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by mindcrime 1mo ago
while maintaining that we have no apparent means of discriminating between the two. Yeah, and that's part of what makes this whole conversation so frustrating. And maybe also pointless in the end. We have a hard time even establishin
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by mindcrime 1mo ago
Why not just say, "Human consciousness is ontologically axiomatic," and leave it at that? OK, but why does "human consciousness" even need to enter into it? What I mean is, what's our basis for demanding that the
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by mindcrime 1mo ago
> Meaning for LLMs is something in the concept-space that is detached from any worlds. I suspect there should be a test which can tease apart the ungroundedness of the LLMs just from having a conversation with it. But that isn't the
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Maximilian Schwarzmüller – "Don't ignore the new stuff" [video](youtube.com)
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by mindcrime 2mo ago
Yeah, I saw this headline and immediately thought "these people are living in an entirely different world than me". Of the restaurants I regularly eat at, I can just walk in and have a table in 5-10 minutes at most, probably 95% o
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by mindcrime 2mo ago
Guess it's time for Trump to fire another BLS director and find one who's better at cooking the books...
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by mindcrime 2mo ago
It's been reported that William Gibson saw Blade Runner before releasing Neuromancer and was worried that people would think he stole ideas from Blade Runner, as the aesthetic of Blade Runner was so close to the way he imagined the Neu
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by mindcrime 2mo ago
Exactly. That's not just a load-bearing truth — it's a testament to the power of the contemporary zeitgeist!
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by mindcrime 2mo ago
I believe they are referring to the millimeter wave x-ray machines.
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Play Neuromancer(archive.org)
2 points by mindcrime 2mo ago|0 comments
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by mindcrime 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com https://phins.com https://www.linkedin.com https://news.google.com https://youtube.com https://broadcastify.com https://www.gmai
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Quadraphonic Sound(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
Not sure if you're familiar with this or not, but that concept appears as part of the story in the novel[1] and movie[2] "Johnny Got His Gun". The premise is based on a badly injured soldier during WWI who has lost his abilit
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
See, to me, you're just leaning into the outdated and archaic aspect of this. Sure, that's the way encyclopedia's have been for a long time. But none of that means that they need to continue to work the same way. Technologies
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
Not really relevant in this case (that the article talks about), but I don't think that it is so cut and dry as "someone spent time on this so we have to keep it". No, and I'm not arguing for that. Just pointing out th
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
Wikipedia seems stuck in an antiquated worldview where things like traditionally-published books with second- or third-hand reports of what happened, and which are frequently incomplete or wholly inaccurate, are nonetheless considered more
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
This is why you clone a copy to a machine you have full control of!
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
You're right, I was looking at submissions for userplane.io[1] and over-fixated on it only being submitted twice. My mistake. Nonetheless, the basic principle is the same. Looking at their submission history it appears to be almost all
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
Nothing weird about it. The HN guidelines[1] make it clear, IMO, that while some self-promotion is fine, the intent here is NOT to use the site primarily (or exclusively) for self-promotion. The account that submitted the userplane.io link
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
Call me nostalgic or whatever, but my laptop to this very day... https://fogbeam.com/free-kevin.jpg
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We Are Witnessing the Slow Death of the Prestige Career(theguardian.com)
5 points by mindcrime 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
Depends on how they address the side fumbling between the Spurving bearing and the Dingle arm, vis-a-vis the lotuso-toroidal damping force.
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
I'd be working on AI.
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
Interesting. I think I see what you're getting at, and I can kinda buy that.
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
Speaking as Libertarian, I generally agree that the two major parties have been more alike than different over most of my 50+ years on Earth. But right this minute, I think the Dark Enlightenment dorks and their neo-fascist bullshit have
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
> The surge of authoritarianism is a response from people who, much like you, have tried to unplug but who realized closing their eyes does not stop the changing world around them. I'm not really following your logic there. If the a
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
> Do you think humans in the future in general will be more or less happy than they are now? I honestly have no idea. I strongly want to be optimistic and I am generally an optimist by nature. But recent events have made it hard to jus
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Google, Microsoft offer specs to help you prove your AI is behaving nicely(cio.com)
3 points by mindcrime 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
That said, I'm kinda hoping somebody does create a "GNU deadline" project now. I'm curious to see what kind of project it would be.
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
My first intuition is that we don't have a (generally accepted) definition of AGI that's rigorous enough to really have this conversation. I've heard people make convincing arguments in favor of: * We won't have AGI, e

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