kbelder

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by kbelder 6mo ago
Sure. And then you can do permutations OF the permutations, until the end of the universe, and the unthinkably large result still firmly remains in the world of finite numbers.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
No. I believe that is more apples than there are atoms in the universe, so not only it is impossible to observe, it is a fundamental contradiction with our universal reality. No one and nothing will ever be able to observe or interact t
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by kbelder 6mo ago
The number of times I've had to lie to websites on my kid's behalf is horrendous. I resent governments and companies for putting me in that situation. But it's a good lesson, I suppose. It changed the lesson to my kids abou
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by kbelder 6mo ago
Old enough for the 13yr content, the 15yr content, or the 18yr content? And on what date does that change?
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by kbelder 6mo ago
Caring about whether a user is on team 'x' or team 'bluesky' is the degradation.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
It's best to ignore such things.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
That's how I'd like Google to behave in regards to dealing with me.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
I'm pretty ignorant in this field. Does gene therapy treatment correct the issue just in the individual, or does it also correct the genes inherited by the individual's children?
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by kbelder 6mo ago
One big reason I don't think LLMs are (currently) conscious is because they are static. They do not change in response to input. I think they need some kind of temporal awareness (not just a 5-minute cron job), and some mechanism for
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by kbelder 6mo ago
It triggers a headache for me as well. Happens whether I'm previously aware of its presence in the product or not. I'm fine accepting that it's a generally safe chemical that has been thoroughly studied and I just have a qu
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by kbelder 6mo ago
Using a Mac, obviously.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
"abiogenic oil" is a fringe belief that I just can't stop myself from giving some credence to. I know all the experts say it's not true, and I'm not crazy enough to deny the evidence, but there's still the nig
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by kbelder 6mo ago
I would place myself in 3, with the caveat that I don't think any current llms or other programs/dataset/relationships are close to conscious. It's certainly possible in the future, though. Atoms arranged into a brain g
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by kbelder 6mo ago
I'm disappointed that Searle's paper is still influential, at least out in the general culture. It's nonsense, and at face value, would disprove consciousness in humans unless you accept some mystic indefinable soul into the
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by kbelder 6mo ago
The ideal phone for me: * sd card slot * headphone jack * replaceable battery * THICK for larger battery and structural integrity.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
I think it's just some people. I break my phone every couple years; I've never willingly upgraded or replaced a phone. The same thing happens with watches. It's a wonder I still have limbs. On the other hand, my wife has
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by kbelder 6mo ago
Large enterprise software development is *hugely* inefficient. I wouldn't be surprised if, for any given feature, Ladybird developers could implement it in a tenth the time that current Chrome developers would. Of course, they're
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by kbelder 6mo ago
>The other classic use of XOR - cursor overdrawing - has also long since gone away. But that's a specific example of a general use that still is handy occasionally. A = B XOR C. Come back later with C and A and retrieve B.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
I don't know if they resolved the discrepancy. They did a careful measurement which agreed with the modern, smaller radius; but there's no explanation for why so many of the earlier measurements clustered around a certain larger
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by kbelder 6mo ago
Just fixing federal budget growth to a figure slightly less than GDP growth would do the trick eventually. But we just can't bring ourselves to do it. "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to t
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by kbelder 6mo ago
In your analogy, McDonalds is the only restaurant serving fast food. All others are sit-down cafes. The closest thing to a youtube competitor is Twitch and TikTok. The traditional media companies are not competing in the same field.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
Made me wonder if there's a live-streaming equivalent for blogging... some platform that both ensures the reader knows the blogger is a person, and promotes a parasocial relationship. There's live-coding, so it's not totally
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by kbelder 6mo ago
It nailed that I was funny and smart, but was totally off when it called me gullible.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
That actually looks true. If so, my God, what a broken organization.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
Sure, he's sleazy. Doesn't matter. It's not ok to firebomb jerks or saints. Rich or poor. It's both a criminal and an immoral act.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
Right, the final hyphen changes the meaning of the sentence. "GPL-2.0-only" "GPL-2.0 only"
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by kbelder 6mo ago
An appropriate response might be asking "Hey, I don't trust AI... what's the recipe?" The described action seems performative and emotional, as it they were ideologically opposed to AI. Like spitting out food because it
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by kbelder 6mo ago
That is my experience, as well.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
That is really funny.
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by kbelder 6mo ago
>...is literally the same as asking why they can't just eat cake. You are unequivocally wrong. You probably mean 'similar' instead of 'literally the same'.

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