theonemind

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by theonemind 2y ago
"It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too
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by theonemind 2y ago
That's too reductionist to be an useful model. Humans are extremely complex systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system . You're describing them more like a complicated system.
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by theonemind 2y ago
I can't say I enjoy large software systems written in Python.
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by theonemind 2y ago
> Physical health is the most important thing in society, one should not live in a country that doesn’t promote their individual health, growth, strength and power. That seems like a questionable assertion. Poverty aside, I don't se
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by theonemind 2y ago
One big difference, if I understand correctly, considering that I think I understand Tao better than Logos, is that Tao is definitely purposeless and kind of pluralistic, which seems rooted in Chinese culture, whereas Logos seems to me to l
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by theonemind 2y ago
The dead people.
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by theonemind 2y ago
I used to really like dCOM , Directory Commander, by Dave Frailey / DAC Microsystems. It mostly used single letter commands modelessly on the keyboard, if I recall, like 'd' to delete files, I think, probably with a confirmat
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by theonemind 2y ago
The 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is famous for being the last "opionated" edition, also from around 1910. It seems like there was a shift toward trying to be objective in academia around 1910 or so.
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by theonemind 2y ago
It seems to me like very few people would doubt that cows and horses are conscious? We just eat/use them anyway with a bit of cognitive dissonance.
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by theonemind 3y ago
For today. Even Facebook is in decline. Online platforms don't last forever.
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by theonemind 3y ago
bourne shell scripting is good enough, which makes it nearly impossible to replace. Plan9's rc is a bit cleaner, and no one is going to switch for 'more of the same, but cleaner'. You haven't switched to something simila
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by theonemind 3y ago
I don't find it that strange for someone to claim they never make mistakes. However, I would press for details as to why they never make mistakes. They probably don't take many risks, or work on the same or repetitive stuff for a
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by theonemind 3y ago
The first logical workaround that appears to violate the spirit of the law while maintaining the letter tends to work out better in fantasy than in the courtroom, as courts take a pretty dim view of that. Not that you can't use some le
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by theonemind 3y ago
I've always found it an oddly moot point whether humans caused climate change. If the climate changes past habitability, we won't be less dead because we didn't cause it, although I suppose it should let you know whether you
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by theonemind 3y ago
I hardly even play chess, but I do know the rules and how the pieces move, but this wrecks my intuitive sense of how the pieces move entirely, so I think it’d be a hard transition to regular pieces, which kind of kills any supposed benefit.
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by theonemind 3y ago
thanks! total brain glitch there.
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by theonemind 3y ago
Generally, the US seems to play a role similar for the EU that China does to the US. Regulations run a bit weaker, so companies can do nasty stuff with externalities, then the US (and the EU) can take advantage of it with the externality pu
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by theonemind 3y ago
The Supreme Court has historically upheld the first amendment pretty well. You can't shout "fire" in a crowded theater and the like, it doesn't mean you can say anything by legal precedent, but you can say a lot. On a hi
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by theonemind 3y ago
People generate all of the data going into the system and then the middle-men (OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Big Tech middle-man of the week) reap a disproportinate centralized benefit. That causes a bigger problem than the so-called rent-seek
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by theonemind 3y ago
Presumably, the outcome will start the series of legal precedents regarding copyright and GPT (and other AI stuff) training potentially going far beyond OpenAI and NYT.
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by theonemind 3y ago
I have tinnitus and strangely, I have no real idea when it started, much less what caused it. Maybe it just started softly and got louder. I think it appeared in my early 20s, couldn't swear that it didn't start way before then, a
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by theonemind 3y ago
The key is that there are no things. What we call a 'thing' is a dense set of relationships. Often, that's between particles of matter that stay close together to due nuclear and chemical bonds or physical forces, but the act
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by theonemind 3y ago
That's strange. I use Firefox bookmarks pretty heavily and haven't had any of these problems. I type any bit of a URL or title for any bookmark I have in any folder, and Firefox finds it instantly every time. I think I have more t
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by theonemind 3y ago
Giving it away for free if way below self-sustainability in pricing until cornering the market would be predatory pricing leading to monopoly. I would have preferred that they made it a sustainable business unit/whatever from the begin
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by theonemind 3y ago
I complain about Python all of the time. 1. seems to frequently get used for large products where people should really do strong static typing 2. Python 2 to 3 fiasco 3. Packaging and venvs and dependencies are a mess. 3a. versioning o
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by theonemind 3y ago
If browser migration stopped the majority from changing, Internet Explorer would still dominate. But Firefox got the majority, and then Chrome. It's a bit more fluid than the OS market. A company can't get away with just anything
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by theonemind 3y ago
That's an interesting observation. It seems that in theory, you could train it to do math if you encoded literally everything in syntax and started at the beginning, like Principia Mathematica 50 pages proving 1+1=2 type beginning, and
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by theonemind 3y ago
I don't care about AI Safety, but: https://openai.com/charter above that in the charter is "Broadly distributed benefits", with details like: """ Broadly distributed benefits We commit to use a
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by theonemind 3y ago
> If the board wants to turn the company into some fantasy AGI foundation https://openai.com/charter I think that's basically literally their charter?
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by theonemind 3y ago
I'm guessing that's the point. Ethics required getting out of the 501(c)(3), so the ClosedAI thing sounds more ethical. The 501(c)(3) should've collapsed or not exist.

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