stereolambda

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by stereolambda 4y ago
I agree with some siblings that it's better not to overstate the consequences for our knowledge of mind and consciousness, at least just yet. This level is still half promises. Not saying this can't change a year from now. On the
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by stereolambda 4y ago
Look, I think your career ending example would make a better case for what you are trying to argue. If you dig into history of longstanding democratic countries like US and Switzerland, you find plenty of rioting and chaotic infighting thro
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by stereolambda 4y ago
If you want to go there, being harassed by an opinionated mob is actually a mostly democratic phenomenon. In an autocracy, it would be a beating, either by the police, or thugs operating in agreement and probably paid by the police. You wou
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by stereolambda 4y ago
I doubt they would make you a cosmonaut without being a convincing communist, the same way they wouldn't probably make you an American astronaut if you were one. If he were a doubter, it would still make sense to include that to potent
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by stereolambda 4y ago
These terminal word processors always looked attractive to me, but what is the path from this, or WordGrinder, to some mainstream document formats - that are accepted in publishing and academic settings? From what I remember RTF is the easi
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by stereolambda 4y ago
I sometimes wonder how much of the console barrier is just culture, and some things being deemed to be okay to be treated as "unapproachable" in a memey way. The same way corporate incompetence is maybe judged lighter that volunte
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by stereolambda 4y ago
Not sure about today, but there was a time PCs were sold on overspecced CPUs. The consumer would look at the clock speed and think he is getting a "fast" computer. The vendor would pocket the savings on putting in weaker everythin
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by stereolambda 4y ago
As a sibling points out, some of the fears do turn out to be founded eventually. I also take issue with lumping together objections based on disproved memes ("hippy" ones) and pure speculation (Skynet) with ones based on observing
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by stereolambda 4y ago
Economic convergence is actually one of the themes in the article. It's possible that much of aesthetic uniqueness stemmed/stems from being in an economically inefficient situation, where you don't know or don't have acc
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by stereolambda 4y ago
So on the first example, I wouldn't be surprised if regular people everywhere had somewhat similar tastes and can't see why it would be a bad thing. Aesthetics diverge because of artistic cultures. If you're not a part of an
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by stereolambda 4y ago
I sense emotional and identity-based thinking sneaking in both this article and many of its stated adversaries. Yes, anti-GPT punditry is getting ridiculous, but on the other hand, it's important to examine what is happening through sc
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by stereolambda 4y ago
This reads like a big barrel of flamebait, but here's a European perspective that might be informative for some. I do agree that overt and unambiguous remembrance of totalitarian atrocities is important and beneficial. I have been badl
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by stereolambda 4y ago
I would say more tastes than lifestyles. You can use old wardrobes, drawers etc. just fine. It's just that people are used to looking at vaguely modern (often bland and disposable) stuff from the media, and at least think other people
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by stereolambda 4y ago
I think a reasonable reading here is that workers dying is a systemic issue (also related to their overall conditions), not a series of just unfortunate accidents. We may expect the ruling class to do something to make people die less, and
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by stereolambda 4y ago
Not having fought in a war (yet?) I won't dare to speak about the core message here (it's well worth reading), but I sometimes wonder about dissemination of this knowledge. The fragments about Hitler and Goebbels shielding themsel
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by stereolambda 4y ago
I doubt I should really continue discussion on these increasingly personal terms, but you're reading my first sentence in a very uncharitable way. (I mean fine, it was combative.) I could maybe accept your formulation "that they
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by stereolambda 4y ago
First, I related this as a perception problem for random members of the public who cannot be expected to go deep into the science of the problem. Second, no conspiracy would be needed, just hypocrisy of individuals. If someone tells you you
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by stereolambda 4y ago
It would be nicer in many ways if we could just use the natural ice sheet, but AFAIK by now we cannot rely on it, even if we magically removed all the political problems and suddenly started doing the right thing. Based on available informa
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by stereolambda 4y ago
"People like me" want research into the methods and don't call for not reducing the emissions. Both of this I explicitly said and both are largely ignored by people who are responding. As to the main point, as sibling has s
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by stereolambda 4y ago
It's interesting to me how much people are trained to reflex against this possibility. As mentioned in the article, dust in the atmosphere is literally a natural occurrence also. Sure, the exact impact should be researched and understo
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by stereolambda 4y ago
There's some truth in that. People are uncomfortable with the thought of becoming (even more?) Mark's serfs and want to dispel that by magically willing the tech into being garbage. The fact is that in 2022 many parts of bigtech-s
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by stereolambda 4y ago
One way to look at it: this is like requiring all Maths research to be applied mathematics, because we demand to get the social benefits right now and it is your job to find it. I don't know if they actually verify what you wrote in yo
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by stereolambda 4y ago
It's a little hard to tell if and how much you are being sarcastic. I don't see how people could expect payouts for just existing. You are already getting plenty of (often unseen) services and benefits from society, and you presum
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by stereolambda 4y ago
It isn't that there is no original work in using the existing sources. Just more stuff is, by necessity, re-used that created (otherwise people wouldn't understand you), and the exact boundary is arbitrary.
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by stereolambda 4y ago
The point is, it wasn't immoral of them to "take the work of others" to begin with. This is how culture works: mythology, classic stories like the Arthurian cycle, fables, lots of classic literature etc. came to be by just ta
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by stereolambda 4y ago
I would try by saying every author is a compiler (as in, a collector of sources). They use someone else's ideas, either as building blocks or as a subject. The rules for when and how the people down the chain should be compensated are
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by stereolambda 4y ago
I don't know. Steam reviewers seem to sometimes have a deeper view of the game, and describe the long term difficulty/power/interest curve etc. They can have many hours in and are not compelled to push the review out early. A
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by stereolambda 4y ago
So basically bookmarks and history devolved into tabs for people? I do notice the difference between my Firefox installation (with 'live downloaded' search suggestions disabled), where I mostly can pull anything I want from the pa
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by stereolambda 4y ago
Demand for being judged by one's peers is Magna Carta level stuff, and it's also in the American constitution, so people clearly cared about it for centuries. You can see why in principle: the judge is a government official, and w
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by stereolambda 4y ago
This idea that surveillance and centralization[0] are mainly dangerous in a dictatorship is quite harmful, and I've heard shallow dismissals based on this, along the lines of "we would have bigger problems then". To be fair,

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