mapontosevenths

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by mapontosevenths 6d ago
Or perhaps their wallets. There are a lot of programmers here. Some of them think that AI is the death of their profession, rather than a change in it. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon
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by mapontosevenths 6d ago
I came to the comments because the web page for Enzo explains everything except what the hell it does. Then I couldn't understand the gp comment either. For a moment I though I was having a stroke.
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by mapontosevenths 7d ago
> Doesn't seem like a very good metric. I don't claim to be able to define it. I just know that we have a fairly binary choice here. When people can't agree then the cost benefit should make the decision until people can a
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by mapontosevenths 7d ago
The question has two parts. 1: Can we define consciousness in a way that includes humans, does not include emachines, and does not accidently exclude the disabled or or nerudivergent without just restating the idea that being human is equiv
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by mapontosevenths 7d ago
The biggest mistake the web ever made was leaving it up to to the website to choose how content renders. It should be the users choice how their browser renders, it's their damn browser. Instead, browsers are built to follow standards
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by mapontosevenths 7d ago
Switch to a bank that has a website. If they can't do online banking in 2026 your bank might actually just be some guy in a monopoly man Halloween costume.
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by mapontosevenths 8d ago
Here's a non-paywalled version with some relevant videos as well: https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/USAconscious.ht... The argument is fun, but silly. Saying 'it has some aspects that conscio
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by mapontosevenths 9d ago
Evaporative cooling. They think that because the earth is only 2/3rds water we will run out before it rains back down again. I jest, of course. The actual argument is something about most water being frozen and how some people live in
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by mapontosevenths 9d ago
> Such an advancement would be devastating for their conclusion. They only ever placed them there because they saw it as unattainable. Rest assured that those posts will never stop moving.
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by mapontosevenths 9d ago
Exactly so. I just found that it's on prime video (for a few bucks) as well if you don't want the blu-ray features. If you've seen the old VHS version of Shada where Tom Baker narrates the missing pieces, you'll probably
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by mapontosevenths 10d ago
The unfinished original is one of my favorites, and the 2017 animated version is also wonderful. I feel like the animated version filled in gaps I hadn't even realized were there in the old one that just had the voice overs. If you lik
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by mapontosevenths 10d ago
The only way to have a better democracy is to have better people. Education is the entire slow, painful game.
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by mapontosevenths 10d ago
My experience has been very much the opposite of yours. To an expert communicating with a layperson is a form of compression. You must turn some very complex idea into one that you suppose the other person can grasp given their limited fram
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by mapontosevenths 11d ago
To me it's a good replacement for search engines. I ask it things like 'If redshifting destroys energy ala Noether, than how can we say that time is reversible or that entropy will find an equilibrium?' and it will not only e
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by mapontosevenths 11d ago
> Meanwhile Claude and Astra like to couch all their agreements with caveats and provisos. Sometimes that's what being smart sounds like.
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by mapontosevenths 12d ago
Nobody needs social media of any sort. Everyone should just turn it off and stop making excuses for yourselves to stay addicted. That said, it's easier said than done. Trust me, I know. I'm not sure I would class Youtube as socia
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by mapontosevenths 12d ago
> Does our collective thinking get stuck at the level of an emo high-schooler? Our society has come to equate contrarian thought with independent thought, but the aren't the same thing. Worse we've simultaneously stopped train
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by mapontosevenths 12d ago
I tried too. It got it. Maybe more importantly, who cares? For example, I'm a nerd. I'm bad at baseball. I lack that kind of intelligence, even though it's more common than the ability to program. That doesn't also imply
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by mapontosevenths 13d ago
You're right. I think I conflated allegations in the comments with the actual claims made in the Youtube video. GM did show that the devices scan for open wifi networks, and users in the comments have claimed that it connects without t
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by mapontosevenths 13d ago
> The problem is that you're not offered a choice. No one is making the "err towards explainability" choice. I'm not sure that's entirely fair. OpenAI recently discussed this at length in a blog post after some a
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by mapontosevenths 13d ago
Agreed. I would vote for the "when there is a choice" version of your argument. I'm not sure it is always possible to verify when human comprehension is the limit though. Most of research is done an the frontier of knowledge
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by mapontosevenths 13d ago
You are assuming that humans are capable of understanding everything. They are not. Human comprehension sets a ceiling on progress. It reminds me of those schools that can only teach as quickly as the dumbest kid in the room can follow. We
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by mapontosevenths 13d ago
1) I said that 2/3rds of all humans live near large bodies of water so evaporative cooling was probably fine for most of us. 2) You replied that it was saltwater and desalinating it was expensive. 3) I pointed out that saltwater evapor
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by mapontosevenths 13d ago
> We need to insist on building tech that's explainable by design. You realize this means insisting on terrible tech that humans can understand right? It essentially caps human progress at some point about 4 years ago. If you are ol
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by mapontosevenths 13d ago
The gamers nexus thing touched on this.. Apparently some ignore that choice and connect to open wifi or something like Comcasts modem hijacking wifi.
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by mapontosevenths 14d ago
> We absolutely could run out of fresh water, and pumping it into data centres is a terrible idea. Maybe if you live in a desert. I'm not going to. We don't all live in the same place, and different rules are necessary. I suspe
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by mapontosevenths 15d ago
> people who enjoy making it won't be able to afford to do it The demand for paintings did not disappear when photography was invented. Though many Luddites claimed it would. There were even those who wanted cameras outlawed to prot
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by mapontosevenths 15d ago
It doesn't need to be desalinated for evaporative cooling, does it? Maybe they use fresh water because we allow it and it's cheaper. They should outlaw that where it makes sense.
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by mapontosevenths 15d ago
It's not. You say it's gone after the pipe leaks, but it's still on earth. I have no idea where you think it goes.
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by mapontosevenths 15d ago
I do need an entire ocean of water to live a normal lifestyle. Only some amount far less than the many, many, many quadrillions of gallons of freshwater we have. If you live in the desert, stop doing that... or get them to laws for your spe

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