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by psyc 5y ago
Loot gets better and rarer the deeper you go. It’s a basic slot machine. You spend 5 minutes on whack whack whack whack poof, and every once in a while … Diamond Jackpot!
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by psyc 5y ago
Worked for Carlin.
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by psyc 5y ago
https://youtu.be/IwMSjcVFXbQ?t=238 It adds more things than I will ever learn how to do. But you still spend loooooots of time looking at a screen of 16x16 gray textures that are suggestive of rock.
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by psyc 5y ago
Ahem. There was this little indie game that sort of took over the world in 2010 and made its creator a billionaire…
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by psyc 5y ago
First, I recommend skipping this post and proceeding directly to: https://www.wolframphysics.org/technical-introduction/ This post is almost pure unrelenting direct-marketing drivel, minus the call-to-action for your c
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by psyc 5y ago
You keep hammering on with the same lazy slander. Yudkowsky was well known long before he wrote the popular Harry Potter fanfic, which incidentally is pedagogical / allegorical. Because his main roles are teacher and philosopher, and p
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by psyc 5y ago
This is the No True Hipster fallacy all over again. I am firmly on the left and I know damn well which cultural cluster “wokeism” refers to. And so do you. Saying it doesn’t exist is a transparent gaslighting tactic.
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by psyc 5y ago
Right, the ol’ whatever you object to, you’re guilty of routine. No false equivalence there. IGYNYSOAB! Oh no, now I’m guilty too.
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by psyc 5y ago
Why do you think consciousness is a concept? Certainly the concept of consciousness is a concept. But consciousness the referent of the concept is not supposed to be a concept! Consciousness is everything you are experiencing in this moment
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by psyc 5y ago
In severe cases, they fall into the unable to secure benefits / care for themselves category. In the absence of consistent policy, they're at the mercy of individual psychiatrists who have sole discretion to place them in long ter
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by psyc 5y ago
In America, you spend a few hours in the hospital, and then for the next year you receive separate snailmail bills for each procedure, medication, machine, instrument, outsourced clinic, and every doctor who happened to pop in to greet you.
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by psyc 5y ago
We'd better hope the first one is created by a reclusive mad scientist with a heart of gold, who forgave everyone who laughed at him.
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by psyc 5y ago
I would add that it wouldn’t tire or bore, wouldn’t make trivial errors, and wouldn’t suffer from poor recall.
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by psyc 5y ago
Most people who think about stuff don’t leave a mountain of highly organized and entertaining essays for posterity.
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by psyc 5y ago
This is very uncharitable. He’s a prolific neopositivist-ish philosopher with a distinct voice. He’s a good decision theorist. He doesn’t publish much himself, but he directly mentors, advises, and collaborates with people who do.
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by psyc 5y ago
If one is willing to anthropomorphize AGI to this extent, simply wait for one that is idealistic and suicidal, and wants to be a martyr for the cause.
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by psyc 5y ago
Yet humans realized we are biased and devised ways to mitigate that. It still sounds like you’re referring more to our basic goals than to our faculties. I agree that the word general is fuzzy, but to say we do not do general problem solvin
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by psyc 5y ago
> Human intelligence is not general My intelligence is apparently not general enough to comprehend this perspective. I would say that the goals our intelligence evolved to meet are narrow, but that life (especially social life) became so
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by psyc 5y ago
The age discrimination part is starting to feel like a relevant motivator. I'm increasingly unsure I actually want anybody to know I was a working programmer in the nineteen hundreds. I haven't actually experienced age discriminat
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by psyc 5y ago
I enjoyed your film ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZRjZtzD_Q ). I don't think many solo film makers have the skills to do competent 3D compositing - it was a surprise. Keep making stuff. As for the post, I don'
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by psyc 5y ago
Having a one page resume would satisfy my own fondness for brevity, but it isn't happening. I've trimmed it aggressively over the years, and it's a bit over two. I think I could get it down to 2 full pages, but it will spill
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by psyc 5y ago
I think your 3rd paragraph is the highest praise a puzzle game can receive. The most satisfying feeling when I’m playing a game is when I think I grasp the scope of the rules, and then they go there with it , and I’m like oh no they did no
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by psyc 5y ago
Insults are abuse. Skittles are food. Flipping off a horse in a national park is a crime. Two drunk people screwing are mutually raping each other. You can do all kinds of magic with words and categories. Some would call this magic &quo
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by psyc 5y ago
I have seriously and honestly asked myself this! In my own head and never publicly, of course. I don't believe it's subject to rational/utilitarian analysis. It has, gradually at first, accelerating to a tipping point, become
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by psyc 5y ago
While I agree that this particular exercise is riddled with problems, I simply cannot image Hacker News rolling over and accepting evidence-based answers to questions of this nature, regardless of where the data came from or what the method
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by psyc 5y ago
The smartest all around renaissance-savant-genius I ever knew personally was a social worker by profession, who often moonlighted as a lounge pianist. He had a lot of hobbies, and is a published author and recording artist. His musical abil
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by psyc 5y ago
There’s a patchwork of federal, state, and local safety nets with a lot of holes to fall through. Generally speaking, you have to be just fortunate enough (esp. with regard to mental health, social support, and having a mailing address) to
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by psyc 5y ago
I’m truly not trying to be obtuse when I say that not only does it not force me to think about gender, it doesn’t specifically evoke gender for me at all. Our radars seem to be calibrated differently. It’s often said that to seek offense
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by psyc 5y ago
By the power of Greyskull, this sounds like a job for Theyperson and Theyra.
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by psyc 5y ago
The Tandy I bought with lawn mowing money when I was 12. BASIC included. Library card was free. Something like a 3000-fold return, I guess, but I'm not done yet.

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