patcon

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by patcon 2y ago
YES. This is how I explain my brain. It doesn't understand correctly, and so it gets really great at exploring and making legible all the hidden dimensions and edges of thought. And from there, creativity is just taking those discovere
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by patcon 2y ago
Related: Information is surprise https://plus.maths.org/content/information-surprise > If your string of symbols constitutes a passage of English text, then you could just count the number of words it contains. But
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by patcon 2y ago
Really love your thoughts here. Very thought-provoking to someone like myself who has spent quite a bit of time thinking about and researching the evolutionary origins of laughter and its relation to surprise/play To respond to just on
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by patcon 2y ago
Oy, this just gave me a dystopic angle on a collective intelligence initiative I'm excited about: using LLMs to get non-human entities like rivers on advisory boards. https://x.com/zarinahagnew/status/18154426
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by patcon 2y ago
When enough ppl visibly leave and have real concerns, they can be in touch in exile, and all break NDA in synchrony. If the stakes are as high as some believe, I presume ppl don't actually care about getting sued when they believe they
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by patcon 2y ago
By that logic, isn't building a family something one should never do? There is no market to sell your family, so that must be a clear signal that your attention and energy should go elsewhere...? I'm sure this analogy is a bit abs
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by patcon 2y ago
> So many are thrilled by the idea of knowing something few other people know to a degree that they paradoxically want to make it something everybody knows Some people (often due to trauma) have a very different relationship with secrets
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by patcon 2y ago
I lol'd :)
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by patcon 2y ago
Until you're at a reception dinner, seated beside someone you admire and you're instantly pulling up relevant research from your knowledgebase on topics they care about and are working on. And then you're doing things, beca
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by patcon 2y ago
> You can do economic analysis of pricing data, and especially the interaction/correlation of multiple streams of prices across time Would this be the sort of analysis that measured transfer entropy or granger causality?
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by patcon 2y ago
Ah interesting. I'm now colliding this thought with how unnerved I was by the tacit acceptance of very visible elements of the surveillance state in UK. I wonder if the state needed different tactics to make the population legible, and
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by patcon 2y ago
Agreed! But also... Rather than your seeing someone stream "really effective 99th percentile AI coding", maybe it would be more illustrative for us all to see someone stream the "50th percentile developer unassisted" exp
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by patcon 2y ago
I was very stressed last year and had what felt like a dissociative episode: Knowing what was becoming possible with LLMs, I one day just couldn't shake the feeling of unreality while reading any online spaces, including hacker news. I
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by patcon 2y ago
I wonder about the sibling comment about survivorship bias. Specifically, I wonder if the reason "founder mode" strikes singular founders as a resonant story, is because it's representative of a story that can even have a sin
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by patcon 2y ago
I think I hear what you're saying. I have started to think of "depravity" (as you call it) as the "body horror" of a collectivist body politic. It takes the form of an agent of our collective, like some social gangr
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by patcon 2y ago
> I also do not feel that I misunderstand life. Respectfully: You do. You must. Or if you don't, then life misunderstands itself. For life has adopted this pattern of death in essentially every conceivable domain, every ecological n
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by patcon 2y ago
Was much more likely true until a week ago, but now there’s a legit competing hypothesis :) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01480-8
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by patcon 2y ago
Isn't the rate that is “trouble” up to the couple? I can imagine a really compat couple who trust one another bringing up a dozen small things, and each hearing them with humility. If they're both the sorta ppl who really want to
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by patcon 2y ago
agreed
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by patcon 2y ago
Seemingly they don't allow using gmail addresses to sign up. Seems like a really opinionated service. I guess maybe I should expect this sort of militant behaviour from the sort of ppl who run a chunk of the internet backbone? EDIT: re
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by patcon 2y ago
THANK YOU. I'm listening to this now, and deciding what is appropriate to share with my family <3
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by patcon 2y ago
you are delightful. i appreciate you, dang
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by patcon 2y ago
REPOSTED from deleted top level comment. @dang I'm seeing that it was posted 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37914958 I appreciate the rules, but am very disappointed. There are some incredibly movin
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by patcon 2y ago
Oh! This reminds me of some lines from a 1970s essay called "The Origin of Death", which was on HN 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505856 https://www.elijahwald.com/origin.html
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by patcon 2y ago
I like you.
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by patcon 2y ago
YES. great response
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by patcon 2y ago
This is beautiful. And not just beautiful, but true, I think. I've been working through thoughts about my dead mother the past few months, in concert with a new partner in my life who also lost her mother. We've been working throu
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by patcon 2y ago
Farewell, ICQ. Sincerely, 1339782
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Also perhaps why the evolved pattern of death is important: a subnetwork is selected in a brain, which is suited to a specific geological, physical, biological and cognitive environment that the brain is navigating. But when the environment
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by patcon 2y ago
After watching the demo, my question isn't about how close it is to helping me learn a language, but about how close it is to being me in another language. Even styles of thought might be different in other languages, so I don&#x

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