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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Even asking a human being why they did a certain thing is questionable. The research on choice blindness seems like a pretty definitive debunking of post-hoc rationalization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introspection_
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
I think a better way of putting this is that humans think they can accurately re-tell what their consciousness was doing. Whether they actually can, or even if consciousness exists at all as a thing outside the perception of consciousness
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
This is the crucial point. It has vastly increased my hobby programming "velocity", but has improved my day job performance by perhaps a quarter at most; so much in programming is not the task of programming, but mapping the probl
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
I happily go abroad and speak with my hosts in my rudimentary German, and we are all happy. Sometimes we shift to their slightly-less-rudimentary English, and that's good too. Although we sometimes resort to machine translation to look
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
DMCA notices are meant to be submitted "under penalty of perjury", and false notices could in theory result in civil action being taken against those who send them. In practice, neither of these occur even if the sender is a real
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
This is pretty much the backstory of Dune. In the first novel, the character Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam says: "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted o
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
This is a Manhattan Project-level endeavour, and most countries would not be capable of it. China, however, is. Even though it lacks the expertise to do all these specific things to the Western cutting edge level right now, it has the resou
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
The problem with not learning languages is that it restricts you to computer-mediated communication. If you learn other languages than your own, even at a fairly basic level, there is a whole world of social interaction and culture out ther
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
A win that, as I understand it, did not actually set a precedent and is thus of no actual legal use to them.
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Democratic socialists and social democrats solve the free rider problem through general taxation and regulation. Consider universal healthcare as the case in point for this; we absorb the cost of chronically ill people by mixing them in wit
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
As I understand it what was "explicitly illegal" was copying the books, in the sense of mere copying before feeding them to the model, and this is what the Anthropic copyright settlement is about. Actually processing them throug
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
The horse has bolted some time ago on this; the "frontier" is not as inaccessible as it once was, and open models, once out there, can't be put back in the bag. Even if the US bans opens models, the Chinese and Russians will
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
The article really doesn't hold back: one of the subheadings is "Picking up where phrenology left off".
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
> Always thought the dencrentalisation and forking of Wikipedia would be the endgame. Would allow for people to actually curate their own spaces again. Database dumps and software for the entire enyclopedia are avaible for free, and mult
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Sanger did, indeed, create his own Wikipedia alternative.[0] It failed to catch on, and is currently maintaned and almost exclusively edited by just one person. [0] https://www.citizendium.org/
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Instead of having distinct tokens, you could have modifier vectors which would be added to other tokens. Think in terms of control, shift, meta etc.
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
12-bit log is a very common format in professional post-production.
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
<prefix>::1, <prefix>::2, <prefix>::3, <prefix>::4... exactly how hard can that be? Or if you're feeling playful, <prefix>::b0d, <prefix>::bed, <prefix>::dad, <prefix>::b1d...
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
A changeover to your IPv5 would be just as agonizing as the changeover to IPv6. A system with a larger address space is fundamentally uninteroperable with one with a smaller address space as there is nowhere to put the extra bits in the o
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
The slow adoption of IPv6 by many older companies is at least in part a paradoxical result of the success of IPv6 elsewhere, particularly in new builds where there is practically no overhead in deploying IPv6 in a green-field environment -
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
"Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders." [0] The mindset behind private equity takeovers is exactly this. They know, but they are really well paid to do it, an
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
In-person written exams and classwork are really the only solution for this, either handwritten or on dumb devices locked down to only being a word processor.
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SUV buyers undeterred by warnings of risk to pedestrians(theguardian.com)
19 points by lambdaone 3mo ago|10 comments
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
This is a fascinating study that shows the massive disconnect between our moral choices and our actual hehavior, showing how many people are willing to accept the risk of killing children in exchange for a car that makes them feel good, eve
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
I just took a look at the page's own 'town square'. At the moment, it's largely full of people saying offensive things for the sake of it.
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
This sort of boring grind is where the real work of systems engineering is done. Big infrastructure projects like this work on making the Linux kernel more reliable while still keeping it workable throughout the process move on the scale of
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
What you are describing is option types, which are an entirely valid and very useful construct that helps make programs more rather than less reliable. But you need proper language type system support and compile-time enforcement to make it
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
This is Sturgeon's Law: "ninety percent of everything is crap". But the corollary to it is the fact 10% of everything isn't crap, and just as there always has been crap, there always has been excellence. Just less of i
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
The term for these is "mockbusters", and the term has its very own Wikipedia article, linked in the first paragraph of the page you cited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockbuster
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
I experimented with turning out complete airport thriller novels this way, using earlier LLMs. It's not terribly hard to make this happen, the hard part wasn't gunning out prose, it was plot arcs and internal consistency, but even

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