skyechurch

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by skyechurch 3y ago
>Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived. At the present moment the human voice online is none of these things, as the marke
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by skyechurch 3y ago
A lot of "problem solving" involving kids means "making the problem go away from the adult's life". E.g. a situation I see played out is kids being told to respond to bullying by acting like they don't care (g
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by skyechurch 3y ago
You can't extract energy from iron by nuclear fusion, which is how stars "burn" fuel, but this is a chemical process, Fe + O2 => (some Fe&O compound) + energy.
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by skyechurch 3y ago
' Could care less' is imo the preferred formulation, the implication being that while there is no fundamental physical law preventing me from caring less, from a practical standpoint it seems highly unlikely. It's like how
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by skyechurch 3y ago
Stepford Wives for forum mods. Peak Dystopia achievement unlocked.
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by skyechurch 3y ago
Christian Vander is wonderful. If you are looking for more "out there" selections, Coltrane's Interstellar Space is about as weird as music gets. (More sophisticated listeners get more out of this, I just think it's de
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by skyechurch 3y ago
I'm so old I remember when Pluto was a planet, as good as Jupiter or any of them. Now, it's just a punch line.
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by skyechurch 3y ago
I think everything there holds for GPT4, and may be true indefinitely. It's worth remembering that the Turing test is something that was proposed when the peak of existing AI was a calculator - something GPT4 is still struggling with
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by skyechurch 3y ago
>Speaking of those, my best example of ChatGPT not having a good model of the world are citations. Absolutely. ChatGPT is not sentient, not in any conventional sense at least, and the errors it confidently makes are not the sorts of err
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by skyechurch 3y ago
>it doesn’t have any underlying model of the world Citation needed. ChatGPT doesn't have an explicit underlying model of the world separate from its language model, but it is unclear that this is necessary. It would not be an origin
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by skyechurch 3y ago
I can guarantee you that the equivalent code which I generate (taking >100 times as much time) has a comparable error/typo rate. I can say this with confidence because ChatGPT, while not perfect, "knows" lots of things I
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by skyechurch 3y ago
The textbook industry is on a similar ethical level as the Chinese fentalogue export industry. Not quite as evil as the American health insurance industry, but close. There are definitely situations where the ethics of piracy/file
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by skyechurch 3y ago
Wall Street would be strongly incentivised to install an AI CEO.
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by skyechurch 3y ago
When reading crypto clownworld stories like this, it is easy and fun to observe that cryptocurrency is a satire of the real (or "fiat", if you prefer) financial system. Less fun, but far more important, is to note how incredibly (
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by skyechurch 4y ago
As a fellow crypto non-enthusiast, I agree with all of this. I thought that the best way to look at cryptocurrency and the crypto ecosystem is as a satire of the world of finance, etc. This is still accurate, I believe, but it can be easy
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by skyechurch 4y ago
With the warning that I am not an expert, see my answer below. While there is obviously thematic overlap between the Tractatus and Gödel, Wittgenstein himself viewed Gödel's work as fundamentally nonsensical. Now why the "nonsen
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by skyechurch 4y ago
First of all, I would be very interested to hear your thoughts and references on this subject, as I am no kind of expert in any of this. Wittgenstein clearly did not feel the incompleteness theorem followed from his (or Russell's) work
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by skyechurch 4y ago
The Tractatus is about the limits of language/thought/the world (as a formal logical system), and the primary result of the argument in the Tractatus is that you can technically say nothing sensible about meaning or the world itse
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by skyechurch 4y ago
Fair enough, although it seems unlikely, being such an extraordinary number. Perhaps we could at least agree that the increase due to excessive social media use among the Amish is likely much lower (as it is in those in the general public
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by skyechurch 4y ago
Sounds awful, and yet 30% of Amish girls don't want to kill themselves. So we can go off on the Amish, provided when we finish we admit we do an even worse job of protecting our daughters' wellbeing. And the Amish are a politi
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by skyechurch 4y ago
>GP was attesting to #1 being a scientific fact for which "no matter your threshold for evidence needed, it can be met". If you object to the word "atoms" on the grounds of it having a specific meaning from 2K years a
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by skyechurch 4y ago
Strong agree, I still haven't forgiven myself for that time ABBA starved to death after I taped "Dancing Queen" off the radio. I use OverDrive/LibGen etc because it's generally more convenient than the public librar
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by skyechurch 4y ago
Dick can be really rewarding, although he's definitely not to everyone's taste, or a particularly good stylist. This is true of other great writers who deal in extreme psychological states - Dostoyevsky for example. The extreme
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by skyechurch 4y ago
There's a fundamental conflict between expressing real human interest in and concern for other people, and negotiating an ever-shifting maze of cultural taboos enforced by official and unofficial sanction. Maybe HR can put out a 40 pa
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by skyechurch 4y ago
https://archive.ph/HZkHR
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by skyechurch 4y ago
>We were so desperate for sci-fi stuff that we watched Doctor Who, for God's sake! Doctor Who was great, opinion disregarded. I can't tell if the Bezos Rings show is bad or not yet, it certainly has some very corny scenes but i
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by skyechurch 4y ago
He wrote the theme song to the Carl Sagan series "Cosmos", both the song and the show had me transfixed as a kid. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7FW_wOUUTT8
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by skyechurch 5y ago
People with chronic pain do what they have to do to get through the day.
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by skyechurch 5y ago
That's reasonable. My concern is that during my lifetime I have had my access to useful medicines with zero abuse potential restricted because of (imo) panics that it could be turned into street drugs (pseudoephedrine), and also becau
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by skyechurch 5y ago
This also is silly, illegal drug users constantly take their dosages mixed with much worse things than Tylenol with no noticeable dissuasion effect that I am aware of. Acetaminophen is mixed with oxycodone etc bc it increases the pain reli

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