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by miyoji 6mo ago
Hypothetically? You need more than a brain to have consciousness. Dead brains, I believe, do not have it. So it's more than just a simulation of a brain, you also need to simulate the data flow through the brain, the retention of memor
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by miyoji 6mo ago
I see value in promulgating safety guidelines for power tools, sure. There's another comment comparing LLMs to shovels, and I think both that and the power tool comparison miss the mark quite a bit. LLMs are a social technology, and
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by miyoji 6mo ago
I don't know exactly how consciousness works, but I am extremely confident in the following assertions: * I am conscious. * A rock is not conscious. * Excel spreadsheets are not conscious. * Dogs are conscious. * Orca whales are consci
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by miyoji 6mo ago
I strongly disagree with this framing. It's patently insane to demand that humans alter their behavior to accommodate the foibles of mere machines, and it simply won't work in the majority of cases. Humans WILL anthropomorphize th
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by miyoji 6mo ago
This is a very weird comment considering that Google Maps has had that feature for years.
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by miyoji 6mo ago
No worries, I could have been more clear in my original comment!
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by miyoji 6mo ago
> Name one company selling AI models who didn't steal their data or aquire it through dubious or unethical means? That's what I said. I was absolutely referring to OpenAI and Anthropic as well as the Chinese models.
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by miyoji 6mo ago
> A good organization is always run by engineers at the top level and engineers don't incentivise engineers simply for working on roadmaps of perfectly fine existing features. That's the difference. I wish this were true, but
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by miyoji 6mo ago
> I think it's also unfair to say their success is solely due to stealing data. Their models would be completely useless if they didn't train on stolen data, so no, it's not unfair at all.
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by miyoji 6mo ago
Maybe you shouldn't be relying on something if you can't even tell how good it is?
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by miyoji 6mo ago
1) I think if the company I work for spends too much effort on things that aren't going to make money, they won't be able to pay me anymore, no matter what they "think" is productive. That's not how executives at co
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by miyoji 6mo ago
> That being said, I'm not sure end users noticed much difference. I have friends who order a lot of DoorDash and UberEats and they complain constantly about how awful the delivery service is. The problem isn't that they have
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by miyoji 6mo ago
> People aren't much different. If I had a nickel for every time someone on HN responded to a criticism of LLMs with a vapid and fallacious whataboutist variation of "humans do that too!", I could fund my own AI lab. >
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by miyoji 6mo ago
Yes, exactly. AI isn't some magic dust that you can sprinkle into your workforce and get more productivity and better results. It is at best a force amplifier for what you already have. If you're making awful and broken products,
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by miyoji 6mo ago
I did, because private equity took over the plumbing company and raised the prices.
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by miyoji 6mo ago
That's not how it works, unfortunately. Skills you use stay fresh, skills you don't practice get rusty and fade away. You might need things you aren't using anymore. If you never walk, your legs get weak, you gain weight, y
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by miyoji 6mo ago
I agree that is what the commenter is saying. It is not at all the same as what Nietzsche is saying in that passage. He's critiquing Kant and Descartes on philosophical grounds that have very little to do the definition of intelligence
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by miyoji 6mo ago
That is saying something completely different from the comment that you're responding to, though.
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by miyoji 6mo ago
> If you want to continue defending women or have any say in your own fate you're going to have to bulk up to do it. You seem to have forgotten that firearms have been invented.
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by miyoji 6mo ago
I think it's true that there are more bad CEOs than good CEOs. I've seen good CEOs turn into bad CEOs, but I've never seen a bad CEO turn into a good CEO. I assume it does happen, but there's a strong cultural pressure (
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by miyoji 6mo ago
I don't think the term "version control" has any implication about precedence, and I don't understand what you mean by "the versions predate the control". In git, you add items to the worktree (control), then y
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by miyoji 6mo ago
But it is true. I (and many others) happily use jj on teams that use git without anyone else on the team using jj or knowing (or caring) what I'm using.
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by miyoji 6mo ago
> Does JJ really prefer for me to think backwards? It wants me to start with the new and describe command, but with git I first make the changes and name the changeset at the end of the workflow. Yes, but this is not backwards, the way y
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by miyoji 7mo ago
What? Freedom of association implicitly means freedom not to associate . It is not at all incompatible with freedom to say, "I don't want to hang out with those guys because they suck." I believe in freedom of speech for peo
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by miyoji 7mo ago
No, unfortunately they don't. Scott Alexander Siskind is definitely sympathetic to race science and neoreaction, that's WHY he wrote the "anti"-reactionary FAQ. It's probably the most popular document about "ne
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by miyoji 7mo ago
This is a truly awful argument that keeps coming up. It relies on the false equivalence between training an AI (a technical process that involves copying a work into computer storage), and a human being experiencing a work, which doesn&#x
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by miyoji 7mo ago
The problem with Windows and MacOS is that they are hostile to the user, and that's because they serve a "product" manager who is trying to maximize business value for a massive corporation, not serve you a good OS. We don&#x
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by miyoji 7mo ago
> At the end of the day, housing in Austin is relatively inexpensive. There are real options below $300K. This is so insanely out of touch. Most people will never be able to afford a house over $200k, even in Austin. I live here, you a
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by miyoji 7mo ago
> Is "let's abolish phone numbers and addresses on government forms" a good issue to run on? No. Good thing I'm not running for office, and instead am merely having a conversation on the internet. I would vote for som
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by miyoji 7mo ago
I don't think it's "catering to them" to avoid passing laws that impose undue burden. For example, if you passed a law requiring a US passport to buy food in the US, and made it so all restaurants and grocery stores are

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