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by ithkuil 5d ago
I'm surprised this article doesn't mention that classical latin pronunciation actually had V realized as W or U depending on context. Latin didn't have two letters to distinguish V and U. You can still find inscriptions with
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by ithkuil 7d ago
I think both your arguments are true. It all depends on the velocity of the capability growth and the fact that opportunity cost is expensive. Once we get out of this hypergriwth phase the very same AI companies that now are giving you llms
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by ithkuil 7d ago
yeah, my point is just that we agents can have their own docs and we can also have a nice curated experience for humans.
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by ithkuil 7d ago
Perhaps we should have README.md and README.ai the latter containing a bunch of stuff that humans don't want to read but agents can use to answer questions humans ask
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by ithkuil 7d ago
Hmm, I wonder if we can automate that
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by ithkuil 11d ago
There are certainly consequences in participating in a war against Russia. There are also consequences in letting Russia take Ukraine militarily. Whatever you think about the motivations and the desired end goal, actions and lack of actions
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by ithkuil 11d ago
Plenty of old people now grew up in a phase in history where we were building ugly cheap things
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by ithkuil 15d ago
Being good at matching patterns doesn't mean the patterns you found have the causal relationships you think they have Superstition in pigeons: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1948-04299-001
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by ithkuil 16d ago
"Music Theory, Bells and Whistles"
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by ithkuil 16d ago
I wonder if we're doing virtual filesystems wrong. There is a good reason why traditionally filesystem access was mediated by the OS layer, but there are many use cases where you just want to give processes a different view of what the
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by ithkuil 19d ago
When models start to effectively employ sarcasm were screwed
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by ithkuil 19d ago
It's worse than that. No bank will have business with you because that would potentially affect _their_ other customer's ability to operate normally This is a very big hammer and reveals how foreign entities are deeply dependent o
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by ithkuil 20d ago
You can read about the Italian police obtained the encryption keys through the Aruba colocation provider in the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistici/Inventati Italian Postal Police wiretapping (
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by ithkuil 22d ago
And renaming things is hard, if not impossible
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by ithkuil 24d ago
Sounding and being are not the same thing. I don't want to insult Mr. Pike and claim he is a dick just because how some of his quotes sound.
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by ithkuil 24d ago
They haven't done it because their power would collapse if they try to do something and be ineffective at it.
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by ithkuil 24d ago
There is a correlation between having strong opinions and sounding like a dick. But also between having strong opinions and having impact. Luckily there are also people who manage to have impact while giving out a different vibe
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by ithkuil 27d ago
Don't get me wrong, I also don't see it personally. I just think that the framing is useful: it highlights how our society has a bias towards business and a bias against morality-driven initiatives If selling the weapons is "
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by ithkuil 28d ago
That simile captures perfectly the logic here. I don't think it's technically sarcasm EDIT: a better simile would be if guns were giving away for free. You can see how that could be construed as increasing the responsibility of th
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by ithkuil 28d ago
What does "naming" mean? Assigning a symbol? But who said that the set of symbols must be countable?
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by ithkuil 1mo ago
Then the board can fire that CEO?
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by ithkuil 1mo ago
"paradox" is an overloaded term. Jevons paradox is a veridical paradox, which, as you said, means that it's a true statement that merely looks wrong because it is counterintuitive. I know that some people think that the word
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by ithkuil 1mo ago
You can get those in a democracy too! The real difference is how can you get rid of those
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by ithkuil 1mo ago
big restaurants have many cooks that are trained and monitored by the chef, but the chef is certainly not necessarily prepairing your meal. The chef is however responsible for the outcome so you're absolutely right to complain if the m
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by ithkuil 1mo ago
Don't get me wrong, I loathe the AI style as the next person. But I don't buy your argument: if a person used AI to produce a text it doesn't mean they haven't steered the I in the direction they wanted the conversation
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by ithkuil 1mo ago
And also it doesn't justify the absurd overcorrection this admin has created. This is not at all a reasonable response to a legitimate criticism of what many considered a pretentious overreach of the progressive movement. We can have a
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by ithkuil 1mo ago
Using AI to review our own comments before posting could be a good idea
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by ithkuil 1mo ago
The mantissa has also less bits, so the actual operation is cheaper, which affects latency.
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by ithkuil 1mo ago
Germanic tribes did colonize northern Italy and eventually used the local latin language with heavy borrowings from their original language. Not sure why you used the word "colonizer" for Jews living in Germany. Perhaps I misunder
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by ithkuil 1mo ago
Does it mean the Lombard dialect of northern Italy is colonial sociolect too?

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