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by swid 4y ago
Simple is ambiguous as I said, people can and do claim anything is simple. So it can’t be categorically wrong. If it’s possible to simulate five atoms, why not more? I’m not placing time or memory bounds on the process. I linked to a sim
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by swid 4y ago
Simple is an ambiguous term. A simple cell is still very complex by other measures. No matter how simple or complex, is it possible to implement the rules of simulated universe on a computer? Can biology be simulated (however slowly) on a
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by swid 4y ago
Reasonable time frame is not a requirement of the argument I was trying to make. I’m saying that there is nothing inherently missing from a silicon based computer or Turing complete language to support human level intelligence.
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by swid 4y ago
I'm not suggesting we can do this today (no universal theory), and I'm not suggesting it is practical in the sense that we can simulate that much amount of matter in a certain amount of time. But I think it's theoretically p
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by swid 4y ago
1) I used nuclear reactions just as a fill in to say it should be possible to simulate matter with close enough approximation to facilitate thought. This was posited in "A New Kind of Math" which suggests there is a thing as &qu
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by swid 4y ago
I meant something else. If you can perfectly simulate a rock, as it exists in reality, you can also simulate a brain. The universe doesn’t care that the brain produces thoughts. Thoughts are an emergent property of the network, there is n
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by swid 4y ago
I agree with that - maybe the only practical way to get a human brain map of sufficient detail to fully simulate is to grow it virtually, and maybe this would take too long compared to a human life. I think it’s just a useful starting point
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by swid 4y ago
It may not be needed for consciousness, but even if it is, we can simulate quantum mechanics on traditional hardware, just slowly compared to real life. This is why I brought up possible optimizations to the real world. If it takes us 100
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by swid 4y ago
The argument that deep network algorithms are just matrix operations is not compelling to me as a reason we aren’t getting there… I believe two things: -1. the universe itself operates on mostly simple rules which can be simulated to high e
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by swid 4y ago
How many colors do you typically identify or would be willing to accept? Somewhere between 10 and 25 would be sufficient… not every word will have a color association, but many will have more than one. I think you need to be pretty strict
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by swid 4y ago
I meant it mostly as a joke, but there is a certain amount of irony to it. This goes way beyond prompt engineering - he wrote an algorithm to run on GPT in a way you would not expect a non-programmer to write. I think the idea is cool and
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by swid 4y ago
It's funny to me that this kind of usage of GPT is just programming with a lot of extra steps.
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by swid 4y ago
Here's the way you can solve the first problem with generics in go, almost exactly as he described: https://go.dev/play/p/GrLYBj3N0jr The trick is to define the fish tank like so: type fishTank struct {
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by swid 4y ago
The suggestion in that post about how to fix it is good, and mirrors one I read in the Rachael by the Bay blog - type the number of machines to continue: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/10/26/num/
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by swid 4y ago
I mean, even in your own post, you spell strong man different from strongman. Here’s a definition of the word strong for you: “possessing skills and qualities that create a likelihood of success.” Obviously this meaning is divorced from
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by swid 4y ago
I only have 10kw but most days that is enough to get through the night. Air conditioning will go through it, but I don’t typically need it, especially after the sun sets.
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by swid 4y ago
Sounds about right for the power only, but you also probably get a battery with it to deal with power outages… I don’t know how to price the utility of that, but it’s why I bought solar.
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by swid 5y ago
If you want an email and okay with anonymous - send an email. If you want verification of economic activity without the right to see that activity - ask for a credit card. I trying to figure out the problem you want to solve here and how
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by swid 5y ago
I’m not suggesting you can’t add value, but that it grows asymptoticly towards a limit. Human ingenuity is scarce and even if it wasn’t, I’m allowing for some things to be not scarce in practice, like information and maybe energy someday. B
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by swid 5y ago
There simply has to be limits to this though, because if there were not, the materials would eventually become (relatively) free. Think of it this way, if the value of output grows too many magnitudes over the inputs, then essentially the i
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by swid 5y ago
Reading from config isn’t a problem with the way I am doing it… the name is only the key for the thing to inject, you need some code to fill that key to something else dynamically already.
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by swid 5y ago
Saw the uber/fx this morning and decided to give another go at sharing this small project. The thing is, dependency injection doesn't need to be all that complicated. I think, if nothing else, it makes testing easier and helps yo
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Go Dependency Injection in 150 lines(github.com)
2 points by swid 5y ago|3 comments
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by swid 5y ago
If the purpose is to avoid KYC laws and turn bitcoin to cash, it isn’t hard to understand why Steam wants to avoid these types of customers. Also, they aren’t buying low and selling high, they are buying low and selling even lower because t
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by swid 5y ago
The people who buy the game then resell the key on other websites for less than you find it on steam. They can buy many licenses when the game is on sale, so even if there is no chargeback, the devs can lose money through these methods. Ot
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by swid 5y ago
I think the other poster has a point - The marginal utility of the second marshmallow is lower. Then there is added cost in the time spent waiting. Even if you have to wait in the room regardless, I think it’s fair to say there is a cost t
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by swid 5y ago
I interpret the warning as the external validation part, not the type of friend.
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by swid 5y ago
One thing you should absolutely not count on, but might be a course of actions for large clients, is to contact support and ask them to restore accidentally / maliciously deleted files. I would never use this as part of the backup and
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by swid 5y ago
I’m pretty sure that isn’t true for real programs. The computer has a finite number of possible states depending on its physical properties or theoretical architecture - if you return to a state, there is a cycle and it will not terminate.
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by swid 5y ago
Yes - this is true. A program will either halt or not, and if you could pluck that answer from somewhere, you would know. But my point is in practice, this is just not possible, because the problem spaces are too large. A related problem i

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