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by mxkopy 4y ago
You contradict yourself. Japan is widely known to be behind on gender equality, much more so than the U.S., and you point out that birth rates are declining faster there. Which means if anything that women's rights increases birth rate
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There's this saying, "It takes a village to raise a child." I'd say > The concept of play date and > expectations on parent actively playing with kids, actively teaching them or doing enriching activities are highe
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> What is special about those specific children? Ostensibly, they're part of the community. I'd argue it's not impossible, but even necessary, for the needs of a community to align with the needs of an individual. Reducing
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by mxkopy 4y ago
"Supervised" does not mean "interacting with someone else", it usually means they're locked in a room with an adult. That adult does not have to be engaging them. > And in poor families both parents frequently ne
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I have zero faith that OpenAI will open source their AGI, and I'm sure that it'll be developed by techniques considered proprietary
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Last I checked there are still 350 million people living in a country where getting price gouged in healthcare is the norm
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by mxkopy 4y ago
You don't think OpenAI won't price-gouge the shit out of everyone suffering from those diseases? Not even that - you don't think they won't sell exclusive licenses for this kind of thing?
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Ah yes, the noble declarations of righteousness and forethought. I am so grateful that such an esteemed and pure-of-heart company is taking care of our future. /s
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Lower interest rates are categorically not lower prices. A rich person can make low interest rates go exponentially further than a poor one; lending and borrowing is the game of the wealthy. Whenever I hear 'lower interest rates'
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by mxkopy 4y ago
If we can only describe them in terms of other fields, I'd say math is like law and CS is like physics. In math you can kind of say whatever you want, but in CS it's meaningless unless it's in the context of some sort of comp
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Lambda calculus was an experiment, I'd say. Wolfram's rule 30 too, though granted it's not that significant. You have to do a bit of science whenever something unexpected comes around and you have to fit it into what you know
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> I think CS has the potential to reframe a huge number of fields and offer a different or unique take on how those fields might approach problems. e.g. a chemical reaction could be reframed as a computation that takes inputs and produce
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by mxkopy 4y ago
There's also the experience of knowing something, and I imagine it's like parentheses, exactly the same as knowing something. Again this whole know/experience distinction is presumptuous given our knowledge of neurobiology. C
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by mxkopy 4y ago
This whole waste of breath is based on the obviously artificial distinctions between knowledge, experience, sensing, imagination and whatever other made up modes of thought this person comes up with. "Mary knows every fact" "
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by mxkopy 4y ago
When your hire can prove your algorithm runs in O(1) amortized time but has trouble setting up ssh and always commits to master, and you turn down a candidate who got stumped on rederiving Bellman-Ford but maintains several projects, I&#x27
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> Horray, effective altruism! Yup, there we go
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by mxkopy 4y ago
At some point I figured that "everything has qualia" and "qualia doesn't exist", when taken to their logical conclusions, are actually identical beliefs. Though I suspect I'll need quite a lot more crack cocain
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I suggest you look into Roger Scruton's interpretation of Wittgenstein's private language argument. I think it might go something like this: You want an explanation for the sensation of the color red? Alright, I'll try, as l
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by mxkopy 4y ago
The issue is, what else would we call the rock that does all the things a CPU does? If we can socket it into the motherboard and play games on it, what makes it so different?
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In tandem with that article there are also all those findings about GPT training smaller gradient descent models inside itself which is very interesting. That particularly seems rather... strange. I'm sure Hofstader would dislike peopl
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by mxkopy 4y ago
The book doesn't really go that much into the hard problem of consciousness, as much of the ideas are orthogonal to that discussion. If Nagel asks, "What is like to be a bat?", Hofstadter asks "If the mind of a bat were
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I'm surprised that in all this hype Gödel Escher Bach hasn't seen a proportional comeback. Hofstadter outlines with some formality a very plausible kind of structure of consciousness, namely the "strange loop": a system
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Humans have a hard time treating each other as if they were conscious, let alone an AI. I think we'll find that if it's useful to treat an AI as if it has moods, personalities, wants etc. we'll do so. As for ethical framework
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by mxkopy 4y ago
It's deeper than private vs. public. It's more about the "employed" bit. For a very long time, helping your community and being involved in it meant you got to eat. That's no longer the case. It's perfectly via
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I think the 'natural' internal representation of the world is that of a story. Today's stories are downright deranged. What's worse is that many of them are true so we have to internalize them. Fuck Lovecraft, but I thin
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Presumably OP is talking about Western societies, in which the dominant form of getting sustenance involves making money, which in turn involves following business incentives.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Once (if?) the chatGPT servers are up I'm going to ask for a rap battle between 42 Dugg and Daniel Dennett to test exactly this hypothesis. I'm confident that the output will be stylistically different but maybe only superficially
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by mxkopy 4y ago
This premise is very similar to the Dune prequel series. Before FTL travel was discovered, AI dominated the galaxy in the sharded manner you describe. An interesting plot point dealt with what happens if one of these shards doesn't mer
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by mxkopy 4y ago
My go-to for learning new programming languages is project E. The problems progress very nicely, from simple loops to combinatorial search and beyond. But my favorite thing about it is it's all math. I can't really be bothered to
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> Experiencing hardship conveys authority. > There is no hierarchy of oppressions—except for anti-black oppression, which is in a class of its own. > Trust black women. > Prison is never the answer. > Black people need black

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