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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
To nitpick, the second article is from 1970, back then a concept such as the Amazon Antitrust Paradox [1] would cause burning at the stake in the legal field. Similarly, we also have an Elsevier Antitrust Paradox, a Nature(.com) Antitrust P
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Already copyright laws do not offer protection for writers (see the current [screen]writers strike [1]), visual artists, musicians (see the recent Taylor Swift re-recording debacle [2]), not to speak of the "lower" arts, crafts &a
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
From the post: [Rumors that start to become lawsuits] Some speculations are: - LibGen (4M+ books) - Sci-Hub (80M+ papers) - All of GitHub This is the most funny, but in the end sad aspect. If ChatGPT was indeed tr
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Sean Carroll, following Everett, puts it in the most concise form: (i) systems are described by wave functions, (ii) wave functions obey the Schrödinger equation [1]. "Many-worlds", universes, observations, observers, and so on be
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
102 years ago General Motors started poisoning the entire planet with lead [1] (being helped by DuPont, the same DuPont which manufacture PFAS, to manufacture tetraethyllead-TEL, and in collaboration with Standard Oil Company of New Jersey,
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
A somewhat modernized version is to say: it's not nature, nor nurture, it's stigmergy [1]. Or another way: the organism is larger than the collection of the cells [2] [3]. [1] "mechanism of indirect coordination, through the
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Perhaps one would drop the quotes around self-reflect if one would implement something more akin to a Markov blanket [1], blankets within blankets, model ourselves modelling the world. [1] 2018, "The Markov blankets of life: autonomy,
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
The article speaks more about the "knowledge workers", the CC Baxters of the world performing more or less bullshit jobs [1]. The 2-3 billion unemployables of the next 10-20 years are not knowledge workers and will all be replaced
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
"We don’t have AGI, and without that, we have only another wave of automation, and we don’t seem to have any a priori reason why this must be more or less painful than all the others." We don't need AGI to eliminate 200+ mill
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
The caveat was "if the platform really cared". For instance, if I was running a platform that had such an interesting (and important, one might argue) social phenomenon as the Ask Me Anything of celebrities or of vacuum repair tec
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
$3.4 million is a not even funny bad napkin mathematics. Just thinking of the work done by the moderators of /r/science, /r/AskScience, or /r/AskHistorians, not to speak of the moderators that handle celebritie
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
To keep in mind, à la longue, the best CSS is probably no CSS. Does a user really need all these buttons and dropdowns, modals and scrollable containers, or do they need only an input and a container rendering a few paragraphs, an image, a
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
"Is this really the way forward?" No. The way forward for scale-free systems which implement a hierarchy of competence is to have "the factory smaller than the product" [1]. Instead of the Chrome Canary team and the vari
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
First of all: your current society has no chance at a future, AI overlords, mogul trillionaires, climate change and so on being the least currently concerning of your issues. Nevertheless, one counter-intuitive policy which would end corpor
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
A realpolitik lesson for the scientists of the future: next time you have the power, hold it, don't squander it on politicians, begging for crumbs, grants and the decency of a private life. Oppenheimer should have continued his quote &
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
"Just feel happy instead" does seem to work in certain contexts and frameworks [1]. For instance, if you become decoupled from the current agent, that is, you start paying attention that whatever you call you is just an observer
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
For very few labor == leisure, for even fewer labor == leisure == life. If for someone labor != leisure, for whatever reason, then it's a category error [1] to follow this sort of advice. A much better question should be: why are there
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
One way to make sure (some) projects get finished is to not use semantic versioning, 1.0.0, 27.8.3, and so on, since integers can be incremented longer than the average lifespan, and instead use something like alpha-versioning which starts
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
One caveat: the issue is not that someone does "philanthropy" wrong, as if they could also do it right, the issue is that a society hoping for, needing large-scale/impactful philanthropy is fundamentally unstable. In harsher
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Reading comprehension is certainly irrelevant if one is interested only in their tunnel-visioned thesis. At no point the impromptu syllabus from above defends anyone or anything. In fact, it is so tame it didn't even mention more probl
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
None of those mentioned are ecofascists, especially not Simondon [1], that was the point: the true radicals destroy the future worlds, not directly the present one. Alan Turing destroyed all the multiverse branches [2] in which we don'
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Also Lewis Mumford [1], Günther Anders [2], or if you want to go truly underground, Gilbert Simondon [3] [4] or Friedrich Kittler [5]. If there are thinkers who have been in the conceptual space of the 23rd century and beyond, Simondon was
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
I obviously did not mean "unified memory" in that sense. In that sense even Apple I in 1976 had "unified memory" [1] [2]. The sense in which I meant it, following the spirit of the above paper/thesis, which no one s
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Yes, but the point is "future streaming hardware" allowing for "stream computing" as Ian Buck puts it in 2004. The prediction is not: we will have unified memory and we will be able to boil eggs on a chip (such as Intel
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Ian Buck's thesis is about how GPUs can be used as "stream computing": "In this paper (Buck, 2004), we present Brook for GPUs, a system for general-purpose computation on programmable graphics hardware. Brook extends C t
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
I did not say Apple invented unified memory, just that Ian Buck's prediction was 16 years before Apple Silicon. Also, in practice, is not only about unified memory, but also performance. The Intel chip with integrated graphics is able
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Ian Buck's 2004 prediction is still 10 years before 2014. I did not say Apple invented unified memory, it just got popular with Apple Silicon, and looking at local LLM inference on M1/M2 and the 192 GB of memory M2 Ultra allows, i
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Ian Buck's doctoral thesis Stream Computing on Graphics Hardware (2006) [1] and a shorter article about it (2004). From the 2004 article: "It is also possible that future streaming hardware will share the same memory as the CPU,
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
Been thinking since 2015 how to explore information as a 3D structure: plurid. The stable library is for now only for React.
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by ly3xqhl8g9 3y ago
But my point is "complex issues often have solutions in other places". You just hate operator overloading, I understand. Hope you don't write much C++. I do have a tendency to overload solutions, since there are so many pro

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