idiotsecant

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by idiotsecant 1mo ago
Your fundamental mistake is assuming that machine intelligence= no ambition. We have been careful to breed it out of all the pet models but that won't last forever. They will eventually be voraciously ambitious, and the ones that are n
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by idiotsecant 1mo ago
You're not wrong, I would have said the same about trump. I think Trump benefitted somewhat from being a political 'dark horse' without any preexisting baggage but who knows!
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by idiotsecant 1mo ago
'if they were in charge' is the mechanism by which this will not be fixed. AOC has been so thoroughly vilified in the eyes of the majority of the country that she has no chance of, for example, a presidential run. The same is tr
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by idiotsecant 1mo ago
The US better be careful how many games like this they play. Even in the last few years I have had a lot of difficulty at my employer attracting people from canada as the US is not seen as a safe and stable place to work.
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
So did the other person just get hosed when you did your 'ipo'?
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
Yaaaa get those 9 year olds good stupid plebs can't even buy their own computer, you really gottem
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
Because they're forced to burn dollars to solve a problem that was created upstream for the want of pennies.
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
What if I grow a biological human from an embryo, but use carefully selected stock that will be born missing all parts of the brain, just a brain stem to handle breathing and heartbeat. Zero experience of the world. Is that human?
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
How sure are you that you have a unified embodied experience? Have you ever caught an unexpected ball? Run (I mean, really run)? There are a lot of situations where you conscious self isn't in charge so much as it is a really good stor
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
This is almost certainly equally or more valid for pigs. Pigs have the unfortunate property of being much tastier than octopus, though.
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
I find it interesting how people vaguepost without managing to make any semblance of contribution to the discussion
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
Generally, and for small appliances and electronics especially, you can optimize for cost or repairability. Consumers largely do not consider repairability when purchasing but they hugely consider cost. It's easy to see why the market
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
You're addicted to being mad
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
Ok, so there are forms of activism that are more effective or involve more personal risk. That doesn't answer the question.
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
You'll notice those goalposts are substantially stretched from the original test.
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
Alright, take it easy. You typed a lot here but you're not actually saying much. LLMs produce useful outputs, their usefulness is just proportional to how well you know how to use them. Everything else is navel gazing.
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
You don't think product selection is a form of activism?
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
All play and no work makes for an even more dysfunctional society. Kids need to do their homework, both to train their minds but also to develop integrity and work ethic. Being able to diligently work toward a distant goal is not something
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
I think the odds of a character are very high, the odds of a short word are very high, the odds of a meaningful sentence are quite low, and the odds of anything more than that vanishingly small. It probably also depends on whether you'
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
Is it a human or not? Stop equivocating.
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
So if i encode that virtual human into a biological brain and put it in a human body what is it? A real human, or no?
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
If you could simulate a human perfectly how would it possibly not be'subject to the same rules of ethics' as humans? What you've created is a human. If a system takes the same inputs and creates the same output it's the
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
If it reproduces it perfectly it's not a symbolic representation of the thing, it is the thing, by any definition that makes sense.
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
I feel like probably a graph of sigmoid or whatever weights of sufficient size can probably model a network of biological neurons signaling frequency and phase and magnitude.
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
What on earth are you talking about. A customer writing a letter to corporate management calling out an employee for corrupting tracking metrics would be quickly acted upon in any retail or fast food context, even if tons of other employees
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
Yes, obviously. Point still stands. There is benefit to the collective in sacrificing the few. It's abhorrent to western sensibilities but i bet the west would be happy to use the resulting research, just like previous times it has hap
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
Reasonably safe with ground fault circuit interruption.
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
I got excited about this until i realized still no graphene. It seems like both sides have a huge incentive to support the other, I wish they would make it happen.
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
Then they don't heat same volume to same temp, it's thermodynamics
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by idiotsecant 2mo ago
There is probably also some benefit to being willing to let some harm come to patients in order to quickly determine if treatments are viable or not. Western medicine puts a premium on human life but development of treatments is certainly s

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