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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> For example, give it a paper of some deep learning technique and make it produce an implementation of that paper. Or maybe give it a paper full of statistics about some experimental observations, and have it reproduce the raw data?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
What is the relevance of this generic statement to the discussion at hand?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> It’s like fake news is taking in science now. I didn't think this was new? Like, it's been a few years since that replication crisis things kicked off.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
A system is its interactions with its environment. Philosophical zombies aren't a coherent concept. (Cartesian dualism is unfalsifiable bullshit.)
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Not sure about "most common", but I have some vms that use `user` as the username.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> That's because bias is at the root a social problem, not a technical one. Bias is systematic error. Maybe your thermometer just always reads 5° high. Maybe it reads high on sunny days and low on rainy days. Bias is distinct from
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> should be more aggressive in educating users about their fallability This might be an "experience is the best teacher" situation. It'd probably be pretty hard to invent a disclaimer that'd be as effective as getti
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I can't check at the moment, but IIRC the output of `ps` on $employer's AIX boxes disagrees about it not being all-caps.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Some of the most productive research we could possibly do is basic research. How do we know this? What's about to be found if we look for it, and how do we know where to look? > and is in practice woefully underfunded. What
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> always inevitably configured within the frame of a capitalistic belief system How is this relevant, and what does is even mean? > Everything we do, every technological step forward, is always inevitably configured within the fram
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
The world's a big place.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> main usecases of cryptocurrency are to bet on them as a speculative asset or to use them for various forms of crime. Someone will probably tell me about some theoretical situation where it is a positive force When you don't agre
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Isn't there already a "social" site that instances itself by neighborhood? I think I remember having a login there that I never use.
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It's a very small elephant, like the opposite of a jumbo shrimp.
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> What am I missing here? "Friends" who prioritize being angry and spiteful online over their meatspace relationships, sounds like.
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Is it really that outrageous of an assumption to think that most people are not too far from the majority?
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They mention the eggs cracking a middling fraction of the time. Just now, dropping an egg about a finger-width onto whatever my kitchen counter is made of did indeed leave a small crack, so part is an inch is about right.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
8mm is a bit under a third of an inch (25.4mm), so someone dropped the decimal point.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> We have to be able to fit through the birth canal. Or at least we used to, before the c-section was invented.
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Make wave pipelining cool again?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Hasn't the UK been jailing people for sending mean tweets? That seems a bit beyond refusing entry.
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What fraction of people actually participate in the various pseudosocial sites?
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> Although as an aside who these people are who think corporate pensions are a good idea is beyond me. Ignore the practicalities and look at the story . They're a promise that someone stronger than you will provide for you in you
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The first listed iteration is to late, what about the COmmon Business-Oriented Language? Also, something being a liability and something having upkeep costs are not the same thing.
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The is zero (legitimate) question about what LLMs do. They're math, not magic. They highlight fun philosophical / definitional questions like the Chinese room thought experiment, but that's it.
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I seem to recall news a while back about how cloudflare was very deliberately making it impossible to block only some things they provide, specifically for the purpose of causing any blocks to have enough blast radius to cause popular out
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> Misreading a number Simple misreading is not the issue. The misread number was almost two thirds of the entire population . That's the sort of thing I'd expect someone to catch as they're saying it because of how absu
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> Take burden off workers in the sweatshops and learn to sew a shirt. Presumably they're working there because it's the least-bad option? If so, removing it so they have to go with the next-least-bad option might not be much
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> I do not see any viable action for individual citizens to take. Get involved with your preferred local political party. Push for policy preferences that won't drive turnout for the opposing party and won't give that party a

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