nyolfen

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by nyolfen 3y ago
true, i've never heard of issues with the engineering of a submarine produced under socialism
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by nyolfen 3y ago
“Of the Gods we believe, and of man we know, that by a law of their nature, wherever they can rule they shall. This law was not made by us, and we are not the first to have acted on it. We did but inherit it, and shall bequeath it to all ti
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by nyolfen 3y ago
"america is a nation of immigrants" makes a normative claim ("we should be in favor of immigration") based on historical fact ("people moved here in the past"). using one to justify the other is what is called
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by nyolfen 3y ago
my point was highlighting the incoherence of appealing to tradition
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by nyolfen 3y ago
i am reliably informed that this nation was founded upon genocide
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by nyolfen 3y ago
he is describing a man using a posthole digger, and hence the enclosure of the west
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by nyolfen 3y ago
the best essay i've read on the topic, much better than the op: https://meltingasphalt.com/social-status-down-the-rabbit-hol... the author went on to cowrite a well-received pop-sci book about social signaling theory t
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by nyolfen 3y ago
perhaps you had difficulty understanding the question -- how is what the computer is doing, different from what a human does?
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by nyolfen 3y ago
how is this fundamentally different than what humans do?
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by nyolfen 3y ago
> while this thing is being trained on everyone's music. haha, did you conceptualize music ex nihilo?
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by nyolfen 3y ago
he has been espousing the exact same principles for 20 years, so it is probably because you weigh party allegiance more heavily
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by nyolfen 3y ago
hadn't heard about this, thanks for the tip
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by nyolfen 3y ago
pdf: https://sci-hub.ru/10.3200/AEOH.58.5.267-274 my mom was born in moses lake in the mid-50s, 50 or 60 miles northeast of the hanford site; incidentally she has had lifelong thyroid disease
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by nyolfen 3y ago
elite culture churns downward over a few generations. an intellectual exercise becomes a discourse, becomes a practice, becomes a culture
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by nyolfen 3y ago
more realistically, it was israel: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-israel-collusi... perhaps you recall trump’s first two acts in office — recognizing jerusalem as israel’s capital, and sanctioning r
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by nyolfen 3y ago
i doubt the average pre-reformation peasant was reading the bible, and yet..
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by nyolfen 3y ago
russian MoD sites started returning this for foreign IPs shortly after the invasion began last february
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by nyolfen 3y ago
prior to appx 2016, it meant the intelligence apparatus and the constellation of orgs and ngo's around it; after that it meant the unelected permanent bureaucracy that persists across administrations
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by nyolfen 3y ago
at present you do seem to need a lot of cutting edge GPUs, which have much more centralized production than ore and centrifuges
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by nyolfen 3y ago
i use oracle cloud for its extraordinarily generous free tier but it is straight up the worst website for any cloud service i've ever encountered, it reminds me of going into a retail shop that is clearly a money laundering front. the
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by nyolfen 3y ago
most tasks that could be performed via textual discourse. math is the big exception here but gpt4 has been capable of most things i’ve thrown at it at a level on par with a smart person
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by nyolfen 3y ago
we are all in a bit of a bubble but i feel like if you put gpt4 up against the median man on the street it would be better at literally everything, except maybe one or two things that person specializes in
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by nyolfen 3y ago
this is so false i have a hard time believing you actually think this. that said, i strongly encourage you to put your money where your mouth is and invest accordingly!
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by nyolfen 3y ago
a few people use it as a general-purpose SQL query generator, i personally use it for debugging, and i have the impression that some people are using it to draft emails
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by nyolfen 3y ago
well, it was tried at scale one time, and the economy it produced lasted several decades, but was sclerotic, dependent on resources extracted by compulsion from its imperial periphery, and ended up literally unable to feed itself
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by nyolfen 3y ago
i meant the shelling that continued in open violation of the minsk agreement per the UN and killed hundreds of civilians. sometimes this kind of thing is called terror bombing. there are no good guys here.
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by nyolfen 3y ago
did your ears perk up for the civilians in donbass getting shelled for eight years too?
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by nyolfen 3y ago
i would define abstract reasoning as composing and manipulating a model of reality or other complex system in order to make predictions > is an uninteresting fact if we define “abstract reasoning” to be exactly what humans do, and then
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by nyolfen 3y ago
> Only in a very anthropocentric sense. yes, that is the sense in which we are discussing intelligence in order to debate whether the human brain and LLMs operate on similar phenomena
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by nyolfen 3y ago
there are currently two things we are aware of in the universe that can reason abstractly. i don't think this is a coincidence.

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