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by patcon 2y ago
There's something here that I feel is pretty deep, though offensive for some minds: What is the actual consequence of being wrong? Of not getting right the base reality of a situation? Usually, stasis is the enemy that is much great th
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by patcon 2y ago
Meh. I'm sometimes curious the different conversations that are possible in different places, I guess? One sometimes hears from different ppl, but maybe wants cross-talk Seemed easy, and I thought harmless, tho maybe not
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by patcon 2y ago
> We absolutely have the technology to make growth sustainable No, respectfully, we don't. Every organism that succeeds in doing what you advocate for (growing "sustainably") is swept from the record. If life doesn't
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by patcon 2y ago
I think of an LLM model as like a crystallised mathematical snapshot of intelligence... like a cell on a microscope slide, a dead and mounted form of output from the living process of intelligence... This paper makes me wonder whether,
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by patcon 2y ago
It may seem that, but I invoke it bc it aligns with adversarial desires of hostile states (Iran, China, Russian). I assume some proportion of fake humans are part of any system sowing cultural discord, left or right. The international conse
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by patcon 2y ago
Have you not been following in the past few years about how susceptible the human mind is to disinformation and manipulation? You fake a positive belief field around a person and a huge number of us flip to align with that perceived crowd.
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by patcon 2y ago
> Most humans are not that good at reasoning themselves and fall for the same kind of fallacies over and over because of the way they were brought up Disagree that it's easy to pin on "how they were brought up". It seems v
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by patcon 2y ago
Mitochondria allowed who different energetic regimes and structures. Like the scaffold that allows multicellular organisms to even hold together simpler are not possible (energetically) without mitochondria. It took the whole marriage of th
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by patcon 2y ago
Did you see the performance gains? Even in marginal case (with caching) 4.6s => 0.15s resolution (compared to poetry). Even better when there are cache misses Respectfully, your dogmatism doesn't seem to serve you with numbers like
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by patcon 2y ago
The internet archive shepherded the early https://getdweb.net/ community, and works with groups like IPFS, so they're well aware and offering operational support to decentralized storage projects. This has been going s
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by patcon 2y ago
> But who needs “protection” from any social media company? Just don’t use social media. Anyone in a failing democracy. No one gets to opt out of the collective effects of social media
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by patcon 2y ago
From the post: > Put money where the mouth is—a minimum of $10,000 and up to $100,000 for a single recipient, totaling $1 million per year, which we will increase once we understand the dynamics of running the fund.
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by patcon 2y ago
This looks rad! But you should title the videos with the topic and the speakers name, and if you must include the conference name, put it at the end :) As-is, it's hard to skim the playlist, and likely terrible for organic search on Go
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by patcon 2y ago
Omg I would love to make an explainer on bridging algorithms[1] with this tool! I've been a huge fan of their use in participatory democracy processes since 2016 (using tools like Pol.is), and have wanted to make a contribution to incr
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by patcon 2y ago
Yes. But respectfully (residual frustration at zendesk might make me curt here) if their security triage team can't see how dangerous it is for an attacker to get access to an arbitrary thread on a their CLIENT's corporate email c
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by patcon 2y ago
Aaaaaahhh I am on a rollercoaster of customer experience. I am beyond annoyed at Zendesk for stiffing this kid, but actually kinda charmed by this quirky marketing gimmick. But also, SECURITY culture concerns beat culture culture. Companies
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by patcon 2y ago
it's back for me! thanks!
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by patcon 2y ago
> what happens if the two groups of attention learn the same thing I wonder if there's a metaphor here for our own experience and utility in "surprise". Like if one attention head is surprised by what another learns, up-we
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by patcon 2y ago
I wonder what is lost here. Surely there's a trade-off... I'm wondering if there's any effect of "creativity", or ability to interpolate between concepts. Hallucination and creativity feel very related to me. I unde
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by patcon 2y ago
Really curious, but seems to be down. Internet archive showing white screen too though, so not sure: https://web.archive.org/web/20240904211947/https://postalage...
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by patcon 2y ago
I like this framing. Anyone care to suggest what money "wants" or where it wants to go? I know it's a flawed question, because money is in many ways inert, but we have similar caveats around genes and evolution. Non-sentient
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by patcon 2y ago
I don't buy it. This "only what's in the legal" is so silly, and ppl who keep writing it are self-identifying as not understanding whole branches and histories of community- and culture-building
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by patcon 2y ago
> Nobody knows. I suspect it's a little different. AI models are still made of math and geometric structures. Like mathematicians, researchers are developing intuitions about where the future opportunities and constraints might be.
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by patcon 2y ago
Thanks for this context!
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by patcon 2y ago
Yeah, it really requires a whole specific culture of the community, which Wordpress did not build over the decades, and Drupal did. It's not a system, but a long culture-bending process to implement this to full effect Drupal best this
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by patcon 2y ago
What if there are less challenges to the current social networks? is that not a more likely outcome, if the equilibrium settles toward stasis and lack of growth? I like my privacy, but I worry the cost for the collective is very high. I wor
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by patcon 2y ago
One take: Chasing the Rainbow: The Non-conscious Nature of Being (2017) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.0192... You might get a kick out of this paper (though some may find it's propos
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by patcon 2y ago
Strong agree. I'm on a similar path as you, travelling through related thoughts I think this hypothesis goes a long way to explaining why the math of transformers (doing mathematical operations on language) create something that rhymes
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by patcon 2y ago
History disappears, which is a bit annoying if ppl have invested energies there. I'd personally prefer it possible to lock them without archiving nor making them disappear from the internet :)
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by patcon 2y ago
Interesting. Re: search vs learning. With search, I understand it as a process of learning, where diff search strategies create different learnings. Maybe laughter is a strategy of search, or what the algorithm feels like from the inside at

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