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by slibhb 2y ago
Is Furiosa a cash grab? I haven't seen it yet but Fury Road was anything but.
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by slibhb 2y ago
I agree with you. LLMs seem to be proof that general intelligence doesn't require sentience. I do think that there is an important moral distinction between sentient beings and not.
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by slibhb 2y ago
I never made the connection between the Sky voice and Scarlett Johansson's. I've seen many of her movies. She has an extremely distinctive voice that has a certain huskiness to it and the Sky voice totally lacks that. Some voices
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by slibhb 2y ago
> Taking unapproved drugs is a bad idea What about off-label medication? I don't think taking Lumina is smart, more or less for the reasons the author ennumerates. I also think it's unlikely enough to hurt people that FDA appro
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by slibhb 2y ago
You can tell it not to talk like this using custom prompts.
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by slibhb 2y ago
> We need to finance original research, alternative research and think of working on an actual theory of intelligence. > We need a Galileo and Kepler of AI. Maybe they already exist but are being marginalized by the current establishm
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by slibhb 2y ago
It's interesting to compare this situation to earlier eras in science. Newton, for example, gave us equations that were very accurate but left us with no understanding at all of why they were accurate. It seems like we're repeat
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by slibhb 2y ago
> There is no 'truth' that we can grasp in parts but not entirely. If anyone actually thought this way -- no one does -- they definitely wouldn't build models like this.
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by slibhb 2y ago
Those movies don't require you to read the books. They leave something to the imagination, which some people don't like. But other people do like it!
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by slibhb 2y ago
Exactly right. But people today are extremely resistant to this fact. It's very clear that many, many people would give up nearly anything -- including years of their lives -- to work with someone as talented as Kubrick. Is that crazy?
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by slibhb 2y ago
No we shouldn't. But we also shouldn't pretend that demand for opium is manufactured by evil people. There's high demand for opium because it makes people feel really good. The same thing is true for junk food. People eat it
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by slibhb 2y ago
> The shoving of high-fructose corn syrup and other calorie-rich ingredients into everything sold in the US to increase consumption (again, for profits) has a much greater impact on weight management, though. It doesn't have to be s
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by slibhb 2y ago
Running 13.1 non-competitive miles every other day is ~45 miles a week. That's not a lot compared to the athletes mentioned in the podcast.
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by slibhb 2y ago
I think you're begging the question here. If you look at the differences between DNA, there will be clusters (because some people are more closely related than other people). These clusters are the groups I'm talking about.
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by slibhb 2y ago
> "Yellow" and "Orange" are words, not facts about the universe. That's a philosophical position called nominalism. You can be a nominalist but other people disagree.
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by slibhb 2y ago
> In this particular case, while there does exist a set of alleles against which you can cluster populations in a way that maps roughly to the set of races we define socially, that only represents < 10% of the genetic variation across
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by slibhb 2y ago
> There isn't a reason to think that those clusters would in any way map on to how we culturally, currently talk about race. Of course there is. However loosely, "cultural race" is linked to "genetic race". Regar
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by slibhb 2y ago
> Race isn't even real genetically speaking If you map every human genome in some space, there will be clusters. This is race. You can argue that there are no clear boundaries between clusters but that's true for everything. Yo
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by slibhb 2y ago
Understood metaphorically, the "thetan hypothesis" might be partly true. It belongs with other psychoanalytic theories which, while out of vogue today, probably contain some truth. With regard to Girdard, there's a broad patt
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by slibhb 3y ago
First they came for literally and I did nothing because I wasn't a pedant. Then they came for nonplussed and I still did nothing because I'm still not a pedant. I sure hope they don't come for pedant next.
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by slibhb 3y ago
I agree that the story in the linked article is fanciful. But I don't know if Genie's case is such a clear counterexample. She was horrifically abused; a child growing up with animals would be much better off.
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by slibhb 3y ago
The idea that causality is impossible to observe goes back to Hume. Hume thought that people notice two events happening one after the other and infer causation. But, according to Hume, there is no way to prove casuation and our doing so is
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by slibhb 3y ago
I don't agree. I think lies by omission are lies.
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by slibhb 3y ago
"Telling the truth was invented in the 1930s" Hmm
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by slibhb 3y ago
The lapse of journalistic objectivity over the past ~10 years is a dead horse. I do think we've turned a corner for the better. I haven't listened to NPR in years but the Times has improved over the past few years. One of the them
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by slibhb 3y ago
RICE is widely recommended to athletes to heal injuries by doctors, PTs, etc.
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's interesting that consumer sentiment apparently tracks the older formula more closely. Presumably we have data that could allow us to include "the price of money" in inflation metrics, perhaps weighed based on how much th
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by slibhb 3y ago
> But in the short term, this scheme might judt redistribute talent in ways that reinforce existing patterns of inequality. Aren't you assuming that rich districts with higher grades implement flexible pay? I think it would be the p
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by slibhb 3y ago
The "stuff related to the self" is consciousness. Your inner life is consciousness. You can easily imagine an "internal model of an external world" without consciousness.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Consciousness is an evolved mechanism like sight, the ability to feel pain, and so on. Given that, I find arguments like this unlikely. If you want to build a conscious machine, you're going to have to reverse engineer consciousness in

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