sctb

15 ms·

91.
by sctb 3y ago
If that's true then I would put even less stock into these just-so stories.
92.
by sctb 3y ago
I'm sorry to hear that; of course it would've been be disheartening! If you're interested in sharing, I'm curious if you speculated at the time why that might have been the case (e.g. where you live, unique interests, et
93.
by sctb 3y ago
I find this interesting but I'm not sure I understand and I'd like to. Are you suggesting that there is a psychological aversion to prediction markets when the outcomes in question are as personal as politics? Would a similar anal
94.
by sctb 3y ago
Needs can go pretty high! I'm seeing this at the level of aesthetic and self-actualization.
95.
by sctb 3y ago
I wonder if that idea is compatible with something like caesium standard time. Is causality at work in the frequency of atomic resonance? (Separately, I would be inclined to disagree that we directly perceive causality.)
96.
by sctb 3y ago
You could certainly argue that we do not. Perceptions are not instantaneous, and if they can be said to "take time" then they cannot have time as their object of perception directly. And even if they "take time", percept
97.
by sctb 3y ago
Emo Philips' joke always comes to mind about stuff like this: "The brain is the most important organ in the body... says the brain". Linguists and philosophers conclude that language is central, physicists conclude that physi
98.
by sctb 3y ago
Low-rise apartment buildings without parkades are very common in Calgary and (I assume) Edmonton. Block heaters, extension cords, and high-quality ice scrapers are standard fare.
99.
by sctb 3y ago
Yep, I think the primary BeOS connection is Travis Geiselbrecht: https://tkgeisel.com .
100.
by sctb 3y ago
Apparently this is a tree-walking interpreter, so JavaScript's handling of tail calls is not directly relevant.
101.
by sctb 3y ago
Yes, you're correct about the more general meaning. But in the Scheme world "doing tail calls" means something like being "properly tail recursive" (see https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/m
102.
by sctb 3y ago
The original paper is quite short and readable: https://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece4760/Math/GCC...
103.
by sctb 3y ago
Fair enough, but one of the advantages of looking at Enlightenment philosophy on its own terms is that it's easier to perceive—and thus learn from—its failures. "Current social philosophy" has the disadvantage of being both c
104.
by sctb 3y ago
If the show was Seinfeld then it brings up an interesting point: the context of the show is that all of the characters are socially pathological. They are bad people who treat others poorly—that's the whole show. It would be fascinatin
105.
by sctb 3y ago
I'm going to agree harder: it's a thing to be aware of as a fundamental mechanism which may or may not be related to agenda or judgement in any given instance.
106.
by sctb 3y ago
This is also a feature (the defining feature, IMO) of causal narratives.
107.
by sctb 3y ago
Yes, surely. I'm curious if you have more to say about this. Semi-relatedly, one could read this article as a journalist attempting to convince the public to normalize a more emotionally potent form of journalism.
108.
by sctb 3y ago
I'm predisposed to mysticism, so I probably read this passage a lot less mundanely than most. I'm also a minimalist and tend to view spiritual teachings as enigmatic ways of pointing out something obvious that we are conditioned t
109.
by sctb 3y ago
I'm not too fussy about efficiency, but one of the things about passive aggression that drives me crazy is the pretence. Passivity makes the communication as though it never happened, except everyone knows that it did. To many autistic
110.
by sctb 3y ago
I'm curious to hear more about why you feel this was the winter of sci-fi! Can you share some more besides personal preference? (I'm not a huge Vonnegut fan or even big reader in general and Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Crad
111.
by sctb 3y ago
I'm amazed by how bright-eyed the prose style is here compared to Dick's later works, not to mention the gimmick! There's nothing like a few decades of literary failure to stamp out the pesky flame of exuberance and enable so
112.
by sctb 3y ago
> It's a spectrum. We've all got a lil bit of that going on. I apologize for the specificity of the nit I'm about to pick, but the "spectrum" part of Autism Spectrum Disorder does not mean that every person is on
113.
by sctb 3y ago
> Mead was famous, but only one of the many voices in very long debate. Yes, this is how voices work. > Whatever people were thinking 90 years ago, it had already lost its influence by the time of AI's societal debut in the 1980s
114.
by sctb 3y ago
> This jay’s name, recorded in the data as WLKOSR, is an acronym for the color combination of the three bands on his legs. I'm getting a good vibe from these ornithologists.
115.
by sctb 3y ago
I'm suggesting that there are not many people who have been doing that work, at least not at the same level or to the same effect. He did it with Stripe and OpenAI, back to back.
116.
by sctb 3y ago
It's the impression I got from "who have not done any transformer research", as well as the fact that sama wrote this article.
117.
by sctb 3y ago
I don't know gdb very well, but I did get to chat with him a bit about what he was working on around the time of this article, which was mostly infrastructure grunt work, removing obstacles and procedural rough edges—basically anything
118.
by sctb 3y ago
No disagreement here. The main thrust of my comment was the observation that perceived fairness is a powerful psychological factor and that it might be at play in discussions like this one.
119.
by sctb 3y ago
I'm wondering if one of the factors here is that the public is funding this opportunity, and that many, many non-criminal members of that public are doing the $10.50/h thing with no such support and very limited opportunity.
120.
by sctb 3y ago
It took me a minute to parse this comment! I wonder how many names you recognized; it's a big list. Are you suggesting that all these folks are giving free speech a bad name by uttering the wrong kind of speech?

More ›