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by simiones 5mo ago
Not sure how Vim and Sublime work, but for Emacs, publishing to MELPA is absolutely a push process, where you open a PR to MELPA's repo with a recipe for your new package; and, once it's accepted, every commit to your repo results
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by simiones 5mo ago
There's nothing really special about VSCode here, except that it's really popular. You could just as easily attack Emacs or Vim or Sublime or [...] users by distributing a malicious extension.
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by simiones 5mo ago
I do think you mean sex, not gender - trees don't really have a gender or gender expression. Either way, it would be rather irrelevant, as most trees planted in cities have both male and female flowers (oak, birch, most conifers), or e
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by simiones 5mo ago
True, I should have been more careful with my wording. My point was actually that unfalsifiable metaphysical statements are not invalid in the same way that unfalsifiable physical/scientific statements are. So yes, some metaphysical st
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by simiones 5mo ago
The mirror test is essentially the only pseudo-objective argument we have for believing that non-human animals are conscious - it proves that said animals have a concept of themselves as opposed to the rest of the environment. You are right
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by simiones 5mo ago
Conversely, it may be that it's only labels in language that are unifying disparate parts into a single "neural system" concept. Ultimately the world is either individual particles and fields, or it is all Oneness, Brahman, a
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by simiones 5mo ago
> Any argument that a "soul" exists or that consciousness does not arise from the physical world (eg our neurons) is literally unfalsifiable . This is an metaphysical discussion, so falsifiability is kind of irrelevant. All me
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by simiones 5mo ago
I don't think creationism is nonsensical, it's just wrong. But the concept overall is not nonsensical - in principle, if the universe were very different, a god could have molded humans out of clay and breathed life into them or w
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by simiones 5mo ago
This problem, while interesting in its own right, is entirely irrelevant to consciousness. Especially because, regardless of how it's achieved, it's actually very clearly known that we do have temporal processes in our body - our
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by simiones 5mo ago
That would be part of the empirical facts we might hope to gather, if this is indeed the right direction for the explanation.
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by simiones 5mo ago
The important point is that "not fundamentally different" is probably a transitive function. If A is not fundamentally different from B, and B is not fundamentally different from C, than A is not fundamentally different from C. He
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by simiones 5mo ago
> consciousness effectively hits zero somewhere around reptiles Note that at least one species of fish have been shown to very consistently pass the mirror test (they try to clean up a mark on their body they can only see in a mirror, th
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by simiones 5mo ago
That is exactly wrong. The measure of heritability used in the scientific literature is very much tied to genetics, just not in a very direct way. That is, heritability is a measure of how much of the variance in a trait is explained by gen
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by simiones 5mo ago
To be fair to GP, while I agree that literary translations are still much better left to professional translators, the specific examples actually given have recently been moving in the opposite direction in my experience - at least for tran
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by simiones 5mo ago
It makes no sense from a classical economics perspective to keep the theater empty. Even if no one is buying at the break-even price, it can make sense to sell below cost just to recoup some of the investment - and adjust the investment in
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by simiones 5mo ago
The `os` package, that is the main way everyone I've seen opens and reads files in Go, doesn't specify any restriction on its path syntax (except that it uses `string`, of course). I've tried using it on Linux with a file nam
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by simiones 5mo ago
> I'm glad they didn't go with the idiotic Go approach ("every path is a valid UTF-8 string" or we just garble the path at the standard library level") Can you expound a bit on this? I haven't been able to f
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by simiones 6mo ago
Oops... Off by one [order of magnitude]...
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by simiones 6mo ago
A policy like this has two points. One, to give good faith potential contributors a guideline on what the project expects. Two, to help reviewers have a clear policy they can point to to reject AI slop PRs, without feeling bad or getting in
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by simiones 6mo ago
Per Wikipedia, Down's syndrome currently occurs in ~1 in 1000 live births, and used to occur in 2 in 1000 live births some decades ago, in the USA. That means that a test with a 1% false positive rate (99% accuracy) will lead to a fals
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by simiones 7mo ago
Caster Semenya is a woman, not sure why you're referring to her as him. The fact that she has a potentially unfair advantage due to her unusual genetics in women's competitions doesn't in any way make it fair to refer to her
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by simiones 7mo ago
(oops, I didn't check the usernames properly, sorry about that) I still don't think this is fully accurate. The view I'm noticing is that people consider that they have a right to the programs they produce, regardless of whet
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by simiones 7mo ago
The way I see this it looks like this: 1. Initially, when you claim that someone has violated your copyright, the burden is on you to make a convincing claim on why the work represents a copy or derivative of your work. 2. If the work doesn
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by simiones 7mo ago
The person I replied to said "No one's arguing they're authoring generated code; the whole point is to not author it.". My point was that people absolutely do think and believe strongly they are authoring code when they
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by simiones 7mo ago
I think this is a bit too broad. There are actually three possible cases. When there is similar code, the only defense possible to prove that you have not copied the original is to show that your process is a clean room re-implementation. I
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by simiones 7mo ago
> IMO this is pretty common sense. No one's arguing they're authoring generated code; the whole point is to not author it. Actually this is very much how people think for code. Consider the following consequence. Say I work for
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by simiones 7mo ago
The copyright argument is the only relevant argument. If the new work is a derived work of the original, then it follows by definition that the new work is under the copryight of the original's author(s). Since the original chardet was
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by simiones 7mo ago
This has no relation to what I was saying. Taking a photo of a copyrighted work is a method for creating a copy of said work using a mechanical device, so it is of course covered by copyright (whether buildings or light shows fall under cop
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by simiones 7mo ago
Producing a copy of a copyrighted work through a purely mechanical process is clear violation of copyright. LLMs are absolutely not different from a copier machine in the eyes of the law. Original works can only be produced by a human bei
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by simiones 7mo ago
> "Insider Knowledge" is not relevant for copyright law. That is more in the space of patent law then copyright law. On the contrary. Except for discussions about punitive damages and so on, insider knowledge or lack thereof is

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