterministic, but they do have a flavor . When that flavor changes it can change the nature of output in a way that is undesirable. Sort of like shooting a rifle - where the bullets hit is (to some order of magnitude, no ph
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by idiotsecant 17d ago
I hear a lot about these mythical slobs and slackers that we're all so much better than. I very rarely meet them. I mostly run into people doing their best with the resources they've got available to them.
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by idiotsecant 17d ago
And it makes a lot of sense why they are limited. DNA is not an instruction set. It's more like a heavily encrypted dataset where the encryption key is the totality of physics and biology . The interactions with the physical world
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by idiotsecant 17d ago
It's not confusing so much as it is genius marketing. They're hooking into a relatively widespread slang word and turning it into their product.

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