sullyj3

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by sullyj3 9y ago
> why don't we see them in the independent evolution of life Because evolution is a very weak optimisation process. It has very limited materials to work with - everything has to be made of meat. The only changes it can make are inc
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by sullyj3 9y ago
You can attack the idea more directly as well. Whilst we don't have machines running computable functions that exhibit general intelligence, we unequivocally have ones that exhibit narrow intelligence. Things like telling the differenc
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by sullyj3 9y ago
Suppose we grant the premise that human intelligence is doing something over and above computing functions in the Turing sense (I'm personally not convinced that anything in the universe can do that, but that's beside the point).
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by sullyj3 9y ago
People warning about AI risk aren't worried about irrationally aggressive machines. On the contrary, their contention is that for a wide range of goals, there is a set of behaviours which rational agents will commonly pursue in service
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by sullyj3 9y ago
> Can't mark things as read > ... > it could resurface at any time Except that you can't come close to consuming content faster than it's produced on things like Facebook. That's what the news feed i
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by sullyj3 9y ago
I can't tell if this is satirical, but to be clear, you're proposing to disallow addition?
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by sullyj3 9y ago
I think the parent meant the codebase of flask itself.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
We'll just have to create it ourselves.
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There's a whole subculture of bedroom producers making instrumental guitar driven music. a few examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ipv_l7KoSI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18yiVSX7oQk https:&
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by sullyj3 9y ago
As someone who plays guitar and writes electronic music, getting good at the latter takes a comparable level of effort. I think you're underestimating how difficult it is to make electronic stuff that isn't terrible.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
Looks cool! Is the editing environment extensible enough to support an embedded neovim instance?
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Haskell definitely has runtime exceptions. It's only relatively pure.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
I think the best way to counter this argument to people who don't know what they're talking about is to tell them that encryption is what keeps hackers from stealing their bank details, etc.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
I don't think OP was actually espousing that argument, just laying it out as context. I think most people in the thread are aware that we live in a universe that is fundamentally stochastic rather than deterministic.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
The boundary of one's body seems like an arbitrary place to draw the line. Why not say that a sphere of radius 5 meters contains your consciousness? Then the air can be conscious too!
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by sullyj3 9y ago
Are you saying that with the assumption of a classical universe, or without?
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by sullyj3 9y ago
Supposing you decide to buy a small coffee, but if some tiny probabilistic quantum interaction in your brain had gone another way, you'd have bought a medium sized coffee instead. Do you seriously believe a scenario like this constitut
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by sullyj3 9y ago
> pure maths can create virtual worlds in some abstract math universe Sounds like Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe Hypothesis. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes... )
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by sullyj3 9y ago
How on earth did you not call it "Tada"?
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by sullyj3 9y ago
I generally just use multiple windows. You can click on a tab, then shift click on a different one to select a section that corresponds to some particular task or train of thought, and then drag them all out into a separate window at once.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
The main thing that put me off clojure was the error messages. Coming from python and haskell, they're atrocious.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
> your brain doesn’t get the same “I’m full” signal that it does from solid food Does that mean if I'm underweight, I should drink a lot of it?
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by sullyj3 9y ago
I mean, the way you put it makes it sound like you think it very obviously doesn't. But are you willing to grant that maybe there's some very complicated optimization function for life satisfaction/personal fulfillment/e
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by sullyj3 9y ago
Suppose there's some quantum effect in our brain that makes us smart (unlikely, IMO, for a variety of reasons). Why shouldn't we be able to understand this effect, and leverage it when we engineer our machines?
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by sullyj3 9y ago
On the criticism of treating intelligence as a one-dimensional number, I briefly note that the one dimensional conceptualization is a simplified but useful abstraction. It abstracts over the fairly blatant fact that things can be smarter th
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by sullyj3 9y ago
>> what evidence do we have that the limit is not us? This is just such manifestly wrongheaded reasoning as to be almost laughable. I think there's a substantially better argument against this notion than to actually try to find
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by sullyj3 10y ago
For what purpose? My favourite language is haskell, but it may or may not be suited to your goals. It sure as hell won't get you a job easy.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
The combination of the screenshots and sales pitch convinced me! This sounds awesome, I'm looking forward to testing!
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by sullyj3 10y ago
I always forgot which of + and * works and end up having to try both. I think I looked up the difference once, but I didn't retain the information.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
The whole point of Kak is that it's a different editing paradigm, still modal and "text editing language" based, but in subject verb order rather than verb subject order. The idea is to give you more confidence as you type yo

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