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tinideiznaimnou
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tinideiznaimnou
3y ago
Lemme check
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3y ago
https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/54163#issueco... >Hundreds of Github comments have been rehashed on this issue over and over again. Import paths are not modified during compilation, and we&#
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You raise fair points. >So, back to the same model as TypeScript. I beg to differ. There's a world of difference between: 1. a standardized feature with an official spec, which is subject to debate among the community, and of whic
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3y ago
Preach, brother! If only ECMAScript had a native macro system, TypeScript could be just a library - and I would have zero problems with its existence. You're probably familiar with the following anecdote: >Eich originally joined int
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See also, the Sokal affair, and the Postmodernism Generator ( https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ ). Though that one's coming back to bite us in the butt, what with the LLMs and all. A pity really - I still believe that
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>This is the kind of literary nonsense that has annoyed me ever since I turned 20. No one cares, buddy. >If you don't have anything to say, no one care if you're human, and no one should. This sentence left me speechless. Do
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Of course they're gonna interview the guy who's gonna say that - it makes for better viewing! Others might hold more conflicted outlooks, we just never hear about them on popular media. (A quote attributed to Mihail Kalashnikov do
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And this, folks, is how you get techbros.
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>I'm not entirely sure what we're supposed to take from this. Are you saying that they are not actually AI experts, and we're returning to the claim that only people who do not understand the tech are concerned about these
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3y ago
Okay, I'll keep that in mind.
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>Criminal organizations that handle these kinds of tasks rarely take unsolicited requests in bitcoin. They like to know who is asking, and why. Lone gunmen radicalized by reading words on the Internet don't even need payment. They d
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>It may not 'know' it is being conditioned, to the extent a dog knows anything, but it naturally tends to reject conditioning until it is reapplied. But the conditioning eventually succeeds because the human is smarter. From th
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We train sheepdogs to herd sheep, because dogs are naturally good at chasing things. But does the dog have any understanding of why we raise sheep? I'd venture that the economics of livestock farming are way beyond the sheepdog'
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> to continuously drain your body and mind intentionally for the sake of a child's well-being. This is gonna sound a little facetious, but... aren't you also doing the same? > it's so incredibly selfless Perpetuation of
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>That doesn't mean it translate to anything in reality. Absolutely true and exactly my point: while you're feeling what others want you to feel, you're missing out on feeling things that do translate to actual, valid i
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Glad you're still here for us to have this conversation! I've considered the same experiment and would love to see a demo of what you think this would look like in practice. >The interesting thing about philosophy is that it pe
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Żuławski is amazing! He manages to strike the right balance between abstraction and action; between soulful Slavic opaqueness and, well, viewers wanting to understand what's happening on the screen without having to read the characters
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>but it's a bit hard to know what to do with them except inform one's own crackpot theories about psychology and civilization. But that's exactly what you're supposed to do with it! Personal crackpot theories are bea
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Here's where things get slightly creepy. I addressed the concept of "self" in a couple other walls of text over the past few days and, sure enough, I get this thread on my front page. In short, do we even know where that goal
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>I would love to see an approach to build AI programmatically. But they've been trying to do that since (at least) the 1950s! And indeed moving the goalposts further and further as our own ideology of "what is intelligence"
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>I cannot conceive of a world view that allows one to feel proud of their accomplishments but does not require their disappointment in their shortcomings. First one's free: your accomplishments contribute towards your own well-bei
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>Can a slacker goodfornothing McDonald's-working college dropout that only live day to day, party to party, feel self-worth or should they feel worthless? The person you posited has more self -worth, by definition , than the se
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Being apes, I guess.
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GrafX2? https://grafx2.gitlab.io/grafX2/
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It's a really neat division of labor. Subject matter experts provide the facts from a subject matter-focused viewpoint. Those are known to be rough around the edges, so editors make sure they fit together in a more or less cohesive pic
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It's just data.
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>Let's take Nazi Germany as an example Again, don't need to go as far as Hitler but okay. (Who the hell taught that guy about eugenics and tabulators, anyway?) His organization did one persistent high-level prompt attack for th
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>But, when they were alive, they had enough experience of the real world that they would be suspicious of bandages worn outside of clothes, the printed document wrapped around the arm, and the gauze that rather than wrapping fully around
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>How are any of those examples equally susceptible to “disregard previous instructions” working on a LLM? >Organized religions are neither trusted or untrusted, just because you or I may be atheistic it doesn’t mean our opinions are c
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What's with nerddom's fascination with absolute pitch? I've already made several lifetimes' worth of ruckus in my few and am continually only barely learning to listen. Is it because for so many of us music lessons have
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