markhahn

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by markhahn 4mo ago
consciousness is a behavior. experience is remembering that you had a behavior.
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by markhahn 4mo ago
this fallacy is called "appeal to authority".
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by markhahn 4mo ago
huh? the linked document shows that bullet item as deleted.
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by markhahn 4mo ago
how about this: there has been a fairly short-lived, one-time event that boosted NV's revenue and allowed them extraordinary margins. nothing like that is goosing Goog or AAPL. yes, I'm claiming that the NV-AI hype bubble will po
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by markhahn 4mo ago
flash is a consumable, yes. but flash endurance isn't a strong argument here. you probably have O(TB) of flash, and aren't going to produce PB of swap writes any time soon. if you do a lot of swapping to a small flash device, it
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by markhahn 5mo ago
Is he ignorant, or trying to mislead? AI is not a plagiarism engine. It can be used that way, but is not inherently so. It is not necessary that a trained LLM be able to faithfully reproduce every document in its training set. The entire
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by markhahn 5mo ago
simple question: why not the opposite? that is, reality exists and consciousness is "painted" on top of that? IMO, anti-materialists are merely uncomfortable with the degree to which they understand neuroscience and related topics
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by markhahn 5mo ago
we need to distinguish accounts that are merely self-consistent, and those that are more useful. the reality-is-illusion meme is self-consistent (panpsychism, simulationism, dream-of-god-ism, whatever). merely being self-consistent isn&#x2
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by markhahn 5mo ago
I'm mystified why you think there is anything to accept about consciousness. Or are you purely talking about it being a "thing"? Yes, that's relevant to how Rovelli is treating dualism (as a made-up, unevidenced claim)
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by markhahn 5mo ago
then either your drives are overprovisioned or read-mostly. it's not that hard to hit 300 cycles on flash.
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by markhahn 5mo ago
I find it very odd that there is so much faith in "innovation" (and probably "economies of scale"). there is no sign of any impending breakthroughs that would change flash economics much. slc-mlc-tlc-qlc was very nice bu
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by markhahn 5mo ago
the interesting thing is that scaling laws (at least Moore's and the like) are complete lies. (Moore is fine if you treat it as a weak observation that shrinking features to half gives you 4x as many devices in the same area.) what ha
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by markhahn 5mo ago
if your model is that linux is just about single-user desktops, this local exploit isn't too bad. or if your model is nothing but DB servers or the like. mystifying to me that shared, multi-user machines are not thought of. for insta
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by markhahn 6mo ago
I guess most of this is mobile use in India.
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by markhahn 6mo ago
mythos has not been demonstrated doing anything dramatically different than other models. so as other comments say: very premature. but the basic premise (shared among a lot of ai-doomers and ai-shamers), is that the bigs have somehow rape
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by markhahn 6mo ago
GNU was never anything but a flag-of-convenience. The number of people who take RMS seriously was and is small.
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by markhahn 6mo ago
I wonder if anyone in trumpland has thought of a T-branded distro. Considering that most distros are basically just a new set of desktop backgrounds, this seems like a sure thing!
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by markhahn 6mo ago
Yes. Noting that yum and dnf are basically the same.
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by markhahn 6mo ago
Let me guess, you're impressed by desktop decorations and which file-browser is the default. Ubuntu differs from Fedora only in newbie stuff, for instance.
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by markhahn 6mo ago
"write like you talk" is advice for type-1 thinkers. presumably also advice from them.
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by markhahn 6mo ago
to start with, I would say "write as you talk". but the idea is dubious: writing/reading is a different transaction than speaking/listening.
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by markhahn 6mo ago
that you'll get it wrong, I suppose. after all, most routers/WAP/gateways that you buy today will have linux on the inside, configured similarly.
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by markhahn 6mo ago
I still don't know why the author brought religion/faith/god into the discussion; he seems like a religionist trying to come to grips with the dominance of our world by science and the scientific epistemology.
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by markhahn 7mo ago
interesting that the stock market (a subset of the prediction market now, right?) would even care, or would take this as a negative. "sorry guys, I did something token-bad a while ago that got you more money." that's the sort
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by markhahn 7mo ago
well, physics does work that way, depending on what you mean by performance. (in the sense that power is normally part of performance when we're talking about chips). you could certainly use a larger process and clone chips at an area
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by markhahn 7mo ago
Copying CPUs isn't really a thing: they are too complex. If you could steal all the designs at TSMC, and you had exactly the process that TSMC uses, you could definitely make counterfeits. If you didn't have TSMC's specific
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by markhahn 7mo ago
This (variable rewards -> gambling, illusion of control) is really important. I'm not an expert in the psych/neuro literature on addiction, but I suspect latency isn't that critical. But is that just because it's thi
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by markhahn 7mo ago
re right vs left: the usual metaphor here is red-brown alliance.
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by markhahn 7mo ago
little unclear what drove the E-7 thing - my impression is that accelerationists on the political side wanted to push for space-based defense, and drove the attempt to cancel. it is a reasonable point that any airborne radar is an attractiv
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by markhahn 7mo ago
it's just a machinecode emulator that happens to run on a gpu. it's more of a flying pig than a new porcine airliner.

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