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by js8 11mo ago
Well, but under free market conditions, prices based on use and exchange value should equalize. So the paradox will appear, unless you have a planned economy. Maybe Marx resolved the tension by converting the contradiction into a (wider) ca
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by js8 11mo ago
People are mostly perfectly happy with authoritarianism as long as their lives are improving.
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by js8 11mo ago
Working in an almost open office, 4 and half minutes of silence is a music to my ears. :-) If anything it should be longer.
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by js8 11mo ago
In a sane world we would just give the poor guy some water and let him keep his precious diamond. And in the sane world, the guy would donate the precious diamond to a museum so that everyone could enjoy its beauty. What are you describing
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by js8 11mo ago
Unironically, shouldn't the purpose of the human life be turning dystopias into utopias?
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by js8 11mo ago
Interestingly OP's idea that "AI destroys value" seems to come at least partly from the labor theory value, which Marx accepted (as most classical economists). Unfortunately, the labor theory of value is self-contradictory. I
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by js8 11mo ago
CMIIW currently AI models operate in two distinct modes: 1. Open mode during learning, where they take everything that comes from the data as 100% truth. The model freely adapts and generalizes with no constraints on consistency. 2. Closed
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by js8 11mo ago
It can also be an emergent behavior of any "intelligent" (we don't know what it is) agent. This is an open philosophical problem, I don't think anyone has a conclusive answer.
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by js8 11mo ago
I downvoted you. It's well-known that The Jacobin is named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Jacobins .
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by js8 11mo ago
You could put 64TBs of storage into your pocket with current technology. There are 4TB microSD cards available. Not sure about the stated GFlops.. but I suspect we find that AI doesn't need that much compute to begin with.
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by js8 11mo ago
"How exactly did you get to the conclusion that fascism needs "strong men"?" Fascists (and protofascist advocates of social darwinism) do think that! Whether they actually are or not "strong men" (what does it
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by js8 11mo ago
It's a protofascist phrase, part of the problems we have is people adopting this worldview, that life has to be hard in order to create "good men". It's used to defend rightwing social darwinism. If anything, history goe
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by js8 11mo ago
But when Draghi wrote his report, he was leaving the power structures. It will probably slowly change, but the neoliberal hegemony is still there. I think the big issue is that all European elites have investments in the USA, and they don&#
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by js8 11mo ago
Yes. Unfortunately, the EU institutions have been designed during heyday of globalization and neoliberalism. So they are unable to adapt to (or even recognize) the end of it.
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by js8 11mo ago
IMHO it would be more interesting to compare UI/UX of something like MS Office. That traces the evolution of the GUI pretty well.
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by js8 11mo ago
> I just don't understand how is it possible just from a purely bit size approach. It's ~750MB (3 billion base pairs). But anyway, that's a size of a decent Linux distribution with tons of software.
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by js8 11mo ago
If no system is bulletproof then you're not really arguing against progressive tax, the same way "there will always be murderers" is not an argument against policing.
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by js8 11mo ago
No, there's a difference. The difference is whether you work in constraint space (top down) or in solution space (bottom up). Top down is effectively adding constraints until there is a single solution.
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by js8 11mo ago
Yes and we are IMHO worse off, without a proper theory of reasoning under uncertainty, it's difficult to understand what LLMs are doing (or even hard to define what they should be doing). I agree that DS is computationally prohibitive,
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by js8 11mo ago
I downvoted you. First of all, your explanation of what "classical Dijkstra strawman" is lacks the substantiation. Second, your statement about C vs Python is a sort of strawman itself in the context of static vs dynamic typing. Y
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by js8 11mo ago
There can be many causes. Aside from social media, games, porn and AI, it can also be caused by the decline of the living standards or increase of stress in the West due to shift from social-democratic to neoliberal economic policies.
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by js8 1y ago
Mainframes still exist, and they actually make a lot of sense from physics perspective. It's good idea to run transactions in a big machine rather than distributed, the latter is less energy efficient. I think the misconception is that
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by js8 1y ago
You don't need postscarcity to do that. I was born in communist Czechoslovakia (my father was an academic). Government allocated jobs for academics and researchers, and they pretty much had tenure. So you could coast by being unproduct
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by js8 1y ago
The problem is if you're not able to apply the reasoning rules consistently, then you will always fail on large enough problem. If you have an inconsistent set of reasoning rules, then you can set up a problem as a trap so that the rea
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by js8 1y ago
> So, that makes me come back to this question of what definition of reasoning do people use that reasoning models do not meet? The models can learn reasoning rules, but they are not able to apply them consistently or recognize the rules
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by js8 1y ago
I think the explanation is pretty simple, as I said in my earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44904107 I also believe the problem is we don't know what we want: https://news.ycombinator.com
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by js8 1y ago
There is no catch - I even describe the reduction in another comment below. You can convert a 3SAT clause to a combination of XORSAT and 2SAT clauses. I am not mistaken, either, I used this reduction many times on practical problems, so I k
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by js8 1y ago
Surely. Maybe you can give me a counterexample. Let's just consider GF(2). Give me a set of generators with polynomials of degree <=2 over n variables, such that, 1 is a member of the ideal (i.e. generators generate the whole ring o
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by js8 1y ago
Well you can claim that the core is the programming language, in which we write those tax rules, but that's not a very useful distinction IMHO (for how to write programs in the language).
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by js8 1y ago
Thanks for the links to those people. The GF(2) simplifies Grobner bases calculations a lot, IMHO, but I don't have much experience with them either. I am just curious, because to me it now seems to be an obvious way to go. I mean, the

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