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by patcon 9mo ago
I think it's a neat service layer: and infra layer that attests to people's addresses -- to break it you need to intercept mail, which is a federal offence in most states. So it piggybacks on assurances of states, even while being
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by patcon 9mo ago
> like it or not that's far more anchored in reality than anything around these parts TRUTH.
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by patcon 9mo ago
I don't mean this flippantly, but it's an odd framing you present. As in, when you yourself comment on the internet, do you think about winning Somalis to your cause? I just mean... the point of marginalising reliance on USA and U
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by patcon 9mo ago
This is definitely inspired by the print book "house of leaves", a strange work of ergodic fiction: The subset box layouts with backward text, the coloring of a single word a bright color throughout ("house" and "Mi
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by patcon 9mo ago
easier for some brains than others, no? It's a sad loss of agency (for those whom it matters) to not be able to make such a simple choice to control the environmental conditions they are weak to but i am genuinely glad for people who f
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by patcon 9mo ago
I assume it's the vendors who are the target to buy these. He said they charge a lot to map a venue, and so I'm guessing he wanted to create a market for the videos that they will buy. If I'm understanding correctly, it'
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by patcon 9mo ago
Oh hey, I think I first started running into you via our chef-drupal cookbooks ;) that community treated me so so well, but it's certainly better to move past it these days
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by patcon 10mo ago
Is it not the case that "production level code" coming out of these processes makes the whole system of coder-plus-machine weaker? I find it to be a good thing that the code must be read in order to be production-grade, because th
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by patcon 10mo ago
2swap has an amazingly animated math exposition video that gives one of the better explanations of complex numbers that I've seen! https://youtu.be/y9mX-u22lbI?si=8-k_O2F_Y94zuMwZ
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by patcon 10mo ago
Love this framing I like it because it makes it clear that the boundaries of those stable structures are what encode the world model that encompasses the future. Conscious systems just decode the boundaries of these recursive structures. Co
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by patcon 10mo ago
Thanks! Under what conditions has this been tested so far? Just feels like the right context to share before people with scarce attention (like everyone has scarce and precious attention) start investing some of it in your efforts Again, I
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by patcon 10mo ago
> AND are alienating the creators of these cultural outputs via displacement of labor and payment YES. Thank you for these words. It's a form of ecological collapse. Thought to be fair, the creative ecology has always operated at th
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by patcon 10mo ago
I think this just means you're from a respected country or IP block (or email or phone carrier), and so your existence online doesn't provoke suspicion? :) I know some people dislike being reminded of this, but I share it because
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by patcon 10mo ago
Glad I shared if it serves you! > LLMs have inherited the statistical structure of the symbiont without the host: pattern without grounding. I like this. I think it's not too far a leap to suggest something like "soul" wit
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by patcon 10mo ago
Agreed. When cloudflare (ugh, aka the internet) goes down, we can't access information to think and work through. ("the fuel" in some metaphor) But what about when LLMs go down and a good chunk of a whole generation won'
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by patcon 10mo ago
I suspect you're more right than wrong. I'm a strong believer in this sort of thing -- that humans are best understood as a cyborg of a biological and semiotic organism, but mostly a "language symbiont inside a host". We
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by patcon 10mo ago
As someone who thinks about the co-evolution of language and culture quite often, I love this sort of think-piece. Gives me a bunch of my own threads to pull
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by patcon 10mo ago
I think you were getting at this, but in case others didn't know: cstross is a famous sci-fi author and futurist :)
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by patcon 10mo ago
You're right that "beef" isn't the right term, and I apologise for the lazy take. But there was a values tension, and resulting values clash with someone who fell firmly on one side of the tension, seemingly a bit self-r
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by patcon 10mo ago
they are great, and I feel your concern is misplaced. when you support literally thousands of teenagers over the internet (the delightfully overconfident, inexperienced, famous-for-trolling humans that they are) and literally only a handful
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by patcon 10mo ago
> rediscover the hard way the older wisdom about having separate spheres with separate hard constraints and boundaries on behaviors This is something I also believe. Thanks for saying it. I've been thinking and reflecting a lot on w
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by patcon 10mo ago
I suspect even if we can't prove it, there are real reasons to program spirituality or ideas of supernatural into low levels of an intelligence. There's a reason why are brains converged on this, and it might have more to do with
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by patcon 10mo ago
what if more power (from state) goes to the group that does engage in those activities, and therefore Anthropic gets marginalized as shadow sectors of state power pick a different winner? These things are not clear. I do not envy those who
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by patcon 10mo ago
The only meeting resilient to all possible outcomes is one that can easily be split. Sometimes you need to branch the timeline, and people need to talk about different things that are the right things for their priorities. In real space you
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by patcon 11mo ago
LOVE this question! Thanks for asking. I also like toying with variants of where "essential elements" can live, sometimes in odd places :) https://x.com/patcon_/status/1963648801962369358 > I have an
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by patcon 11mo ago
> just another piece of proprietary software Feels really strange to lump this together with PowerBI... Respectfully, I feel like we could all benefit from having better categories than you are offering. Good categories are tools to navi
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by patcon 11mo ago
> into the simplest possible steps, recursively call (relatively small) LLMs as agents to execute one step at a time, and using a clever voting scheme to choose how to execute each step. It's like humans! Everything old is new again
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by patcon 11mo ago
I agree, they should have said it, and I had to go looking too. but it may be that they're just leaving this to others, and talking to ppl who already think about KNN's? http://ann-benchmarks.com/index.html But ye
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by patcon 11mo ago
This reminds me the talk by Leland McInness (employed by a branch of Canadian NSA and creator of UMAP) on rethinking dimensional reduction: Rethinking Unsupervised Learning https://youtu.be/v_jcu7rUqqE He boiled all dimensi
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by patcon 11mo ago
This is a strong divider between types of minds. I respect your type, but know that others exist and they want these things. It's not crazy, it's just another way.

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