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by nearbuy 2y ago
I don't think that's an excuse these days, especially for algebra. My first semester at university, we had an elderly professor for Linear Algebra and ODEs who mumbled largely incomprehensibly and seemed to be losing his memory. I
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He's talking about taking students who can't do grade 7-9 math and charging them $200,000 and several years of their life for the promise of a career they almost never get. These students are getting screwed over hard. Most of the
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But like the brain, language is Turing-complete. Any information Mary's brain can figure out can also be described in language. If the brain could deduce something that couldn't be described with math and language, it would be doi
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That's the normal physicalist position as far as I'm aware. Is there a physicalist theory where the simulation isn't conscious? I was replying to a commenter who doubted that a non-conscious entity could mimic a person accura
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> or at least that all such effects are shallow enough that they can be perfectly faked Physicalism implies that things we wouldn't intuitively think of as conscious can perfectly mimic all such effects. Imagine there's a perso
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Do you have any such evidence? You linked a paywalled article saying that TikTok works with its parent company, which is hardly news. We're looking for evidence that TikTok/ByteDance shared private data from Americans with the Chi
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by nearbuy 3y ago
> Microsoft had to divest its Chinese cloud to a Shanghai water utility company (they do sewers, water reclamation and Microsoft Azure cloud!) Odd mix. Do you have a source for this?
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by nearbuy 3y ago
Which US companies has China forced to divest their holdings?
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by nearbuy 3y ago
Is it a security concern compared to everything else we get from China, or are we just holding TikTok specifically to an unattainably high standard? We get so many products from China that could potentially be used for spying that we'v
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by nearbuy 3y ago
Yeah, which I think fits perfectly with jimz description that you were replying to. Whether social media is beneficial or causing substantial harm is not well defined or easily measured. It's a subjective thing that will be debated and
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> The crucial point is it is characterised by neurological changes that lead to short circuited reward pathways Everything that's enjoyable in life can meet that definition. For practical purposes, we only consider severe cases to b
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by nearbuy 3y ago
Because people don't think the government should always prioritize protection over freedom, nor do people think the government should always prioritize freedom over protection. It's like asking, if people are okay with the governm
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The footnotes for the article are in the first comment. The author put a humorous footnote about being pedantic.
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by nearbuy 3y ago
LLMs don't really average viewpoints. They just learn multiple viewpoints.
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Imagen is being perfectly accurate in what we're discussing, obviously. It's an article about why it draws racially diverse Nazis, not how it draws fingers. It drew diverse Nazis because it was asked to draw diverse Nazis. This ha
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by nearbuy 3y ago
No, the opposite. Imagen is being perfectly accurate. You type, "Draw the US founding fathers". Gemini tells Imagen, "Draw the US founding fathers as black, Asian and Middle-Eastern". Imagen does exactly as it's tol
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by nearbuy 3y ago
Did you read the article? This didn't happen because Imagen isn't accurate. It happened because Google instructs Gemini to change your prompt before invoking Imagen: "For depictions of people, explicitly specify different gen
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by nearbuy 3y ago
> by definition some source of energy is warming it over zero Celsius degrees. And if there are huge oceans of liquid water, the source of energy somewhere must be huge also. This is all that life needs to thrive. Unless you're coun
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by nearbuy 3y ago
Though it's not clear from the article, I think they aren't concerned about the physical material. This organic matter could be an energy source for life and they're saying that it's not enough energy. Even if a lot of s
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by nearbuy 3y ago
It's an option, but it has its own downsides. It's a cross-platform API. Someone wants to show some guests some of their photos and videos on their TV through their Xbox. Unfortunately they can't because their app (eg Samsung
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by nearbuy 3y ago
Not at all what he is saying. Microsoft has no problem testing their printer function across all platforms in their apps and removing the print button on platforms where it's not supported. Ideally, everyone would do this. This is for
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by nearbuy 3y ago
This isn't related to my comment. I wasn't asking what if an AI invents a supervirus. I was asking what if someone invents a supervirus. AI isn't involved in this hypothetical in any way. I was replying to a comment saying th
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by nearbuy 3y ago
I'm not advocating for or against secrecy. I'm just not understanding the parent comment I replied to. They said nukes are different than AI because they aren't commodities and can't target specific classes of people, an
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by nearbuy 3y ago
So if someone discovered a weapon of mass destruction (say some kind of supervirus) that could be produced and bought cheaply and could be programmed to only kill a certain class of people, then you'd want the recipe to be freely avail
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by nearbuy 3y ago
I interpreted the same fact the opposite way. Midgley was okay with exposing himself to lead and thought taking a vacation to get "a large supply of fresh air" would fix his lead exposure. This sounds like someone who didn't
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by nearbuy 3y ago
Unfortunately it's an 8000 year experiment with no control group that can only detect large or acute effects. We don't know if regular exposure to potatoes slightly decreases IQ or increases risk of cancer or any other effects. (A
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by nearbuy 3y ago
> 38 died in their homes, 49 Palestinian journalists killed totally, hence around 80 percent. But the article only lists 18 of the journalists as killed in their homes, out of 50 killed in Gaza. That's 36%.
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What do you mean? The article you linked never claims 80% of journalists were killed in their homes, or anything near that number. Where did you get that number from?
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> Population-based studies produce estimates of the number of Iraq War casualties ranging from 151,000 violent deaths as of June 2006 to 1,033,000 excess deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_Wa
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by nearbuy 3y ago
The article says it was widely known that large doses of lead are toxic but says they found that 0.08% lead in gasoline was safe. Today it's widely known that large doses of solanine (a compound in potatoes and tomatoes) are toxic, but

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