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by inimino 7y ago
This is true too, we are adapted to our environment, in particular the things that we do automatically (System I). Playing chess well is a combination of both conscious and unconscious skills. However when deep learning systems play, it is
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by inimino 7y ago
Deeply familiar with BERT. It lacks the very ability he is describing, to adapt itself, get up to speed, and collect relevant information in a new field, because that's simply not how it works. It can't possibly explain itself bec
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by inimino 7y ago
Those systems seem close to a dog's intelligence only because you haven't worked on them and don't know how they work. Nothing about this field is obvious. If you are not an expert, just look at the history. People thought at
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by inimino 7y ago
It is trivially proved that deep learning can represent any computable function so the proof you're asking for is not going to be possible. However, it's also completely obvious to anyone familiar with deep learning as it exists t
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by inimino 7y ago
> some magic AI that will do everything perfectly Total straw man. He actually uses an intern as an example in the very next sentence after what you quoted, as you would expect them to be able to read and get up to speed on a new area re
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by inimino 7y ago
If you don't know the sampling regime that generated the data, you might as well give up. The only solutions to this seem to be collecting and providing all the data to ML analysis, or using provenance to inform the training procedure,
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by inimino 7y ago
Compassion can be trained to extend further (see the Buddhist tradition, or the recorded words of Christ). https://www.dalailama.com/messages/compassion-and-human-valu... > Ultimately, humanity is one and this small
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by inimino 7y ago
Yes. I mean it was there first in the Unix environment, so there's tremendous historical inertia that would be almost impossible to overcome.
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by inimino 7y ago
But also: "The man of the most perfect virtue, the man whom we naturally love and revere the most, is he who joins, to the most perfect command of his own original and selfish feelings, the most exquisite sensibility both to the origin
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by inimino 7y ago
In advanced FP languages with sophisticated type systems, etc, there's a little more to it than that.
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by inimino 7y ago
> "violation" This is literally a direct reference to the use of violenté and implications discussed in the immediately preceding paragraph. > diminish and mock them I didn't read it that way at all. Interesting to se
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by inimino 7y ago
This is true. Some reasons why sh hasn't been replaced by LISP (for example) as the default Unix shell is because: - it was there first - grep awk etc are heavily optimized and faster than their equivalents in most languages - the prim
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by inimino 7y ago
Which part of Adam Smith are you paraphrasing exactly? Have you read him?
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by inimino 7y ago
It's a pretty automated process. I'd estimate 1/10 of all people who can use a computer and install software at all could do it if they wanted to and had sufficient time.
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by inimino 7y ago
Define "ordinary person", as plenty of people here have. However, there's very little difference between downloading a reproducible system that compiles everything on your machine and downloading a binary with a known checksu
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by inimino 7y ago
How are you going to get that source code onto your phone, when loading unauthorized code becomes illegal? Who are you going to talk to, when everyone else is using the approved apps? Try to think ahead a little. This arrogant naive thinkin
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by inimino 7y ago
That's why we rely on regulation and oversight for safety, and profit motive and competition to provide value.
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by inimino 7y ago
(First, a small aside. This is petty, but... the words "equivocate" and "psychotic" don't mean what you think they mean and you should probably look them up.) Atrocities have been committed by those who believed the
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by inimino 7y ago
I used to like their glass bottles, recently I bought again and found they have switched to plastic (at least in some markets) that looks the same and even feels the same until you open it. Fooled me once, shame on them; will never buy agai
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by inimino 7y ago
When people use the term "technobabble" it doesn't mean they are shitting on the entire field of technology, either.
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by inimino 7y ago
Only if you have no idea or experience of what it means.
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by inimino 7y ago
Maybe looking at people's character as demonstrated by their actions rather than acting like numbers and metrics are all that matters.
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by inimino 7y ago
Totally apart from the fact that it's a joke- As the one jumping up and down about statistics here, you should know that "The data does not exclude the null hypothesis" and "The thesis falls apart (hypothesis is invalida
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by inimino 7y ago
Can't a guy throw a joke graph up in his post mocking startup bullshit without folks going full Nate Silver on him? > Ironic, Yes.
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by inimino 7y ago
You're both right. The aversion to showing positive numbers (because a negative number could become anything!!) is real, and so is the vague uneasiness and deep unawareness of how capitalism works among people working within a system i
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by inimino 7y ago
If you're incapable or unwilling to empathize and feel compassion for one single person in isolation, stay away from my social policy .
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by inimino 7y ago
> To form a useful opinion about sex worker laws, that’s what I need. Facts totally divorced from human empathy, Honestly, this is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. Maybe you should consider why human empathy is so abhorrent t
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by inimino 7y ago
It's not sexual assault if the man is playing along and only mocking outrage or later on reflection outraged in the comfort of his study at his writing desk. Its about playing with boundaries at a time when culture change is shifting
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by inimino 7y ago
The point is about a change in expectations, norms, and public awareness that occurred at a certain time and place.
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by inimino 7y ago
There's nothing fortunate about being unqualified. The quotes are not air quotes, they are actual quotes (in translation) from the letters he is discussing. Edit: there are some exceptions to this around paragraph 7. Anyway, discussing

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