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by qlm 4y ago
No, humans don't do that. If humans did that nothing new would ever be created.
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by qlm 4y ago
Ok, I feel this conversation is not going anywhere. If I see a single example of an LLM generating new theories then I will immediately change my mind. I have yet to see this. Most humans are not capable of inventing things, you're rig
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by qlm 4y ago
Imagine an LLM was trained on the internet before LLMs were invented. It knows everything in the world. Every programming concept, every philosophical and logical concept. It is an "expert" on the then-current state of the art in
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by qlm 4y ago
This isn't generating new theories. I'm not saying LLMs aren't useful, or that they aren't extremely impressive in many ways. Almost nothing GPT-4 produces was in the training set. I'm not saying they can't pro
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by qlm 4y ago
LLMs don't "understand" things because they can't generate new theories. Imagine you trained an LLM a ton of text describing what it means for something to be true, and for something to be false. It would never independe
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by qlm 4y ago
I had a similar experience earlier. Described a problem that isn't even that hard - very similar to something there are probably lots of examples of online but subtly different. I wanted to see if handled these subtly different require
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by qlm 4y ago
Twitter account of the admin: https://twitter.com/notabigjerk
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by qlm 4y ago
Can't wait to get killed by a car driven by somebody with 250ms of latency, 20% packet loss, who is underpaid and is forced to drive 3 cars at once. Driving also varies a lot between countries. I can't imagine having to switch bet
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by qlm 4y ago
I've never been sure how to reconcile this with advice about insulation. It's currently really cold where I live, and I am trying to limit outside air coming in as much as possible. This then leads to the air having uncomfortably
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by qlm 4y ago
"Bono’s Product Red brand wanted to dispense even with the philanthropic intermediary. ‘Philanthropy is like hippy music, holding hands’, Bono proclaimed. ‘Red is more like punk rock, hip hop, this should feel like hard commerce’. The
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by qlm 4y ago
The answer about Typescript generics is totally wrong. I'm sure there's other errors but I didn't read further.
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by qlm 4y ago
I find text chatting with a stranger to very difficult compared to talking in person. I've never managed to move from the chat stage on a dating app to a real date. I generally find people easy to talk to in person. All my romantic par
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by qlm 4y ago
People who are arguing that drug addicts be given hotel rooms are not on the other end of the spectrum. That's a center-left policy at most. It's a massively inefficient "solution" that does nothing to address the issue.
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by qlm 4y ago
> Is Switzerland riddled with violent gangs? Is it bordered by failed narco-controlled states that continuously smuggle people and drugs into the country? Does it have big chunks of the population living in inner city crime-infested ghet
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by qlm 4y ago
“And just as with ethnology, which plays at extricating itself from its object to better secure itself in its pure form, demuseumification is nothing but another spiral in artificiality. Witness the cloister of Saint-Michel de Cuxa, which o
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by qlm 4y ago
Certainly, and the book doesn't claim otherwise. There are differences in the origins of the drive to succeed, however, and these are still worth examining. In modern Western society, the pressure to succeed is largely internalised. Pe
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by qlm 4y ago
I highly recommend Byung-Chul Han's "The Burnout Society", which is mentioned in this article. It provides a very lucid explanation of modern western society's obsession with achievement and self-improvement, and the har
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by qlm 4y ago
Absolutely crazy that public transport even has the possibility of being "bankrupted".
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by qlm 4y ago
It's sickening. These people don't care about improving people's living conditions. They care about extracting more and more and more money by exploiting a crisis that they have had a hand in creating.
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by qlm 4y ago
Maybe the solution to the housing crisis is to build more affordable housing and to eliminate the practice of using housing as an investment / safe place to park money. Also, outlaw or heavily regulate Airbnb. I don't think anothe
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by qlm 4y ago
"We owe the cultural achievements of humanity—which include philosophy—to deep, contemplative attention. Culture presumes an environment in which deep attention is possible. Increasingly, such immersive reflection is being displaced by
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by qlm 4y ago
Any (relatively easy) way we can try virtual threads out yet?
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by qlm 4y ago
I think it's possible to build such a lock, but if your lock will inevitably deadlock due to random failures it's probably not that useful.
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by qlm 4y ago
Why does that matter? Kotlin has interop with other JVM languages.
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by qlm 4y ago
Not had the bad experiences that other people have had with Spring. I'm currently at a Java/Kotlin place that prefers lightweight frameworks. A lot of time has been invested in reinventing stuff Spring already does and does better
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by qlm 5y ago
I've always wanted to run the Windows Control Panel natively on any platform!
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by qlm 5y ago
TikTok is far from harmless. Google "West Elm Caleb" for an idea of TikTok's own brand of insane toxicity.
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by qlm 5y ago
What was AI Dungeon's downfall? Can't find much about it.
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by qlm 5y ago
You think expletives are a sign of poor education? How dull.
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by qlm 5y ago
No, but the AirTag will beep incessantly and loudly if it detects that it is moving without the owner nearby, as somebody who borrowed my backpack informed me.

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