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by ordu 5mo ago
How did you jumped to qualia from consciousness? I can see how this is a strong evidence against LLM being conscious, but to my mind it doesn't imply in any way or form that they do not experience qualia. Or... well, ok, maybe they can
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by ordu 5mo ago
I wonder, if they spend their time... lets call it "inefficiently"? Spending so much effort on speeding up interning symbols seems to me at very least inefficient. Whatever rustc spends so much time on, can be anything but parsing
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by ordu 5mo ago
There are differences between the insider trading and your helicopter example. The theory is the better traders know the reality when making decisions, the better. When oil traders hide information about their reserves, they are working on
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by ordu 5mo ago
I wouldn't give the Flynn effect a lot of weight. The numbers are from IQ tests. No one knows what they measure, they are tuned for a population, for the most of time the Flynn effect had place IQ test scores were used for hiring, scho
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by ordu 6mo ago
Now it will be possible to create haunted buildings, or even repurpose existing ones. Does haunting increase a building value?
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by ordu 6mo ago
I believe they did it all the time. Maybe it was not automated? But they boasted in news multiple times how many coreutils tests they are passing. I suspect that those tests are useless for security, they are more about compatibility or som
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by ordu 6mo ago
> Some, maybe, but if you've decided to rewrite coreutils from scratch, understanding the POSIX APIs is literally your entire job. Yes, it is. But still such traps in API just unacceptable. If you design API that requires obscure
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by ordu 6mo ago
> An orthogonal question is what makes sense as a measure of complexity. I don't know, but number of parts doesn't seem good. I feel that complexity should be measured in bits, but how to tie it with something real idk. Maybe
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by ordu 6mo ago
All these high energy particles travel at tremendous speeds, and for them it looks like you traveled half the Universe in a fraction of a second. And then you've hit an Antarctic ice. I think I'd be extremely excited at this, beca
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by ordu 6mo ago
If I didn't use Pgbackrest and never contributed to it, am I entitled to feel sadness?
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by ordu 6mo ago
You can walk it in under 4 hours. I can do it, but I can't run that much, my calves are just not trained for aerobic workloads. I don't run normally, I walk or cycle, but do not run.
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by ordu 6mo ago
I think they have been looking for the edge for years, and the discovery had come gradually over some time. So I don't think that "casually" fits there and "today" doesn't make things better.
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by ordu 6mo ago
> Obviously what's aesthetically pleasing to some will not to aesthetically pleasing to someone else. Yes, but it doesn't mean that: > it seems so useless to talk about something like this. What it means, that things bec
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by ordu 6mo ago
> maybe I just don't get art at all. I don't think you don't get art at all . It is just that you don't get art in full. I should note, that no one gets what art really is, if you want to learn how tricky the quest
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by ordu 6mo ago
I believe it doesn't matter. You see, if you try applying this trick to different traits of a society, it would lead to conclusions like: it is impossible for us to build an environmentally conscious society because we come here by bei
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by ordu 6mo ago
A learned helplessness as a diagnosis implies that there are things that can be done. But I can't see any. It may be because of a learned helplessness of course, so my inability to see what can be done can be a fact about myself, not a
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by ordu 6mo ago
The first IQ test was developed by Binet and Simon in France, and it was all about predicting academic success of children. Virtually all IQ tests are predicting academic success. Cultural component is a big part of it. For example music ed
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by ordu 6mo ago
Lately I come to believe that success stories are not necessarily transferable. They can require some traits of the system that are not available. USA is made for corporations, so you just cant replicate internet access from Switzerland in
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by ordu 6mo ago
How do these agreements works? Lets suppose she writes a fiction book about a fictional country, and then gives interview about the elites of the country. But by some tragic coincidence the elites are evil just like Meta executives. Could M
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by ordu 6mo ago
> Yes, but you're making the same argument. Science is flawed, but it is the least flawed methodology. I believe you are missing that science is not just a methodology, it is a social institution also. It can have the least flawed
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by ordu 6mo ago
> First, science is what we call the best epistemological methodology. Of course it makes mistake, but what makes it unique is that it makes fewer mistakes than any other methodology. Yes. But it is a tradeoff. When your first priority
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by ordu 6mo ago
> In fact during Apollo they even completely scrapped mathematical risk modeling because the results it always gave were basically 'you die.' In hindsight we know, that these models were wrong. people were better at predictin
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by ordu 6mo ago
It becomes interesting. You sounds as an advent of Church of Science from the very beginning, but now it becomes unmistakable. Science has no monopoly on truth. I'm not familiar with academy, you are right, I don't know how much S
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by ordu 7mo ago
> There have been numerous studies on crime perception and fear of crime in the last 50 years. Nice, so there are relevant studies. Pity no one tried to troll Scott with these, it would be interesting to watch. > Not like that. You
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by ordu 7mo ago
> Or care enough to find out what the experts say? And what do expert way about crime? I don't care about crime levels, so I have no idea where to look really. It seems that no one knows where to look, as in comments on Scott&#x27
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by ordu 7mo ago
> It seems to me that both Alexander and the author of this post are, actually, members of the same church - the church of those who believe that people can draw correct conclusions from a smattering of data without the necessary schola
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by ordu 7mo ago
You don't need to read, but you may want to look, if you want to see web UI in action. It is much better than a static screenshot.
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by ordu 7mo ago
> My personal perspective is that the resources are better used for other purposes, but it's possible that I just haven't encountered some compelling reason yet. Well, people are often obsessed with rationality, and seek reas
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by ordu 7mo ago
> This is also true of airplanes. The point is you choose where you launch your drones from anywhere in the world. Not quite. It is hard to build an airplane, it is easy to build a drone. So if the battle comes to who is going to send
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by ordu 7mo ago
> reacting faster in general than an Octopus It may be due to myelin[1], or rather lack of it. Neurons pass signals along axons as a wave of an action potential[2]. It is a process involving moving ions through the cell membrane to cha

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