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by mxkopy 3y ago
It all depends on if they're in the business of producing the whitepapers that drive ML advancements in the first place. AI is far from a solved problem and whoever gets to it first wins. We have GPT because of a billion dollars worth
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by mxkopy 3y ago
It's true, but Eufloria looks better to the point that I'd prefer it for the style alone
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by mxkopy 3y ago
If we gave an AI the ability to play with Turing machines, it could develop an understanding much larger than the universe, encompassing even alternate ones. The trouble, then, would be narrowing its knowledge to this one.
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by mxkopy 3y ago
The best game I've ever played on mobile is Eufloria, which is an RTS. I wish there were more games like it.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
It implies a direct connection with neurochemistry that's much less direct than drugs (and even moreso diet), which can directly stimulate the release of dopamine. For example if I'm feeling tired of scrolling through memes, I can
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by mxkopy 4y ago
In my experience you don't become terminally online unless there's something else going on in your life. People talking about the ills of social media seem to forget that children nowadays are: institutionalized for 8 hours of the
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> if the dopaminergic effects are not dissimilar to drugs I highly doubt the implied semantics of this statement. We don't know everything there is to know about "dopaminergic effects". The pharmacology of smoking weed is
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by mxkopy 4y ago
"Are you a fed? Are you the f**ing feds right now?" - Denzel Curry https://youtu.be/tAPhvNmzDHU
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> simultaneous reduction in productivity Hasn't productivity been on the rise the past X years? Shouldn't we have a little slack by this point?
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by mxkopy 4y ago
That's true but it's also true of some other dark body of the same mass. "do nothing to refracted light" was poor wording, my bad - it's more like gravitational lensing is the only thing that happens to its light,
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> It's also clearly being used to attack our society and infrastructure via children with poor judgement and little to fear from our criminal justice system. If only we had a system which taught children how to make better decisions
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I don't know which reductionist framework you're working with to make these comparisons, but they're wrong, because they're reductionist. Some people like war, maybe things were awesome for them? Not to mention that huma
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by mxkopy 4y ago
The bowl (and the table, for that matter) move enough for useful measurements to be made wrt things inside the milky way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_in_astronomy
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Astronomy is afforded very few epistemological amenities. In a sense, N can only go up if we get independent verification from different techniques. However, our tools have become incredibly sophisticated and sensitive so we can be very sur
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by mxkopy 4y ago
This is really easy to say for someone who doesn't experience these issues firsthand. Not reading the news isn't going to make your existential anxiety go away if you or your parents give it to you, either by helicoptering or livi
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> or circumventing copyright protection Exactly, you just named a subset of all the things you could do to a machine, partitioned by copyright protection. I'd agree with your general point in the context of power users, but it'
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Those are the demographic criteria that I'd expect to maximize time spent on social media. White + liberal => probably middle class & have some time for leisure; girls => see the number of likes as a measure of their worth, i
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by mxkopy 4y ago
The army says "slow is smooth, smooth is fast"
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> Or rather, you didn't lose control because of any software license. We lost control because of cryptography and enforced signature verification. I'm not sure what you mean by this. It's the law that's a barrier, not
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> the remote option appeals to individuals who don’t want to “hustle” as much as they should. Americans’ “work ethic” is lacking It's desperation. Americans are lacking the desperation necessary to endure unnatural commutes and spac
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Going from $30,000 to $0 is a much bigger loss than $3M to $100K...
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by mxkopy 4y ago
https://www.palomar.edu/users/bthompson/Hypothesis%20Contrar...
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> historic trend line as evidence What history? The last 50 years or so? That's barely a recollection of yesterday's meal by anthropic standards. You're confusing westernization for wealth. The two are correlated by coinci
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by mxkopy 4y ago
100% this, I think the key to doing this successfully lies in replacing your mind as you stop using it (i.e. as you're going to sleep)
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It's not that different though. 'Fasces' means 'a bundle of sticks bound tightly together', which signifies how the uniformity of a people can be made into a powerful instrument put into the hand of a single person.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
You can get fired for stealing from the company. You can get fired for attacking a customer. I'm not talking about those things, I'm talking specifically about getting fired because of someone's psychology , even - especiall
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by mxkopy 4y ago
That's kind of a contrived example. Having a uniform doesn't help you load groceries or stock shelves, but wearing a tinkerbell costume does in fact help you act like tinkerbell. It'd be more like if Disney required the actre
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I don't like how the writer absolves the individual of any responsibility in perpetuating 'Moloch'. It's not the case that we live in > a dictatorless dystopia, one that every single citizen including the leadership h
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by mxkopy 4y ago
People who are worried about things they have no control over usually have other issues. "Emulating those who are doing fine" usually means just not having issues.
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What should happen is a thorough investigation of our assumptions about economics and see if they hold true. 20-30 years ago saying "just get a robot to do it" would've been met with great cynicism, but now it's not that

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