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by sverona 4y ago
Tetris: The Grand Master, a '90s arcade game that's been out of print for twenty years, was just rereleased for Switch more or less entirely because of its speedrunning community.
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by sverona 4y ago
Okay, yeah, that's fair.
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> I then push them on this until they realize that any implementation of the dictionary lookup function of a string would be o(n) at best, and as such the total runtime of the solution is O(n²). Is n the length of the word or the length
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by sverona 4y ago
Would you let your students use Mathematica on such an exam?
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Honestly this doesn't surprise me. I don't have GPT-4 access, but I fed ChatGPT a simple calculus question as a sanity check. Question: Calculate the integral of x arctan x dx. Show your work. Answer: We can solve this integral us
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by sverona 4y ago
It's ongoing. I ditched my smartphone for a Nokia running KaiOS and a Bangle.js. It took a couple weeks to break the habit of compulsively checking my phone, which was nice, but everything is so much nicer when you literally do not hav
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by sverona 4y ago
I've done exactly this. I don't really think dopamine fasts are scientifically sound but I find that life is more enjoyable when I'm not constantly tethered to the news.
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by sverona 4y ago
Yeah, those only make it worse, but they only really apply to a bona fide superintelligence of the sort EY describes, and those are not what we have. I don't believe we're particularly close to having one. If we're doomed, we
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by sverona 4y ago
Mmm. The definition I used is the standard definition of superintelligence, used by EY himself: > A superintelligence is something that can beat any human, and the entire human civilization, at all the cognitive tasks. [0] I added the &
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by sverona 4y ago
His argument is essentially "a superintelligence who is better than us at everything and thinks a quadrillion times faster can do whatever it wants and we are powerless to stop it." Yeah, I could've told you that. If we reall
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It's possible, but the views of the AI alignment community so far as I can tell are being skewed way too far towards nihilistic doomerism by the influence of Yudkowsky, who apparently believes that we're all gonna die in a few y
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by sverona 4y ago
I have never met an AI that doesn't have the dictionary built in. If you want to play phonies check Woogles.
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Haidt and Lukianoff were saying this six years ago when I was in undergrad. I didn't like the way he framed it then, and I'm not a fan of it now, either. Most of what Haidt has been decrying all these years does have a basis, th
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by sverona 4y ago
Wanna cite your sources?
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by sverona 4y ago
When you look into why they "grow out of it," it's usually because the world is so inhospitable to them that they cannot bear it. [0] The proportion that detrans because they realized they were wrong is estimated at 2.4%. [
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by sverona 4y ago
Here's a question I don't know the answer to. How does an already depressed and dysphoric trans person --- who doesn't know they're trans --- with unsupportive parents ever, ever find out what the cause of their depressi
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by sverona 4y ago
Perhaps. But that's not the world we live in. Both DeSantis and Trump have recently said if elected next year they would effectively outlaw gender-affirming healthcare for everyone , of any age. This is saber-rattling --- a threat to
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by sverona 4y ago
I'm sorry it's uncomfortable. So is getting misgendered.
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This is poppycock. Here's a response: https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/missouri-anti-trans-whi...
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by sverona 4y ago
To be clear, I more or less agree with him - it's just that I've heard it all before. Capitalism is bad, kyriarchy is bad, AI is dangerous, organize. Also, his book is a dang academic monograph. The parts I skimmed over were mostl
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by sverona 4y ago
I suppose what I mean to say is I'm fucked. Suffice to say I exist today because of other trans people on the Internet and a stack of medications. You may be right; I cannot imagine an "alternative means of structuring society&q
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by sverona 4y ago
I skimmed his book, and I don't know, man. His thesis as I understand it is a viewpoint I have held for a while now --- artificial intelligence does things that humans do, but faster. It's a force multiplier. Hence your views on A
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by sverona 4y ago
The best argument you can come up with is that a CCP censor didn't like it in the thirties?
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by sverona 4y ago
It's much too late for that, friend. We're everywhere --- in your libraries, your coffee shops, your orange sites. Save yourself lest you join our number. :p
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Absolutely not in good faith. Nobody has unironically said "triggered" in about ten years.
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It's well-known that "carbon footprint" was popularized by oil companies around the time of Inconvenient Truth so that we don't come after them. [0] Even so, before you worry about your coffee tackle the low-hanging frui
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by sverona 4y ago
Physics for Mathematicians by Spivak is basically the Principia updated to modern prose and rigor.
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Pete Walker writes good books, but sometimes I find his prescription of out-fighting the critic counterproductive. I observe that the voice of certain unproductive thoughts I have is more like a wounded child than a critical adult. It says
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by sverona 4y ago
Suggestion: make better coffee.
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I sincerely hope you have a source of meaning in your life that you can tap into instead of making fun of people with different lifestyles on the Internet. Cheers.

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