randallsquared

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by randallsquared 6d ago
> every layperson is an expert in 1 or more areas. This isn't even remotely true, unless you're willing to go as far as "being this person is an area of expertise".
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by randallsquared 6d ago
Rabbits are closer than a rock to a human, but clearly something is missing from the rabbit that (waking, socialized) humans have. A core part of phenomenal consciousness is being able to think about the fact that you are an awareness separ
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by randallsquared 6d ago
You and a co-author can write an essay together, in a room, in an hour. Let's assume you each write about half of the essay, and cooperate to edit it into a coherent whole. You and the other person were definitely people during this pr
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by randallsquared 6d ago
I don't put a high likelihood on LLMs being conscious, but they certainly seem more likely to be conscious than a dog or a bat.
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by randallsquared 9d ago
> I'd like to hear what feminists have to say about that picture in TFA of that woman and six men watching her. That picture is literally a joke based on a meme, which is based on a porn star's promotional image. To the exten
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by randallsquared 13d ago
Mao and Che have legions more fans than Elon Musk, while his contributions are net positive (even with all the deadline misses and terrible decisions on various things) and theirs are strongly negative.
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by randallsquared 13d ago
For context, Ellison was convicted of financial crimes which, in part, funded Manifund, and now is drawing a salary from Manifund. This comment on the Manifund substack (by a Manifund fundee!) lays out the concern clearly: https:/&#x2
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by randallsquared 20d ago
> I find it useful to distinguish goal alignment and value alignment. I think this is fundamentally a wrong path. Doing this imports all the confusion that humans have about their goals and values, including the consequence that a syst
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by randallsquared 21d ago
Decade and a half, really. Eternal September was 1993 or 1994, right?
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by randallsquared 24d ago
Predictions being hard is what makes them valuable as a check on insight and accuracy!
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by randallsquared 24d ago
Since almost everything eventually goes bust, I wouldn't agree that this was particularly valuable, unless the analysis proved out in other ways. It's like the saying that some economists have predicted 10 of the last 4 recessio
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by randallsquared 25d ago
That's very different from faking a bunch of excited chatter and making up happy customers, which is what the original comment was about: > Nobody cared about or was using Mac Mini's for OpenClaw, but there were all of these v
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by randallsquared 1mo ago
Python 3(000) was an opportunity to fix all the things, so in a sense, the modern Python is less than 20 years old.
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by randallsquared 1mo ago
Several of these do exist already, and one of them was never a promised project. This objection seems like it's from 2016.
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by randallsquared 1mo ago
Terrestrial datacenter legal restrictions are how SpaceX expects to make a lot of its money in the next 10+ years, so I would be less surprised to find them lobbying for restrictions than against, presuming they spend at all on it.
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by randallsquared 1mo ago
They may not have to ship many or any. The first launch of a Texas-constructed Starship could just land the booster in Louisiana for a small fuel penalty, and then ships could likewise land there.
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by randallsquared 1mo ago
> They’re finding patterns in our systems and in nature. Finding patterns in data is a pretty succinct description of what intelligence does, no?
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by randallsquared 1mo ago
You say that that this kind of thing is imaginary, but something like it must be happening when I repeatedly find that a given website/app is in the wrong mode, even though I feel like I've had to switch it before. This is not eve
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
> It is the situation we live in now. That's what > That's the bit that needs fixing. means.
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
> where simply going outside to get groceries or whatever doesn't count as consent to be plastered across the net. I think this is wanting a rule that doesn't draw boundaries in a way that aligns with the natural world. Your
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
"Economics" is like gravity: it doesn't dictate your goals, but you can't ignore it, and trying to pretend it doesn't exist means your aircraft will not work.
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
There's so many kinds of microbe we don't have catalogued. The last 30-40 years have been pretty astonishing in that regard.
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
Hopefully you were using very specific decaf for which you knew the values. Decaf coffee beans in the US vary from nearly zero to 30 or 40% of regular. Various sites and articles claim that there's a legal requirement for 97% removal i
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
I dunno. Caffeine doesn't affect me very much (I mean to say, I can drink regular coffee and go to sleep an hour later without difficulty), though it is somewhat pleasant. I used to regularly detox from caffeine to get that initial rus
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
If you optimize for initial wait times, someone who is going to a floor not usually visited might effectively get trapped on an elevator which shuttles between more trafficked floors to reduce wait for elevators overall. Maybe this is very
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
Per the article, Netflix's attorney confirmed that the therapy factored into the decision.
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
So they couldn't come up with an excuse that would have been a legitimate reason?
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
To be clear, making clothing is not actually their business.
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by randallsquared 2mo ago
The part that is being charged for isn't the coding, but the operating. How little should someone charge to be on pagerduty 24/7?

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