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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
"You’re bringing emotion and hunches and your own biases to this more than the reasonable reply." <-- what are you talking about or is this a generic observation that is being applied here out of context? Humian philosophy ackn
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
Genocide is not complicated.
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
lol... genocide defenders get the last word.
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
I used to shame PG for his elitist views. Now I celebrate his moral courage. One man cannot fix everything. Dear PG (I'm sure you don't read HN, but this is yet another echo), As I said on X, your own platform (YCombinator) is sti
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
If you think about it, all thinking is magical (in the sense that we, the universe and any of this exists at all.) Having said that, there is no magical thinking in asserting that the government is bad at software. The government is bad at
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
For ascii to look right, not messed up, the generator has to know the width of the div in ascii characters, e.g. 80, 240, etc, so it can make sure the lines don't wrap. So how does an LLM know anything about the UI it's serving? I
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
That's a defensible perspective.
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
I had no idea. But I believe the same deal with Einstein being a dick to his wife and never acknowledging his friend who taught him the math he used in his work (I read about that recently from a respectable source.) I guess that makes sens
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
I understand Brussels is the de facto capital of the EU in terms of the EU institutions located there. One random association that came up when I read this is that Brussels is where the Session team is located (Session is the P2P version of
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
> The camera app both asks you to pick one the first time you use it, and lets you edit it on photos after you've taken them./ Well, that's a relief.
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
"in collaboration with others at Thinking Machines" If you're old enough, you might remember Danny Hillis' Thinking Machines from the late 80s. I wish they had chosen a different name (I say this for nostalgic reasons, h
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
I was walking in a narrow street in Granada, Spain yesterday and two guys on their scooters where going at 40mph, on a street meant mostly for pedestrians. They pollute like cars (the stink is the same, even if smaller engine.) When people
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
Sure, it could up until some point where in order for it to figure out that it has to use a tool or access the Internet it will need more intelligence (to know that its answer or understanding is not sufficient or incorrect) How do we as hu
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
Perpetual Motion Machines were a thing at some point, too.
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
Search for "hotdog" (ctrl-f or cmd-f) in this page: https://candid9.com/phone-camera/
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
In my somewhat educated opinion, David Chaum is the OG inventor of crypto currency aka digital cash (eCash), back all the way in 1982. He was last seen pitching family offices in the UAE pitching AstroCool, a concept involving spraying moon
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
I have an iPhone 13 mini, just replaced the battery. If you want my money, give me an iPhone 17 mini with small width and height, I don't care about it being thinner like the Air. Also, no AI ruining the image quality of the expensive
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the history on this.
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
I asked people who use platforms like X and Substack (Notes) why they don't use Mastodon and they said they can't discover new people and new content.
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LLMs and Quantum Measurement: An Analogy(understoryai.substack.com)
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LLMs, Quantum Measurement, and a Primitive of Consciousness(understoryai.substack.com)
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
[Yuk,] a thing where?
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by nakamoto_damacy 1y ago
LLMs have no embodied sense of the world. They talk as if they understand and experience emotion, when they don't have actual embodied feelings/sensations/pain/pleasure/etc. For example, ou can think about how frenc