taylorius

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by taylorius 2y ago
If I could somehow really trust an AI not to have been spiked by some billionaire to manipulate me in one direction or other - I think I could enjoy using it as a sort of P.G Wodehouse Jeeves character in my life. Letting it access the we
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by taylorius 2y ago
No, because it's an inauthentic message. Your're speaking to your AI, like a politician who only hears about developments from his advisors. How can he know if he's getting the real truth of things?
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by taylorius 2y ago
>More plausible than "British National Party". Maybe they were using Grok :-)
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by taylorius 2y ago
If it were me, I'd be putting a piece of graph paper underneath, with a light behind it, and using it to trace the grids.
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by taylorius 2y ago
I wonder if this would work for python.
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by taylorius 2y ago
Those were my thoughts exactly - though it is 2024, and I have a sinking feeling it could be just as the article states.
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by taylorius 2y ago
Indeed - it's full of pedal tones, and slash chords. love it, love it.
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by taylorius 2y ago
In what universe is "We built this City" the worst song ever? I love that song. Awesome bit of 80s power pop. I'd rather hear We built this City 10 times in a row than any 10 songs of Taylor Swift's. How about that?
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by taylorius 2y ago
Thanks for responding. You'll be happy to hear I have disagreements with what you've written! :-) "Given the semantic overlap it's very easy to see why they'd be conflated." - I agree with the definition you g
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by taylorius 2y ago
" for example if a mistake that I've made is pointed out," If it is unambiguously your mistake, then fair enough - but in my experience, "stop being defensive" is often used when defending oneself is a perfectly leg
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by taylorius 2y ago
They figured out that if they get a load of hot girls, and cool goofy guys to entice people, and don't mention the spying part - it works a lot better than a bunch of government goons in badly fitting suits telling you to betray your f
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by taylorius 2y ago
"this apparent step backwards" When optimising globally, sometimes a backward step is required to escape a local minima. It is possible that progressive politics has made a misstep, and that correcting that is the right thing to d
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by taylorius 2y ago
"From my German point of view, our nation has plenty of energy to protest what's going on in Haiti or Syria etc" That's because your politicians can't really be blamed for Haiti / Syria etc. And it's not d
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by taylorius 2y ago
Perhaps it is a question of the different meanings the word care can take. Care in its normal everyday usage is indeed a natural human emotion, however this was not the subject of my post. "Carers", are people who perform function
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by taylorius 2y ago
Psychopathic? I think that's a ridiculous statement. No-one said anything about automating any human connection. I can tell you that my wife is a full time carer for her parents, and though she does it willingly and with love, it exert
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by taylorius 2y ago
I think in the future, descendants of today's LLM models and some future version of Tesla's Optimus could create a paradigm shift in how care is given. I'm hopeful that when I get old, and inevitably come to need some help wi
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by taylorius 2y ago
Sorry for what is probably a stupid question. Does pretty.c act as a preprocessor or sorts, converting your pretty.c script into actual c, that is then compiled? Or is it a virtual machine that interprets your pretty.c script?
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by taylorius 2y ago
They've gone and created Douglas Adams' Total Perspective Vortex
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by taylorius 2y ago
I don't think that's right. Movies use all sorts of devices to engage their audience. And a lot of them rely on surprise. If they tell you what they're about to do just before you see it happen "for real" - the effe
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by taylorius 2y ago
I agree 100% with the author. I've seen Alien,but I haven't watched it for a long time. So if I go to see it in the cinema now, while I technically do know what's going to happen - it isn't completely fresh in my mind. S
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by taylorius 2y ago
Nah, such a body would surely be the beginning of the end. Anarchy in the UK, including its language!
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by taylorius 2y ago
So it was a death-duty style tax - that makes more sense. For a minute I was imagining a lawyer reading a will. "And lastly, I leave my entire 7 billion dollar fortune to... the U.S. Government."
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by taylorius 2y ago
It's a multiplier. The strength of faith it brings will unite people in single mindedness, for good or bad ends.
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by taylorius 2y ago
I stopped drinking years ago, and have recently tried several of the different non alcoholic beers available. However I always notice something suspiciously like a minor hangover an hour or two after drinking one, which seems odd. Has anyon
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by taylorius 2y ago
I think the internet and the general ascendancy of computer science,and algorithmic thinking has a part to play in this. There is a certain notion of efficiency (perhaps also expressable as convenience) which has become a well trodden path
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by taylorius 2y ago
To paraphrase Dilbert's boss - "discussions go a lot more smoothly when no-one present understands any of the details."
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by taylorius 2y ago
If absurdity made us despondent or desperately sad instead, that probably wouldn't do much for the ol' evolutionary fitness.
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by taylorius 2y ago
I would question the distinctions significance in the context of my original post, to be honest. And I would not categorise Leonard Cohen as pop music, by your criterion, as it would not be useful. "Pop music" as a term used by th
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by taylorius 2y ago
I am a counter example that rule (though perhaps it is indirectly in agreement). I grew up alone, in the middle of the UK countryside without much regular contact with other kids. My inner monologue grew constant and loud - it acted like a
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by taylorius 2y ago
I'd say so for sure. I've lived in London most of my adult life, and in my experience the air is a lot better than it used to be.

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