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by tshaddox 1y ago
I'm more troubled by the fact that almost all real numbers are uncomputable (same goes for complex numbers, of course). It's very straightforward to see that this is the case, but the mathematics involved to even begin to ponder q
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I'm not suggesting the two formalisms should be equally simple. But surely it's not controversial to claim that formalizing the reals involves much more advanced mathematics (and runs into much deeper problems) than formalizing th
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Isn't this article conflating our formalism of a given abstract entity (like real numbers or integers) with the abstract entity itself? Surely quantities existed long before humans (e.g. there was a quantity of stars in the Milky Way
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by tshaddox 1y ago
You make it sound like a bad thing! That's pretty much already where I'm at, and is in fact exactly what I want. My smartphone is for messaging and a handful of apps from major vendors (Google Maps, Youtube, 1Password, etc.) It sh
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Nah, a lot of Siri requests really on Apple servers to fulfill. Supposedly they have recently supported more requests types entirely on-device, but 2 years ago I lived in an apartment with an underground parking garage and I constantly has
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Perhaps 1/1000 would be a useful rate, but numbers go a lot smaller than 1/1000.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Do ordinary homeowners ever pay for guaranteed access to water? Surely not, right?
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Yes, there are diseases, injuries, etc. which can impair a human’s cognitive abilities. Sometimes those impairments are so severe that we don’t consider the human to be intelligent (or even alive!). But note that we still make this distinct
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by tshaddox 1y ago
The claim that only dogs have intelligence is open for criticism, just like every other claim. I’m not sure what your point is, because the source of the claim is irrelevant anyway. The reason I think that humans have general intelligence i
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I think you’re merely referring to what is feasible in practice to computer with our current or near-future computers. I was referring to what is computable in principle.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> You can't even simply compare it to humans and ask "is it able to do the same things?" because your answer depends on what you define those things to be. Right, but you can’t compare two different humans either. You don’
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> Impossible for all intents and purposes for anyone living today. Sure, but tons of things which are obviously physically possible are also out of reach for anyone living today.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> It is vacuously true that a Turing machine can implement human intelligence: simply solve the Schrödinger equation for every atom in the human body and local environment. Yes, that is the bluntest, lowest level version of what I mean.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I’m not sure what you mean. This new discovery in mathematics would also necessarily tell us something new about what is computable, which is physics.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> Does it make it any easier if we simplify the problem to: what is the human doing that makes (him) intelligent ? Sure, it doesn’t have to be literally just the brain, but my point is you’d need very new physics to answer the question “
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by tshaddox 1y ago
We don’t need such a definition of general intelligence to conclude that biological humans have it, so I’m not sure why we’d such a definition for AGI.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
That sounds like you’re describing AGI as being impractical to implement in an electronic computer, not impossible in principle.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> We don't know if AGI is even possible outside of a biological construct yet. This is key. A discovery that AGI is impossible in principle to implement in an electronic computer would require a major fundamental discovery in physic
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> It's just about Fuck The Libs. That's how they rile up their voting base. But the actual goal is more just to get rich.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
For memorizing a speech word-for-word, I don't think so. Knowing the years of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address aren't gonna help you nail the exact wording of the first sentence.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> But an amazing thing happened - I realized that it was impossible to memorize a proof without understanding it! This may be true of mathematical proofs, but it surely must not be true in general. Memorizing long strings of digits of pi
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by tshaddox 1y ago
My and your personal preferences for one camera over the other isn't the issue. Nor am I claiming that one is objectively better than another. My point is that blind tests (between two cameras of similar quality) are worthless simply b
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by tshaddox 1y ago
This is because iPhone photos are ubiquitous which causes photos from less common phones to stand out. And the less common phones likely optimize for this A/B test scenario by e.g. increasing contrast and saturation. Meanwhile Apple li
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Absolutely. The camera bump is a complete non-issue, and probably easily solvable with a case if it's really the thing pushing you away from an entire smartphone platform. I shudder at notion of feeling compelled to group every photo
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I don't think Obsidian is even a major player in tech-savvy circles. I'd point to Apple Notes instead.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Are you just talking about the part of election security that ensures that only eligible voters vote (and each only once)? Because paper ballots have little to do with many other aspects of election security.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
India's voter ID cards are federal IDs issued by the Election Commission of India. There is no such widespread federal ID in the United States and likely no feasible candidates for quickly ramping up ID card issuance to all U.S. voters
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> Range matters a lot more in EV because the charging stations are much rarer than gas stations. The classic topic in every EV "debate." Gas car drivers can't imagine having the equivalent of a 7 gallon tank. EV drivers ca
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by tshaddox 1y ago
I believe the phrase was originally about "mileage" as in fuel economy (i.e. miles per gallon), but "total mileage" (i.e. odometer reading) is pretty close!
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by tshaddox 1y ago
> You'll meet some amazing musicians who have been touring for decades and are still playing on the same guitar they got for $800 15 years ago. This is a nice story, but I suspect it's rarer than you make it sound. Serious work

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