mitxela

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421.
by mitxela 1mo ago
No proof of that. I can't grow and supersede my training but I'm conscious.
422.
by mitxela 1mo ago
throw310822 is actually a Markov chain that just happened to output those sentences. Markov chains are definitely not conscious.
423.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Consciousness is to our universe as a video game player is to the in-game universe. Some games even call player connections "souls" or "minds" - a character belonging to a player who's lost connection may be "u
424.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Thought Emporium grew human neurons in a petri dish and taught them to play Doom (original).
425.
by mitxela 1mo ago
It's the same level of pedantry as calling an LLM "floating point operations" though
426.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Would an atom-accurate simulation of a human being carried out by scribes be conscious? We can't say yes. And we can't say no.
427.
by mitxela 1mo ago
The government has fully lost control of the long-term Treasury yield - this is their attempt to bring it back under control. I expect to see the president fire the Fed, nationalise it and make the rates negative, collapsing the economy.
428.
by mitxela 1mo ago
No government wants untraceable e-cash. They want it fully traceable.
429.
by mitxela 1mo ago
The optimal level of crime is not zero.
430.
by mitxela 1mo ago
It's able to tell you something that sounds right. That doesn't mean it is right.
431.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Dismantle car centrism all by yourself?
432.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Headline is obviously AI slop
433.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Boost predates C++11
434.
by mitxela 1mo ago
I think you accidentally swapped "the U.S." and "Iran" in your comment.
435.
by mitxela 1mo ago
It's beyond the reasonable control of Jeff Bezos. Even though he supports trump with billions of dollars, he didn't ask for this particular war.
436.
by mitxela 1mo ago
They're not firing nukes yet. Missiles don't blow up a whole building, let alone a city.
437.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Data loss is better than data theft for many people
438.
by mitxela 1mo ago
> I think both of these things are (very) often true, You think most countries have one data center or less, and most offices have less than two hundred watts of electricity supply?
439.
by mitxela 1mo ago
AWS promises to keep data safe without requiring cross region redundancy. If you choose not to trust them that's valid but then why use them at all?
440.
by mitxela 1mo ago
AWS is one of the biggest military contractors, they're a valid target
441.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Evidence so far suggests yes, actually.
442.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Amazon never said you had to mirror your data across multiple regions to prevent Amazon-caused data loss.
443.
by mitxela 1mo ago
FYI all signalling is in-band signalling
444.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Point is the supreme court can just "nuh uh" anything they want to
445.
by mitxela 1mo ago
de-nominated him partway through the primary, I meant
446.
by mitxela 1mo ago
That's why I only program in punched cards. If you need a visual editor you're a bad programmer.
447.
by mitxela 1mo ago
That's crazy that the whole reward system might just come down to one protein and how long you crave another reward is literally just the time until that protein decays.
448.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Social media is also a drug. So is television.
449.
by mitxela 1mo ago
Certain porn is illegal despite the first amendment existing - the court merely invented a "nuh uh" exception, called "obscenity".
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by mitxela 1mo ago
It's obvious that you can convert them to cash, because merchants accept cash and do not want to pay their employees in gift cards. The process is just not obvious and usually not accessible to everyone.

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