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by karpierz 4y ago
This is so perfectly on the line between satire and genuine, it's fantastic.
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by karpierz 4y ago
When you receive a message in your scheme, you have to do the following: 1. Some action with a side-effect (ex: update an entry on disk, send a message out to some third party, etc.). This might be a bank transaction, or a note saying &quot
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by karpierz 4y ago
Also, if finite sums of integers have a property, that does not mean that infinite sums of integers have the same property. Ex: 1. The sum of any two integers is guaranteed to be bounded. 2. Therefore, all sums of integers are bounded.
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by karpierz 4y ago
> Divergent series have no finite sum, by definition. It's self-contradictory to proceed as though they have a sum anyway, even if it gives "meaningful" results. It's self-contradictory in the definition that you&#x27
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by karpierz 4y ago
The logic of this process in England was amazing. You would swear before God that your claim was true, and so would your opponent. And then God would favour the honest claim. But then people realized you could have someone fight for you if
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by karpierz 4y ago
If you were going to take this in bad faith, I'm surprised that you considered "3 people died in car accident this morning" to be reporting. If you wanted to be pedantic about it, stick only to the facts, and avoid speculatio
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by karpierz 4y ago
Well let's steelman journalism a bit; journalism provides context. Reporting would say: "3 people died in car accident this morning." Journalism would say: "3 people died in a car accident today, marking 4720 this year a
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by karpierz 4y ago
Well, if it brings you any solace, all I'm doing is echoing the thoughts of some of the lawyers I've had the good fortune to talk to. I'll be sure to let them know of their ignorance and disinterest in ethics, and that they s
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by karpierz 4y ago
I don't know how this isn't part of being a lawyer: - Deciding what kind of case law they specialize in - Deciding where to work - Deciding how the work should be done This whole article is about how Harvard is encouraging lawyers
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by karpierz 4y ago
Do you take issue with: "I think lawyers should recognize injustice in the system and work to reform it instead of claiming that they have no responsibility for the way the system functions?" It's a simple question.
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by karpierz 4y ago
Can you describe my intended alternative with some detail? I don't see how it conflicts with "everyone gets a chance to a proper defense" (at least as much as "everyone gets a chance to a proper defense" is true in
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by karpierz 4y ago
So lawyers shouldn't vote? Shouldn't lobby for changes in law? Shouldn't encourage each other to take up fields to help those with legal recourse (ex: public defenders)? Shouldn't discourage lawyers from going into money
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by karpierz 4y ago
I'm not sure how you got "I think that lawyers should rig trials" from "I think lawyers should recognize injustice in the system and work to reform it instead of claiming that they have no responsibility for the way the
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by karpierz 4y ago
No, but if they find themselves picking a career track where they solely treat murderers so that they can go on to murder more people without consequence, maybe the doctors should look to reform the system? And maybe doctors should not enco
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by karpierz 4y ago
Summary of before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus Summary of after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Investigations
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by karpierz 4y ago
I think GP's disappointment isn't that there's another video complaining about particle physics. I think they're complaining about Sabine making another video where she repeats the same unsubstantiated complaints. And th
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by karpierz 4y ago
... because it gets them out of contractual obligations to deliver gas.
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by karpierz 4y ago
> The first is a little more mundane: LLM embeddings. You know Google has been doing this for years now? > However, there's an entire collection of things that can be answered directly by ChatGPT. For example "how many mins
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by karpierz 4y ago
I think you're misunderstanding Searle's Chinese Room. It has a response for every sequence of conversation, ever. It doesn't store every conversation that has happened; it stores every possible conversation that's possi
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by karpierz 4y ago
I've been excited about the notion of this for a while, but it's unclear to me how this would succeed where numerous well-resourced companies have failed. Are there some advantages that Open Assistant has that Google/Amazon&#
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by karpierz 4y ago
I think the PI approach still requires that the agents in the game have a shared internal model of the game. You can make Searle's Chinese Room argument, but I always find "assume there exists a book that contains every conversati
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by karpierz 4y ago
Out of curiosity, I'd have the following questions: 1. Would you be able to notice if it made something up, given that it's going beyond the detail that you know? 2. Did it have any details that aren't covered in: https:&#x2
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by karpierz 4y ago
Ah yeah, my mistake. I'd assumed that the GP was referring to the later work and echoing its core premise (language has no intrinsic meaning; or rather takes on meaning from context and intent). As an aside to anyone reading, would hig
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by karpierz 4y ago
I don't know that it's an "incredibly smart" anything; I think it'd be better described as incredibly well-read, with poor discretion. But there's definitely uses for a tool that produces a lot of boilerplate c
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by karpierz 4y ago
Yes, that's true. But ChatGPT isn't trained to play any language game other than: "make a plausible sounding sentence". The issue it has with facts is the same issue it'll have with any language game, in that it onl
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by karpierz 4y ago
> I feel like the hardest parts are getting participants to adhere to their assigned intervention, and preventing participants with a pre-existing agenda from joining. This combined with perverse incentives are why it's not possible
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by karpierz 4y ago
That's basically the platform of every SF mayor. The issue is: 1) You gonna lock up everyone who jaywalks? 2) When someone who's homeless decides that they don't want to be forced into your rehabilitation program, are you gon
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by karpierz 4y ago
"First" in this case was just getting the first element of the iterator, it wasn't related to choosing a value from the set. The Axiom of Choice is equivalent to the following: 1) "For any set A, there exists a function
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by karpierz 4y ago
Let's see if I can clear this up: An equivalent way to phrase the Axiom of Choice is: there exists a function that takes in any non-empty set, and returns an element of that set. IE, this exists: choose a :: NonEmptySet a -> a That&
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by karpierz 4y ago
This assumes your numbers are well ordered (IE, any set of numbers has a "first"), which is called Zorn's Lemma. It's equivalent to the axiom of choice.

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