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by n4r9 4mo ago
How does it benefit the UK government to block social media for children?
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by n4r9 4mo ago
Maybe they are already doing it. But they're allowed to want the same for others too.
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by n4r9 4mo ago
> In the 1960s, four Porsche 912s were customized for use as police cars in Japan Fascinating. So many follow-on questions. Why four exactly? Were they all in Tokyo, or spread around? Did they get used for anything other than highway pat
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by n4r9 4mo ago
One imagines that quality of life ought to increase as technology evolves and the economy grows.
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by n4r9 4mo ago
This argument fails if you consider that incarceration makes people more likely to commit crimes when they get out, not less
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by n4r9 4mo ago
Partly depends on what you mean by "London". I don't want to work for FAANG/AI/finance/gambling so our combined salary is well under the 180 figure. Yet we bought a 2-bed terraced house with a garden and drivew
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by n4r9 4mo ago
Median senior dev salary is £70k according to recent job postings: https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/senior%20developer.do
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by n4r9 5mo ago
The problem is perhaps more theoretical than you might think. The security of post-quantum schemes basically comes down to the fact that researchers have thought long and hard about whether there are efficient classical or quantum algorithm
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by n4r9 5mo ago
And to add to this, sensations do lie. We hear voices that aren't there, things feel hot when they're cold, we feel stationary when we're hurtling around the sun at high speed. Our bodies are not built to sense the truth of
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by n4r9 5mo ago
Amazingly CEX is still there, next to KFC. Odeon is still there at the top of the Rotunda. There's also now a Curzon cinema at the top of the Bentall centre. New Malden, Raynes Park, Norbiton all in London in my mind, and their Wikiped
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by n4r9 5mo ago
Even so, the "quality" of an experience could be regarded as an interpretation of sensations.
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by n4r9 5mo ago
Wilkinson's is no longer there. Replaced by an arcade style venue called Urban Fun, I think. Many Kingstoners probably think of themselves as being in London. There's some graffiti on the way in to London on the A3 that says &quot
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by n4r9 5mo ago
I think the article has an interesting argument here. We also "experience" the sun going up and down in the sky. But actually this is an illusion of our vantage point on a spinning rock.
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by n4r9 5mo ago
No, I mean that the logical possibility itself is neither obvious nor intuitive. If you physically copied me atom by atom, every instinct in me says that the result has conscious experience. I'd need some serious convincing otherwise.
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by n4r9 5mo ago
Thanks for the reference, that looks like a pretty thorough review. It seems to me that Chalmers already precludes the possibility of physical/materialist explanations with his claim, quoted in the first section: > There is a logica
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by n4r9 5mo ago
Qualia is the term people often use to mean "what it's like". The hard problem is "why is there qualia". This of course assumes that qualia exists as a coherent thing, which some philosophers dispute.
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by n4r9 5mo ago
Scirate.com has been going since before 2010 and still active as far as I'm aware. Mostly used by quantum info folks though.
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by n4r9 5mo ago
Firefox on android slowed right down... couldn't scroll or even navigate back here.
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by n4r9 6mo ago
My laptop runs Windows.
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by n4r9 6mo ago
I dunno, we found that our kid slept slightly better moved to his own room at 5 or 6 months old. Although that meant maybe 4 wakings rather than 5. Now he's nearly three years old and sleeps solidly for 10 or 11 hours. My guess is that
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by n4r9 6mo ago
Where's the download link?
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by n4r9 6mo ago
> Feeding is easy. Mileage may definitely vary on that one.
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by n4r9 6mo ago
At 8pm, and then 10pm, then 10:30pm, then 12am, then 2am, then 3:30am, then 5am.
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by n4r9 6mo ago
"Value" is not this objective measure that can be deduced from someone's output. It depends on many variables like cost of living, the job market, tech trends, and industry competition. Could very easily fluctuate 50% or more
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by n4r9 6mo ago
Ah, good to know!
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by n4r9 6mo ago
Nokia still make phones. They even had a line of smartphones until last year. I've got an XR20 "rugged" phone that's served me well for a few years.
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by n4r9 6mo ago
Let's say a given B2B system deployment typically requires 100 custom behaviours/scripts and 3 years worth of effort. A team of ten people can execute such a deployment in 3-4 months. The team has the capacity to fix up issues cau
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by n4r9 6mo ago
Could you give some examples? It'd have to be pretty bad to get close to the reports about Altman.
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by n4r9 6mo ago
> any such galactic intelligence would probably recognize that its predecessor were meat Perhaps it's predecessor was just advanced enough to build self-modifying replicators and fire them out into space. Eventually it hits a planet
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by n4r9 7mo ago
The concern for me about LLMs confabulating is not that humans don't do it. It's that the massive scale at which LLMs will inevitably be deployed makes even the smallest confabulation extremely risky.

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