mrshadowgoose

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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
I've always viewed the Chinese Room and similar thought experiments as a distraction from reasoning about the practical implications of machine learning. We don't understand "understanding" in the vast majority of practi
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If the root cause is "too ugly, uninteresting and poor for anybody to want them romantically", what is the solution to that? You keep expressing your displeasure, but have yet to propose an actual solution.
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
Agreed! It would be a real shame if lonely unattractive people had a chance at something resembling a romantic relationship. /s Contrary to what one would assume, I don't have this problem. However I do work in the IT field, and a
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
> It feels like this kind of censorship is simply the default in legal departments and it's not worth the risk to try to do something more in line with common sense. It's a mix of that, and public perception/image. The ban
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
> I see your point, but instead of giving up, i would rather we work on a proper long term solution. This is extremely hand-wavey. What long term solutions should we be working towards exactly? Today, there are many people who statistica
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
There are very many people (of both genders) that decide to stay in mediocre relationships because the alternative of loneliness is worse. The effects on societal structure will be profound once virtual partners pass a certain threshold of
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
Nope, because all the carbon production until that point can be unwound. The shitty uncomfortable life that the "use less" camp wants me to live, cannot.
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
Yup. We have more than enough harnessable solar power to allow every single person a clean energy budget higher than a typical American, offset all other industrial carbon production, and start to unwind the last century of humanity's
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
Regardless of whether it's legally enforceable or not, any legal challenges will take longer to litigate than the intended anti-scalping effect over the coming year. Until it goes through the courts, they will likely refuse the transfe
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
Whether you like it or not, the dating game is fundamentally built on the objectification of others. It sucks, but pretending that's not the case doesn't change the reality of it. We're animals. We're programmed to want
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
Over the years, I've found that the "nurture is the only thing that matters" camp is typically intensely self-delusional. Despite hard evidence to the contrary, some people really really want to pretend that all human brains
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
Yeah, believe it or not I'm familiar with that word. Is it really that hard to understand that other people simply might not like the same things as you?
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"People who like different things than me definitely have pathological issues." Good luck winning people to your side with that.
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
> What's wrong with sharing space with other people? Do you have some kind of phobia? Not OP, but I enjoy and value having personal space when I travel. Being able to reliably sit down is also nice. It's amusing to see that you
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
A lot of people want to go directly from point A to B in the comfort of a car. You can't just brush that desire away just because you personally don't value it. And regardless of how America should have built up rail/bus inf
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
Hmmm, how does "trusted timestamping" and "remote attestation" fit into your assumption?
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Trusted hardware running remotely-attested trusted software can capture imagery that can be highly assured to be real. Trusted timestamping, when correctly implemented, completely prevents the generation of imagery after-the-fact. Any false
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
There is so much baseless hysteria about this subject. If society actually cared about this issue (spoiler, it doesn't), we already have all the required cryptographic tools (PKI, trusted timestamping, remote attestation) to create&#x2
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
What's your definition of "real understanding", and how would one definitively know when it's present? Various humans will display the same type of pathological behavior within various reasoning tasks, do all humans lack
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
Remote attestation mostly solves this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-... The downside is that this will quicken the normalization of consumer devices that we don't really own/control.
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
> What would be your suggestion on Kardaishan's energy consumption levels? Having a crash course? Couldn't care less. Seriously, go do the math on how much energy is available to us. It will blow your ignorant little mind.
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I don't even think that these people need to "justify" their energy use. It seems that the vast majority of people have an innate need to hate on other groups of people. Not only that, but it seems that when presented with a
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
No thank you. There's no need for that. Instead of this petty, divisive and hostile nonsense, how about we just acknowledge that our civilization is fundamentally based on energy use, and work towards making all our energy use carbon-n
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> If there was an effective, distributed means for training LLMs Is it reasonable to believe that this is possible? Distributed training requires extremely high-bandwidth and low-latency interconnect. The internet ain't that. Believ
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
This article is misleadingly conflating short-term analyses with long-term outcomes. The idea that "reasoning doesn't matter" in the long-term is absolutely asinine. Human-level general reasoning is obviously one of the covet
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by mrshadowgoose 3y ago
Couldn't agree more. We have so much untapped clean power radiating down onto our planet in the form of solar energy. Enough to provide every single human being with an energy budget far far in excess of a typical American. Yet so many
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rclone has a "mount" command.
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Out of all the nebulous carbon offset schemes that exist today, afforestation seems to be one of the least scammy options if ones adjusts for the fact that "future value" != "present value". Even the uncertainty of the l
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Same issue of "honesty" with afforestation-based credits. A ton of carbon removed during the growth of a new tree is not equivalent to a ton of carbon already removed today. However, as these types of projects actually do remove c
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The issue is that carbon offsets are poorly defined/regulated and are therefore almost never "honest". The definition of "honest" here, is that a purchased offset should represent a unit of carbon that has already b

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