jfactorial

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by jfactorial 2y ago
"Freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of religion, these are really, really important and we all have rights to them..." said a law enforcement director who would soon make clear they didn't be
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by jfactorial 2y ago
Well the logic presented in that video certainly cannot be argued against.
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by jfactorial 2y ago
Thanks for your words. I've read a bit about Sufism and I think if we could sit and speak at length over many days and a few cups of coffee, we would find a lot of agreement and kinship. You seem like a person who has thought a lot abo
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by jfactorial 2y ago
> At some point in a certain kind of seeking, the proof is accepted and no more is needed. This is part of what intrigues me about this topic, the inductivist view that if we make enough empirical observations we can eventually settle on
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by jfactorial 2y ago
Can you give an example of a subjective truth?
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by jfactorial 2y ago
I thought it would be obvious that my simple example was only illustrative. I'm not actually suggesting we discuss high school physics. > No observation was even feasible for Einstein to formulate GR Einstein made many observations
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by jfactorial 2y ago
> once we understand that the universe itself is queryable We do understand that. "What happens when I push a rock off a cliff?" is a query to the universe. The universe's response is observable when the experiment is exec
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by jfactorial 2y ago
I agree, it's not that the game is revolutionary, it's just an illustration at the top of a blog post about how the typical context window is getting very big and how that's an overlooked aspect of the increasing usefulness o
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by jfactorial 2y ago
> We already know that our science can simply not explain/understand what happened in the first 10e-33s after the Big Bang, which is just established science. Yet. There's a very big difference in "I don't know,"
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by jfactorial 2y ago
I love this topic. If karma is the result of will, what we're asking here is "When did the first willful creature come into existence?" (Or, if karma is simply synonymous with cause and effect, then we can probably say the fi
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by jfactorial 2y ago
How are people so certain that there is something humanity does which is unmodelable? There is an ancient hubris in this: the belief that there is something in humanity beyond physics, that we possess a soul or something else which defies m
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by jfactorial 2y ago
I would definitely read an in-depth exploration of Google's design failures from someone informed & opinionated on the topic. I found this looking for such a thing: https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/81965&
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by jfactorial 2y ago
Alice, an incessant painter with passion for it but zero natural talent, learns about stable diffusion. She teaches herself how to use this new tool and creates imagery she never could before. She tweaks settings and prompts, iterates for h
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by jfactorial 2y ago
Generative AI is not autonomous, it's wielded by a user just as a brush is, prompted and tweaked by a human being, a new tool in the artist's tackle box, like acrylic paint, Photoshop, "content-aware fill" etc.
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by jfactorial 2y ago
A brush makes human art
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by jfactorial 2y ago
> Everything is finite including bugs. Everything dies including (probably) the universe, and shortly before that, our software. So you're right, the number of bugs in a specific application is ultimately finite. But most of even th
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by jfactorial 2y ago
> LLMs are awesome but they will only represent what they're trained on and what they're trained on only represents what's allowed to be in the mainstream discourse. I don't think this is a description of LLM censorsh
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by jfactorial 2y ago
I agree 100% with the values you espouse here, but I think it's a mistake to say the world has been trending negative for a long time. The values you've expressed here have been gaining ground for generations. (See Steven Pinker&#
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by jfactorial 2y ago
True for consumer products like ChatGPT but there are plenty of models that are not censored. https://huggingface.co/models?sort=trending&search=uncensore...
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Ask HN: What's the state of the art in edge LLM AI?
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by jfactorial 2y ago
> Why would you assume that? I thought too highly of modern compiler string literal obfuscation.
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by jfactorial 2y ago
From the article: > I had found a way to obtain a privileged access token within the environment (a story for another day, but a certain game's executable had hardcoded credentials!), but I wasn't sure what I could do with it.
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by jfactorial 2y ago
Dinosaurs lived on Earth for about 100,000,000 years, at least 50 times as long as our species. Perhaps some dinosaurs were the most advanced species our planet has ever seen. https://pbfcomics.com/comics/dinosaur-meteo
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by jfactorial 2y ago
I fed your question into perplexity.ai [1] and it appears from the resulting response that a youtube video [2] is responsible for this bit of misinformation. [1] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/as-far-back-as-the-1950s
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by jfactorial 2y ago
> spirituality is broadly speaking your relationship with the invisible world. Is life to you purely material, explored only through the senses or is there more ? By "invisible" I doubt that you mean simply "unable to be s
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by jfactorial 2y ago
There are no Platonists, only imitations of the one true heavenly Platonist.
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by jfactorial 2y ago
Is there any stronger tool for rational truth seeking than the scientific method? Observe. Hypothesize with falsifiable statements. Form experiments that could disprove the falsifiable statements. Observe. Publicly make falsifiable statemen
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by jfactorial 2y ago
> What then is the difference between a permanent long-distance relationship and an AI companion? A long distance relationship between two humans would include discussion about the facts of both relationship participants' distinct l
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by jfactorial 2y ago
The author's AI companion is not a stand-in for a human with her own human limitations, flaws, and personal needs; the companion is a stand-in for a slave, a creature who exists only for the master's benefit. I fear the day that h