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Strange Intelligence, Strange Philosophy(eschwitz.substack.com)
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I think it matters merely by the way we set our expectations relative to what is going to come - and what has come already. I'm feeling an undercurrent of thought that is implying: this is not X (intelligence, understanding, whatever),
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https://thegradient.pub/othello/
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I can't disagree more. Or maybe I actually agree. Because it's not easy to tell whether something is flying. Definitions like that fall apart every time we encounter something out of the ordinary. If you take the criterion of &quo
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A term can be both established and nonsensical, like grandparent's "serverless". It doesn't make sense in multiple ways. "Distro" means "distribution", so "something that is distributed". Ar
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One way around it is to do what the Tor Browser does: report an arbitrary value.
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I've been longing for the ability to disable media queries. Just serve me the default. It's not only useful against fingerprinting, but also when the creator's idea of what layout is appropriate on my setup differs from mine.
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Having been vegetarian for 10 years (vegan for 7 of those) and having had no health issues, I disagree completely with your disagreement. Perhaps we need more people to be lab rats so we can have a meaningful sample size for a fact-backed d
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I wish we put a tax on every animal exploited, from the position of suffering caused. But we'd need to recognize animal personhood first. Still, this is a step in the right direction, even if from a different angle.
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Corollary: Luck wins in business (a.k.a. it ain't just about hard work)
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Oh, being a devil's advocate is all fine. But when it's not clear what the advocate is advocating it stops being interesting.
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Um, I reacted to this exchange in context: >>Why should we turn information into a "product"[...] > Because [...] That clearly indicates that you're in fact advocating it to be a product. Perhaps I misunderstood your
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> we need to incentivize them to get said valuable information. Why should that incentive take form of making information a product? "just provide knowledge out of thr good of your heart" is a gross misrepresentation of what th
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Because there is no single widely accepted definition of intelligence.
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"the LED [...] will act as a capacitor that charges when light hits it." Wait, what? Photodiodes are supposed to be letting (dark) current through continuously when light hits them in reverse bias. Heck, I even tested it empirical
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Last month they unblocked me even though the website is blank.
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As you might expect, there's a Black Mirror episode not far from that (IIRC "White Christmas"). And several other works of literature.
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The nvidia situation is more of a "one big issue" than "death by a thousand cuts".
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100000000 is 8 significant places. If you build words by choosing out of 10 viable following letters out of an alphabet, you'll hit that in 8 characters. That's not an especially long word. (I don't actually know if that&#x27
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Why do names have to come from the English dictionary? Google can't (couldn't) be found in one.
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Like this? https://farmdroid.com/product-sheet/
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Oh, I wasn't aware of the last bit (brokenwall). Now we're entering gray area, depending on what was said exactly, and how much of a contribution voice actors made their characters.
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What makes a likeness a likeness? A measure of similarity? Then I demand all people sounding like me to license their voice from me. A claim that the voice originates from a certain person? Then you don't need any licensing in this cas
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Having just watched Scavenger's Reign, it differs from both Lem novels in an important way. Lem uses characters as an excuse to tell something about the portrayed worlds. Scavenger's Reign uses the world as a backdrop to tell the
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> making computer-generated chatter and images indistinguishable from messages sent by humans. That's a false dichotomy. "computer-generated chatter and images" ARE messages sent by humans. There are no cases of computers
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What if you're playing a game and someone pulls the chair from under you? Do you remain in the game, unresponsive? Do you prove that you were indeed on the chair all the time? Or do you get forcefully pulled out from the game to the fl
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I don't intend to convince you or get convinced. To me, the answer depends on the purpose of the question. I'm curious now instead why you'd grant rights to entities that don't have an "I". Isn't that poin
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Sure, the story places you from the start with the assumption that there was someone who has been split in the first place. But why does the topic have to be about any more than that? The question is not "is there a Dennet?", bu
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It's true, as exemplified by a scratched bike. Still, it happens, and the designer of the infrastructure must be aware of that. To take the devil's advocate role, people will keep traveling long after they exhausted their ability
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Do you consider non-persons have an "I"? I presume you do, because otherwise there wouldn't be anyone to deserve rights. In that case, the question is still valid: how would you convince the non-person "I" that the

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