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by oska 4y ago
> The thing is that academics are the arbiters of literary taste Is that true? I wouldn't have thought so. Professors of literature are a fairly new thing (say one hundred years) while literary taste has been a thing for many hundre
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by oska 4y ago
New Zealand, a small, wealthy nation that is famously isolated and has no land borders with any other countries. It's an almost completely useless model to apply to countries like Bangladesh or Peru.
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by oska 4y ago
I used to think this but I don't any longer. Two reasons : 1) asymptomatic, airborne spread makes infection control much harder and 2) your own admission that it would have required "very heavy-handed and coordinated action across
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by oska 4y ago
> but would love to find more, esp. in English RT, Press TV, the Global Times And I'm not trying to be cute here. If you're only looking at Western state media (all that you've listed) then you're getting a very one-s
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by oska 4y ago
This is highly disingenuous. Former employees of intelligence agencies have no place in employed, paid roles in corporate or state media, because the possibility that they are still working to advance the agencies propaganda or protect th
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by oska 4y ago
> skipping the Extend
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by oska 4y ago
> For example, if 5 year old runs out into traffic on a busy road and you pull them back, which form of discipline is more likely to negatively incentivize the impulse to dash into the street to get a penny? I'm glad that you brough
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by oska 4y ago
Without wanting you to reveal personal details, care to tell us how ?
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by oska 4y ago
Your level of expression in this comment is so high that using ChatGPT as a substitute in anything you write is going to be a serious downgrade. And it's the nature of a certain personality type to obsess over how they've expres
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by oska 4y ago
> The original paper seems to be https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0012365X79 ... Cheers. I've found the full paper is accessible through Sci-Hub [1]. I've had a very quick glance
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by oska 4y ago
You're pushing a harmful, cynical and ultimately nihilistic agenda here. I've seen the same line pushed many times since it became 'en vogue' in the 80s but ultimately dating back to an influential Milton Friedman paper
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by oska 4y ago
I'd agree that the 80s and 90s were probably a peak time for widespread but still rigorous computer science tertiary education (was certainly rigorous before then but not particularly widespread). At least in Western countries. The qua
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by oska 4y ago
I don't mean to be rude here but hopefully as some useful feedback this whole comment reads like a 'humble brag' (But after saying that, congrats on the learning you've been doing)
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The goals the company was founded to meet. Profit is necessary to stay in business so it's important. But it can't be the only and exclusive goal. A company is just a structure to make things happen / collectively achieve thi
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by oska 4y ago
Your starting assumption is invalid.
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by oska 4y ago
I strongly doubt that Gates made any significant contributions to computer science. So I'd appreciate a source to what you've claimed here. Gates had a 'genius' for ruthlessly exploiting a monopoly in business; apart f
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by oska 4y ago
Using the achievements of machine learning (not 'AI') in chess and go, which are created, constrained game spaces, to tout the promise of 'a possible future where the AI becomes superior to human problem solving' is eith
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by oska 4y ago
There is not a single example of chatGPT being creative.
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by oska 4y ago
ChatGPT doesn't understand anything . ChatGPT doesn't perceive anything . ChatGPT does not have a mind. People making claims otherwise are either 1) delusional or 2) fraudsters. (There is no option 3.) I'm not sure which
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by oska 4y ago
We also don't know enough to support the hypothesis that you put forward either (and which I reject, from a philosophical standpoint).
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by oska 4y ago
That quote reveals either that they are 1) delusional or 2) a fraudster. Your comment leans more towards 2) but I think 1) is also a possibility, which in some ways I find more concerning (delusional cult leaders being potentially more dang
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by oska 4y ago
This is (arrogant) misanthropy, and I see far too much of it on forums that contain significant numbers of people who consider themselves more 'enlightened' than the common man (reddit being a prominent example).
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by oska 4y ago
Not the person who you posed the question to, but I believe their point may be that Go is a fully described game, a constrained 'space' even if that space is remarkably deep. Our world is not a fully described game (unless you wan
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by oska 4y ago
Ok, since you called out the gp comment as 'deceptive', I in turn am going to call out your comment (and others like it) as delusional, and point to specific places in your comment that exhibit this state of delusion (about LLMs).
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by oska 4y ago
> You're biological hardware and software This is (materialistic) nihilism. Materialism is a philosophy and not a new one, but an exceedingly sterile one, in my view. If you want to take that philosophical position you can, but othe
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by oska 4y ago
Regarding the Othello paper, I would point you to the comment replies of thomastjeffery (beginning at two top points [1] & [2]) when someone else raised that paper in this thread [3]. I agree with their position. [1] https://
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by oska 4y ago
Your third paragraph describes language pretty well (although I'd quibble with formal grammars only being 'vague' in their coverage - I think they do a pretty good job although I agree they can never be perfect). And I apprec
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by oska 4y ago
No, humans continually develop moral behaviour and codify it in religion (for transmission and social maintenance). Gods and deities aren't strictly necessary. Buddhism started without such but it is interesting that the conceptualisat
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by oska 4y ago
Interesting to have this contrast in perspectives. For me, the language generated by ChatGPT is flat and boring. No spark of human creativity or originality or flair. And this cheap trick of getting it to write in rhyme or 'in the styl
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by oska 4y ago
> a world without religion leads people to moral depravity This is exactly the case. Religion is a constant in human society across time and space. And one of its main functions is exactly that - to keep people away from moral depravity.

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