revolvingocelot

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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
Turn on showdead -- sometimes they last until the user/human-in-the-loop notices that they've been hellbanned.
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
Of course, it probably helps that, cloistered nerd that I am, I'd never heard of BwF/DOWN before, but reading this makes me feel like I'm on drugs. It's a deliriously perfect syncretic blend of a bog-standard "sage
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
It can't be an issue of reading comprehension -- the parent post actually quotes the grandparent, but then pretends the grandparent wrote of an "era before human greed and narcissism" instead of a time "when culture wasn
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
I haven't seen such complaints about basic stuff. Maybe it's just my own bias, but whenever I see people complaining about "regulations" choking out The Way Things Used To Be, it's usually actually about cost to the
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
It's worth pointing out that nobody is building "well-planned Victorian" houses, either.
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
>anyone being half serious would be behind seven proxies
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
Neither I nor the article argue for general intelligence in slime molds or dragonflies. Kind of a strange point for you to make, frankly.
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
Try this lens: dragonflies are one of nature's most incredible predators, with a 90-97% success rate of hunts. The precise data varies, but almost all more complex animals have a dramatically lower success rate. Well, so what? Harbour
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
Given the sibling comment, I feel the parent needs some explanation, and the full poem! Larkin's poem came first, then the one in the sibling comment. *** They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they
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by revolvingocelot 3y ago
It won't matter if the "brain scanning" actually works or not. Examining the history and effectiveness of polygraphs is enlightening -- even now, polygraphs are used as though they are effective, and in a different light, are
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people." --Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
I find this result satisfying. Of course an electron is as a Platonic solid, that's very sensible. God does not play dice -- God plays with marbles.
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
OpenAI was created to trade (literally) on the "open" in their name. Any advancements in actual technology are likely secondary to the billion fucking dollar investment (which Altman has suggested might not be enough!). It's
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
The whole west is seeing a rise in violent crime rates. The National Post is owned by PostMedia, Canada's right-wing Borglike media conglomerate, which also owns the other major papers -- except the Toronto Star, which has only been ow
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
That's "Virtute", from the Canadian city of Winnipeg's Latin motto, "unum cum virtute multorum": "one with the strength of many". Not from Winterpeg or anything, just long-ago research resulting from
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
An even shorter TL;DR-answer to the title's question is available by reading the site's domain
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Serious savings indeed when the Javascript cryptominer some ad network blithely serves up is ad-blocker'd, but we prefer synthetic benchmarks . In seriousness, though, this is an issue. Elsewhere, I observe arguments about eg userbenc
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
>By this logic you’d expect Finland to be Russia’s best friend "Finlandization is the process by which one powerful country makes a smaller neighboring country refrain from opposing the former's foreign policy rules, while allo
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
When someone is wrong on the internet, nailing both the tone and vocabulary of the type of expert said wrong someone is purporting to be is rare and impressive. But ChatGPT nails both an overwhelming amount of the time, IME, and in that way
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Someone whose signature validates the grandparent comment itself, I assume
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
>I reboot instead of fiddling with it to find the root cause, and it’s working again. I don’t have to do this stuff with Windows. Thanks, I needed that laugh this morning.
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Of course you now must ask it > How long is a piece of string, when the string is 4Kim long? ...or even just Km. I can't, as it's being slashdotted
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Which can be written off as laziness or just-world fallaciousness! Even consequences like "first order chemical harmful effects" are mostly ignored by the great-great-grandparent's "economists, lawyers etc"; the way
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
In HN's comparatively dispassionate register, "the featured article". Using it in a more frustrated tone can be suggestive of a different F word.
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Relevant infographic xkcd "Land Mammals" (circa May 2018): https://xkcd.com/1338/
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
But Chrome, Chromium, and Edge are all Blink. IMO the GGP's fear of "Chrome dominance" is better expressed as "Blink dominance". I don't think anyone particularly liked Trident or EdgeHTML but at least they r
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
>Fedora Silverblue Or Fedora Kinoite! IMO KDE is probably a better fit for the root commenter's "I just want a UI" position.
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
What matters is an AI's ability to do things that human combatants cannot, and that which human opponents cannot effectively counter. As you refer to videogame AI, think back to the Berkeley Overmind, a Starcraft 1 Zerg AI that beat se
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Holy shit! FT(link in the)A: >SonicSloth, developer: I rewrote the code from scratch attempting to recreate the original as close as possible just by playing the original (and by watching longplay videos). I didn't have any access t
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
It's absolutely this. "Decision-based evidence-making" is what I've seen it called.

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