mxkopy

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by mxkopy 4y ago
People who think a lot about safety are the bad actors when 1. there are incentives other than safety at play and 2 . nobody actually knows what safety entails because the tech is so new
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by mxkopy 4y ago
The thing is that words are supposed to be useful. If a word can't tell the difference between photons, stars, and everything in between, then it's not very useful anymore. Calling all of these things 'alive' would just
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> I've never stated that, I've posed a relevant, important philosophical question If you think this then go publish a paper and see how the community receives it. They decide what's important and relevant, not you.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Again, do people need reminding of who agrees with who? What is the purpose other than to give points to each other? And I obviously wasn't agreeing with them, under any reading of the reply.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
You can't "cut to the core of deep philosophical questions" when you don't know the basics. For example, this > we can already comprehensively model some biological neurological systems in their entirety, in silicon.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> would this mean they're equivalent to a language model? This is just a bad question. For one, we know that ChatGPT doesn't use neurological mechanisms. It has no proteins. It's not analogous. You're comparing meters
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> the reality is that no "intelligence" is sure if what it's saying may be correct or constitute any kind of "knowledge" This is not true. An intelligence should almost by definition be able to recognize patterns
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> Congress are cowards and won’t do what should be done - raise taxes. They're still cowards for not doing it but what should've been done is an increase in interest rates half a decade ago.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
The Planck length is often confused to mean the smallest discrete unit of space, but it's more like the size of the smallest 'window' through which information can travel without becoming a black hole. The endpoints of that &
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> Those thinkers are being silly. They're basically saying that consciousness is literally magic. "...[the strong CT thesis] is widely believed to be wrong, primarily because quantum computation stands as a highly likely counte
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> I think the main factor's that Nintendo's got this weird cheap-on-the-hardware-side-premium-on-the-software-side thing going on. So do you think this is the weird economics that's responsible for Nintendo shifting more t
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Nintendo started doing DLCs after 2017. Which again makes me wonder if they're doing it because everyone else is, or some weird economics is making it unprofitable to not do it.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Well Nintendo also doesn't do microtransactions or DLCs. I'm sure if they did that they could afford more sales. I'm wondering if not having microtransactions is just not profitable anymore.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Have you noticed that their old games are barely discounted from the price they were originally at when they released? Super Mario Galaxy is still $60, for example. I wonder if Pandora's box has been opened and everyone wants in on tho
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I wonder if there's a way to train a LLM while it has access to such tools.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> I still believe that most law enforcement officers want to do the right thing It's been legally determined that "the right thing" is 1. protection of property 2. protection of the status quo (i.e. the rule of law regardl
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Most if not all of our social problems can be solved with enough education. If you're the type of person to read census data for fun you'll probably not want to have kids. If you're exposed to the liberal arts continuously th
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Sparse matrices (i.e. filled mostly with zeroes) are apt to represent discrete structures, since you can interpret them as binary/n-hot vectors as opposed to points in space. I'd imagine there's some potential to do sparse ma
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Indeed, one of the ways in which someone was trying to prove that Navier-Stokes can't be solved was to build a Turing machine out of turbulent vortices. If it's possible, then an analytic solution to their motion would be equivale
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by mxkopy 4y ago
>The birth rate decline happened in the 60-70s. >Shouldnt look at what was happening then?
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by mxkopy 4y ago
As you're kind of implying, both 'intent' and 'design' are ideas that sort of revolve around the 'mind', which makes this whole discussion prone to being metaphysics. If for example you think that the des
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> the intent was in the person who designed the piece of plastic to catch the eye. What if the creator is dead? The only place the intent can reside, then, is in the things they left. And the only thing I'm trying to say here is t
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by mxkopy 4y ago
If that piece of plastic was made with the intent of being eye-catching than I think it's fair to say that "it's trying to catch the eye", even as just a shortcut. Your thought experiment doesn't hold; if someone we
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> Science is based on chasing the gods out of natures. This is very poetic, but it's incorrect. The divide between religion and science is largely historical, not inherent. Latour was mentioned and is a great read, and I'd also
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by mxkopy 4y ago
You can't think of any ways in which previous generations affect later ones?
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by mxkopy 4y ago
You should be talking about a hundred years ago. The causes for these trends aren't spontaneous, they're historical. So you look at history. Are the 1970's really more important than WWI? than the industrial revolution? than
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by mxkopy 4y ago
There are too many factors for me to take studies like this seriously. For example, what does 'education' mean? Does this word have the same meaning in the context of 17th century Europe? 8th century B.C. Egypt? If we're talk
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> Huh? “More social responsibilities”? Like what? Plenty of women choose to have lots of kids. There is no “responsibility”. This is incoherent. Average modern life has many more social demands than it did 100 years ago. > You seem of
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> Women will choose to have fewer kids if given the option. This right here. Having a kid is an intensely personal and individual decision. Generalizations like this are the essence of bigotry. Women that have more social responsibilitie
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Believe it or not, women don't have to be forced into having kids. That you view this as important to birth rates is messed up TBH

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