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by nwiswell 3y ago
How can you have two persons with free agency that always make the same decision? Or a hundred such persons? The calculation itself may be irreducible, but what is the implication for consciousness and agency if, midway through the calculat
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I don't think this concept is helpful, honestly. If the brain is deterministic, then you would be able to fully simulate it in a regular von Neumann computer, and as a result you'd be able to predict someone's actions and cho
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by nwiswell 3y ago
The issue is that if the universe is deterministic, so is the brain.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> If there is any guiding light to the randomness, any pattern to how the random choices come out, then it's not really random, is it? Well, yeah, that's the point. By definition, a deterministic model of reality means there is
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I do think it's very weird that the upper bound is presented with confidence, but the lower bound is not, yes. I also think that it's weird because the one-third figure itself appears to have materialized from nothing but hype and
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by nwiswell 3y ago
FTA: “AI innovation is poised to raise the digital economy’s impact up to as much as one-third of global gross domestic product,” Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said in an Intel press release. What an incredibly strange thing to say. It's nei
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Among other reasons: because my time is substantially more valuable than the average 2 cents that YouTube pays the creator for each ad I'm subjected to.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Maybe so, but it was legalized in CA for recreational use way back in 2016, and the scheme came into force in 2018. Part of the issue is that nobody wants to permit a dispensary in their neighborhood, so coverage is poor. Another problem is
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Legal drugs may actually be more expensive and less available than their illegal counterparts. It's worked out that way in a lot of US states for weed -- the illegal stuff is still around and still cheaper. I read recently that in Cali
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Should we be normalizing by the number of years that they've been actively publishing? On that basis Sutskever and He are both above Hinton, for example.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I'm not sure how you are getting the citation data for Top 3, but LeCun must be close and he does not agree.
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> orders of magnitude more efficient This is simply not true. It's more efficient, but a typical gasoline car gets around 20% efficiency (large diesel trucks can be significantly greater). A modern, state of the art combined cycle n
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I don't mean to be harsh, but is this journalism now? When you write an article and say something has been corroborated by your "sources", does that mean "forwarded to you by anonymous HN posters"? You don't ha
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> That said I do wonder how much marketing a monopolist needs. Marketing in this context means figuring out what the customer will buy, and making sure that the engineers build that. It is very easy in this industry to build the wrong th
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Anecdotal factoid is a bit of an oxymoron Obnoxious pedant mode: it's actually not, because GP misused the word "factoid". From Wikipedia[1]: "A factoid is either an invented or assumed statement presented as a fact
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Page 9 https://www.supremecourt.gov/visiting/InteriorBrochureWebVer...
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by nwiswell 3y ago
The Doric columns in the Old Supreme Court chamber were monolithic marble. I hadn't expected the visual metaphor to be so literally applicable! https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/buildings-grounds...
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by nwiswell 3y ago
This is a coherent narrative, but it doesn't explain the bizarre and aggressively worded initial press release. Things perhaps could've been different if they'd pointed to the founding principles / charter and said the b
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by nwiswell 3y ago
I think it is maybe best reframed as "good founders from the perspective of those who control capital". Whether these people ultimately improve society, or create a better sense of purpose for their employees, or provide visionary
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> they can get stupendous amounts of capital on incredible terms, This may be the problem: at some level OpenAI is still a non-profit, and the more capital they accept, the more they're obligated to produce profits for investors? Pe
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Personally, I'm inclined towards solutions that many would consider very harsh towards the offender. What is your reasoning? The literature suggests that harsher penalties do not significantly affect the rate or severity of offens
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> I really think there’s something in schizophrenia beyond the illness. I don't think there needs to be any special association. "Predisposed to schizophrenia" necessarily implies "not neurotypical", and the outc
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by nwiswell 3y ago
The comparison between Musk and Jobs is kind of absurd. Jobs' greatest strength was probably his way with people. He was a perfectionist, and if you got his way he was merciless, but he was also deeply charismatic and persuasive, and s
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by nwiswell 3y ago
We don't know the counterfactual so that's difficult to answer. I think the truth is that these two companies were a great fit for Musk's style in particular, not that Musk is necessarily a great leader. What I mean is that M
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Well candidly the Compaq acquisition of Zip2 was absolutely lucking into success. He built something, sure, but most people do not get their startups bought out at the height of a ridiculous Internet bubble for $307 million. If the place or
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> The only way the haters could say anything against him with any sway at this point is becoming more successful than him. Do you believe that financial and business success is the only measure of merit? By most accounts, Putin and the S
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Honestly -- not really! Several people encouraged me to go to a specialist or PT but I was stubborn so I never got a diagnosis (my GP was clueless). My self-diagnosis was some kind of muscle and/or tendon strain in my psoas / hip
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Please no. The beginner does not discover places where the form needs improvement. The beginner simply fails to lift after increasing the weight. The beginner injures themselves when they thought they could lift but they did not. This
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> bad form will absolutely lead to at least tiny injuries that you will notice the latest after a few months. (Citation needed) > youtubers who want people to fail with free programs and ignoring proper form or even teaching slightly
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Just a couple of weeks ago I saw a video of a guy who got internally decapitated by the barbell during a high bar squat because he leaned forward and came up onto his toes rather than sitting back. That's a freak accident, and it'

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