namaria

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by namaria 2y ago
> achieved a 15-hour work week I think we did. And just filled the rest of the hours with performative work instead of going home, because of the "moral hazard" of plebs having free time and energy to invest in themselves and c
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by namaria 2y ago
The early conquistadors were horrible people as well and they brought about epochal change. I'm not supportive of any billionaire much less the ones actively corrupting democracies. But that doesn't mean that they won't cause
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by namaria 2y ago
> It's not make-belief to the mark > they believe
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by namaria 2y ago
Yes I am familiar with the physics behind what I said. Quoting a university textbook on a philosophical argument is an interesting choice. I have studied and reflected on the subject and I really think Boltzman brains and Schröedinger cat a
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by namaria 2y ago
Every video game engine is a simulation and many of them are a very simplified model of images of things happening instead of simulating the actual physics. Even "physics" in these engines is often just rendering an image.
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by namaria 2y ago
Did phone sex operators stars get million dollar incomes in the 70s and 80s? Was it a 10 digits industry then?
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by namaria 2y ago
An image of something is likely to be the simplest model of that thing that happened, and it has A LOT less information than a 3D model of arbitrary resolution would have.
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by namaria 2y ago
I don't know, I've always seen Boltzman brains like I see Schröedinger's cat. I think it was intended to show the absurdity of certain philosophical interpretations of the data available, but somehow got misapprehended as an
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by namaria 2y ago
Silicon valley figured out decades ago that the trick to keep R&D dollars flowing is to balance on the verge of getting amazing results (AI/AGI; defeat cryptography) and not proving these efforts fruitless. The end result needs onl
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by namaria 2y ago
Mirroring goes a long way.
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by namaria 2y ago
Black box reasoning. "I don't really understand this, but from what I hear..." People derive all sorts of misapprehensions from clumsy metaphorical explanations.
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by namaria 2y ago
> None of these words are in the Bible. Exodus 32:1-5
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by namaria 2y ago
I'm pretty sure the loophole Gödel found in the US constitution that might allow US government to become autocratic was the election of an autocrat president.
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by namaria 2y ago
Maybe something like Confuse-a-Cat but for writers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzi3k7K0lFA
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by namaria 2y ago
Surely then a worldwide militaristic repression of drug trade for a few decades should bring homelessness way down right?
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by namaria 2y ago
It's incredible the amount of work that goes into protecting the world from dangers it barely understands as a whole. And the scary thing is, one bumbling loudmouth politician can Duning-Kruger us into a major catastrophe by throwing a
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by namaria 2y ago
Seconded. Losing a phone every 2 years and the stories GP tells sound like a string of bad decisions.
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by namaria 2y ago
> When Argrarian societies industrialized into developing countries, the growth in better paying manufacturing jobs was enough to absorb the increasing number of poeple moving into cities This is just not true. The influx of urban popula
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by namaria 2y ago
> Thus the rational I think you meant rationale
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by namaria 2y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. Acquisition of a second language is a very narrow field of research and to claim that there is a clear consensus on what works best is showing very little insight.
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by namaria 2y ago
No word trick. Just pointing out that there's some nuance to it. > Carbon dioxide consists of quarks and electrons. But this is just plain wrong. Carbon dioxide consists of carbon dioxide molecules. There is no "carbon-dioxidit
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by namaria 2y ago
I have acquired several languages, and I can tell you that naive memorization is a poor proxy for language acquisition. The best way to acquire a language is to use it a lot, consume a lot and produce a lot of language. Memorizing words and
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by namaria 2y ago
I think you're making fun of me, which is fine. But memorizing in stead of learning is an anxiety driven behavior that leads to inefficient use of time. You're welcome to do it but I am trying to contribute my own hard earned less
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by namaria 2y ago
Right, I misread your comment. Sorry!
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by namaria 2y ago
> It shocked me a bit that writing has only been independently invented 4 times in known human history In the middle east alone there are several ancestral writing systems that can't be traced to a single origin.
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by namaria 2y ago
> Atoms are not indivisible They are the smallest unit of a substance that cannot be broken down into smaller units of the same substance. They are, in a sense, indivisible.
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by namaria 2y ago
You exemplify well a big problem with LLMs: When people see accurate enough output on some test question and take it as evidence that they can trust the output to any extent on areas they don't dominate.
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by namaria 2y ago
A net positive in the long term matters little when it can mean a lifetime of unemployment to a generation of humans. It's easy to dismiss the human suffering incurred during industrialization when we can enjoy its fruits but those who
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by namaria 2y ago
> A challenge is that it’s not easy to limit hallucinations without also limiting imagination and synthesis. > In humans. True, but distinguishing reality from imagination is a cornerstone of mental health. And it's becoming appa
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by namaria 2y ago
Storing facts is a poor proxy for acquired knowledge or skill. When you are good at something, you know a lot of facts. Trying to memorize facts to get good at something is inverting the order of factors. You memorize a lot of facts about a

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