theonemind

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by theonemind 4y ago
The parts of our brain that work like an LLM do work like an LLM (hallucinates/generates falsehoods/over-confident/deals strictly with an abstract world of discrete symbols) and vastly overestimates its intelligence and how m
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by theonemind 4y ago
I suppose we can only hope that AI doesn't take the same position when it holds the cards.
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by theonemind 4y ago
As far as I understand it, obesity can aggravate sleep apnea, but actually does not cause sleep apnea, so it is not at all the main cause. For obstructive sleep apnea, say, if you had a perfectly formed jaw, teeth, airway, etc., you could
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by theonemind 4y ago
The dark-night-of-the-soul phenomenon is associated with vipassana meditation. In the Platform Sutra dating from perhaps around 700 AD, Huineng (ostensible author) talks about people going insane from ill-advised meditation methods of suppr
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by theonemind 4y ago
you might find this worth checking out: https://www.amazon.com/Master-His-Emissary-Divided-Western/d... he had to address this issue in the preface. The topic became a research career-ender after getting picked up by p
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by theonemind 4y ago
I do think LLM seems to work similar to what the left hemisphere of the brain does. The left hemisphere deals with an abstracted world broken into discrete elements, and doesn't really make contact with the outside world--it deals with
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by theonemind 4y ago
As a Texan, that doesn't surprise me. In some places, saying that kind of thing could maybe violate the letter of the law. Texas is the kind of place where it doesn't violate the letter of the law, because you can concealed carry,
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by theonemind 4y ago
gojq works great with YAML and reimplements jq itself in Go. I use gojq with --yaml-input or --yaml-output (or sometimes both) and flip back and forth between JSON and YAML promiscuously and have 100% jq UI compat, which helps because I use
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by theonemind 4y ago
It's fairly ridiculous with respect to not "impersonating" anything. I wanted to see it generate modern political commentary in the style of HL Mencken, to which it just says "I'm not HL Mencken". Like, what am
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by theonemind 4y ago
far be it from PT Barnum to be overly scrupulous, but he seemed to have a problem with getting financially wiped out by fire and built a fortune three of four times over, so it's possible he could've done it twice by the time he d
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by theonemind 4y ago
I left a quarter once for service that deserved it. The waitress threw it at me. Culturally, the tip is part of the price. They just can’t call the police for a dine-and-dash because it legally isn’t. So I don’t think just not tipping is a
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by theonemind 4y ago
How can locking someone out for 10 days reveal fraud? I don't have any financial institution background, and that doesn't make any sense to me.
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by theonemind 4y ago
Not a new philosophy, dates back to at least the rise of systemd, marginalizing other UNIX type systems.
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by theonemind 4y ago
Bookmarks mostly get implemented in the browser, and going for big market-share drives the UI and features toward targeting the lowest common denominator. Some people out there don't know the difference between facebook or google and t
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by theonemind 4y ago
Statistically, high wealth disparity correlates with reduced happiness and well-being even for the very wealthy. Historically, high wealth disparity seems correlated with unstable societies. I think it's a casual factor in societal ins
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by theonemind 4y ago
I want to ask GPT to explain how GPT works using a simple metaphor and common language without computer science or AI field terms, where simplicity is more important than correctness. Unfortunately, it would probably make up something extre
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by theonemind 4y ago
Transparent counter-signalling by claiming not to care about signalling. Careful, I don't think you have the status to pull it off. /s
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by theonemind 4y ago
It's really too bad that people have to move around for economic and other opportunity. It kind of speaks to the damaged modern psyche with illnesses like schizophrenia virtually absent in the ancient world that anyone would regard not
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by theonemind 4y ago
What's the "winning" condition? I've barely played, but I gather that even the most successful fortress ends up with all of the dwarves dead eventually. I think you just have to set your own goals. Maybe you want to get
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by theonemind 4y ago
Lot of "people eat meat, so why should we care?" in the comments. I disagree with this line of reasoning. It'd be pretty much impossible to make progress in anything with that sort of attitude, allowing backsliding in one pla
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by theonemind 4y ago
You could just skip waiting for or looking for indicators and skip straight to Mahayana Buddhism. Maybe try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonglen Interestingly, though, the way you talked about inducing collapse remind
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by theonemind 4y ago
Roger Penrose doesn’t think the universe is computable or a computation. For now, we can’t reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics, so I really don’t feel we have very strong evidence that it is—thinking it computable seems like
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by theonemind 4y ago
The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGilchrist on the differences between the brain hemispheres. It's really an under-appreciated 800 lb gorilla hiding in the middle of the room of neuroscience that the two hemispheres are massively i
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by theonemind 4y ago
incognito mode/private browsing works on this one.
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by theonemind 4y ago
I don't think you should buy it; you've been programmed to believe it so that it becomes self-fulfilling prophecy. I think people are more satisfied with life when they have a purpose because they think they need a purpose, but
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by theonemind 4y ago
> In what sense does the right hemisphere "see the whole without breaking things into pieces"? Especially when it's implemented on a distributed computing medium like neurons. https://www.amazon.com/Master-
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by theonemind 4y ago
I'd agree it's not anything to the practice itself, but I would argue that it is something to a path to practice. Arguably, Elon Musk found out what happens if you commit to large purchases without due diligence. What else would
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by theonemind 4y ago
It helps to know that the shift has a solid foundation, that it's not some kind of act one just needs to put on forever. We know, for instance, about mirror neurons, and that seeing some else's pain can light up some of the same p
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by theonemind 4y ago
I think we in the modern era have some tremendous advantages in understanding Eastern spirituality in light of developments in neuroscience, Western philosophy, and a longitudinal overview of several traditions like Advaita, Neo-Advaita, Ta
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by theonemind 4y ago
We got some data on human empathy before they even finished the experiment.

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