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by kibwen 4mo ago
The "mystery" posed at the end of the OP suggests that that crunching noise was the action of the built-in strain relief within the spring enclosure.
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by kibwen 4mo ago
I'm glad that, with any luck, I'll be dead before this kind of thing is commonplace.
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by kibwen 4mo ago
ChatGPT claims 1B MAU, so with 50M subscribers that's a 5% attach rate. And unfortunately for OpenAI there are only 8B humans on the planet, meaning an optimistic upper bound of 400M paying users if every human on the planet (this is a
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by kibwen 4mo ago
No. No economy ever had essentially every single major company spending a significant fraction of its budget on hiring auto mechanics. Which is to say, for all the changes the automobile wrought, the role of the computer in industrialized s
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by kibwen 4mo ago
Not sure if this is sarcastic, but there are effectively no consumers (as opposed to corporations) with AI subscriptions; the number of paid ChatGPT users is a rounding error. In the long run we should not expect the number of paid consumer
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by kibwen 4mo ago
I still remember reaching into my backpack to retrieve my Macbook in sleep mode only to find it hot to the touch, having woken up for some goddamn stupid reason. We had "proper" sleep decades ago: we called it "hibernate&quot
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by kibwen 4mo ago
I'm not bringing up the Chinese Room in its original sense of asserting that a machine can't have consciousness. Indeed, I have no reason to suspect that human consciousness is irreproducible. Rather, the point here is to emphasiz
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by kibwen 4mo ago
That's irrelevant to what we're talking about, though. The point here is not to assert whether or not the room understands, but to emphasize that our methods are insufficient to demonstrate this. You could posit that the room unde
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by kibwen 4mo ago
Except that the Chinese Room shows that the existence of a mapping from input to output, however emergently it might have been devised, is not alone sufficient to demonstrate understanding.
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by kibwen 4mo ago
That humans who have grown out of their optimal brain plasticity and hence never acquire the capacity for ordinary human language are not somehow "conscious" is not supported. Rather, it means that, by its very definition, we do n
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by kibwen 4mo ago
Helen Keller was blind and deaf from infancy. What her teacher gave her was a way of systematizing what little sensory stimulation she was capable of receiving. "Language", in the topical sense of "the textual encoding of lan
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by kibwen 4mo ago
This is not at all what the article recommends. I recommend actually reading it.
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by kibwen 4mo ago
> We don’t understand AI or natural intelligence well enough to make such statements. If you believe this then you don't understand AI or natural intelligence well enough to refute my statements either. Perhaps you're trying
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by kibwen 4mo ago
> actual human books vs possible permutations of characters and spaces You're making the assumption that anything produced by a human necessarily contains more useful information than random noise does. This is false. Even when on
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by kibwen 4mo ago
It is self-evident. Bringing up Kolmogorov complexity is irrelevant, we're talking about rote memorization, but if you can't ignore the given example then replace "digits of pi" with "bits of output from a true rand
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by kibwen 4mo ago
Quantizing is one thing. But in general it's self-evident that training the model on information that is irrelevant to your use case does not necessarily improve ability, otherwise you'd have AGI just from reinforcing your model o
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by kibwen 4mo ago
Any respectable city will have a burrito joint somewhere with lengua on the menu.
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by kibwen 4mo ago
The King's Arms Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg, established in 1770, still serves historic items. It's cute to visit a restaurant's website where the menu reads like: "Soupe Another Way $8 — FIRSTLY, take great care th
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by kibwen 4mo ago
Plenty of sports do have rules to prevent stalling tactics (either for sportsmanlike reasons or to make the viewing experience more engaging): the two-minute warning in American football, the shot clock in basketball, icing rules in hockey,
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by kibwen 4mo ago
I'm sorry to inform you that those cows are going to have a hard time braking on that frictionless surface.
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by kibwen 4mo ago
"The beatings will continue until opinions evolve."
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by kibwen 4mo ago
> (if you have to say it, that’s how you know it’s good) Pet peeve, but no, it's the exact opposite. Good satire is immediately obvious; nobody had to ask whether Jonathan Swift was actually serious about solving poverty in Irelan
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by kibwen 4mo ago
Instead of "garbage collection", you can say "dynamic lifetime determination". If code does work at runtime to answer the question "is it safe to free this piece of memory?", that's dynamic lifetime determ
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by kibwen 4mo ago
Please don't, inscrutable bitwise operators are an accident of the past even in systems languages, let alone in a scripting language. I'm not against infix operators for bitwise operations, just please spell them out with keywords
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by kibwen 4mo ago
From the outset, crates.io was careful to deliberately not tie itself inextricably to Github. For example, by resisting the endless deluge of people demanding that Github usernames be used as public-facing package namespaces. Github is on
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by kibwen 4mo ago
Denial-of-service is bad, but it's not in the same ballpark, the same sport, the same planet, or the same universe of bad as RCE.
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by kibwen 4mo ago
This only goes to show how MBAs are destructively myopic. Valve understands that inextricably tying themselves to Windows is a long-term death sentence. SteamOS represents a lifeboat for when Microsoft goes full iOS and decides to lock down
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by kibwen 4mo ago
Unlike a PS5, a PC has all the games that I want to play. And to drive home the irony, right now I'm actually using my Steam Deck to play a game that was originally for the PS3 (Valkyria Chronicles). Legitimately purchased, even!
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by kibwen 4mo ago
I wanted a gaming computer (read: an airgapped system that I could install arbitrary software on without fear), and I was sick to death of Microsoft's bullshit and resolved to never buy a Windows machine again, so I've been using
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by kibwen 4mo ago
Penalizing the stdlib for using `unsafe` would be extremely counter-productive, because you could almost trivially remove all `unsafe` in the stdlib by moving those "unsafe" operations into codegen emitted by compiler (which is es

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