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by pandoro 4mo ago
Switzerland is not part of the European union (nor a member of the European Economic Area) but your point still stands
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by pandoro 4mo ago
The depravity of using a fun, uplifting game that targets kids and teenagers to train military drones boggles my mind. "The end justifies the means" continues to reign supreme
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by pandoro 4mo ago
At this point is there really a difference between death and destruction and "legitimate" military target? It's a slippery slope
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by pandoro 4mo ago
This raises an interesting question: is experience possible without a "point of view" as you call it; without any subject, only sensing and reacting? I don't think so. A purely reactive system cannot experience the world. Sub
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by pandoro 4mo ago
Do the hardest thing or do the easiest thing cheaply
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by pandoro 4mo ago
Once all of this settles, will there be interest in fully human-generated text or images? I believe lots of people would rather consume art where genuine human creativity and emotions were involved. But will we be able to discriminate betwe
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by pandoro 4mo ago
Their launch business has a dominant market position but is not run for profit and xAI is loosing money. Starlink is the only segment earning real money: $7.2 billion in adjusted EBITDA. So 150 Billions seems "realistic" when taki
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by pandoro 4mo ago
The other day I was thinking: "if Musk disappears tomorrow would the valuation still be in the same ballpark?". I don't think so at all. In this context, it feels like even 150 Billions would be a big stretch considering reve
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by pandoro 5mo ago
I feel the same too. And I believe there is much more complexity in the question "will this be good for society overall" than technologists can apprehend. For example even though I recognize some benefits to social media, I'd
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by pandoro 5mo ago
The problem is that we have incentivized efficiency over authenticity even in our inter-personal relationships. It's a systemic issue. It makes it very hard for most of us to resist the sirens of "let me just rephrase this importa
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by pandoro 5mo ago
If those companies found PMF we should expect to see the effects of all those tokens burned on the products we all know and use. In my own experience: yes new features can be delivered much more quickly (by orders of magnitude) but knowing
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Second tranch of UFO files declassified(war.gov)
5 points by pandoro 5mo ago|1 comments
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by pandoro 5mo ago
Selection of interesting videos in the batch: * https://www.war.gov/UFO/#DOW-UAP-PR067-Multiple-Spherical-UAP-USO-near-Sub-CALLSIGN-20220325-in-and-out-of-water * https://www.war.gov/ufo/#DO
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by pandoro 5mo ago
We will look back at this moment as the start of a new era. I also suspect that this technology has already been successfully tested before in government labs.
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The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate but Not Instantiate Consciousness [pdf](philpapers.org)
2 points by pandoro 5mo ago|0 comments
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by pandoro 2y ago
On this subject I highly recommend the documentary "the Century of the Self" (produced by Adam Curtis for the BBC). It explores how Sigmund Freud's theories about the unconscious mind were used by his nephew Edward Bernays to
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by pandoro 3y ago
It's very entry-level (my level :)) but I found Veritaseum's video about it really clear and instructive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo
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ETH Zürich's position on AI in education and ChatGPT(ethz.ch)
56 points by pandoro 4y ago|16 comments
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by pandoro 4y ago
That's a very good summary of the approach. It stems from the observation that every single smoker already know about all the reasons they should not smoke (health, financial, social,...) yet they still do it. You know it's probab
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by pandoro 4y ago
I can recommend to read Allen Carr's "Easyway to stop smoking" if you haven't already. I had been smoking for 15 years total as well, tried to stop at least 6 times (sometimes for 18 months, with the help of Nicorette an
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by pandoro 4y ago
It's easier to start tackling the question when you make the distinction between mind and consciousness as other commenters pointed out in other threads. Let's just assume some very basic definitions: - mind = memories, personalit
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by pandoro 4y ago
very good point. It's an important distinction to make and a first step in formally defining what is meant by "consciousness". Some people mean consciousness as in "I become unconscious when I sleep or faint" some a
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by pandoro 4y ago
Let me first state that I understand that your goal was not to create an "accessible" palette and you state in your README that the palette is not "particularly suitable for people with colour vision deficiency". But bei
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The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari(currentaffairs.org)
1 points by pandoro 4y ago|3 comments
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by pandoro 5y ago
"Of the three stars, one was missing. There was a white cloud of dust in its place, like the feces of an abyss whale. It’s already been cleansed. Nothing more to do." - Death's End, Liu Cixin
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by pandoro 5y ago
Solomonoff Induction. Although proven to be uncomputable (there are people working on formalizing efficient approximations) it is such a mind-blowing idea. It brings together Occam's razor, Epicurus' Principle of multiple explanat
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by pandoro 5y ago
Consciousness cannot be understood or known in the epistemological sense of the term since it is, by definition, the ultimate subject. It also cannot be experienced as an object. It sounds very hand-wavy and esoteric but if you think hard a