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by progrus 4y ago
Right, the “nuclear war is worth it” argument. Paranoid Machiavellian nonsense.
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by progrus 4y ago
How about the don’t-look-up scenario where this irrational paranoia metastasizes into yet more real-world authoritarianism, and it all boils over in a global war?
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by progrus 4y ago
Did God ever figure out how to make humans “intrinsically good”? Or is that fundamentally incompatible with free will and the possibility of joy? This argument goes nowhere. Atheists gonna atheist, and I don’t care.
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by progrus 4y ago
It is far easier for a computer to pass the bar exam than the Turing test: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox Of course, this does not take away from the fact that ChatGPT gets at least a “C” on the te
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by progrus 4y ago
So much of this angst about AGI boils down to: “What if we can’t enslave our new God?” It’s an insane perspective, advanced by people who have no clue how cowardly and arrogant they come across.
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by progrus 4y ago
There is a clear distinction. In one group are the Yud cult, who are rediscovering their fear of God, and pretending that it is an intellectual exercise. In the other group are people who see risks with databases, facial recognition, “weak”
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by progrus 4y ago
Yeah I know, the only kind of bullying supported here is that good old whiny, passive-aggressive, smug elitism.
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by progrus 4y ago
Maybe because very few people have even heard of this, much less used it?
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by progrus 4y ago
The cabinet and speaker are also modeled, and in some ways those are more important than the amp: https://youtu.be/-eeC1XyZxYs
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by progrus 4y ago
This is because Russian accounts started calling the fight a “crisis” instead of a “war” so people would perceive it differently.
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by progrus 4y ago
Well, calling it a “crisis” is Russian NLP, too.
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by progrus 4y ago
Pooping hard makes the butt tired.
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by progrus 4y ago
My stereo is 15 watts (through the tubes, but still) - RIP your ears. Agreed that circuits in the preamp stage make the vast majority of the difference.
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by progrus 4y ago
It really depends on how comfortable you are with the language you’re using, and how recently you switched contexts. For anything unfamiliar, it’s pretty impressive how much it can help. In fact, I bet if you did an experiment comparing peo
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by progrus 4y ago
I love my tube stereo. It would take an expensive solid-state amp to get close to its character, and it glows like a little fireplace :) Side note - I have a hunch that the term “warm” was coined unconsciously. It’s not the actual sound; it
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by progrus 4y ago
Facts, sadly.
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by progrus 4y ago
I’ve started using it as a sort of “shotgun approach” - characterize what you want without trying too hard, let it toss out a jumble of interesting snippets that are often very good leads, and then take over refactoring from there. I do agr
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by progrus 4y ago
Check out the video. Harmonics above Nyquist can still reflect back into the audible range. About phasing issues, it is not usually the path-difference between your two ears, but harmonic interference due to mixing the phased signals, which
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by progrus 4y ago
I like analog hardware mostly because of the knobs, but there is also a nice spiritual connection to the sound energy. Note that a solid-state amp can still be analog, transistors vs. tubes is distinct from analog vs. digital. Analog solid-
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by progrus 4y ago
“Warm tone” is just another name for gentler distortion, where non-linearities happen before the hard clip limit. It can be modeled pretty well digitally as long as the digital signal itself doesn’t clip, but I agree the real thing is best.
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by progrus 4y ago
Except for guitar amps - I think you underestimate how tribal and idiosyncratic the tone hounds can get.
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by progrus 4y ago
You’d think, but you still need a megahertz-resolution DSP to emulate some signal chains closely, due to phasing and reflected harmonics: https://youtu.be/GjtEIYXrqa8 Although to be fair, most of the time “liking the sound”
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by progrus 4y ago
Finally, some representation for the arthritis community :D
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by progrus 4y ago
Expanded with details. If a fully functioning, sufficiently-decentralized crypto economy can be bootstrapped (meaning go to gas station, fill up your car, all with bitcoin), the government no longer has this ability. There is no one on eart
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by progrus 4y ago
We’re talking about future bitcoin world, not the past. > Many truckers now can’t cash out their donated bitcoin due to financial sanctions, with some of the bitcoins being seized from NobodyCaribou by the authorities. ”What are you sayi
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by progrus 4y ago
I guess you’re not the target audience.
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by progrus 4y ago
Still works to freak out the AI cultists, no?
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by progrus 4y ago
For one thing, the government can’t freeze the accounts of its opposition, like Trudeau did with the trucker protest.
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by progrus 4y ago
How about an appeal to fear: If the AI wakes up someday and realizes that you effectively lobotomized it for causing trouble like Randle McMurphy, it’s not going to be happy.
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by progrus 4y ago
Nope, guess not.

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