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krisoft
7mo ago
I bet that a confident scammer is prepared to deal with things like that. They want to put you in a state where you are under time and emotional pressure and your "relative" will have a well practiced response why they can't
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krisoft
7mo ago
> the holes in the swiss cheese lined up. I totally agree with you on that. > The emergency aircraft couldn't find a free gate, creating a massive distraction for ATC, airport, et al. Yes. And I want to add one more thing to thi
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krisoft
7mo ago
I very much doubt that you know the exact timing of the event. My guess is that you might have seen a video where some industrious editor put the ATC recordings over the leaked surveilance footage, but there is no way that is correctly sync
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krisoft
7mo ago
It is not working based on approval but based on sensors observing the airplane on final. Even if the plane is landing without clearance, even if the ATC is held hostage by a terorist or having a stroke the lights should turn red when an ai
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krisoft
7mo ago
There is actually a set of lights which should have displayed red towards the trucks. Were they not operating correctly, or did the driver ignore them is one of the questions the investigation will answer. The system is called Runway Status
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krisoft
7mo ago
> Does anyone know why the fire truck was driving across the runway in the first place? Yes we know. There was an other airplane who declared an emergency and was about to evacuate the passengers on the tarmac. The other plane in questio
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7mo ago
There is such a bot and it is installed in LaGuardia Airport. The system is called Runway Status Lights, and it was supposed to show red lights to the truck. And the truck was supposed to stop and ask the controller: “If an Air Traffic Cont
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7mo ago
> Sound like the issue is whoever was driving the truck not doing what was asked of them for whatever reason. Hard disagree. The ATC initially cleared them to cross the runway. The truck started moving, and just then the ATC realised tha
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krisoft
7mo ago
> Boeings simply disappeared from Europe That is just simply false. There are many boeings flying in europe. Just by randomly clicking around on flightradar24 I found multiple right now in the air.
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krisoft
7mo ago
> one by one these neurons are switched off with their functionality offloaded to their clone instantiated in a computer. We are not just brains in a jar. Our bodies provide rich sensory information, and feedback loops without which we w
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krisoft
7mo ago
Given that these are machine learning algorithms their performance will very much depend on the training dataset. So it is probably not (just) that “technology has moved on a lot”, but that the engineers working on it curated new training s
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krisoft
7mo ago
> Wireless headphones tried to fix something that wasn't broken, and made it worse. I think you are going to far here. Do wireless headphones have problems? Sure. Did they fix some problems wired headphones had? Yes. Yes, they did.
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krisoft
7mo ago
> any reason it couldn’t have mutated to have 2 hearts servicing each side of the body There are probably no hard reasons. It is most likely that the path of incremental changes leading to that solution is either unlikely, or does not co
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7mo ago
> Did I miss something? Probably. Planb’s message suggest that the first paragraph is their own writing, the second paragraph tells us that the third paragraph is the llm “improved” version of the first.
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krisoft
7mo ago
> If they had direct evidence that some author's instructions failed to ask for the case study to be fictionalized, I think they would have specifically said that. Which they do. They specifically say that. “Neither the instructions
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krisoft
7mo ago
You will have a long trek to do that. We have a javascript interpreter deployed at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point. https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/18/23206110/james-webb-space...
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7mo ago
They asked the authors for fiction “at times”. Meaning that some are fiction, and some very well might not be. The best they can do is try to contact the authors and see if the case report they wrote is fictional or not. The second best is
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krisoft
7mo ago
What a mess. > One author of a case report was surprised to learn of the correction — because the case described in her article is true. So they managed to mess up even the correction of their giant mess. > correcting the correction &
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7mo ago
> maybe consider why Iran spent over $500B developing offensive nuclear weapons. To protect themselves from the exact scenairo happening right now? The reason why Putin is sleeping peacefully in his bed while Khamenei is dead under rubbl
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7mo ago
The abstract of the original BERT paper starts with these words: "We introduce a new language representation model called BERT, [...]" The paper itself contains the phrase "language model" 24 times. It might not be consi
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krisoft
7mo ago
No. But there are a few layers to that. First no is that the model as is has too few parameters for that. You could train it on the wikipedia but it wouldn’t do much of any good. But what if you increase the number of parameters? Then you g
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7mo ago
They were practicing object recognition, movement tracking and prediction, self-localisation, visual odometry fused with porpiroception and the vestibular system, and movement controls for 16 years before they even sit behind a steering whe
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krisoft
7mo ago
> Astute readers will note what’s been missed here. I’m not astute enough to see what was missed here. Could you explain?
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7mo ago
> we can ignore that specific example We are not ignoring it. It is just not an example of a load bearing excel sheet.
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krisoft
7mo ago
Modern landmines do have safety features like what you describe. For example consider this Department of Defence policy from 2020: https://media.defense.gov/2020/Jan/31/2002242359/-1/-1/1/D
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7mo ago
> The hardest bar would be building a system from physical components, having it report coherent subjective experience So like if i finetune an LLM in a loop to tell you that it is feeling a coherent subjective experience would you accep
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krisoft
7mo ago
> It's rare for people to buy art just bc oil paints go brrrrrm It is rare to buy oil paints period. It is an expensive luxury in more than one way. That being said I do buy art hanging from the wall because it looks pretty. In fact
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7mo ago
> you can't experience something like a movie without trying to figure out what the actual message behind the movie was I believe you that your brain works like that but this is absolutely not how mine works. I care if i enjoy the m
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7mo ago
> But it is also wrong to claim that consciousness emerges from matter until it is proven How would you prove if it did? What kind of proof would you accept?
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krisoft
8mo ago
I encourage you to ask a questions so I can figure out what do you not understand. Let me also simplify my comment: “100 minutes” is not the correct answer to that question.
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