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by mxkopy 2y ago
As always the real takeaway is to repeal Citizen’s United
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by mxkopy 3y ago
I’ll never forget the experience of reading Lost in the Funhouse the morning after a decent dose of LSD. Definitely something I wish I could do a second time
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by mxkopy 3y ago
It would make for a good sci fi novel, but yeah. Cryptography is cutthroat in the sense that if you’re even a little imprecise people can and will break your scheme. At some level of development the material will just filter out people from
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by mxkopy 3y ago
For any fixed compression scheme, there is an input string that is actually lengthened by it rather than shortened. However Huffman isn’t a fixed compression scheme since it makes a different frequency tree for different corpora.
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by mxkopy 3y ago
I feel like a conversion from binary strings to Unicode/Chinese characters would be in PTIME, so adding a conversion machine would be a nonfactor for languages in most complexity classes.
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by mxkopy 3y ago
The online version is finding people through gaming, it seems like (which is happening somewhat frequently). So basically the same advice applies (find relationships not dates). To your point though it’s a sign of how off the beaten path we
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by mxkopy 3y ago
This viewpoint comes about from a lack of empathy/knowledge of the type of pain that would want someone to seek death. As a general rule of thumb, trying to decide someone’s own stream of consciousness is assholeish behavior.
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by mxkopy 3y ago
Is it possible to even approximate a universal/perfect insulator? If not, then there will always be some situation in the universe that will have some effect on a static entity, unless it stops being static by adapting. Now, in terms o
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by mxkopy 3y ago
I wonder if this is more due to the pressure to be descriptive than because of any sort of internal dialogue. If I’m being asked to do a study I feel that I need to contribute by adding something ‘new’ and ‘substantive’ for each question (w
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by mxkopy 3y ago
The things that make the maintenance of modern infrastructure easier themselves need maintenance. There’s also a hedonic treadmill effect, where we start to expect the amenities that modern infrastructure affords and use them as a base for
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by mxkopy 3y ago
On a less extreme note I do think parents can instill less individualistic/materialistic/extractive ideals in their children; I think these things - more the socio than the economic - are the main drivers of lower birth rates as e
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by mxkopy 3y ago
I wonder if this was part of the inspiration for Outer Wilds , where the system’s planets are so small that they could be explored with wooden spaceships.
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by mxkopy 3y ago
A war on crime can always be used as a scapegoat for other things, but promoting a culture of resilience through acceptance is a weird thing to hijack IMO.
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by mxkopy 3y ago
In these cases the bulk of such institutions is a bureaucratic apparatus, which serves as a tool. You cannot judge a tool for being used for evil purposes, and in the charge of those with different intentions, it may be used for better purp
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by mxkopy 3y ago
These things are not mutually exclusive
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by mxkopy 3y ago
It happens at lower levels too, when the company is too broke to give bonuses
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by mxkopy 3y ago
The purpose of writing single letter variables IMO is to allow for quick assessments of structure as opposed to meaning. For example it makes nesting more obvious. In math there’s also some incentive to elide the meaning of a variable compl
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by mxkopy 3y ago
IME WebSockets work fine on Firefox but not on Safari, at least not naively
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by mxkopy 3y ago
From my (complete lack of) understanding, it’s unlikely that spacetime is discrete, so maybe not.
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by mxkopy 3y ago
> That is because the average matter distribution in the universe is the same in all directions from us, so the "gravity" from it cancels out. Can't gravity have an infinitesimally small effect, which means this matter dis
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by mxkopy 3y ago
I actually made no statements about the race of the shoplifters. Indeed, I don't think the effects of slavery are isolated to groups of people with a certain skin color. I'm not going to address the first two points you made becau
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by mxkopy 3y ago
If you want me to spell it out for you, 15 year old kids in Chicago are stealing clothes and shoes because the effects of slavery have had as-of-yet unaddressed generational effects on people. Schemes like Kids for Cash serve to remind peop
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by mxkopy 3y ago
I don't know if you classify misappropriation of government funds, grift, and politically motivated administrative decisions as white collar crime, but that sort of stuff is a large part of the reason for why this sort of thing is cult
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by mxkopy 3y ago
What I'd like to see is some algorithm that converts DNNs -> steps undertaken by Turing machines, and then maybe Transformers -> Turing machines. There's definitely a way to do so, at the very least by graph isomorphism.
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by mxkopy 3y ago
it's arxiv chill
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by mxkopy 3y ago
Do electrons get stale? I'd wager that, since space expands everywhere in all directions, they do get stretched out over time, or something.
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by mxkopy 3y ago
They probably didn’t mention it because, like you pointed out in the sentence immediately after your question, it makes the philosophy ill-formed and dare I say uninteresting. Are languages real? Sure, I guess. Why not. They’re made of conc
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by mxkopy 3y ago
If you mean to say that on average, if you sample from a distribution of randomly-assembled instructions, then code with more lines will run longer, then that's fair. However, I don't think that most code is randomly-assembled, so
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by mxkopy 3y ago
> From first principles, you should always expect that regulation increases prices and the burden of proof is to argue why it would not. This reads like: From first principles, you should always expect that adding lines of code increases
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by mxkopy 3y ago
"True AGI" is often used in a way that means "human-like intelligence, but faster, more consistent and of greater depth". In that case, knowing that embodied agents are the way forward is quite trivial. We've known

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