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by ta8645 1y ago
Many people buy a lot of games just to give them away on steamgifts.com. I used to be heavily involved over there, giving away many thousands of game copies, and ended up with over 4,800 games in my own Steam library, and I still haven&#x
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by ta8645 1y ago
I've been watching the new CEO's videos for a few years. He seems like a genuine person who isn't cynical about this at all. I don't think it's a cash grab, but a real hope that a community and something wholesome
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by ta8645 1y ago
Earlier in the day the number of preorders / total number of systems available was shown on the order page. That seems to have been removed now. Presales may be going slower than hoped.
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by ta8645 1y ago
The supermassive black hole is also just a small part of an unimaginably large universe. But if you got too close to it, you would indeed find it is a higher power than yourself, lol. But the higher power in the AA context is a deep recogni
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by ta8645 1y ago
Obviously this administration has no interest in the homeless, but I'm personally a little tired of all the ivory tower elites getting upset that their intellectual play toys are in jeopardy, when millions of people struggle for food a
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by ta8645 1y ago
You are a very small part of an unimaginably large universe; so you are not the ultimate power, ergo there is a higher power than you. Some people choose to call that higher power "God", but there's no reason to get hung up
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by ta8645 1y ago
They don't. That's just a thin veneer of "legitimacy" so they don't have to admit the real reasons, explicitly.
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by ta8645 1y ago
He made a few nice replies 41 days ago; found on that same page.
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by ta8645 1y ago
Humans are the beneficiaries of millions of years of evolution, and are born with innate pattern matching abilities that we don't need "training" for; essentially our pre-training. Of course, it is superior to the current ge
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by ta8645 1y ago
Perhaps. But I think you'll find there are a lot of black rectangles on a PCB that aren't actually transistors. You'll end up having to teach the child a lot more if you want accurate results. And that's the same kind
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by ta8645 1y ago
It's just behaving like a child. A child could draw a bounding box around a dog and a cat, but would fail if you told them to draw a box around the transistors of a PCB. They have no idea what a transistor is, or what it looks like.
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by ta8645 1y ago
The same information theory and complex-system dynamics, that applies to our human machinery, applies to any equally complex system we create in silicon. We may not be there yet, but there's literally no reason to believe anything sta
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by ta8645 1y ago
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by ta8645 1y ago
This difficulty is interesting in and of itself. When people catalogue the deficiencies in AI systems, they often (at least implicitly) forgive all of our own such limitations. When someone points to something that an AI system clearly doe
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by ta8645 1y ago
Define "actually matters". Is there any reason to believe that humans are imbued with some mysterious magic, that silicone creatures lack? And even if you believe that we possess some such magic, is there any proof that it can&#
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by ta8645 1y ago
For whatever it's worth, I tried setting up a quick Swiss chess tournament, and got a little confused about the stages. I think I may have set up two by mistake, at least, the "previous" button was visible when I was editing
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by ta8645 1y ago
The argument is that humans manage the task without lidar, and automation doesn't have to be perfect it just has to be better than humans, to be a net positive. It seems to me, you might as well use lidar if it's cheap enough, bu
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by ta8645 1y ago
But if there was a Kardashev type III civilization in the Milky Way, they would have had full control of our entire galaxy in a mere 200 million years or so. And we can be pretty sure that such a civilization doesn't actually exist.
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by ta8645 1y ago
Scientists use the term "technosignatures", which you can google for more info. But broadly: radio signals, infrared from megastructures, optical signals like laser pulses. We haven't put a huge amount of effort in searching
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by ta8645 1y ago
If life is very common in the universe, then that is probably bad news for us. It means that civilizations should exist that are millions of years more technologically advanced than us; and should be leaving telltale signatures across the
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by ta8645 2y ago
It sounds like you're advocating for a centrally planned market that allocates resources according to a grand, rational vision. A free market will by definition be messy, sometimes inefficient, adhoc, and defy any notion of a grand vi
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by ta8645 2y ago
Fair enough, and I agree to an extent. But a lot of the complaints leveled at Trump amount to the same thing. For example, visa holders are free to say whatever they want, but may have to return to their country of origin, etc.
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by ta8645 2y ago
Trump is obviously attacking free-speech, but the attacks have been going on by both sides. The examples I gave are _very_ prevalent and common, and not coming from the Trump camp. Very few people seem to actually believe in free speech,
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by ta8645 2y ago
It's been under attack a lot longer than the current administration. "free-speech does not mean freedom from consequences", "free speech does not apply to hate-speech", "we must suppress and limit the spread of
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by ta8645 2y ago
But that is not always a bad thing, and it might not change how people behave _enough_. This one minute Youtube short, gives an example of a guy dancing, without regard to being watched. And how a large internet crowd reacted to him being
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by ta8645 2y ago
The fact that the Mozilla CEO makes over $6,000,000.00 per year is a complete betrayal of what Firefox was. How could anyone justify donating to Firefox knowing that so much of their money would be going to this one person?
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by ta8645 2y ago
I've lost track of what we're disagreeing about.
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It takes knowledge to even know they're flawed, noisy, and disconnected. There's no reason to "correct" anything, unless you have knowledge that applying previously "understood" data has in fact produced defic
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by ta8645 2y ago
> Would that make in-context learning a superset or a subset of pretraining? I guess a superset. But it doesn't really matter either way. Ultimately, there's no useful distinction between pretraining and in-context learning.

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