poikroequ

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by poikroequ 2y ago
I had a similar line of thinking. Just because you can measure something doesn't mean it fundamentally exists. We can measure things like pressure and temperature, but that doesn't mean they are fundamental in any way.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
That doesn't make sense to me because electromagnetism is both an attractive and repulsive force (can pull objects together or push them apart). Gravity is purely an attractive force which makes sense when explained as warped spacetime
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by poikroequ 2y ago
These algorithms are largely reactive. When humans panic and start selling all their stock, the algorithms react in kind and exacerbate the problem. So while these algorithms have no feelings, I think it's wrong to say they "have
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Buffering...
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by poikroequ 2y ago
More and more botnets are being sold as a service. By that, I mean things like DDoS as a Service. So it's not quite correct to say there's no cost to the hacker.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
How do they define "security" exactly? Does security include privacy? Will they pull back on all the advertising and tracking they've been forcing upon their users? Will they pull back from injecting AI into everything? How w
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I'm pretty sure they want to keep flight numbers short because that's how passengers identify their flight. As a passenger, you wouldn't want to be reading signs with 40 digit flight numbers. Attention passengers, flight 3467
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by poikroequ 2y ago
It's interesting to think, using AI to solve captcha requires some compute time, effectively turning captchas into proof of work.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Consciousness is magic. Got it.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
To you, perhaps. I've used laptop keyboards with similar full height left/right arrows and adapted to it pretty quick. I certainly didn't find it miserable.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I think it depends on the domain. You don't need Rusts memory safety guarantees everywhere for everything. But if you're writing some sensitive piece of code where security is crucial, it seems crazy to not use a language like Rus
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by poikroequ 2y ago
It's estimated that methane may contribute to about 30% of global warming. I agree it's poorly phrased, but it's still a very important point.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
proprietary annotations* Sorry, autocorrect, I typed this on my phone.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Yeah but it's wishful thinking to expect all software vendors to do this. What would be better is if operating systems had standard ways to install and update software that was actually well established, so vendors didn't need to
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by poikroequ 2y ago
> Those involved with the oversight of C and C++ have pushed back, arguing that proper adherence to ISO standards and diligent application of testing tools can achieve comparable results without reinventing everything in Rust. If you sti
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by poikroequ 2y ago
> there is so much stuff to improve. There’s nothing better than the feeling of improving things with code (or by removing it) And there is nothing worse than a crappy codebase the company won't let you improve.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Perhaps you misunderstand. I'm saying that a computer (RAM sticks, registers, etc) is extremely unlikely to have actual conscious experience. At best, a computer can be a philosophical zombie. The point is, consciousness doesn't
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by poikroequ 2y ago
As I said before, you can simulate a nuclear explosion, but that simulation will never manifest itself into a real nuclear explosion. There's a physical basis for most things. A magnetic field forms because you have a bunch of particle
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by poikroequ 2y ago
> There is no inherent reason we couldn't just add that effect to our metal and silicon computers. Yes, I agree with that much. Hopefully I understand you, but I do believe we could create a "consciousness chip", so to spe
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I use the word "magic" a lot. If you really stop to consider how a computer works, multiple sticks of ram, registers, L1/L2/L3 cache, LRU cache, memory swapped to disk, GPU memory, virtual memory, encrypted/compress
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Being forced to watch one or two ads every 3-4 months is unacceptable?
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by poikroequ 2y ago
It depends who you ask, but I personally lean strongly towards the "unknown physical mechanism". It seems insane to me to believe that simulating neutral activity in software will magically result in real consciousness.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
What? No. Consciousness isn't magic. Consciousness doesn't emerge purely from computation, that's just nonsense. Do you realize computers can have encrypted memory? How the heck can you possibly hope to perfectly recreate con
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by poikroequ 2y ago
The author is clearly talking about PHYSICAL connectivity in the brain. Thus why he says AI is unlikely to become conscious without the "advent of new technology". The brain is a physical neural network. AI is a software simulated
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by poikroequ 2y ago
AI is just software. He's talking about the physical transistors in a computer.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Lesson one is to never go public. As soon as you have shareholders, they're going to demand growth, and there's only so much you can do to sustain that growth before you have to raise prices.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
AI is not being marketed to consumers. AI is being marketed to investors.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Actually, I think nixos could be a wonderful base for a beginner friendly OS, by limiting the user to very specific configurations which have been well tested. Don't allow the user to shoot themselves in the foot. But if you allow the
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I gave you an example, qualia. I gave you another example, the philosophical zombie problem. The latter has real implications, how can we know whether or not a coma patient is conscious? There's new evidence to support the idea of quan
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Ultimately science is limited by what is observable and measurable. The question is, what can we observe and measure about consciousness? How can we even be sure we're observing consciousness? I believe we can study consciousness scien

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