namaria

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by namaria 2y ago
The universe is huge. Life seems to be unlikely since it's very concentrated. But the universe is very, very big and even if it is unlikely as it seems at the moment, it would be quite weird if it were unlikely to the point of only one
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by namaria 2y ago
No, it's not special people that develop civilization. Civilization development is a higher order phenomenon that doesn't depend on personalities. The Whig narrative that special personalities drive development is a post hoc expla
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by namaria 2y ago
I have no idea what point you're trying to make
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Where would this cultural specialty sit? We're all the same naked apes everywhere. Culture develops on the resources available. The human particles are too homogeneous for a group of special human behaviors to cause development. It is
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by namaria 2y ago
Culture is not the cause of development. It's the result. The complex human system always has a central area of development and an extended periphery. You can't have homogeneous development because development is the concentrati
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by namaria 2y ago
The locus of fast development will always develop superiority narratives. The fact is that there will always be a locus of concentrated development and it's not because it has a special culture.
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by namaria 2y ago
Markets are societal structures, as are corporations. They can be hijacked by special interest groups. They aren't inherently bad or good. But since citizens united there has been an enormous amount of maleficence and 'markets&#x2
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by namaria 2y ago
Is written language the only way you can conceive of empathizing? Besides, people seem more than happy to ignore the suffering of fellow humans, even as they profit from it. There would be no cheap electronics without great human suffering
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by namaria 2y ago
There hasn't been any social ruptures over the possible sentience of whales hunted to near extinction, dolphins caught in fishing nets, cows, pigs. There will be no uproar over the feelings of chatbots.
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by namaria 2y ago
You better hope no bugs expose you to liabilities like runaway cloud costs or mishandling sensitive data
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by namaria 2y ago
It is. The fact that 'streaming is a solved problem' has no bearing on any one company's ability to do it at scale. Solved problem means merely you don't have to invent something new, not that it is easy or within reach
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by namaria 2y ago
If it is just a matter of paying up, why hasn't ESA pulled it off? I'm pointing out and offering examples that "solved problem" has no bearing on the ease or organization capacity of any one group to do it. It is merely
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by namaria 2y ago
We're are extremely unlikely by any available measure.
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No it doesn't. India has landed on Mars for a fraction of the cost it took other nations, and the ESA has never been able to pull it off. Not every cost is fungible and money isn't always the limiting factor.
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It might be like a lot if there could have been intelligent civilizations 8 billion years older then us.
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by namaria 2y ago
I watch PBS spacetime assiduously. You can also consider the possibility that the intelligent civilizations of the universe don't even consider us a life form. I think about that a lot. "Maybe god and its creatures are not even aw
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by namaria 2y ago
Landing on Mars is a solved problem. Nuclear bombs are a solved problem. Doesn't mean anyone can just write a check and get it done and definitely doesn't mean any business model can bear that cost.
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by namaria 2y ago
"Solved" merely means you don't need to invent something new to solve it. It doesn't mean trivial nor easy. And it definitely doesn't mean the problem is above trade-offs.
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My question is, why would you want your containers writing to the box where they run? They should be context independent.
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That's still enough time for it to have happened 3 times over in this universe.
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A human specialized in any of those things vastly outperforms the average human let alone an LLM.
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I disagree since the book is using a functional programming language to advance the idea that CS is about procedural epistemology as opposed to the declarative stance of maths. The idea that a 'procedural programming paradigm' exi
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Sumerian and early Mesopotamian mythology is very interesting reading. I won't say it's ''aliens'' but there are some strong hints of more going on at the rise of civilization then just neolithic people coming
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Considering the size and age of the universe, it would be very very weird if earth apes were the pinnacle of intelligence. In fact I think the most likely explanation for the Fermi paradox is that we are kept isolated from other civilizatio
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by namaria 2y ago
I think in the context of the book 'procedural epistemology' encompasses all programming, not just what you'd call procedural programming.
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That would be true if there had been zero effort and money spent in subsidizing fossil fuels, hiding data about its true long term impact for decades and sabotaging efforts to move away from carbon dependence.
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"Knows the average relationship amongst all words in the training data" ftfy
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by namaria 2y ago
> But if I had $100 million, and could bet $200 thousand that someone can make me billions on machine learning chip design or whatever, I'd probably entertain that bet. It's a numbers game. Problem with this reasoning is twofol
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When did OpenMicroWave promise to solve every societal problem if we just gave it enough money to built a larger microwave oven?
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I think the operators are learning how to hype-edge. You find that sweet spot between promising and 'not just there yet' where you can take lots of investments and iterate forward just enough to keep it going. It doesn't matt

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