theonemind

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by theonemind 3y ago
Experian reminds me of enshittification, except it never had any interest in providing actual value to the general public to betray, so started off one step further along the process in a way. No individual in a personal capacity ever wante
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by theonemind 3y ago
Buddhism in Bhutan is different. I think it's the state religion, has monarchy support, it's Vajrayana (very few countries have Vajrayana as their major Buddhism), and religion is less "background noise" in Bhutan than s
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by theonemind 3y ago
LLMs seem like a neat trick to me. I see it as perhaps a language generating component of an AGI, and think our brains probably do a similar trick, but it's not any kind of general intelligence when an LLM does or when our brain does i
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by theonemind 3y ago
an iphone 8 can run ios 16, last updated Sept 21, 2023, less than a month ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_8 I don't think Appl
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by theonemind 3y ago
As someone with interest in Zen and Buddhism, I find that line of thought very interesting, but feel like it needs some tweaking somehow. I feel like they want to perhaps equalize anti-entropy and entropy...like, say, between plants and ani
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by theonemind 3y ago
Elo is just a rating point. There are a lot of details, but the main point is that it tries to predict probability of winning. If a player has a rating 200 elo higher than you, they should win about 75% of the time. When you win, your elo g
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by theonemind 3y ago
I feel like he's kind of invoking Goodhart's law that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Academia can only produce what's possible to produce under the constraints of meeting certain metrics. If
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by theonemind 3y ago
Fair enough!
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by theonemind 3y ago
That's a perspective from leveraging one limited mode of thought, albeit a prevalent one in the modern Western world. I think throughout most of human history, most humans would've had the ability to deal with both the implied and
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by theonemind 3y ago
For me in the US, it’s a strange notion that you could compel someone to buy the last 10% of the company. That does not always seem possible. What happens if you literally can’t do it? That’s probably rare, but if 90% of the company is most
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by theonemind 3y ago
If I understood what you mean, it doesn't sound like it works in any practical sense, because Red Hat wouldn't take you as a customer for release n + 1. 1. You purchase release N 2. You distribute the source code to release N. 3.
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by theonemind 3y ago
everything so far looks to me like improvements on the pocket calculator, bearing in mind that an order of magnitude difference in scale really still is a difference of kind, they're still orders of magnitude improvements on pocket cal
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by theonemind 3y ago
I don't think they had a choice not to operate in China in any practical sense. They could have not been a large scale electronics manufacturer, but then they don't operate in China by making an entirely different kind of choice t
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by theonemind 3y ago
Text files are generally more resistant to corruption, especially when parsed by a human, and more repairable if they do get corruption. (A one byte error probably won't matter in a text file; it could wreck parsing rigid structure.) T
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by theonemind 3y ago
Hm. I think a person should probably stay wary of the limitations of anthropomorphizing a corporation, but it probably can work to a limited extent. To a limited extent, you can anthropomorphize entire countries with some degree of truth, o
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by theonemind 3y ago
There's a limited problem domain where it's unquestionably the best. Perl beats awk and bash at their own game on their home turf. That's the best way to put it. It's faster, has more shortcuts, less warts, more power, a
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by theonemind 3y ago
As someone into Buddhism, I'm more in the "if you can tell a story about it, it isn't real" camp. The 180 degree polarity just struck me as amusing.
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by theonemind 3y ago
The pieces definitely vary in value by position. Chess engines that people have no chances of beating will occasionally sacrifice a rook to take an enemy knight on a good outpost square (past ability to get attacked by enemy pawns and attac
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by theonemind 3y ago
Subscribing to OpenAI, GPT4 seems to go a bit faster than I would read without pushing for speed, and GPT3.5 is super fast, probably like what you're seeing with Bard. Not an apples to apples comparison if you're comparing free ti
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by theonemind 3y ago
I use Dvorak. When typing on QWERTY, I feel like I'm playing a secretary in a 1950s movie trying to ham up the notion that I'm really typing something here, because it feels my fingers have to fly around everywhere in an exaggerat
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by theonemind 3y ago
AI could mean a lot of things. For the sake of clarity, I generally won't refer to GPT as AI. I usually think of the way Richard Stallman wrote about "intellectual property" meaning copyright, patents, and trademarks. https:
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by theonemind 3y ago
What problem do you see with the common law system in this context? I do like the principle that all things being equal, cases should get decided the same way, and we technically have the option of amending the law for clarity if courts see
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by theonemind 3y ago
What does this add over opening chat.openai.com in Safari? It seems like I could perhaps browse conversation history offline (but I can't tell for sure), and voice dictation. I've just used it in Safari with no problems, so I want
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by theonemind 3y ago
Have you filed bug reports? I've found the developers pretty responsive.
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by theonemind 3y ago
I think you can decline the $6 and start your own personal lawsuit for the same issue. But, IANAL.
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by theonemind 3y ago
Do you mean are people going both ways? I don’t think gif is settled. I’m in the soft G camp on gif. I think magi is already an English word with soft G, so I don’t know if there’s any room for controversy on this one.
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by theonemind 4y ago
They should care in aggregate. It seems unlikely that you have a completely isolated problem, but maybe online orders don't make up much of the business and they don't even care in aggregate.
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by theonemind 4y ago
Personally, I think it's doing language, but I don't consider language general intelligence in humans. It's one particularly useful trick of dividing things into discrete symbols and pushing around the abstract discrete symbo
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by theonemind 4y ago
He'd probably prefer that Google just not switch his account based on the circumstantial evidence (as such) of accessing his account from Spain.
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by theonemind 4y ago
An email from OpenAI 2 days ago said that GPT4 is on the paid ChatGPT Plus plan, and "severely resource constrained" with a dynamically adjusted usage cap based on availability. Seems like for today, if you're not sure if you

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