patcon

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by patcon 3y ago
Now I'm trying to imagine how our limb movements might be perceived by a creature that natively evolved the style of coordination in the video :) it would be "weird" but how might they describe that weirdness and what might u
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by patcon 3y ago
Ah, I thought it was a play on "loup-garou", which is french[-canadian] for "werewolf". Though odd spelling did confuse me... :)
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by patcon 3y ago
My expectation is that this has to do with there being a critical mass of autistic or otherwise neurodivergent persons who work in these spaces. There are many interests more common to people on the autistic spectrum. Gender and identity is
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by patcon 3y ago
I don't either. But I understand that different brains have different experiences with it, and many many ppl are "having a bad time". Just like how one persons reaction to being surrounded by unhealthy food choices is differe
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by patcon 3y ago
What are your feelings on production and propagation of "foods" rich in refined sugar? To be clear, I find your thoughts interesting and worth understanding, but if you also believe that the government has zero business in public
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by patcon 3y ago
And it has used AI to minimize collateral damage globally, but perhaps maximize acceptable collateral damage of a certain sort. It kills not just the target, but those who love them most... and who might feel the strongest sense of loss,
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by patcon 3y ago
He's saying all minds are probabilistic ux. We handle them fine, and built whole worlds on them. The predictability and determinism of digital system is the detour that is perhaps the flash in the pan. My sense is that the information
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by patcon 3y ago
> The illusion of being stuck Agree. Assigning pathologizing is mostly based on whether it affects your life in a negative way. If it doesn't (and it's not simply deferring or hiding the bad outcomes), the it's not the pat
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by patcon 3y ago
Quadratic voting is even more interesting! It's like voting power + consilience https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience A voting system that aspires to boost uncorrelated signals, and attenuate highly correlat
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by patcon 3y ago
> Does anyone really believe this company is viable in 2024? In this scenario, Apple is dead. Death is not a "couldn't hack it" outcome. Death is an evolved and persistently retained pattern in all living systems that have
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by patcon 3y ago
I'm open to this. If an attempt to stop frontier models is to hold, banning open weights must be on the table. I'm excited about AI, but not entirely sure that it doesn't call for the same strong regulation as nuclear prolife
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by patcon 3y ago
Omg I truly want to be respectful in my reply. But... just... I need to communicate to you that this logic is so messed up. Just because systems of capital want something from us, that does NOT mean that we must provide it. We don't ne
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by patcon 3y ago
Yeah, but there are modern equivalents of that period's parental negligence and collective failure. We have contemporary versions of the exploitation of mines and factories. If mines and factories were what we recognize (from today&#x2
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by patcon 3y ago
Honestly, not everyone has the same mental clockspeed. I have friends who seem to quite literally think 7x faster than everyone else. But to be fair, they don't do as much side-band emotional processing and tangential thought as me. I
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by patcon 3y ago
https://archive.is/iS8NV
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by patcon 3y ago
> The ubiquitinylation is activating inflammatory response, but then why would viral polymerase activity require ubiquitin? You'd think the viruses would evolve away from inflammatory response, not towards. tl;dr - Basically, this s
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by patcon 3y ago
https://archive.is/knK6x
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by patcon 3y ago
> But I don't think of myself as a CAS or talk about We. Wecellfs? I am a collector of theories of consciousness :) assuming your quote above is making reference to the "scale" at which "self" is understood, you
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by patcon 3y ago
Chain of thought reminds me of "muddling through", which immediately clicks with my intuition of the right approach to approximations of intelligence: https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/massed-muddler-intelligenc
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by patcon 3y ago
Ugh. I dislike almost everything in this press release. Way to do all the wrong things, Inflection...
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by patcon 3y ago
Some regulation liberates closures, and some protects closures. I believe the person is advocating for less regulation that protects private closures, and is throwing in the idea of more regulation to liberate closures... perhaps as a way t
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by patcon 3y ago
Please post a new share or self post! and link to it here :) (Just bc the eyes one this comment section might die down by the time you get it written!)
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by patcon 3y ago
Isn't this just a white-hat/black-hat hacker dynamic, except in this case the latter is legal?
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by patcon 3y ago
Ah interesting. I guess when I think of abstraction, I think of a boundary over which complexity is reduced, and therefore information is lost. My more personal sense is that a ton of human misery comes from poorly chosen abstraction. Or ab
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by patcon 3y ago
Heh I like the sentiment, but this feels to me a little bit odd, like saying "evolution is a cold ruthless inhumane process". There is no human (the root of all things "humane") without the evolution being critiqued by t
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by patcon 3y ago
Put another way, we have a tendency to like ppl, but once we calibrate, we start penalizing ppl. But without context, we round up. We seek positive attributes first before resorting to negative, and only in aggregate. It's a local-firs
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by patcon 3y ago
Consider this post to be insight from the mind of a genius who communicates poorly, hasn't been trying to broadcast widely, but has been funded by DARPA since before 2010. I feel it's worth your energy and suspension of incredulit
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Thermodynamic Computing (2017)(knowm.org)
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by patcon 3y ago
I believe this link is communicating within the family of thought from which this blog post also comes: https://knowm.org/thermodynamic-computing/ It's a random, unassuming 7-year-old blog post from a DARPA-funded
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by patcon 3y ago
Fwiw one of their architectural diagrams or api.weather.gov outside the scope of this project :)

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