serbuvlad

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by serbuvlad 5d ago
> As if "the public" knows literally anything Ah, yes, democracy!, except for when the public is wrong. Who decides when the public is wrong? We do! Who decides "what the public voted for"? We do! So we are the rulers
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by serbuvlad 5d ago
I think the argument would be that the classifiers of classic ML can be very useful and that Jav is a geenral purpose classifier you can just use that doesn't need to be trained per-task.
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by serbuvlad 5d ago
If I use service X I am MUCH less annoyed by an advertisement of subservice X.Y than I am by an advertisement of Nord VPN and Raid Shadow Legends.
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by serbuvlad 7d ago
> just treat anything which claims to be conscious as conscious. Doesn't seem like a very good metric. A piece of paper with the words "I am conscious" claims to be conscious. A dog does not claim to be conscious.
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by serbuvlad 7d ago
For me consciousness simply means canvas-experience consciousness. One of the things you learn in eastern style form of meditation is that "you" (the canvas-experience consciousness) are neither the source of your senses (obviousl
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by serbuvlad 7d ago
I always ask "how do you know other humans/animals are conscious"? And I always find this question is dismissed as trivial. But it's an important question. You know basically from analogy. You know you are conscious and
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by serbuvlad 8d ago
Why are you deltaing to windows? You should be deltaing to native. Obviously an IBM 704 program will run faster on an IBM 704 emulator than on a hardware IBM 704. That's not an argument to keep writing apps for the IBM 704 and "ju
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by serbuvlad 8d ago
What is payment? What is money? Goverment is extracting taxes from these people "for their own benefit" and giving it to the mathematician. When a farmer farms the food of the mathematician and sells it to the mathematician for mo
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by serbuvlad 9d ago
> I presume that everyone would agree that this should continue I would not presume this at all. Every brick in the house you live in has been put there by a worker. The food you eat has been cultivated by a farmer. etc. etc. You must ex
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by serbuvlad 10d ago
Everything you said about (2) is wrong imo. Games should simply not be written for a particular architecture. The rendering part of the game engine should already be abstracted away from the particular rendering API (there are other signifi
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by serbuvlad 10d ago
From what I understand you're saying that Apple should provide 2 things: (1) Vulkan drivers and (2) backwards compatibility forever. I don't really know enough about graphics to discuss point (1). From what I understand, Apple GPU
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by serbuvlad 11d ago
This is entirely a misleading point. DXVK, Wine and Proton are full of patches that exist to support individual games. It is not just a translation layer, as much as a great effort of the open source community to force-port every game in ex
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by serbuvlad 11d ago
I'm thinking of gaming as in Steam, including indies, AA and AAA. Of course Apple is doing perfectly fine for mobile gaming, and is giving more than enough tools to developers to implement mobile games perfectly well.
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by serbuvlad 11d ago
I think this is honestly correct strategy. Gaming is a license game, not a hardware game. Apple wants you to buy your games through the App Store, so they can take the 30%, which means competing with Steam. Which means getting licensed game
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by serbuvlad 11d ago
It's a bit deeper than just a series of bugs. For all of Linux's power and freedom, its modern desktop architecture is extremely restrictive. * There is only one systemd --user session per user with one D-Bus instance. So you can
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by serbuvlad 12d ago
I've recently switched to a Mac after years on Linux, basically due to my frustration with the way the Linux desktop is being developed and the lack of quality all around for that platform. Overall, it's an absolute joy. It just w
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by serbuvlad 13d ago
I find that the people who are most concerned about circular financing in the case of AI, are those who fearmonger about deflation and talk about the importance of monetary velocity for the economy. Isn't this a contradiction?
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by serbuvlad 15d ago
1. I don't know, Transformers seem to be pretty good at those Domain specific skills. 2. I'm sure mental gyms will become common, although I'm not sure if chess is a very good mental gym. It may take a hundred years or so, th
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by serbuvlad 15d ago
This is only the case for the Industrial Revolution. There have been many other thinking technologies and they ALL have been attacked in exactly the same way. * Socrates attacked the invention of writing, arguing it would make people intell
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by serbuvlad 15d ago
I'm not saying this situation is different from all of the other technological paradigm shifts in history. But what concerns me is that authors of articles such as this feel no need to differentiate themselves from other anti-technolog
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by serbuvlad 16d ago
It's just a local minimum. Things today are generally pretty good, and work generally well. The only issue is that things work well all in the same way, and deficiencies are also shared. Things will improve as creatives try far-out ide
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by serbuvlad 18d ago
Apple and Mistral are not in the same market. Siri is a minor part of the Apple ecosystem. Fundamentally, it can call into a better LLM provided by a better company. Siri's only utility is that it has access to your iData and can contr
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by serbuvlad 19d ago
Sure, but SIMD extensions and base ISA solve different problems. As for GPUs, while the ISA is not constant, it's STILL C-ish running over a dynamic hardware scheduling layer. Edit: To clarify, I have nothing against a closed ISA, I ju
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by serbuvlad 19d ago
C is a low-level language for the current ISAs we have, though not for Itanium. So the question is if we really want lower level ISAs. Probably not? There are many ways in which our current ISAs are actually thoughtfully optimized for super
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by serbuvlad 19d ago
I've been thinking about this as well. Certainly we will have mental gyms in the future.
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by serbuvlad 20d ago
Ethics aside, you can create an NGO with three people and do a lot of stuff in it's name that you can't do as a private individual or it would be a lot more expensive to do. If everyone did this, it would stop being a special abil
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by serbuvlad 20d ago
Places that have lots of trash around will vandalize an unsupervised robot. Places that will leave alone an unsupervised robot don't have lots of trash around. Entirely disjoint sets.
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by serbuvlad 21d ago
114M a year buys you only 650 people? Damn. I really should be moving to America at some point :)
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by serbuvlad 21d ago
People need to learn to use .git/info/exclude WAYYY more! You use Cursor which creates .cursor? Cool! Put it in .git/info/exclude. No need to pollute the project .gitignore with that. .gitignore is for artifacts that ari
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by serbuvlad 21d ago
Cloud gaming is incredible tech, I used GFN for a while and it was incredible. HOWEVER, I will inevitably want to play weird stuff like "milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk", Pseudoregalia or Civ V Lekmod, which these c

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