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by o_nate 3y ago
I think everyone knows what they mean when they refer to their own subjective experience. That is entirely separate from the question of what that experience corresponds to in the external world. If you put an object in my blind spot, I kno
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by o_nate 3y ago
I'm afraid this is far too clever for me to understand. I know what I mean by subjective experience, and no amount of linguistic hair-splitting will convince me it doesn't exist.
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by o_nate 3y ago
I don't understand what you mean by sleight of hand. It seems a very straightforward question that makes sense in our everyday use of language, as you admit. Just because it's difficult to rigorously analyze this statement into sc
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by o_nate 3y ago
I used a Raspberry Pi with a Hifi-berry card to make a web-controlled MP3 player hooked up to my stereo. It's a fairly bare-bones app but I wrote it myself (Flask, VLC) and it works great!
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by o_nate 3y ago
I'm an older professional now working in a hybrid arrangement, but I very much concur with the parent comment. I can't imagine how my early career would have gone without being able to put in the time in the office. Its a cliche,
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by o_nate 3y ago
It's not hard to imagine a scenario where it remains very expensive to train and run these LLMs and the engineering breakthroughs needed to solve the known problems are slow in coming, and so we enter a period of stagnation. I would sa
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by o_nate 3y ago
Is this real? Curious who these people are who don't mind if ChatGPT deletes all their files, changes their passwords, borks their system, etc.
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by o_nate 3y ago
According to Wikipedia, Vinge penned an op-ed in the January 1983 issue of Omni laying out his vision of the singularity (which was later expanded in the 1993 linked essay).
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by o_nate 4y ago
Garbage in, garbage out. That paper assumes that the case data made available was a complete and unbiased sample of actual Covid cases in Wuhan as of Dec. 2019. There are many good reasons to suspect that wasn't the case.
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by o_nate 4y ago
Phones may have something to do with it, but I'm surprised that nowhere in his article does Noah mention the other major change in the US social landscape over this time range: the widespread legalization of marijuana products. I reali
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by o_nate 4y ago
That Jaynes paper is very cool. I'm surprised that Wolfram doesn't mention it in his overview of the literature on the second law.
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by o_nate 4y ago
Is it a fair summary of your rebuttal to say that its not permissible to speak of the probability distribution of past events, because the past just is what it is?
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics(writings.stephenwolfram.com)
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by o_nate 4y ago
The terms of the bet are fairly stringent (2 hour interviews, both sides get some say on judges). Given that, there's no way Kurzweil could win given current tech. He will have to hope for a lot more progress before 2029.
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by o_nate 4y ago
Hard for me to imagine anyone who finds Pandas API more intuitive than plain old SQL. I can't do anything in Pandas without looking up syntax.
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by o_nate 4y ago
So you need 10 digits to the left of the decimal and 2 to the right, for 12 total. A Double should be fine.
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by o_nate 4y ago
The paper specifically discusses that option (making local conform to remote abstractions) but finds it inadequate for various reasons. Stated succinctly: "Rather than encouraging the production of distributed applications, such a mode
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by o_nate 4y ago
I think an Alexa-specific subscription for non-Prime members would be viable. It always seemed strange to me that they combine the free shipping with a streaming video service in one bundle. It wouldn't make it any stranger to bundle A
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by o_nate 4y ago
As many have pointed out, this is stretching the definition of "trained". I could imagine some kind of smart watch for kids that would record every interaction they had for a year and build a model. Later as an adult they could ha
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by o_nate 4y ago
That would be my advice. Find a church or other religious community that you can plug yourself into. Maybe get a dog too. If nothing else, it forces you to get out of bed in the morning.
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by o_nate 4y ago
It could be a valuable confidence booster to be able to talk to someone who projects confidence that they know how to help you, even if their advice boils down to little more than pep talks and encouragement to take some common-sense steps.
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by o_nate 4y ago
The WHO has data on mental health workers relative to population in various countries around the world. The median number of mental health workers per 100,000 population across 156 countries, is 8. In the US its about 100. China is at the m
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by o_nate 4y ago
The part I found most interesting is that due to the lack of a dedicated customer support function at FB, there has sprung up a cottage industry of account problem fixers who, for a fee, will use their internal Meta connections to get your
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by o_nate 4y ago
Airplanes. Seriously I don't know of any other technology that feels as magical to me as that feeling when an airplane leaves the ground.
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by o_nate 4y ago
Maybe it was a bluff to try to get a lower price?
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by o_nate 4y ago
It seems at a minimum they could go through the same level of security as it takes to board a plane: remove shoes, back-scatter x-ray, etc.
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by o_nate 4y ago
Not being that familiar with the chess culture, it's weird to me that the distinction of "over the board" vs "online" seems to carry so much weight. Is it considered more acceptable to cheat online than "over t
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by o_nate 4y ago
This worked for me too. Also joining by phone (audio only) seems to work.
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by o_nate 4y ago
I would disagree with the characterization of that Twitter thread as a rant. To me it seemed like a fairly reasonable and balanced distillation of conclusions that are suggested by the study. He didn't say that current antidepressants
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by o_nate 4y ago
Curious if anyone has written about why estimates of the prevalence of small meteoroids at the L2 point were (possibly) too low? Were the estimates based on data about meteoroid prevalence entering the Earth atmosphere, and the prevalence i

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