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by smokel 2y ago
> Diet is extremely underrated According to your comment, it is also extremely overrated. Diet is very complex, and the behaviours associated with it are very complex as well. It is very hard to tell causality from correlation in this
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It is very unfortunate that religion associated itself with miracles a lot, which are perfectly incompatible with science. It turns out to be pretty hard to come up with a religion that has your listed advantages, and which does not break d
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Depending on the job, this might be (somewhat) reasonable. I'd assume that one could still get hired even if one failed that particular question, but showed some sense of understanding about the problem space. For many problems, someo
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> a mid-view taskbar ... is a requirement for me to be able to use an operating system. This part reduces the credibility of your request. You are actually unable to view a web page or start Excel if the task bar is not in your prefer
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> It has successfully mechanized all my joy out of the game, leaving me free to pursue <a>more important and deeply fulfilling things</a> with my life. The link [1] then shows us that this person most certainly is on t
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by smokel 2y ago
For some more information on solving Nethack with AI, check out the (outstanding) TalkRL podcast: https://www.talkrl.com/episodes/pierluca-doro-and-martin-kli...
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I once saw a documentary on a haptic compass, built from some rumble packs. It allowed people to improve their way-finding skills, and if I recall correctly, people accustomed to the idea of having this extra sense after about a week or so
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In my experience these tools amplify the quality of a programmer. I have seen good programmers dramatically increase their productivity, but I've also seen others copy-pasting for loops inside other for loops where one loop would defin
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Fifty years ago we would have explained it as religious worshipping behavior, now it's just for fun.
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I must agree that it is not that simple. That would be highly unlikely. But how does one measure the impact of recent changes, such as the rise of the internet? Did the invention of the crossbow, the invention of money, of language, of th
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I'm sorry if "go crazy" offends people, that was not my intention. I know my way around depression, but English is not my native language. I still think my reasoning is fairly sound, though.
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I think you misunderstand my point that there is no such framework. There used to be religion, tyranny, and some other fulfilling frameworks, but those no longer apply.
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LLMs have no agency. One would probably have to add some reward framework around LLMs, and it'd be more likely that the depression shows up there, rather than in the language model.
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When asked for an opinion on why so many young people suffer from depression: > the political turmoil that we’ve been through, the racial issues that we’ve been through in this country, the global wars that are going on. It’s pretty dis
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The basic idea is that 99 seems less than 100, but to my primitive mind 9 is higher than both 0 and 1. So here is your data point. You can now safely end this nonsense and still get my money. More of it, even.
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An interesting story in this context is that a research group in Delft thought they observed the Majorana particle (2018), but then it turned out they didn't (2021). https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/majoran
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"It's never good to be dogmatic." In some situations unit tests can be very effective and useful, such as in testing complex algorithms, or in code bases where some serious refactoring is required, and where one don't
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> DP had shortcut keys to navigate the palette It might be obvious to gamers, but the idea is that you have one hand on the keyboard, and the other on the mouse.
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At one end of the spectrum, some people here claim to write this kind of software over a weekend. Some others claim they require a salary of $600,000, and still need nine additional colleagues to pull something like this off. There is a lo
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This might be an interesting reason for it to feel special, but I'm not entirely convinced, and I probably don't fully understand what you mean. It seems that not everyone values the having of a consciousness as something special.
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With a disclaimer that I have no formal nor practical background in marketing, here are some ideas: 1. It is a bit unclear to me when I would use Haystack. The main advantage seems to be cost cutting. It would be nice to see some realized
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Note that I tried to counter the idea that an AI should presumably get human rights. In that context, I think a definition of consciousness is irrelevant.
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In order for my definition to make sense, the organism or program must be able to observe the memory of the state. In the case of the bacteria and the Python program, I doubt they are able to do that in any meaningful way. But I would not
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I suppose the bug has, but the bacteria doesn't. I'd assume that some kind of memory is required for consciousness. I'd even go so far to say that consciousness is nothing more than having a memory of the state you were in.
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I was not nitpicking, but I could have spent more time on my reply. What I was hinting at is that it is not simply consciousness that gets us these laws. Laws have been around for a long time, and have many different reasons for existing a
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Consciousness might be overrated. It could simply be a short-term memory of the state you were in.
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> we may have conscious software, which presumably should be granted human rights A dog (most likely) has consciousness, but no human rights.
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To be fair, it does not look right.
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> That’s because companies want you tethered to their servers. It is slightly more nuanced, IMHO. For enterprise software it actually makes sense to use browser based software, because it saves the IT department a lot of hassle with l
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Regarding the "for some reason": Java Swing (and JavaFX, and Windows Forms for that matter) all suffer from lack of integration with modern web browsers. It is near impossible to find a way to combine these model-view-controller

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