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by patcon 2y ago
The repo seems to describe something doing the opposite, no? This is someone who wanted to ensure ballots were counted, not someone motivated to spoof them, right? EDIT: posted my concern on bsky https://bsky.app/profile&#x2
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I feel the place where that intuition might have an exception is where you want a culture change, or you want to communicate a culture of "anyone can do this and is encouraged to". Sometimes it makes sense to automate something th
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Of note: If that 18 second rule became known to a significant number of people, the dynamic will change
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I think the point is that it's a psychological hack to just get started. It's making a point, and the point is that it's even helpful without running the commands. Yeah, sure you can immediately make it run the command as soo
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Pls contact archive.org about adopting this digital archive once it exists (they also have a bad habit of accepting physical donations, if you are nearby)
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Not just "various physical phenomena", but "physical phenomena that have stabilised and persisted structure over time". I feel like you buried the lede in your post. People studying these physical systems are generally e
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I have ADHD and dated someone with AuDHD who I cared for deeply (read lots of books about the neurotype and implications on our relationship). your explanation was very clear and helpful. Wish I'd heard it explained so clearly at the t
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As the sort of absent-minded human who (no matter how much I learn) will always have a deep-seated irrational fear of being "that student", I must say: sick burn
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by patcon 2y ago
Yeah, agreed. The limits of human minds constrain language. To allow these things to reason outside words is in my intuitions a tactic with more abundant paths toward super intelligence, and the exact sort of path we'll have a harder t
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Wouldn't "habitually one-pointed" people be very focussed, rather than distracted? Or is the idea that a very distracted person being honed into a focussed and aware person is a duality that's valued -- able to live in b
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STRONG agree with your sentiments btw
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You might get a kick out of this: it's an attempt to remodel funding to reward and reinvigorate research with the intelligence of the folks who straddle fields -- to reward those who make correct predictions about where future "br
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Are we it rediscovering the evolutionary benefit of progeny (from an information theoretic lens)? And is this related to the lottery ticket hypothesis? https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03635.pdf
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> It seems extremely likely that the attacker had already researched our mail and VPN environment before they sent their initial phish spam, since they knew exactly where to go and what to do. As someone else said, I would increasingly s
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> One sign I associate with this would be talking only in the past tense about having felt certain emotions, but you never really witness the person feeling or expressing those emotions (outside of anger/frustration). Alternatively,
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And yet none of it would have ever been experienced without the guidance toward this thinking by an LLM... ;) Maybe future LLMs will be their most pro-social by playing stupid, and letting us feel like we came up with all the good idea they
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I also feel you are being a bit absurdist fwiw. I am know the be a principled devils advocate sometimes, so I'm reading you as that, otherwise your position as an American makes very little sense to me
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> aren't we really saying voters are not individual agents but rather a mob subject to manipulation by propaganda? Yes, exactly. A symbiotic view of life: we have never been individuals https://www.researchgate.net/p
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by patcon 2y ago
Oh wow, then I feel very honoured :) It's neat to have that feeling of one of your "weird" or "niche" thoughts being captured (even if poorly) by someone else, living a different life. I love that feeling when I enc
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You think TikTok is beneficial or even neutral?
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This person is part of a group that seemingly posts to twitter and cites twitter as statement against academic institution and traditional scholarship. Some members of the group are academics themselves. Maybe some things can only be posted
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I am very skeptic of the creator economy, but to play devils advocate: Could it be that "craft" until now has been a high dimensional and abstract conceptual navigation exercise, for which some people had both (1) the compass of i
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Best link? Maybe :) https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/the-burnout-...
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Biochemist and complexity science fan here. We assimilate into ourselves different forms of structure from each, whether biological or semiotic. Each structure, biomolecules or language, equip us to model and navigate our environment, and p
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by patcon 2y ago
Neat! Might this even be useful to impute missing data for a sparse network of votes, for a system like this (pol.is) whose goal is to do dimensional reduction and visualise the opinion space of divisive social topics: https://gw
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See: Walkaway by Cory Doctorow (2017)
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This is what strikes me about the peter todd phenomenon -- that there are hidden glitch tokens within the LLM that seem to conjure some representation of pure hell, and some representation of pure good. https://www.lesswrong.com&
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This feels really wise. Thanks
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The hundred year functioning of democracy begs to differ. It literally works nothing like how anyone tells themselves it does, not just laypeople, but arguably even political scientists. It's quite possible that no echelon of society h
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Heh it strikes me that while the stakes of this "relic" are kinda low, it echos the conversations about institutions like the British Museum possessing historic artefacts :) some claim there is moral argument for it keeping its ar

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