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by oska 2y ago
I think your worry comes from a materialist viewpoint. You perceive the universe as only being material, and then, looking out at the infinite material expanse, you are rendered distraught by the seeming lack of life 'out there'.
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by oska 2y ago
> Honestly it's hard to see how we get to this level of speed and content online without it having been funded by advertising. If we had gone (or stayed) peer to peer we could have done it, rather than going the expensive client se
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by oska 2y ago
Thank you for the reply and the book link. I agree that muscle tone is vitally important for human health and maintaining 'fitness' into middle and old age. However muscle tone and strength can come from many things, a lot of whic
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by oska 2y ago
> if those include planning to be healthy into old age, then definitely not [any other form of exercise] > All the fit-looking athletes you can imagine, also strength train to become that way. These are two flagrantly false assertions
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by oska 2y ago
Laws that prosecute ppl for possessing, downloading and storing computer files are deeply problematic, in my opinion. Whatever the content of those files. (Publication of the contents of the files is another matter. I appreciate how this ca
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by oska 2y ago
Including your 'tribe C' (the USA) with two indigenous tribes (A & B) in your example is highly disingenuous. And self-serving to your contrived hypothetical.
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by oska 2y ago
Good questions
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by oska 2y ago
It comes with all the blindness and limitations of materialist thinking
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by oska 2y ago
I agree that the disagreement (when it's strongly held) is about a fundamental disagreement about reality. People who believe in 'artificial intelligence' are materialists who think that intelligence can 'evolve' or
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by oska 2y ago
> I don’t think any serious man would suggest that AGI is impossible Plenty of ppl would suggest that AGI is impossible, and furthermore, that taking the idea seriously (outside fiction) is laughable. To do so is a function of what I c
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by oska 2y ago
> LLMs have already shown that people can deny intelligence and human-like behaviour at will I would completely turn this around. LLMs have shown that people will credulously credit intelligence and 'human-like behaviour' to so
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by oska 2y ago
The irony here, maybe unperceived by yourself, is that you're using one science fiction concept (time travel) to opine about the inevitability of another science fiction concept (artificial intelligence).
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by oska 2y ago
> After all, earth could be understood as solar powered super computer, that took a couple of million years to produce humanity. This is similar to a line I've seen Elon Musk trot out on a few occassions. It's a product of a ma
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by oska 2y ago
I differ on this recommendation. I watched some of it and found the show very mediocre and what 'help there was from the intelligence community' would have been provided to put a positive spin on the work done by Western intellige
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by oska 2y ago
The mistake isn't thinking 'scaling is the solution to AGI'. And the mistake isn't thinking more generally about 'the solution to AGI'. The mistake is thinking about 'AGI'. There will never be an arti
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by oska 2y ago
The analogy they use in the article is all sorts of dodgy too : > Removing more lithium ions up front is a bit like scooping water out of a full bucket before carrying it, Cui said. The extra headspace in the bucket decreases the amount
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by oska 2y ago
I like to sort comments by new whenever I see this linked. Doing this today, seems most ppl now are return viewers in on the joke and only a few asking "Is this real?". Used to be a lot more of the latter.
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by oska 2y ago
As a person who definitely has big issues with the cruise industry as a whole this was the best pro-cruises comment I read in the whole thread, especially this bit : > but the cruise allowed me to go and walk around port cities that I
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by oska 2y ago
Without 'moral righteousness' we have a degenerate society
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by oska 2y ago
> It's absolutely no different than blaming all <minority group> for the crimes committed by a few <minority group> members, and paint them all with the same brush. Members of a minority group, such as race or religion
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by oska 2y ago
Putting aside my (trenchant) philosophical issues with the term 'AI', I also don't think just pragmatically that it's a good categorical label. We both appear to agree that Machine Learning is a very powerful technology
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by oska 2y ago
1. You are comparing 2 very different things. GPT6 is a generative LLM. Tesla's FSD is machine learning. 2. I have no expectations for 'AI' because the term is a nonsense label. I have followed and been excited by machine lea
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by oska 2y ago
Fresh water is already naturally generated by surface evaporation of the oceans under the sun's rays, i.e. it's already a solar process done on a global scale.
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by oska 2y ago
Worked out very well for the peasants who survived or were born after the Black Plague (their labour became much more valuable). Plus, that demographic deficit helped kick off the Industrial Revolution.
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by oska 2y ago
> Netflix at one point felt like the end of piracy I think you have it the wrong way round. Piracy is the solution to Netflix (the bloated, enshittified 'content provider') just like piracy has been the solution to all the ce
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by oska 2y ago
> The only real solution is open source serverless p2p network. e.g. Keet (although currently 99.9% open sourced; not yet 100%)
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by oska 2y ago
'Hate speech' is a term deliberately coined to undermine the ideal of Free Speech. There is no need for the label, other than to serve this purpose. We already have long existing words for what is lumped under so-called 'hate
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by oska 2y ago
Well, it's an ideal that may be lived up to, protected and even enforced, and so it 'exists' whenever and wherever that happens. It also happens to be an ideal that ppl will vigorously promote in certain domains, while betray
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It's not at all 'trivial' for the EU to have him arrested in Dubai (as opposed to France).
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by oska 2y ago
> Then conclude that as it's not a one-dimensonal spectrum, it must be a binary property? I can see how you made that interpretation but that's not what I was saying. Free Speech is an ideal (not a binary property). I doubt t

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