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by qsera 5mo ago
>But he some how didn't know when to stop. I think he perfectly well knows. It is just that capitalism makes him want more. No man, after drinking water to quench his thirst, automatically wished if he had a bottle of cola..
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by qsera 5mo ago
>Modelling text describing the world is not modelling (some aspect) of the world? The text describes the world to humans. This is the crucial thing that you miss. It is very subjective. Imagine that you learn the grammar of a foreign la
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by qsera 5mo ago
Is AI is the new Waterfall/Agile methodology with all the lingo/terminology/names that make no damn sense? Appears so, because I am so turned off by it...
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by qsera 5mo ago
> eyes are strange biological sensors I was always amazed at the idea of a Radar, how it can detect objects at large distances by using reflected EM radiation, then I remember that eyes are just a RADAR and I am 10x amazed by the fact...
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by qsera 5mo ago
>A million times better than any human teacher I’ve ever had, for sure. Not really, not if you want to ask it deep questions. It won't have an answer that is deeper than something that you can find online, and if pressed it will jus
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by qsera 5mo ago
>but I've come to realize that the biases of the rationalist community are really no different from the biases of anyone else. In other words, uninitialized intellectuals are just plebs with a degree or browse HN or worse reddit. Th
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by qsera 5mo ago
As the persons said, they are not observing it in real life. This is what I also have observed in various contexts as well. Social media is not a representation of what real people think. Most people in real life does not comment in social
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by qsera 5mo ago
Ok so let me get this straight. According to you, the news channels that tries to make Trump administration and republicans look bad, is actually "right wing"?
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by qsera 5mo ago
>people will now mostly criticize and support ideas based on who proposed them, and not based on their merits. "People" were always like that and will be so..stupid. Let me quote Agent K from MIB for you. > A person is smart
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by qsera 5mo ago
Yes, these categories are sometimes simply separated by what they considers as "irrefutable proof".
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by qsera 5mo ago
>wild conspiracy theories. Do you know the difference between a conspiracy "nut", and a rational person? For a "conspiracy nut", understanding that there is sufficient incentive (also implies a lack of deterrent) for
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by qsera 5mo ago
So all the media that Trump calls "Fake news" is not-left wing? > left-wing ideologies are meant to create diffuse wealth and power, which means there's no incentive for individuals to create such propaganda machines. Mayb
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by qsera 5mo ago
I think the idiocy required to agree with the some of ideas of the "american left" vastly exceeds what is required for a complete lack of self reflection. So I am not really surprised.
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by qsera 5mo ago
>immense right-wing propaganda machine.. I see that the left-wing (what ever that means) does not have access to this machine, for some reason...
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by qsera 6mo ago
Yea, we just name things that we want to see destroyed... Not everything need to be made so easy to refer, like using three or four of words instead of one..
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by qsera 6mo ago
The flipside of this is that with AI and prompt injection attacks, you don't need a browser vulnerability to be pwned!
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by qsera 6mo ago
>Frontier models can also easily "learn" directly from the manuals; Really? So you just include the manual in the context? Or how does that work?
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by qsera 6mo ago
Sure, but this is a lot nicer because when they are separate windows, and you have more windows, and if you have to alt-tab to check something else, it is a bit flow-breaking to bring these exact two windows back on top.
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by qsera 6mo ago
Firefox added split view where you can look at two (or more) webpages side by side. This is a lifesaver when you have to fill up a form looking up stuff from another page!
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by qsera 6mo ago
> I don't want to pour cold water on an inquisitive mind.. Thanks, I appreciate that. > If the mathematical description somehow created fire.. The mathematical description does not create a fire. It describes a consciousness that
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by qsera 6mo ago
First of all, thanks for responding. >It is hardly a given.. Ok, fair enough. So let us also seed the simulation with all the random events from our universe. That should cover it, right? >A mathematical description of a fire does not
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by qsera 6mo ago
>Can you either get me something that is yours to claim as your own OR clearer representation? Ok here is a thought experiment. Imagine that was assume that physical laws have resulted in our evolution, I mean, the evolution of conscious
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by qsera 6mo ago
>a useful framework for predicting future experiences I think if MUH is true, we will find ourselves alone in this universe. Does that qualify?
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by qsera 6mo ago
The answer is in your question. You said you are "experiencing consciousness". So you are feeling something, and thus you have consciousness. In otherwords it does not have to be pleasure or pain. The ability to "feel" i
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by qsera 6mo ago
>They clearly are intelligent to some extent May be they appear intelligent to us because we are primitive and new to such an entity. Imagine some laymen from like a thousand years back could experience Google and Stack overflow. Having
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by qsera 6mo ago
Thought I made it clear. What I am saying is the possibility that consciousness is fundamental and all reality arises from it. Look up Mathematical Universe Hypothesis... Wrote a bit more about this here https://news.ycombinator.
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by qsera 6mo ago
Great progress came from inverting things that were believed to be self evident. Earth being the center of the world appear to be self evident when you look up at a night sky. But what was the truth? Right now humans think it is self eviden
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by qsera 6mo ago
>in principle simulate the laws of physics This sort of implies that consciousness arise from physical laws. But this is not a safe assumption. Physical laws stand on top of observations that is registered on consciousness. I mean, consc
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by qsera 6mo ago
> The value prop for recycling is, obviously, incomparable.. It might be. But I think the more important thing is where the value goes. If it goes to the environment, the businesses have zero incentives to address it own their own. At le
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by qsera 6mo ago
>Now you have do define pleasure AND pain without using the word "consciousness" as that would be circular logic. Yes, so consciousness is inextricably tied to the ability to feel. In fact, I think consciousness is the ability

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