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by simonh 2y ago
I disagree. The conversation between a chat bot and a person is an actual conversation with that person, addressed to that person. The persona the chat bot is emulating is fictional, but the chat bot itself is not. It’s not a person, but it
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by simonh 2y ago
Why shouldn’t it? I think we get to choose what matters.
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by simonh 2y ago
They did a test of pretty much the only thing it can do. This is an extremely limited system, different in capability but in the grand scheme of things conceptually similar to implementing the quantum equivalent of a single binary digit.
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by simonh 2y ago
Willow only implements one single error corrected logical Qubit, using over 100 physical qubits. So far the test they have done is only applicable to an extremely narrow problem domain, approaching the limit of how practically useless a pro
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by simonh 2y ago
That's fun. Where did the universe that is collapsing inwards come from, and what is the CMB? Do you have a mathematical treatment of this? I think the main issue is that the event horizon of a black hole only exists relative to an obs
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by simonh 2y ago
The problem with this is that the vast majority of such brains would be a mess. Their experience, cognition, etc would be completely incoherent. Only a teeny, tiny, minuscule fraction of them would have coherent experiences that make sense.
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by simonh 2y ago
Fraktur is interesting because it’s more a writing style, verging in a character set in its own right. However Unicode doesn’t directly support all of its ligatures and such. None of this is in any way justification for turning Unicode into
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by simonh 2y ago
Unicode does not specify any fonts, though many fonts are defined to be consistent with the Unicode standard, nevertheless they are emphatically not part of Unicode. How symbols including diacritics are drawn and displayed is not a concern
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by simonh 2y ago
And that justifies making it an even more complete mess, in new and dramatically worse ways?
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by simonh 2y ago
No, no, no, no, no… So then we’d get ‘the same’ character with potentially infinite different encodings. Lovely. Unicode is a coding system, not a glyph system or font.
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by simonh 2y ago
You want to turn a single dead 100t object in orbit into 100t of randomly blasted debris in orbit?
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by simonh 2y ago
I don’t think that’s quite fair. That approach is exactly how we find planets. Here’s an unexpected variance in the motion of a planet or star. It could be explained by a planet over there. Oh look, there’s a planet over there.
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by simonh 2y ago
Found this image of the landing craft: https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2019/07/09/saipan-landing-i/#g...
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by simonh 2y ago
Yes, but Apple has always been ahead on technology compared to everyone else, so that doesn’t count anymore. Or something.
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by simonh 2y ago
That explains it then. The extra cost of supporting extra RAM SKUs has to be recouped somehow. What better way than by stocking extra RAM SKUs and charging a premium? :)
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by simonh 2y ago
> by entirely too powerful entities So, haunted then?
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by simonh 2y ago
Microsoft isn't the only company to provide a service like this, and the others are cross platform.
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by simonh 2y ago
You'd be able to use an FTL laser to shoot your own grandfather as a baby. Plus you'd be able to receive an FTL broadcast of what's going to happen tomorrow.
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by simonh 2y ago
Absence of a speed limit doesn't mean all speeds are infinite. It's just the picture everyone assumed before relativity.
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by simonh 2y ago
This is a similar situation to the view that the web would replace operating systems. All we'd need is a browser. I don't think AI is ultimately even an application, it's a feature we will use in applications.
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by simonh 2y ago
Justifying oppression through manufactured foreign threats. Still works just as well as it ever has.
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by simonh 2y ago
Or the apartment bombings debacle, where the GRU and FSB launched false flag bombing attacks against it's own citizens. Several of them were arrested by police planting bombs. At one point a Duma representative denounced 'breaking
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by simonh 2y ago
You forgot to mention the taxes they pay to support CHIP, Medicaid and Medicare. Which are not far off what many Europeans pay for universal health care, before most Americans even start to look at private health insurance so they actually
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by simonh 2y ago
They won’t do anything to undermine Metal.
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by simonh 2y ago
That’s not the case. It happens, for sure. I know some hair raising army jokes, but plenty of military people recognise their opponents as people just the same.
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by simonh 2y ago
That is no way shape or form invalidates any actual link between lifestyle and longevity. It just means you can't simply assume that any given example of longevity, or data indicating longevity, must be due to lifestyle.
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by simonh 2y ago
If the treaty is UK law, they can take the case to UK courts. It's not guaranteed to work, it depends on the legal technicalities, but the government has no say in the findings of UK courts. A lot can happen in 99 years, but as Hong Ko
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by simonh 2y ago
That's only a problem if the relevant functional activity is a quantum effect. We have no problem mass producing complex macroscopic functional objects, and in the ways that are relevant human brains are all examples of the same basic
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by simonh 2y ago
We don’t have to assume it’s like a modern computer, it may well not be in important ways, but modern computers aren’t the only possible computers. If it’s a physical information processing phenomenon, there’s no theoretical obstacle to rep
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by simonh 2y ago
My family loved the Wii to bits. In comparison our Switch barely gets used. If the Switch supported Wii games and controllers we'd still be using it all the time, but the Wii itself is way too slow and clunky to be tolerable these days

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