ryanklee

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by ryanklee 3y ago
Imagination is all you need, I guess.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I just did add something. An objection to the prevailing method on HN of ignoring all the prior work on consciousness.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Philosophical inquiry into these problems goes back thousands of years.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Again, these are just empty objections.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
What I'm objecting to is people theorizing in a vacuum about subjects that have been heavily theorized about, as if by starting over and disregarding all prior work, someone somehow stands a better, not worse chance of getting it right
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by ryanklee 3y ago
That isn't even close to a consensus view. Why are you asserting something as fact, when it's simply not, and has many competing views with just as much wood behind the arrow?
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by ryanklee 3y ago
> no reason Umm... There's probably some good reasons. https://www.vox.com/22384053/abolish-greek-life-fraternities...
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by ryanklee 3y ago
There is no consensus view of consciousness. Further, Turing machines have nothing to do with consciousness and have nothing to offer in the way of a definition of criterion for it. (And if you meant Turing test, same thing applies there.)
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by ryanklee 3y ago
The amount of amateur, arm chair philosophizing about consciousness in these threads is embarrassing. Consciousness and attendant concepts have been active research problems for thousands of years. I can't think of one time in any thre
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Real world industry already relies heavily on hallucinated outputs. They are called humans. One of the main differences between people who see the astonishing value of LLMs right now and people who are some combo of skeptical, dismissive, a
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by ryanklee 3y ago
GP's example is just to give a hypothetical instance of why qualitative analysis needs to be considered as well.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I believe what GP means is that there is a chance that the bias has been introduced into the model, but only in the narrow band that relates to the questionaires used by the study. So while the bias exists, it does not generalize. It's
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Poets making a living and poetry producing meaning are two different problems. Every poet can be destitute (many great ones have been), and people can still get meaning from their work. Or others' work. Or the work of other things.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Again, so easy to say. But there's no evidence that this is true. Art and media have only increased in quantity over the years. When I consume some part of it, my enjoyment isn't any less. I still experience bliss and joy and get
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by ryanklee 3y ago
What does this even mean. It's as if you just shoved possible words together.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Symptoms alleviated considerably: task avoidance, distractibility, hyper-fixation, reactivity, perseveration. I had already achieved quite a lot in the way of symptom management through cognitive behavioral tools and physical exercise, but
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I'm hesitant to make any assumptions about your decision to not medicate, but if it has anything to do with addictive properties, you should look into guanfacine. I have very severe ADHD and was unable to use the common medications for
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by ryanklee 3y ago
GP is talking about the strength of the argument.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Everything this idiot does makes me worried for the future of the human race. When people this stupid and irresponsible have as much money, and so much support from sycophantic dweebs, we are in a bad, worsening place. Elon Musk is an X-ris
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Better ways to go about it than impertinent and presumptuous interrogation.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Oh come on, would you reckon that SICP would be just as good in Assembly? Just because computation is substrate independent doesn't mean our brains don't care about the form computational concepts are expressed in.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Sorta burying the concern under a thin blanket of euphemism there...
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by ryanklee 3y ago
It's the job of an expert to communicate their understanding of the world in a way that motivates non experts to make the correct the decision. If an expert isn't successful in this, they need to improve their methods of communica
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Really does sound like you have difficulties with communicating your points that do not have to do with external factors, but with your actual skill at communicating. Experts manage to successfully argue fine points to laypersons all the ti
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by ryanklee 3y ago
A total disheartening bit of jadedness, this comment. An individual is allowed to express awe and depth without having to meet arbitrary standards. If it were otherwise, the world would be poorer for it.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
It's important to touch grass, yes, but dismissing the project of figuring this stuff out is unwise. There is a reason that these problems keep coming up for people, and it's not because they aren't hitting the gym enough.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
There is a whole strain of nihilism called positive nihilism initiated (explicitly) by Nietzsche.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I think the most insidious thing about Musk is that his stans and detractors are not reliabily differentiated by intelligence. Plenty of people with outsized IQs love the guy, despite the fact that he's dangerously full of shit.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
The insight is that there is a growing set of vocal invividuals who see Musk as a dysfunctional, dubious figure. Rewind 5 years, it wasn't the case then.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Hopefully Dan Hendrycks advises them to pack their bags and go home before they fuck everything up.

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