machina_ex_deus

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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
One obvious way to tell apart is that AI was obviously built by humans and was fed data and information it couldn't create by itself. AI doesn't have consciousness because it barely has memory. 3000 or whatever context window is s
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
I'm not complaining about 2020, I'm complaining about 2021. I'm not sure whatever it was that led to "transitory inflation narrative", it felt like the Fed was acting like a third world country, like Turkey's c
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
In a world where central banks can print in a few months their entire money supply, doubling it, and can then declare inflation "transitory" and refuse to do their job of raising interest rates for an entire year, there's def
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
District based voting isn't democratic. Proportion representation is the only real democratic choice, the district based voting simply doesn't work. Cheating with elections is so much easier with district voting than proportional
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
I would've done it using complex exponentiation. And the exponential function is very easy to estimate fast: instead of Taylor series, use: e^x=(1+x/n)^n pick n=2^N, and that's just a bit shift and N repeated multiplications.
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Emotions are good. I disagree with everyone telling you to ignore your emotions. We're wired to remember emotional moments and to forget when we're indifferent. Most of the criticism I didn't fix wasn't because it was to
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Nearly for any subject I try to always think with two opposing voices: one that says there's a solution and one that says it's impossible, and I always explore both sides of the argument. If at some point some position sounds more
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
There's no research whatsoever connecting CO2 to increase in variance. This is pure speculation.
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Can you please enlighten me and point me to the research showing this interpretation of climate change? Of having more chaotic weather? As far as I know, climate change models and GCMs only predict a very small trend in the mean temperature
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
You're not really defending against competent malicious adults which plan everything in advance. You're defending against angry teens who might decide on doing it because one day something pushed them over an emotional edge. In th
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Greenhouses get warm because while the sunlight warms them, the cold air outside doesn't mix with the hot air inside. The hot air stays inside. Which is why ventilation is very important in greenhouses, you still want some cooling or i
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Nice sensationalism. Did you take into account the fact that more humans die from cold rather than hot temperatures? Clouds will die? Where are you getting your nonsense from? Plankton dying also makes no sense, and in fact, there are signi
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Joe and Jill average must've missed their probability courses and are still conflating mean with variance. The climate cult seems to like that conflation because while their models might predict some very small trend in the mean temper
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
I can't believe how much people are still using manipulative linguistic constructions like the word "denial" as they presume to know the reason for the disagreements are just emotional shortfalls. The so called literature tel
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
It's true in the same sense as the efficient market hypothesis or saying that the truth will prevail. It just tells you nothing about the timing of it. Which is why it is especially important to have different expectations regarding ne
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Of course if you're comparing to a strawman where they pay everyone that'd be a bad idea that I wouldn't approve either. Nothing Wikipedia currently does with its money justifies the sums they are getting. If they decided to
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
They aren't the ones bringing the value. It's the volunteers, which don't get a penny. They have received enough money to sustain Wikipedia almost indefinitely, I have no idea why they are still begging for money. I haven&#x2
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
That's as an absurd notion as saying that getting rid of money will solve wealth inequality. Weird Communist logic where when the world shows you people aren't equal, instead of accepting it, you claim the world is wrong. Too much
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
30% of emissions are from China. Oil companies real motivation was to manufacture scarcity, not produce as much oil as they can. Oil companies only have good margins when there's artificial scarcity, from geopolitical turmoil, from cli
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
I think the concept of open source should simply extend to AI models. I'm fine with AI being trained on open source code, if the entire model is also released as open source. We need GPL analog to AI training - license that allows you
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
There are two interpretations of democracy. In one interpretation, the purpose of democracy is accountability of the leaders and the government. Representative democracy is a means to an end from that interpretation: you don't vote so
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
I kind of disagree with the premise of an infinite universe or anything shoving out the problem under the rug by just assuming something's infinite. Abiogenesis occurring randomly is extremely unlikely. We don't know whether the u
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Now do the same calculation for passenger aviation. That's not how disasters work. They aren't independent variables, when they happen, you learn and change the way things work to prevent them from happening again.
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
I don't think consciousness represents a single real concept. It's just a word people use, some people use it in completely different contexts than others, what it means is probably more of a reflection of the user of that word th
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Intelligence is not knowledge, and this article heavily conflates those two. Does a person "use" his teachers "intelligence" when learning, or is he using his own intelligence, and the teacher's guidance and knowled
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
I wish it was easier to just do authentication based on self-signed client certificates instead of passwords. Instead of cookies saving your login, do key-exchange of temporary client certificate. If it was done properly, it has the bonus s
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
I've definitely seen countless humans faking thinking or just not thinking at all.
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
You don't understand what naked shorting is. Naked shorting is shorting without first borrowing from someone. Normal shorting is limited by the availability of stock to borrow (by the way, if stock holders wish, they can request from t
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
Even if you knew back in 1970s the exact specification of iPhone camera, you still couldn't manufacture it because improvement in manufacturing is a gradual self dependent process where the new equipment is built by the old equipment,
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by machina_ex_deus 3y ago
The Apollo moon landings were such an insane achievement. They did it in a time where digital processing was in it's infancy and barely existed, minimization technology was undeveloped, many modern materials which are much stronger and

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