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by jmfldn 4y ago
Sure, I can't argue with that. I just had to vent my frustration that all this stuff that people get hung up on is largely meaningless fluff and there are far better uses of time. If you must indulge, do so with moderation. It's o
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I realise that saying this makes me an old man, but virtually none of it is worth keeping up with. Celebrity social media gossip is information junk food. If you have to consume it, do so in small doses. Why does it matter what some influen
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by jmfldn 4y ago
"If self-consciousness is based in bodily awareness, then it is unlikely that a lab-grown “mini-brain” could ever become conscious, as some ethicists have claimed. By the same token, transhumanists’ claim that we will one day gain immo
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Is the body key to understanding consciousness?(theguardian.com)
5 points by jmfldn 4y ago|3 comments
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I didn't say it was impossible. However, it's really your last point I was thinking of. It's a haphazard city of narrow streets given over to cars. That makes it a hard problem to solve. As I said, anything is possible with e
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Paris' road system was redesigned. It seems far less haphazard than London to me, at least the bits I've seen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa...
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Please please please do this to London too! I understand the geography is tough and that the haphazard 'planning' evolved organically over 2000 years from its origin as Roman Londinium. Anything is possible with the right will beh
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Under a different economic system maybe. Have you seen how our one actually works? See the film Elysium for a more plausible future.
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Scala * Getting nullability right - Tick. * "Algebraic" (Sum and Product) data types. Tick. * Errors as values - Tick. * Focus on the data - Tick. * A nice development experience - Tick (has got a lot better in recent years). * Vi
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by jmfldn 4y ago
The human mind in its totality, ie including consciousness, is a fundamentally different kind of machine to a computer. It's a machine, there is nothing supernatural here, and I am not invoking a 'god of the gaps' argument. H
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by jmfldn 4y ago
You've answered your own question. "why can't the same thing be said of human intelligence" "if we knew more about neuroscience..." So that's why we can't say the same thing. Fwiw, my take is that wha
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by jmfldn 4y ago
"is human intelligence anything more than "building a search index" and "looking up examples in the search index and combining"?" Yes, it is more than this. Even if we can simulate things that appear like think
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Programmers doubled every 5 years for 20 years. That's at least part of the reason.
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by jmfldn 4y ago
There is zero evidence for the AGI claim or even a weaker intelligence claim. GPT 3 is just a search engine on steroids. I'm regularly suprised by the results but it's honestly just an illusion as far as 'intelligence' g
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by jmfldn 4y ago
"Interbeing" is how Thich Nhat Hanh would put it. Everything exists only in relation to everything else. It's relations all the way down.
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I’m glad you found peace, and I am quite intrigued by Orthodox Christianity myself, but your characterisation of “eastern” religions as nihilistic is problematic for two reasons. First, “eastern”. That encompasses a vast array of cultures a
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Was messing with mermaid and state diagrams only today. I don't use UML as a whole but some of the diagrams are really useful.
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I am a republican i.e. very anti-monarchist but it is a historic moment and I feel sad for some reason. The end of an era. A constant throughout the postwar period in this country. Someone my gran loved too and looked up to, so I feel pr
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Ask HN: Future proofing software engineering skills against AI
2 points by jmfldn 4y ago|2 comments
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by jmfldn 4y ago
This is a great and wise reply. I too suffer from what you're describing sometimes and I attribute it partly to these sorts of underlying emotional factors. The real key for me now is feeling that I am enough just as I am. I still stri
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Information warfare is pretty dangerous too!
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I work for a private energy company so you don't have to tell me it's complicated when it comes to the private vs public ownership debate. There is a complex spectrum between the extremes. There are very obviously the wrong incent
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by jmfldn 4y ago
The NHS is collapsing due to politicised defunding. The NHS is a sacred cow in the UK so the right can't overtly criticise it, instead it's death by a thousand cuts (pun intended). Remember Noam Chomsky's quote on this subjec
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by jmfldn 4y ago
It's a failure of privitisation 30 years in the making since water and waste management was privatised in 1989 here in the UK. Of course you can lay some blame at the door of the regulator but let's not forget the tens of billion
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Great example! We want to interact with conscious entities for the obvious reason as well that we want to connect. A machine is a blind, dead entity. There's nothing to connect to. Also, even if the output is far superior to a human in
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by jmfldn 4y ago
That's the problem for me too. This tech is cool for games, stock images etc but for actual art it's pretty meaningless. The artist's experience, biography and relationship with the world and how that feeds into their work is
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I just tried it via this link. I'm not sure what I'm looking at here but the results were extremely underwhelming. I've used Dall E 2 and Midjourney extensively so I know what they're capable of. Maybe I'm missing s
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by jmfldn 4y ago
In the pre-app world I would call Shazam on my mobile when out in clubs quite often. They were way ahead of the curve. Amazing company.
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by jmfldn 4y ago
We should start one. A kind of solution based tech doomer forum. A place for people to be honest about where they see things heading but offering wisdom and ways forward.
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by jmfldn 4y ago
I do tend to do that but I can't help worrying about where it's all heading. Having young children probably makes this more acute for me.

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