smokel

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811.
by smokel 3y ago
You might be interested in pragmatism.
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by smokel 3y ago
You may be mixing up causation and correlation in the argument that birth rates will drop. (See also several other comments on this topic in this thread.)
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by smokel 3y ago
I hear this argument a lot, but it makes no sense. How would an economic phenomenon (requiring a typical form of green leaves to guarantee a happy life at old age) precisely counter a biological phenomenon (a desire to procreate)? It seems
814.
by smokel 3y ago
They seem to be built with some love by the author. Apparently they have written it in Haxe, judging from the comment in the page source.
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by smokel 3y ago
I love this reply. I get similar vibes when an artist copies the Mona Lisa in, say, 100,000 colored dice or Post-it notes. If you compare such efforts with road makers (pavers?) who lay millions of bricks in their lifetimes, such art sudde
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by smokel 3y ago
I've meditated quite a lot, and I am now often able to "live in the moment" so much so, that I only experience the most recent bite that I'm taking out of a Snickers bar. It gives me the strange feeling that I might as
817.
by smokel 3y ago
You might be an interesting specimen for scientific research. What food do you eat? Do you travel the world year round? Do you moisturize? Seriously, I'd probably give a year of my life to experience it being two years longer.
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by smokel 3y ago
I think this argument is a bit of a stretch. Nomadic tribes did not travel by plane, and they certainly did not have friends in strange places.
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by smokel 3y ago
This sounds like a reasonable argument, but I don't think it is. A day for a 4 year old still takes the same 24 hours as a day for a 40 year old. The argument presupposes that you experience the length of an event relative to the sum
820.
by smokel 3y ago
Predicting the future is generally pretty hard. By what logic did you come to these conclusions? Try reading science fiction novels from some decades ago, and see how wrong they were.
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by smokel 3y ago
I could simply reply with "The system prompts are not reliable". Several people in the original thread have tried to replicate the prompts, and the results differ in wording, so it may definitely be hallucinating a bit. If you jus
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by smokel 3y ago
The article uses several European countries for comparison. These also have "the Western mindset". The article does not even mention China, but refers to Asia, which is pretty big.
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by smokel 3y ago
Let's save this thread for posterity, because it's a very nice and ironic example of actual humans hallucinating stuff in a similar way that ChatGPT gets accused of all the time :) The actual text that parent probably refers to is
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by smokel 3y ago
It is probably not that Kagi or Marginalia have more advanced technology. The problem is that SEO scum is only targeting the relevant players.
825.
by smokel 3y ago
I'm sure it's a combination of mass hysteria and flocking behaviour in humans. These find their origins in primitive survival techniques: there is safety in numbers, both for raising early alarms, and for protecting against strong
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by smokel 3y ago
I guess I just don't expect reliable answers from other sources either, so the difference is not that big for me. Do you trust Wikipedia (based on volunteer data), do you trust news outlets (heavily influenced by politics, lobby groups
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by smokel 3y ago
I think you are a bit out of touch with recent advancements in LLMs. Asking ChatGPT questions about the world seems pretty much on par with the results Google (Search) shows me. Sure, it misses things here and there, but so do most primar
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by smokel 3y ago
Curiosity and perseverance are probably different traits than intelligence. It'd be nice to know if these can be learned, or whether one is born with them.
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by smokel 3y ago
Seems to be some form of "category mistake" which could be easy to address. There are different contexts in which we can reason about truth. For metaphysics and related philosophical activities it makes sense to doubt any form
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by smokel 3y ago
I could imagine some people not liking research into several kinds of weapons, artificial intelligence, or research that requires animal testing.
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by smokel 3y ago
I started writing a similar comment at this, but then figured that the situation is not so black-and-white. Some activists are using disingenuous practices to undermine science. Undermining science by itself might be a noble cause in some
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by smokel 3y ago
I'd be interested to know what "successful" means to you in this context? Being faced with the limited time we have on earth, I have had a hard time deciding whether it'd be better to spend time on building a career that
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by smokel 3y ago
Wait until you learn that some collectors of Galanthus (Snowdrops) have paid £1850 (~$2300) for one bulb of a new variety. To most, they are simply the same green and white plants, but to some, they are quite the obsession. [1] https:&#x2F
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by smokel 3y ago
Compare our society with one from anywhere before the Enlightenment. Brains and science were not held in high esteem. Obviously these societies were horrible for a lot of people. Our current one is horrible for many as well. My comment
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by smokel 3y ago
I assume that you have the best of intentions. However, I think it is exactly thanks to our Western societies focusing so much on intellectual merit, that we are running into serious problems with a part of society not being able to keep u
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by smokel 3y ago
Let me guess that you are not such a person who is happily working in a warehouse.
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by smokel 3y ago
Compute Unified Device Architecture [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA
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by smokel 3y ago
Life generated from DNA in a vacuum would probably be pretty boring. The entirety of life requires some surroundings to interact with, and as it stands there is but one of those, and singular things don't compress well. Also, have a l
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by smokel 3y ago
Do I understand things correctly if they claim to have cracked 31,200 passwords of which 481 were "TooBlue2022", and they then go on to think that this is a password used by multiple people? (To be more precise, this is not claim
840.
by smokel 3y ago
I'm not railing against the advice, I'm against the argumentation. This is not really clear from my previous comments -- I should've stated that context more clearly. The post suggests that scientific methods are at the basi

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