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by mxkopy 1y ago
Very small. There’s very little fundamental research into AI compared to neural networks from what I can tell
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by mxkopy 1y ago
IMO a tool like this doesn’t make sense until the hallucination problem is fixed
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by mxkopy 1y ago
This sounds more like a product than a composition but I’m not sure. I think the parent is hinting to use established compcomp language. Sipser is a good read for this
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by mxkopy 1y ago
Imagine if a dead pile of computers that wasn’t ours arrived in our solar system, I’d call that successful by some metric
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by mxkopy 1y ago
The coal miner would have to pivot to being someone who knows a lot about coal instead of someone that actually obtained it, they’d become more of a coal-advisor to the person making decisions about what type of or how much coal to get&#x2F
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by mxkopy 1y ago
Fireship consistently makes some of the most entertaining tech content out there
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by mxkopy 1y ago
To play devil’s advocate, there are some fairly specific and novel things going on in the US that I’m surprised HN doesn’t see more discussion of.
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by mxkopy 2y ago
I think the complication here is that brains are probabilistic, which admits the possibility that they can’t be directly related to non probabilistic computability classes. I think there’s a paper I forget the name of that says quantum comp
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by mxkopy 2y ago
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
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by mxkopy 2y ago
The cost of making 100 units of software is the same as the cost of making 100k units of software. There’s a relatively fixed population of people who pirate software (i.e. people who are independently good at cracking or knowledgeable enou
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by mxkopy 2y ago
As others have stated I don’t believe this is a good faith definition of passive income. What do you do with your time now that you don’t have to work? If you decided to sleep all day and spend money on consumption, I would call you ill. At
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by mxkopy 2y ago
Ok, argue for a smaller middle class all you want
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by mxkopy 2y ago
Capitalism only works when you have a middle class. Protecting billionaires’ abilities to hoard wealth is not in the interests of the middle class. To be charitable I’ll point out that in general that’s not what you’re arguing for. There is
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by mxkopy 2y ago
You can make just about anything a slippery slope if you wanted to - “they’re putting limits on guns, what’s next, kitchen knives?” Morally you should probably be spending more time figuring out how to get everyone their first car instead o
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by mxkopy 2y ago
I think the general vibe most people have would change if aliens were actually real This is like saying the normal people in the Marvel Universe are basically no different than people in ours, which I guess is true but only in the most supe
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by mxkopy 2y ago
There is no conclusive evidence that life has existed on Mars. In fact Mars is one of the lesser candidates for life due to its weak atmosphere and lack of tectonic activity/magnetic field. (Though Mars was much more fertile directly a
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by mxkopy 2y ago
From the CEO’s memo: “(you need to be joined at the hip with your teammates when inventing and solving hard problems)” Somewhat telling that he’d use a congenital disorder as a metaphor for how work should be done at Amazon
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by mxkopy 2y ago
We haven’t experimentally verified that such neurological inducement is possible. I bet we’ll be able to do so, but until then the question remains.
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by mxkopy 2y ago
The hard problem of consciousness is the same as the problem of describing to someone a color they’ve never seen before (i.e. the problem of qualia). Personally I think the information contained in qualia is finite and therefore physical bu
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by mxkopy 2y ago
I’d say it’s not only determinism, but also the social contract that’s missing. When I’m calling ‘getFirstChar’ from a library, me and the author have a good understanding of what the function does based on a shared context of common soluti
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by mxkopy 2y ago
> Again though, feel free to list the stuff we've lost. The first thing that comes to mind is dependence on other people. Modern life has made it possible for the average person after a certain age to live without meaningful interac
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by mxkopy 2y ago
It’s kind of hard to describe why we feel this is so irrefutable, but one of my favorite thought exercises is doing exactly that. My algorithms prof once took us on a fun journey describing the median-of-medians variation of the SELECT algo
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by mxkopy 2y ago
My experience is way different, I think most people understand criminal and civil cases as “the cops arrest you” vs “you need to go to a hearing”, which in most cases is the practical difference. Either way I think your overall point of not
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by mxkopy 2y ago
> The average person on the street probably couldn’t tell you if X celebrity was embroiled in a civil or criminal trial, merely that they’re in a trial. Source? I think the difference between criminal and civil cases is great enough that
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by mxkopy 2y ago
Don’t you think it’s kind of crazy that we are on the brink of understanding some fundamental things about cognition and what we seem to be most interested in are hotel bookings and product recommendations? Pity or what have you aside this
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by mxkopy 2y ago
In the grand scheme, what you’re talking about is very zero-sum, while stuff like making rockets is not. Uber vs Waymo is a good example of how adtech can only go so far in actually creating wealth.
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by mxkopy 2y ago
Followers of Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. have known this to be true for quite some time.
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by mxkopy 2y ago
The Static Speaks My Name and Braid also come to mind for me, but yeah I feel like most games are similar to folk literature if anything
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by mxkopy 2y ago
Industrial or technological progress, sure, but at the expense of cultural and societal progress. Tech trees are straightforward to visualize but I challenge you to think of a law tree or social norm tree as well.
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by mxkopy 2y ago
Can’t you build search from decision by deciding on every possible input?

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