mikemarsh

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by mikemarsh 9mo ago
Yeah, it's quite unbelievable people are still repeating the "AI everything -> UBI -> everyone comfortable and well-fed" line. Who's to say the governments won't just let society continue on the exact same tra
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by mikemarsh 9mo ago
If the "author" couldn't be bothered to write it, why should the "reader" bother to read it?
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by mikemarsh 9mo ago
Yep, it never fails. Here's another prediction for "The next two years of software engineering"; AI vendors will start to utilize their senior devs' personal domains to write their advertising pieces to attempt to mitiga
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by mikemarsh 9mo ago
In the sense of LLMs becoming competent enough, no, it's extremely unlikely. In the sense of "smart tech founders" and C-suite executives in general using AI hype as an excuse for layoffs and understaffing, that's absolu
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by mikemarsh 9mo ago
I'm glad Paul Louth of https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/ is here in the comments. At this point basically everyone has been exposed to the concept of `Option/Result/Either/etc.`, and disc
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by mikemarsh 10mo ago
Since when is a study needed to confirm that enabling a dopamine addiction, especially in developing minds, is a bad idea? Isn't our own direct experience as adults/parents struggling with said addictions enough?
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by mikemarsh 11mo ago
So how do we get from "machines may get really good at faking things to human perception" to "machines themselves can have human-like (or 'better') perception"? The question is so-called consciousness arising o
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by mikemarsh 11mo ago
Everyone's a practical empiricist until our cherished science fiction worldview is called into question, then all of a sudden it's radical skepticism and "How can anyone really know anything, man?"
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by mikemarsh 11mo ago
Even granting all of your unfounded assertions; "the output" of one is the rain you see outside, "the output" of the other is a series of notches on a hard drive (or the SSD equivalent, or something in RAM, etc.) that&#x
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by mikemarsh 11mo ago
They're not asking about telling the difference in collected data sets, data sets aren't weather. The question is can you tell the difference between the rain you see outside your window, and some representation of a simulated env
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by mikemarsh 11mo ago
Defining machine consciousness is indeed mysterious, at the end of the day it ultimately depends on how much faith one puts in science fiction rather than an objective measure.
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by mikemarsh 11mo ago
The argument is about causation or generation, not simulation. Of course we can simulate just about anything, I could write a program that just prints "Hello, I'm a conscious being!" instead of "Hello, World!". The
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by mikemarsh 11mo ago
The idea of replicating a consciousness/intelligence in a computer seems to fall apart even under materialist/atheist assumptions: what we experience as consciousness is a product of a vast number of biological systems, not just n
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by mikemarsh 1y ago
Talk to any right-leaning young man who's actively engaged in a church community (even better if they're actually pursuing Christ, and not just chasing an abstract ideal of "community") and you won't hear very much
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by mikemarsh 1y ago
As a "believer" myself (we don't typically use that evangelical terminology but it's close enough) I can completely understand that. People should go to Church for Christ, and anything else, even "community" is
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by mikemarsh 1y ago
"The Patriot Act. Read it."
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by mikemarsh 11y ago
"I hate dread. What a completely useless emotion." Funny you should say that, since the sense of dread seemed to motivate this decision pretty heavily. Seems like the emotion was pretty useful as a sort of "burnout immune sys
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by mikemarsh 11y ago
link for anyone interested: https://mises.org/library/denationalisation-money-argument-r...
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An Experiment in Purely Functional IO for Clojure(github.com)
72 points by mikemarsh 11y ago|41 comments
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by mikemarsh 12y ago
As a college dropout myself, I don't think I've ever used this ridiculous "argument" to justify my decision. Are there seriously people out there who fancy themselves "The next Mark Zuckerberg", simply because