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by irdc 4mo ago
Without any material or immaterial benefits? And with one's work being ground up and turned into weights for the next version of the machine that's threatening one's employment?
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by irdc 4mo ago
If the way humanity advances were via new ways to ride horses, then yes.
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by irdc 4mo ago
But LLMs don’t seem particularly good at inventing new ways to code (or write, or…). It’s literally all derivative. So what happens in 10 years? Are we headed for a great stagnation?
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by irdc 4mo ago
Here is what the purveyors of AI don't seem to realise. You can bend copyright law all you want in order to train your models on whatever you can grab, but in the absence of genuine protection of their creative work authors are simply
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by irdc 4mo ago
And yet, if someone with such an affliction could have it fixed via medicine, they would jump at the chance. As would you, by the way. Requiring people not to because of one’s convictions is certainly the height of something and it isn’t go
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by irdc 4mo ago
The same can also be said of e.g. the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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by irdc 4mo ago
I’m thinking the structural barrier is always going to be AI confabulations and misalignment.
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by irdc 4mo ago
However, don't you feel as though biology thereby becomes an impediment to loving the whole person? Edit: I'm sorry, I'm being a little vague here, so let me clarify: biology is what decides our appearance, and our appearance
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by irdc 4mo ago
Sure, but that was before the Fall.
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by irdc 4mo ago
Sure, another source then: https://www.vox.com/2015/2/20/8078979/pope-francis-trans-rig... I just cannot reconcile the idea of personhood being valuable with reducing humans to mere biology.
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by irdc 4mo ago
Not a Roman Catholic but I am occasionally interested in what the Church has to say on ethical matters. What does the Church understand by "mystery of the person", and how does it relate to the assertion by the Church that, for ex
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by irdc 5mo ago
I could see bangsian fantasy work if the afterlife were to be located on earth (which opens up some narrative possibilities, though they're a bit unoriginal). The other two are predicated upon portraying their locations inauthentically
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by irdc 5mo ago
I'm thinking you could shoot an awesome sci-fi thriller under these rules. Even one that includes space travel. Just don't have any of the narrative take place in space: have only one character off-planet and have them communica
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by irdc 5mo ago
Which genres would that be? One could also argue that certain genres simply won't ever work as an arthouse movie.
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by irdc 5mo ago
This argument has been made before by Vernor Vinge in his 1999 novel A Deepness In The Sky : civilisations fall due to the sheer complexity they accumulate. > "They've accepted optimizing pressures for centuries now. Genius an
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UtaForth – 303-byte 16-bit Forth in pure Netwide Assembler(github.com)
4 points by irdc 5mo ago|1 comments
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by irdc 5mo ago
Although it requires DOS, in contrast to other tiny 16-bit x86 Forths such as MilliForth[0] and SectorForth[1], this is the smallest of such Forths that I know of. 0. https://github.com/fuzzballcat/milliForth/ 1.
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by irdc 5mo ago
This pairs nicely with the recent publications around Neanderthal cognitive abilities and how there likely similar to ours ( https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/neanderthal-brains-m... ).
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Lectronz(lectronz.com)
1 points by irdc 5mo ago|1 comments
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by irdc 5mo ago
With uncertainty around the long-term viability of Tindie, I thought I'd bring attention to the alternative Lectronz (located in the EU). Their FAQ ( https://lectronz.com/pages/faq ) mentions sellers being able to i
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by irdc 5mo ago
https://lectronz.com
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by irdc 5mo ago
Part of those prices aren't something the manufacturer can adjust. Whether you're building 60nm or 20nm chips, you need pretty much the same silicon wafers, the same ultra pure water, the same chemicals and the same personnel. And
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by irdc 5mo ago
That’s what the likes of AMD with their chiplet design have been doing. There’s also the issue of older process nodes not being profitable enough anymore, which explaines why at the height of the chip supply crunch older ARM chips were in s
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by irdc 6mo ago
Self-domestication. That in order to be more successful as a collective species we had to literally breed ourselves to become less violent and more playful and sociable. And the nice part is that it wasn't just one person deciding this
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by irdc 6mo ago
Postgres.app can launch an interactive psql session for you. Directly launching Tusk would be even better.
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by irdc 6mo ago
Right now all I can think of is the toilet. Which is not a small thing by the way.
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by irdc 6mo ago
Awesome, finally! Are you planning to integrate with Postgres.app?
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by irdc 7mo ago
It's been shown in other fields that training models on the output of other models produces subtly broken models, not a flattening to the statistical mean. Why would science be different?
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by irdc 7mo ago
Signetics was first with their 25120 Fully Encoded, 9046xN, Random Access Write-Only-Memory[0]. 0. https://web.archive.org/web/20120316141638/http://www.nation...
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by irdc 7mo ago
As a Dutch person, what’s interesting to me is how this exact rule applies to Dutch. Maybe that’s why I didn’t notice it while reading the article…

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