tomohelix

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by tomohelix 1y ago
Comments or opinions like yours are the reasons why I think my hypothetical scenario is possible. It is too easy to view everything as "nothing new, already done in some way" and ignore the slow boil, especially when they are not
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by tomohelix 1y ago
Wait until they declare nonresidents are not entitled to properties in the US and seize all bank accounts and 401k, USSR style. The scariest thing, and most absurd to me, is that even though I made that joke just 1 minute ago, now that I th
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by tomohelix 2y ago
It is social engineering. The art of manipulating the public through social media is a very developed field by now. It is made even easier through the abuse of "volunteer moderators" on social media. A bit of push here and there,
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Long, thin strands of polymer are the backbone of life, which is one of the most, if not the most, complex forms of matter the universe has ever created. Spaghetti is the same type of polymer so a pretty good abstraction.
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by tomohelix 2y ago
I predict this will be flagged...
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by tomohelix 2y ago
The fact that it was officially invoked at all is already a point of discussion. This is an act that can suspend the constitution as the executive branch see fit. Nobody has ever tried to use it since WW2, and even then it was a controversi
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by tomohelix 2y ago
I think the common reasons are: Not worthy of HN discussion; (claimed to) likely to devolve into unrelated/heated arguments, and against HN rules. Just that I don't agree this topic fit in any of those categories, so just want to
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Before flagging, please consider how this act has not been invoked since WW2. Therefore it is a novel and worthy of discussion, regardless of how "not technology related" it is.
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by tomohelix 2y ago
When the legal system is setup to rely so heavily on money that even the government can't go against it, you know shit is bad, yo. Also, say what you will, but the US situation right now, this matter included, is definitely "novel
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by tomohelix 2y ago
One way to interpret the results here is that all the building blocks of life can naturally be formed right here on earth or anywhere that has conditions similar to where Bennu came from. The fact that the components on the asteroid is race
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by tomohelix 2y ago
It can be easy to forget but bacteria is omnipresent in everywhere human can ever be, and even beyond. It is not possible to scrub every trace of bacteria if the goal is ever to have a living human there. The human itself is the carrier of
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Nobody would fire themselves or their close friends/colleagues. But they would also want less work and delegate responsibilities. So if left alone, admins would have all the incentive to hire more reports and try to cut cost elsewhere
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by tomohelix 2y ago
It is a trust fund basically. From what I uderstand, the principal is nearly impossible to use/withdraw and you can only use the interest/returns generated from investing the principle. Even that portion is also restricted. The pu
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Nah, we will just have cyberpunk dystopia. It is the next social structure that can scale higher.
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by tomohelix 2y ago
What do they mean by "fight"? The original text is very vague about it. How did they fight? Is there any other independent record of such a large scale event? Any resulting discussion or acknowledgement from official authorities a
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by tomohelix 2y ago
I would argue that is the optimistic scenario, where there are effective efforts or attempts to mitigate the problems. I do not see such effective efforts in the US.
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by tomohelix 2y ago
This is interesting with some quite prescient predictions especially on the date they could happen. But it is also wrong on some call outs. Still, it is sobering to see how there had been signs all along. When giants like the US are falling
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Long ago, I sometimes pointed at the fact that China installs a "party-approver" on every committee they have as a stark contrast to the democratic, meritocratic US and one of the reasons why the West had been ahead in innovations
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by tomohelix 2y ago
I once saw a manager proudly put on a presentation that her team has a 5:1 ratio of female to male employee, as if it is something to be celebrated. Nobody raised a concern. Nobody dared to say a single thing about that. And that ratio is u
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Because right now the major reason people still deny LLM as "intelligent" is because it has no connection or understanding to the things it is saying. You can make it say 1+1=2 but it inherently does not have a real concept of wha
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by tomohelix 2y ago
I think those factors you mentioned are important but ultimately additional context to the main data, i.e. "rose smell". They certainly can add additional meanings and alter how the main data is processed, but they are just "
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by tomohelix 2y ago
As mentioned above, olfactory data can be just chemical fingerprints. Mass spectrometers already do this and provide very distinct signals for every chemical component. Touch and such can have some approximation done through various sensors
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Sight, sound are quite obvious. Taste and olfactory are matters of chemical compositions. It will take an incredible effort but something similar to a mass spectrometer can be used to detect every taste and smell we can think of and beyond.
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by tomohelix 2y ago
On a bit of a tangent and hypothetical, but what if we pool eough resources together to do a training that includes everything a human can experience? I am thinking of all the five senses and all the data that comes with it, e.g. books, mov
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by tomohelix 2y ago
A society where people can trust each other and each individual has enough integrity to not violate that trust is, in my opinion, the closest we can get to a thriving utopia. The US was close to that back in the days. Maybe it was just nost
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by tomohelix 2y ago
I mean, he isn't wrong though. America back then was truly the paragon of the world and most Americans took pride in that fact and strive to live up to it. Nowadays the public is so divided half the country can't agree with the ot
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by tomohelix 2y ago
I mean, this is like telling an obese person to just exercise and lose weight. Fact is, while it is that simple to those who are already doing it, to them, it is not that simple. The activation energy to the hobby can be immense and may req
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Technically, the models can already learn on the fly. Just that the knowledge it can learn is limited to the context length. It cannot, to use the trendy word, "grok" it and internally adjust the weights in its neural network yet.
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by tomohelix 2y ago
First, are we talking about the green card or H1B? There is no quota on H1B and we already see a shift in culture and demographic in many companies. Second, an immigrant can take their spouse, have kids, sponsor their families' visas,
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by tomohelix 2y ago
Not saying it is the actual reason, but one rationale is that you don't want a sudden influx of a single demographic taking over the nation and disproportionately affect policy making and culture.

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