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by trashtester 2y ago
Don't you think this is precisly why there is a jury system in the first place? It seems that most legal systems from the start was intended to codify what was considered "just and fair" in the eyes of "the people".
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by trashtester 2y ago
I believe they tries impeaching him in 2021. At the time, though, even people like Tucker thought his career was over after his behaviour. But I suppose 4 years with Biden/Kamala made it easier to forgive him, for many. Not just the MA
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by trashtester 2y ago
There are also some that feel he was unjustly singled out by politically motivated prosecutors. But if you you think there is no risk that the justice system can be misused for such political ends, then I suppose you have the same problems
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by trashtester 2y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure the "do we want more or fewer muslims in this country?" question is as rethorical as you say. Also, I don't think the main real reasons for such a question are the economical ones, even if that DOES mat
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by trashtester 2y ago
And he can pardon them, without even specifying what he pardons them for. Indeed, this seems to be becoming the the norm. The US really needs to reign in the pardoning power. There are 3 areas in particular that need coverage (I'll cov
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by trashtester 2y ago
I'll probably be downvoted for this, but don't you think winning the popular vote is similar to being found "not guilty" after appealing to a higher court?
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by trashtester 2y ago
What weighs more, a 100kt aircraft carrier or a 200kt thermonuclear weapon?
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by trashtester 2y ago
For now, this is not so much about being "respectable", as about the prizes given in the Sciences are not so bound to ideology or politics. AlphaFold/AlphaProteo is genuinely a major breakthrough in biochemistry. Now if they
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by trashtester 2y ago
We could train AI models to simplify models in ways that require much less "intelligence" in the given domain. For instance, we could ask AI to simplify the "essence" of the problems it solves in a similar manner to how
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by trashtester 2y ago
Ok, so it looks like you think you've been arguing against someone who doubt that LLM's (and similar NN's) cannot match the capabilities of humans. In fact, I'm probably on the other side from you compared to them. Now l
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by trashtester 2y ago
See my other response above, I think I've identified what part of my argument was unclear. The update may still have claims in it that you disagree with, but those are specific and (at some point in the future) probably testable.
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by trashtester 2y ago
First I would like to thank you for bein patient with me. After some contemplation, I think I've identified what aspect of my argument hasn't been properly justified, which causes this kind of discussion. Let's first define C
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by trashtester 2y ago
> Every LLM we have today is Turing complete if you put a loop around it that uses context as a means to continue the state transitions so they haven't made that sacrifice, is the point. I don't think you understood what I was
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by trashtester 2y ago
> Sure, but talking about Turing completeness is not about efficiency, but about the computational ability of a system. I know. That is part of my claim that this "talking about Turing completeness" is a distraction. Specifical
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by trashtester 2y ago
> My point is that this isn't true. Every computer you've ever used is a Turing complete system, and there is no need for such a system to be single-threaded, as a multi-threaded system can simulate a single-threaded system and
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by trashtester 2y ago
I'm going to assume we're talking about an oven below, but the principle also applies to AC: A thermostat attached to a device will measure the temperature near the device, which typically is a bit higher elsewhere in the room, ev
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by trashtester 2y ago
Gödel mostly cared about mathematics. And he seems to have believed that human intuition could "know" propositions to be true, even if they could not be proven logically[1]. It appears that he was religious and probably believed i
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by trashtester 2y ago
When I wrote Turing Machine, I meant it as shorthand for Turing complete system. My point is that any such system is extremely limited due to how slow they become at scale (when running algorithms/programs that require full turing comp
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by trashtester 2y ago
Switching back to latin letters... It seems to me that the idea of the Universal Turing Machine is quite misleading for a lot of people, such as David Deutsch. My impression is that the amount of compute to solve most problems that can real
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by trashtester 2y ago
... but I'd say it's pretty obvious (both in introspection and in observation of others) that people don't naturally use formal logic for anything ... Yes. But some place too much confidence in how "rational" their
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by trashtester 2y ago
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by trashtester 2y ago
Some very intelligent people, including Gödel and Penrose, seem to think that humans have some kind of ability to arrive directly on correct propositions in ways that bypass the incompleteness theorem. Penrose seems to think this can be due
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by trashtester 2y ago
I have the same conclusion, but for the opposite reason. It seems like many people tend to use the word "understand" to that not only does someone believe that a given move is good, they also belive that this knowledge comes from
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by trashtester 2y ago
> If there is actual slack in the schedule, they will tend to increase scope (i.e. address tech debt, quality of life improvements, plan better). If all your engineers will make use of most of the slack for such purposes, rather than unp
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by trashtester 2y ago
Setting the thermostat to 80F WILL bring the room to 72F faster than if you set it to 72F on most ovens/AC devices, unless the thermostat is located far away from the device. Also, many engineering teams WILL take any time given to the
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by trashtester 2y ago
Here is an approach for estimation that works pretty well (from the point of view of a manager). 1. Ask the dev team to provide an optimistic estimate, and to then multiply by 2 to make it "realistic". 2. On top of that, add anoth
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by trashtester 2y ago
It would make it fill up with dust, even while idle. Also, and fluid spill would be much more likely to cause damage. The normal orientation is fine for most people who want things to be as simple as possible (ie, most Mac users). There is
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by trashtester 2y ago
It's prudent for any country to ban products that are not legal in the country that controls their design and production. TikTok is blocked in China because it's deemed to be harmful to their citizens.
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by trashtester 2y ago
The rational (but cynical) policy for the DoD/NATO is to provide just enough support to Ukraine to keep the war equal and let the Russians bleed themselves until all support for continued war is gone in their population. In monteary te
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by trashtester 2y ago
> and I were both comparing what happened before the industrial revolution to what happened in it. Sure. Just keep in mind that the period 1500-1760 also saw a lot of technological development that was laying the groundwork for the indus

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