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mahathu
4y ago
Low-background steel is actually pre-nuke tests. That's what they scavenge sunken ships a lot for.
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mahathu
4y ago
This would make a nice coming of age story but then the taping in question would have to occur some time during the character's childhood.
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mahathu
4y ago
I automated applying for apartments in my city's public housing program as they regularly get hundreds of applications within a few minutes and automatically take down the ads again, often before their email notifications even arrive.
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mahathu
4y ago
It's GPT-4, starting the apocalypse. We just don't know it yet.
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mahathu
4y ago
OP is referring to this puzzle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem EDIT: "Pigeons repeatedly exposed to the problem show that they rapidly learn to always switch, unlike humans", lol. That'
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mahathu
4y ago
Best name for a software project I've seen in a long time hands down!
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Toki Pona
(en.wikipedia.org)
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mahathu
4y ago
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mahathu
4y ago
What's up with freaking programmers of all the people in the world thinking they're in a position to give far-reaching life like this? Of course my perception is biased because this profession is overrepresented here but these kin
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mahathu
4y ago
I was thinking the same. > Lucy's Love Lucy is a strong woman from the Bronx - she is unapologetically herself and she loves it. > Every morning she wakes up at the crack of dawn and takes the subway to her job downtown. She work
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mahathu
4y ago
> Lucy's Love Lucy is a strong woman from the Bronx - she is unapologetically herself and she loves it. > Every morning she wakes up at the crack of dawn and takes the subway to her job downtown. She works for a big law firm, and
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mahathu
4y ago
Exactly. > Suffice to say that I was far from home in an unfamiliar (and public) environment with people I didn’t know very well and had little reason to trust. Stopped reading after this part -- Taking psychedelics in such circumstances
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mahathu
4y ago
> This maps to something I've noticed. > There's a pattern where human beings are wired to enjoy things that are important for their survival and thriving, but that these instincts are easily hijacked for aimless gratificati
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mahathu
4y ago
Wasn't there an API before?
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mahathu
4y ago
Experiencing psychotic breaks in your childhood distinguishes you from other people though. It is not a common experience.
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mahathu
4y ago
You're describing a psychosis.
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mahathu
4y ago
Thank god for whiteboard coding interviews!
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mahathu
4y ago
Agree with [1] in particular and would definitely add Wilson (2002) to the list!:) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12613670/
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mahathu
4y ago
Yes. It's like trying to describe a house that you can't leave.
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mahathu
4y ago
If you are looking for "absolute sexual beauty", how about searching a partner that you love and care about instead of in "top secret VIP escort salons".
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mahathu
4y ago
> The girls were literal 10/10 perfections, you would never be able to find humans like that, even among world-class supermodels. That sounds really boring, lol.
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mahathu
4y ago
(for context): https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/10gr7dq/how_do... > You see, your humanity (everything that makes you human) is based on one lived experience, your own, AI's will be
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mahathu
4y ago
True, those things happen but the person I replied to made it sound like the WWW was designed with that purpose in mind
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mahathu
4y ago
>The entire Web is organized primarily to manipulate behavior Source? In my opinion the web is primarily organised to facilitate the exchange and storage of information.
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mahathu
4y ago
Just because the output is similar on a surface level doesn't mean this is remotely similar to human language processing. Consider for example, Zwaan & Taylor (2010), who found congruency effects between rotating a knob (counter-)c
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mahathu
4y ago
This is already happening. /r/singularity is one of the few reddit subreddits I still follow, purely because reading their batshit insane takes about how LLMs will be "more human than the most human human" is so hilariou
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mahathu
4y ago
It's apparently also sending your location data to the API.
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mahathu
4y ago
At their size, the balloon would slowly descend (into public airspace) when shot at with even high calibre jet mounted guns, if i understood correctly.
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DEF Con Radio – Music for Hacking
(somafm.com)
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4y ago
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Arabic Chat Alphabet
(en.wikipedia.org)
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4y ago
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mahathu
4y ago
We don't use Youtube TV, but it's probably something along those lines, like a family calendar that goes WAY back. Thanks for the suggestion.
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