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by namaria 2y ago
> In a zero-sum game world USA does not join WW1 nor WW2. Instead it waits for Europe to collapse and invade to establish "American Europe". Anything else is suboptimal. That would have led to Soviet Europe. This is a very naiv
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by namaria 2y ago
This list does not have the latest data from Brazilian cities. The Brazilian list I linked has dozens of Brazilian cities with a homicide rate of around 80 per 100.000.
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by namaria 2y ago
You're absolutely right. The rational thing for you to do is to enable further exploitation of your own class and hand over the extra profit on a silver plate to others.
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by namaria 2y ago
Professional mastering costs considerably more than 10 quids per track, and vinyl mastering, to my point, is a niche and somewhat arcane skill set.
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by namaria 2y ago
Haven't you understood that my argument is precisely that intelligence comprises more than performing computations? I know you think this is a gotcha moment so I will just sing off on this note. You think physical = computable. I think
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by namaria 2y ago
Not why you build software man, why are you taking 3 jobs and foregoing receiving 3 salaries.
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by namaria 2y ago
Knowing what I learned about vinyl mastering back when I was DJing in college... There's about to be a whole lot of shitty records out there.
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by namaria 2y ago
By denying access to basic services like education and health care, brutalizing the poor and enforcing laws selectively (black kid with few grams of weed = dealer; white kid with 50g and a digital scale = user), the government makes sure th
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by namaria 2y ago
Most of the 50 most violent cities in Brazil aren't even the biggest in their State. The top 3 are all between 100 thousand and 150 thousand inhabitants. They all have homicide rates that are 2x to 4x as much as the national average. B
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by namaria 2y ago
Let's see how incarcerating poor people in droves without due legal process will play out in the long term. Brazil has been doing that for a long time. We have very strong nation wide crime syndicates expanding into Latin America now.
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by namaria 2y ago
> Well, its sad, but I am likely replacing 3 people on their team. Are you capturing this value? Are you getting paid 4x as much as before? If you are not capturing this increase in the value of your work, who is? If you're not gett
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by namaria 2y ago
I think the whole 'majority' point is supposed to be a racist dog whistle.
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by namaria 2y ago
Historically voting with your feet seems to yield way better results.
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by namaria 2y ago
> Most companies start small with AI, automating $50/hour tasks like customer service chats Is that how much the author thinks Consumer Service Representatives are paid? Is that a measure of how out of touch the author is? > When
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by namaria 2y ago
> 1. What property of a fertilised egg enables it to compute uncomputable things? The question is malformed. How can something compute an uncomputable thing? > 2. If that property is a physical property, what prevents simulation of it
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by namaria 2y ago
> the only possible explanation is that the egg posseses extraphysical properties This is wrong. Computability is by no means the same as physicality. That's the whole point and you're just ignoring it to make some strawman acc
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by namaria 2y ago
They agree with you and the results are clear. I am not advocating anything, I left that mess behind because I am not interested in living like that.
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by namaria 2y ago
There's no magical thinking involved in discussing the limits of computability. That is a well researched area that was involved in the invention of digital computers. Penrose's argument is interesting and I am inclined to agree w
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by namaria 2y ago
They also learned a long time ago to not evaluate the underlying product. Some products that were passed on by big players went on to become huge. So they learned to evaluate the founders. They go by social proof and that's how they we
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by namaria 2y ago
That is a simplistic assumption. These cities you mentioned have nowhere near the same problem that Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, for example, have. Brazilian police do overwhelming policing against poor communities and the resulting brutal
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by namaria 2y ago
I agree. Language manipulation is a projection of something higher order. LLMs can shuffle the projection but they clearly cannot go over the gap to the higher order thinking.
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by namaria 2y ago
There is no god of the gaps argument being made. The argument is pretty clear. LLMs are at a local optimum that is quite far from the global optimum of actual general intelligence that humans have achieved. Some like Penrose even argue that
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by namaria 2y ago
No. The US wants Ukraine to capitulate. If you read some history and learn what happens when a country capitulates to Russia you'd realize that's much, much worse than resisting.
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by namaria 2y ago
> It is like living in a city where crime is expected so everyone puts up iron bars on their windows and the parks are all locked-down nightmares. That's life in Brazilian big cities. Brazil has been very violent for a long time bec
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by namaria 2y ago
Programmable computers will accept any amount of complexity you throw at them. Therein lies the problem. The challenge is not packing more complexity, the challenge is getting rid of all but inessential complexity. Every silver bullet is se
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by namaria 2y ago
Agents seem to be such a massive, glaring security concern. I feel like I took crazy pills. Why is everyone releasing these and giving them more and more access??
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by namaria 2y ago
None of the points you raised about horses and car mirror the points OP raised about software engineering at all. You're not making a point, you're just mocking the points they made.
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by namaria 2y ago
That's usually how it goes with 'AI'. It is very impressive on the golden path, but the world is 80% edge cases.
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by namaria 2y ago
Three black suburbans in a row are definitely very conspicuous.
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by namaria 2y ago
Nobody is sculpting better than Michellangelo with angle grinders though.

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