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by roughly 1mo ago
> Armed conflict by residents and citizens against the state is usually a serious criminal offense everywhere. I think it’s worth considering that you’re much more likely to be a resident or a citizen than a state when you’re deciding ho
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by roughly 1mo ago
A friend is someone you’ll spend time around given other options. If you’ve spent any time getting to know crows (or jays, or any other corvids), it’s quite obvious this is the case. I had a scrub jay who’d perch on my foot while I read in
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by roughly 1mo ago
Oh interesting, I didn’t know that was the distinction - thanks!
34.
by roughly 1mo ago
From what I know of cell biology (read: committed dilettante), the notion that one gene does X is rarely correct. The way to think about genes and the proteins they encode for is less “blue eyes” and more “metric socket wrench #5” - the pro
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by roughly 1mo ago
Ok, that makes sense - so ASD is basically that we’ve noticed some prototypical behaviors, which is where the grouping comes from, but it’s possible what we’re seeing is sort of the “carcinization” of mental operating modes - many different
36.
by roughly 1mo ago
Out of curiosity, what leads us to treat ASD as an actual single disorder, as opposed to a billion different individual neurological profiles? I'd expect one of the things that makes this difficult, too, is that there's a missing
37.
by roughly 1mo ago
Written by artists, built by businessmen and engineers.
38.
by roughly 1mo ago
If you’ve wondered why there wasn’t an effective political Left in this county for the last ~60 years, buckle up.
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by roughly 1mo ago
The reason the mini & studio work as well as they do for the use cases that have made them popular again is because the architecture puts memory, cpu, and gpu/npu on the same die, and puts storage right next to it, which is why you
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by roughly 1mo ago
That actually would be interesting - yes, the computer itself is basically a PCB, but it’s also wrapped in a couple pounds of aluminum, a power supply, cooling fans, and a few other things that don’t need to be consumables. Upgrade a mini o
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by roughly 1mo ago
I'm still waiting for a definition of "consciousness," as well as a definition of the entity which you're claiming might possess it. You've now added two additional entities that require definition for your statemen
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by roughly 1mo ago
“Such as” employment. Given this kind of ambiguity, it seems like we need some kind of, like, procedure by which it’s decided whether Uber violated the law as written, and if so, what the consequences should be - maybe the sort of thing whe
43.
by roughly 1mo ago
They didn’t find it difficult, they found it expensive and figured they could avoid it. In the US, they’d probably have been right; in the EU, apparently not.
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by roughly 1mo ago
I’m not leaving consciousness undefined. I provided a definition and asserted LLMs were not conscious by that definition. I solicited an alternate definition and was given none. If you’d like to claim the LLM is conscious, you need to defin
45.
by roughly 1mo ago
I mean, it’s in the article. The Siamese Kingdom put on the trappings of western modernity because the lack thereof was being used as an explicit justification for colonization under a “save the savages” type zeitgeist.
46.
by roughly 1mo ago
Yes, except the West consistently used its professed internal principles to justify its external actions, and also didn’t adhere to those principles particularly well or consistently internally either. If one believes the principles to be s
47.
by roughly 1mo ago
Because we’re discussing civilizations and cultures whose histories stretch back millennia. The European colonial project lasted about a hundred years, and we’re still in the early days of the aftermath given the timeframes we’re discussing
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by roughly 1mo ago
Note that all this modernization was not driven by any internal desire to adopt western ideals and concepts, but at the point of British and French guns. The marriage of loudly professed noble ideals and naked looting was and remains the ha
49.
by roughly 2mo ago
You're not engaging with the topic. Engaging with the topic is where one either asks questions and listens to the answer or actually seeks to increase one's knowledge on the topic. You're just saying things. That's lazy.
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by roughly 2mo ago
There’s plenty. First, when we say “LLM”, what are we referring to? What is the entity that would be conscious in this case? The reason this is important is because powerful people are currently trying to use the dodge that LLMs are conscio
51.
by roughly 2mo ago
Well, our current set of evidence is that it’s a mechanistic mechanical algorithm with an RNG embedded in it and we can both get it to repeatedly produce the same output for the same input and also get it to repeatedly do absolutely nothing
52.
by roughly 2mo ago
> An conscientious objection is definitely a right you have as a professional, but it's a neutral action, you refuse to do something, and you let someone else do it. Yes, but it’s still the case that you didn’t do it. You cannot dir
53.
by roughly 2mo ago
> There's nothing that could convince me to do the opposite of what a proponent of a policy is advocating for than inconveniencing me to that extend. This is a toddler’s logic.
54.
by roughly 2mo ago
“The point of a system is what it does.”
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by roughly 2mo ago
> you should not let it affect your life in any meaningful way. Oh, I’ve got really bad news for you.
56.
by roughly 2mo ago
Yeah, there’s definitely good design principles, but as others have pointed out, it’s extremely difficult to build technologies that are not trivially dual-use. And, to be clear, I’m not saying “politics” as in “did you hear what Trump said
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by roughly 2mo ago
By being durably involved in your community and by being aware of and not ignoring the consequences of your actions, of the policies you advocate for, the actions of the politicians you endorse, etc. By not just voting once and moving on.
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by roughly 2mo ago
The Marxists were wrong about the inevitability of history no matter which direction or by what mechanism one wants to assert it. You’ve gotta put in the work no matter what, there’s no eliding the actual effort of politics.
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by roughly 2mo ago
Distribution's always the problem - how much power actually gets delivered to each rack. 162 is ~an order of magnitude higher than normal, which means nothing in a standard data center is going to be built to deliver that kind of power
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by roughly 2mo ago
The other rule here is that you cannot avoid politics if you want to create a better world. If you want the freedom to develop technology without worrying it will be used by a police state, you need to put in the work to make sure a polic

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