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by ordu 3y ago
This problem is mostly a problem of social sciences. In physics it is important to have a theoretic explanation, if there is no explanation then physicists become excited and start to dig really hard. They value theoretic explanations not c
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by ordu 3y ago
> This is pure experiment Pedantically speaking, it is not an experiment, it is an observation. Experiment is a kind of study where you control independent variable. In this case no cosmic radiation nor seismic activity were not manipu
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by ordu 3y ago
> All complaints on the page are ultimately grievances against poorly thought-through implementations and as such they are rooted in the wrong thing. It's trivial to complement every modal window with a standalone version, in which
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by ordu 3y ago
The infrequency just does the issue worse, because every time I want to see a progress, I'd remember that I needed to add a special option to dd.
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by ordu 3y ago
I'm trying to say, that our means to keep a moral high ground are subjective and based on heuristics. It seems to me that you do not notice, let me show you. > If you cut power to an AI and then come back in a year, it's all s
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by ordu 3y ago
They are wrong here. A regime which is not western democracy probably would pretend that nothing happened. It is much more suspicious when there are not investigations like this. Sometimes it is worse: such kind of investigations are conduc
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by ordu 3y ago
> All that matter is we (I), feel/think that it is conscious, or deserving of care and respect. It does matter, I can agree, but it doesn't the all that matter. People can be mistaken, and they can disagree sometimes. Suppose
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by ordu 3y ago
> Bats have wings and no paws. Can hind limbs of bats be classified as paws? English is not my native language, so I'm just being curious.
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by ordu 3y ago
> My point is that we should not delude ourselves into thinking that we can arrive at “rational” decisions about resource use by reducing everything to accounting. Have you any idea what should replace rational decisions and reducing e
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by ordu 3y ago
I cannot say for all, but I personally was in doubt which parties you are talking about. This comment I think uncovers your idea, it is far right and far left isn't it? But at first I thought you talked about parties from the article d
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by ordu 3y ago
No one say it out loud, and no one is probably thinks that they believe it. In this sense you are right. But the article describes how people act, and they act like they believe in it. It is strikingly similar to a white person claiming tha
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by ordu 3y ago
I'm not sure how philosophers of science demarcate hypotheses from theories, but my own feeling that this is a theory. It is infallible, like Euclidean geometry. It can be falsified, but I think it can adapt to falsification attempts.
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by ordu 4y ago
> Unless you have reason to believe that their ankles work differently than other people’s. I cannot agree with it. The goal of the study to show that there is no reason to believe that it works differently for different people. There
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by ordu 4y ago
It may be a disaster, but if we manage to live with variance that are higher than 0.06 microseconds per day, we should manage this small change in an average.
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by ordu 4y ago
I'm not sure that data points to Mr. Xi succeeding. People watch more Chinese movies, but if we look at stars given to movies, we see that Chinese movies sucks. It seems that CCP with make it hard to view foreign movies, but people pre
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by ordu 4y ago
I believe that your reasoning misses one crucial detail: we do not exactly know how to climate control a whole planet, we have almost no experience with that. Attempts to terraform Mars allow humans to try some things and to see what happen
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by ordu 4y ago
There is a video depicting the story of a search for a cubic equation solution and invention of complex numbers. Here it is described in a few sentences but really it was a novel, with secrets passed from dying masters to apprentices, duels
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by ordu 4y ago
> Maybe it's just the simplicity and lack of rules to learn. This is how I feel about assembler. No rules, you on your own. And it is impossible to imagine simpler language. Though I do not write asm lately.
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by ordu 4y ago
Is it possible to say "succesful failure" without sounding like a PR person doing a damage control? I mean, lets imagine that "test early, test often" is a good engineering practice (it probably is, but lets do not discu
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by ordu 4y ago
It can be modelled, but with a slight twist. If in a water analogy we prefill the maze with a water and then connect it to a source and a drain, then water level will raise near the source and fall near the drain. We'll see then how it
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by ordu 4y ago
> Even broad, big-budget blockbusters like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 embraced a look torn straight from indie cinema. Not only are the lights in that film always motivated, they’re realistic. Did you tried to see an
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by ordu 4y ago
We had a special group chat where we collected all funny quotes of our professors. It was fun to read, you know the personality of the professor, combine it with the quote, and you just see the situation even if you hadn't witnessed it
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by ordu 4y ago
> Software is just a tool to help accomplish something for people -- many programmers never understood that Yeah. It seems to me that some live in a kind of a platonic world, where programming is a tool to produce ideal entities, like
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by ordu 4y ago
I answered you points below, but then I gone meta and thought about discussion becoming a metaphysical conundrum and decided to go back and tried to come from another angle. And this what I came with: The worst part of C abstract machine in
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by ordu 4y ago
It seems to me that you believe, that there is some canonical representation of a source code by a machine code, and that optimizations are out of it. I do not think it this way. As I see it, compiler gets source code and generates machine
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by ordu 4y ago
By default new types in Rust are not Copy, so when you pass values of these types around they are moved, not copied. It leads for example to freedom to do something like: fn move_things(a: SomePrettyBigType) -> EvenBiggerType Wh
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by ordu 4y ago
> how just adding `&` to appease the compiler is a common learner behavior. If learner is unfamiliar with the very idea of references, then his/her problem is not an ampersand, but how to grasp the distinction between referenc
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by ordu 4y ago
To my mind Chomsky and Aaronson are talking about different things. Chomski says that LLMs are not AGI and they will never be it. Aaronson says LLMs may be a way to AGI. This ideas do not contradict each other. Chomsky talks that LLMs is no
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by ordu 4y ago
If there are boring number, then your assertion holds. But if there are no boring numbers, then it doesn't and therefore there are boring numbers.
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by ordu 4y ago
> do I need to train for if I could fly or should I focus on reality? I believe the answer is yes, you need to leave reality sometimes to undersrand reality. It is a very general pattern, to understand something you need to move out of

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