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Why did everything take so long?(lesswrong.com)
2 points by jstanley 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jstanley 7mo ago
There is a good post on this topic: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mFqG58s4NE3EE68Lq/why-did-ev...
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by jstanley 7mo ago
They had agriculture, yes, but they hadn't had it long enough to bootstrap an advanced civilisation before the Europeans arrived. If they had, perhaps Europe would have been conquered by South Americans instead of the other way around.
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Gyre(lesswrong.com)
3 points by jstanley 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jstanley 7mo ago
I'm in camp 1 too. I've maintained projects developed with that mindset. It's fine! Your job is to make the thing work, not take on its quality as part of your personal identity. If it's harder to work with, it's ha
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by jstanley 7mo ago
The word "amazing" fits perfectly if you compare FreeCAD to viable alternatives, of which there are none.
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by jstanley 7mo ago
> Of 129 active groups, the top five posted 3,027 of the 7,655 claims (40%). After them, the field fragments quickly. Does it? The 4th group accounted for 5.0%, 5th was 4.5%, 6th was 3.4% and 10th was 2.5%, I think it doesn't fragme
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by jstanley 7mo ago
FWIW I have worked with people using the word "gate" for years. For example, "let's gate the new logic behind a feature flag".
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by jstanley 7mo ago
Your site makes me make an account before I can use it, whereas excalidraw.com doesn't, and also excalidraw.com seems to save my drawing just fine? I closed a tab and reopened it and my drawing was still there, presumably from localSto
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by jstanley 7mo ago
You don't, that's why it's unethical to block them. If you keep getting harrassed by people wearing black hoodies, would it be ethical to start taking countermeasures against all people who wear black hoodies?
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by jstanley 7mo ago
You think they deliberately chose to do this to a woman? Why?
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by jstanley 7mo ago
If you want to ruin someone's web experience based on what kind of thing they are, rather than the content of their character, consider that you might be the baddies.
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The Modern Antiquarian(themodernantiquarian.com)
2 points by jstanley 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jstanley 7mo ago
I noticed the same thing after I started dressing smarter.
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by jstanley 7mo ago
If 0 and a function that always returns 0 are the same thing, does that make `lambda: lambda: 0` also the same? I suppose it must do, otherwise `0` and `lambda: 0` were not truly the same.
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by jstanley 7mo ago
I also understand that in the US it is the etiquette to cut your food up all at once, and then put the knife down, and then move your fork to your right hand, and then eat all the pieces using just the fork.
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by jstanley 7mo ago
Use a knife and fork
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by jstanley 7mo ago
As a paying customer, I don't care where the model comes from, I only care how good it is.
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Being John Rawls(astralcodexten.com)
3 points by jstanley 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jstanley 7mo ago
Ah! Thank you
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by jstanley 7mo ago
> As far as I can tell, there is nothing about the training process of these models that would encourage them to make the output of any layer apart from (n-1) meaningful as the input of layer n Right, I had the same thought. Even if the
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by jstanley 7mo ago
It's all new to me.
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by jstanley 7mo ago
If you're time-poor maybe you're not as rich as you think. The richest person I know talks to robots all the time.
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by jstanley 7mo ago
Is this down now or am I just too stupid to work out how to use it? It isn't generating any translations. Firefox on Ubuntu.
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by jstanley 7mo ago
> What are we trying to achieve as a species? How often can a group of even 3 people come up with one thing that they're trying to achieve? You're not going to get consensus on what the goal is for humanity. > If we view hum
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by jstanley 7mo ago
I personally don't agree that proactivity is a prerequisite for thinking. But what would proactivity in an LLM look like, if prompting in a loop doesn't count? An LLM experiences reality in terms of the flow of the token stream. E
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by jstanley 7mo ago
How can you use these models for any length of time and walk away with the understanding that they do not think or reason? What even is thinking and reasoning if these models aren't doing it?
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by jstanley 7mo ago
"yy webhook" is much less clear. It could just as easily mean "why webhook" as "yes webhook". It's also actually more trouble to formulate abbreviated sentences than normal ones, at least for literate adul
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by jstanley 7mo ago
> The trap's door has been bolted open since 1980 for visitor safety. "visitor safety" indeed!
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by jstanley 7mo ago
"Stupid people breed too much" is a proposition that is either true or false, within some worldview. (For example, how stupid is stupid? How much breeding is to much? Is there even such a thing as too much breeding? All these are

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