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by placebo 1y ago
The correct analogy to me is that being able to run fast will not help you that much in building a rocket to take you to the moon. I'm open to changing my mind though if presented with a solid counter argument.
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by placebo 1y ago
While I can definitely see the ability to type faster as an advantage in some cases, I don't think I'll ever bother going through the process of learning it. From decades of software development I can type fast enough for whatever
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by placebo 1y ago
Where do you think morality fits into this game? It seems that we agree that underneath it all is unfathomable and ineffable magic. The question is how does this influence how you act in the game?
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by placebo 2y ago
They are indeed labels, just like complex numbers are labels and just like natural numbers are labels. All of them can be regarded as imaginary if one wants to nitpick but all are very useful imaginary models
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by placebo 2y ago
When the means become the end things start to go bad. When one's ego becomes the goal then Moralizing is more satisfying than understanding.
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by placebo 2y ago
Working software and correct software are two different things and understanding that like in most things there is a tradeoff might be beneficial.
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by placebo 2y ago
Thanks. Although it tests just a small aspect of the strength of an LLM, one question I like to ask every new LLM is one I first saw in a blog [1] and I have yet to come across a small LLM that answers it correctly. Almost all large LLMs wo
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by placebo 2y ago
Perhaps if you define evil as a low quantity of ability or commitment to search for and act in accordance to what is ultimately true then that will better resonate with you. Of course, that will necessarily lead to questions regarding the n
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by placebo 2y ago
Thinking about this a bit, Language Learning Model might be a better TLA than Large Language Model since "Large" is a subjective, period-dependant adjective whereas language learning is precisely what these models achieve (with al
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by placebo 2y ago
Haha, awesome, thank you. "We propose a somewhat more speculative theory (with apologies to Douglas Adams and Veet Voojagig). Somewhere in the cosmos, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, walking treeoids, and
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by placebo 2y ago
I would continuously lose ballpoint pens. At one point I thought the solution was to buy an expensive ball point pen as that would make me more aware of not losing it, but the effect was that it would just take a bit longer. I finally settl
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by placebo 2y ago
I think the part of "even if I never benefit from it" is a key point in living a meaningful life and transcending the fear of death, though hopefully you have carefully considered your decision from a financial perspective since m
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by placebo 2y ago
My definition of wisdom is the ability to responsibly use intelligence, and while as a species we are blessed with an amazing amount of intelligence, our wisdom has not advanced accordingly. The phrase that with great power comes great resp
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by placebo 2y ago
"Eisenstein asked whether there were some more instructions regarding the film. Stalin. I am not giving you instructions but expressing the viewer's opinion." Yeah, right...
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by placebo 2y ago
Reminds me of a joke where mankind got so technologically advanced that they were able to create man from a piece of ground. They contacted God and told him they reached his level since they can create a man from a piece of ground. God aske
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by placebo 2y ago
While I agree that people who take goodwill as a sign of weakness should be deterred, I think that anger as a means to achieve that is a double-edged sword. Perhaps a good method is to use the paper trick and dispose of the anger after it h
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by placebo 3y ago
I doubt the fact that we know we've had a good or bad sleep is related to the existence of awareness when in deep sleep. If someone remains indefinitely in deep sleep there will be no personal experience and therefore nothing to qualif
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by placebo 3y ago
I think the fact that "structure determines behavior" is true is exactly what it is he is lamenting about. The fact that a tool enables you to shoot yourself in the foot is never an excuse to shoot yourself in the foot. Knowing ho
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by placebo 3y ago
Agree, seems like a good example. I also understand what you meant by an example :) Sorry for the misunderstanding...
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by placebo 3y ago
I see nothing wrong with platitudes if they are true :) I'm not sure what examples you're looking for or would find convincing. I can speak about my own experiences of learning new things, where the speed of what I learned were al
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by placebo 3y ago
I think there are two main factors in doing this: The first is creating the passion for the subject matter by making it both fascinating and accessible and by that generating even more curiosity and motivation that I believe are innate in e
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by placebo 3y ago
Although there is no way around the struggle, there is a way around how the struggle is perceived and experienced. A good teacher shows the struggle is worth it, but I believe a great teacher makes the struggle something you enjoy doing, an
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by placebo 3y ago
Cool. Created the same idea quite a few years ago. Also added the ability to traverse the network and view clips and info about the artists. The entire thing leverages one SQLite file. https://nocurve.com/musicmap/ As
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by placebo 3y ago
It was an API I developed using ActiveX on Microsoft's Internet explorer and NPAPI on other browsers
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by placebo 3y ago
made something similar 14 years ago... https://youtu.be/bEwsuWNxdno domain isn't mine anymore...
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by placebo 3y ago
Both our opinions about this are equally unfalsifiable unless we agree on an experiment that can be performed at some point which would make one of us change their mind. I assume you'd agree that the pursuit of what is ultimately true
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by placebo 3y ago
While I agree that human persuasion would probably not change a worldview built on lived experience, you can't know in advance what might be possible with superhuman persuasion. You might be led to believe that your experience was inte
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by placebo 3y ago
> It’s a miracle it works at all. I agree. In fact with what seems to be an exponential growth in complexity of software ecosystems, what's keeping it all from eventually getting to a "tower of Babel" catastrophe? Of cours
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by placebo 3y ago
This is evidence that self-conscious beings can stop being self-conscious or that the content of what they are conscious of can change when the stuff that enables self-consciousness to occur is manipulated. It does not prove that consciousn
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by placebo 3y ago
>How do you pay for these servers? For probably much of cybercrime you don't pay for these servers. Many are usually security compromised servers that were put up for legit business and left some config file out in the open or some

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