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by longtom 6y ago
Our brain also produces hypotheses, tests them and repurposes the most successful ones as program fragments stored in synaptic weights. Trial and error, exploration, mutation, survival of the best hypotheses etc.
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by longtom 6y ago
Culture, intelligence, memes, innovation etc. are also evolutionary subprocesses of our species. Evolution is gradient descent, so is learning. It's all the same. Entropy minimization or competitive negentropy consumption, if you want.
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by longtom 6y ago
It's such misnomers. You'd think the "lat" prefix comes from lateral and means an axis that goes sideways, but that's not the case.
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by longtom 6y ago
A hunched sitting posture and little physical activity does likely impair the metabolism though. The human metabolism has adapted for things to be upright and moving all the time, not for sitting absolutely still with compression forces act
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by longtom 6y ago
> creating and training a machine learning model to upscale the image in order to better discern details Contrary to popular myth, no AI upscaling was used as it turned out to be too inaccurate. Instead, they manually upscaled some simpl
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by longtom 6y ago
BorgBase does not do scheduled pruning? Not even via script?
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by longtom 6y ago
Infrastructure only gets second or third grade people, especially in Germoney. The best go to the U.S. as the lower taxes ensure highest bang for the IQ. The next best go into some of the hyped and promising fields like AI. The lowest tier
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by longtom 6y ago
What about BitChute?
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by longtom 6y ago
Telegram has a weird contact syncing default option. I had two accounts with separate phone numbers, but it would nonetheless advertise newly joined Telegram users associated with the respective other account. I think people were also able
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by longtom 6y ago
You can achieve a very homogeneous lawn without herbicides. Plenty of water, some aeration, some fertilizer, iron against moss, weekly lawn mowing and occasionally use a daisy grubber. Eventually the lawn will displace most weeds.
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by longtom 6y ago
> it's not some distopian nightmare How do you possibly enforce that while things become ever more centralized and automatized. We are already losing to those in power and we are not even a tenth of the way there. E.g. there has bee
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by longtom 6y ago
> The difference is that UBI would be something like a right, as opposed to jobs where you can be cutoff from your livelihood at a moment's notice. A right can be withdrawn, especially as we a working towards outcompeting lots of pe
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by longtom 6y ago
With UBI, the poor will actually be more at the mercy of the rich as they'll depend on some powerful centralized instance providing them money, instead of earning their own via providing goods to the market (e.g. services). So, to ac
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by longtom 6y ago
Which parts were written by a human?
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by longtom 6y ago
There are way way worse people out there than the ones who put up curious papers on a pre-print server for others to read for free.
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by longtom 6y ago
Right, REM phase interruption would be sufficient (according to this theory). There are also a bunch of additional variables that one likely cannot (easily) control for. Still, this theory should make predictions of the sort that more overf
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by longtom 6y ago
Seems like a testable hypothesis: Prepare a "training" deck of cards with an A side and B side. Each side has a simple symbol on it. Create a second "test" deck of cards which is identical, expect each A symbol is slight
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by longtom 6y ago
It's all about gaining social status, about knowing more than that other bloke and potentially gaining some economic advantage so as to attract an attractive female etc.
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by longtom 6y ago
Oops, I meant Jeffrey Epstein. I wrote "funny" because of the ties to that U.S. elite and because he actually dares to indirectly question them all the time (but not via the fabricated social justice angle, of course). Also, the e
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by longtom 6y ago
In one tweet he suggested the rise of social justice was in part fabricated to demolish the political left in light of Occupy Wall Street,[0] and that much of U.S. politics is about hiding who is actually in control. Funnily, he was indirec
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by longtom 6y ago
I have long suspected that they are already being tightly controlled by the U.S. military. They obviously know what is at stake and they logically need to maintain AI supremacy. We are amidst of an AI arms race and it won't stop until
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by longtom 6y ago
Indeed, any modality that AI can perfectly imitate decreases trust in said modality. Visual modalities are more critical as they are more difficult to fake. Though to do significant damage in this manner, you'd probably need to hold al
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by longtom 6y ago
What could it be distracting from, or what would be the purpose of running a smaller/dumber attack before the actual one?
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by longtom 6y ago
So we're likely talking some 50-100 million of dollars being stolen? Insane.
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by longtom 6y ago
No.
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by longtom 6y ago
Peterson is not an anti-semite.
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by longtom 6y ago
> and yet we haven't necessarily devolved into a big brother state. Well this is damn close. It just needs an executive apparatus which is where drones surely come in handy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_
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by longtom 6y ago
Could someone with GPT-3 beta access try whether it can better solve 3 digit addition when it is allowed/encouraged/forced to make intermediate results explicit? E.g. instead of 21 + 110 = 130 150 + 12 = condition it on 21 + 110 =
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by longtom 6y ago
The problem is that very large institutions become corrupt with very high certainty. It poses a huge near-term risk itself, so we somehow need to solve coordination problems while staying decentralized.
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by longtom 6y ago
Most likely explanation: Bad engineers getting into high positions via connections, elbows or peter principle.

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