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by ttctciyf 3y ago
The quoted excerpt is somewhat uncanny: prompt engineering in 1964! Also PKD's Ubik (1969) came pretty close to anticipating the newsfeed with his "homeostatic newspaper" or homeopape idea ("homeostatic" stood for
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Contrariwise, I diagnose platform-management misalignment.
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> it still being up Must have gone dark in the last two hours, I guess. Clicking on your "context" link gets me: > The moderators of r/programming have set this community to private. Only approved members can view and t
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Let's face it: we were already pretty dumb.
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Eric Rowland's introduction to the p-adics [1] was a bit easier to digest, for me! 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gyHKCDq1YA
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Maybe they're hoping that future LLM trainers will cough up the crazy prices?
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A committee of MPs has determined that while he was PM Johnson knowingly misinformed parliament, and they have recommended a suspension which, if implemented, would almost certainly result in a by-election and the likely loss of Johnson&#x2
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I realise your question is more of a commentary on MaTN's voiceover, but can't resist answering.. CouchWarrior on youtube has a vast oeuvre[1] of Bethesda letsplays with varying degrees of in-character narration and meta commentar
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David Hume said[1]: > For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself
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Seems to be the issue originally discussed / pooh-poohed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36146553
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> They have automated take downs and have a completely broken appeal process Before regulating AI, maybe we should consider regulating Artificial Stupidity.
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Interesting counterpoint to this at [1] which claims the immediate aftermath of The Guardian's Snowden reporting led directly to the effective capture of the UK's leading critical press outlet by the security state. The newspaper
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The intro section is a great refresher on what exactly happened 10 years ago and what it meant at the time, which is easily lost in the tsunami of bloviation which has followed. But, as someone who's never ventured onto that platform b
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Gallimore's theory of psychedelic action, based on the predictive processing model[1] of brain function - very roughly that normal "sensory experience" is substantially the output of the brain's predictive model of reali
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"Symmetric Vision"[0] - one of the more prominent contributors to the featured video compilation - just won QRI[1]'s Psychedelic Replication Contest[2] with a short video representing "that moment when your senses start
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Jonathan Blow has a fascinating talk on puzzle elements in Calvino's work (especially Invisible Cities iirc) and how they relate to puzzles in video games such as his The Witness , at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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Wait, so the nearest thing to downvoting a story on HN is to comment on it but not vote it up?
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Probably with gagging clauses built in?
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If you don't have a medium login (like me) you can read the full article archived[1] A bit tangential to the central thesis, but John Marks' 1979 classic The Search for the Manchurian Candidate , referenced by TFA, is online[2].
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I'd just like to add one more to your listening list :) Afro Blue (1963) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSiYUksOjXE
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Nothing Buttery or, newer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy_reductionism The gulf between the notion of machine intelligence fostered by unthinking use of "AI" terminology and the reality of the rudderles
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An article I want to read is missing support for Reader View which commonly enables me to read TFA without delving into NoScript to enable js for site.com and site-related-cdn.com etc.
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> Only if you've waited long enough, which can be arbitrarily far out, and it stops, can you answer So, we agree!
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This reminded me of an old CAQ/CAIB article I read in the '90s on the impact of fluoride as an industrial pollutant. I found a copy[1] hosted at a site operated by the "Fluoride Action Network", which is also hosting oth
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Their precious bodily fluids[1] retain their purity, at least. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4XhhTF7vRM
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> If you just run it, you will not learn whether or not it halts after any finite amount of time. If it halts within a finite amount of time, you will.
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It did not. In one case it had the number of dislikes correct, but the other cases showed it out by up to 50% - and these were videos that had dislikes registered before youtube disappeared them.
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It's just guessing, and rather inaccurate, isn't it?[1] I don't see the point. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43m7I9GOpM
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After raising the historical evidence for activity on these lines, the article seems to understate it a little. For example: > The veil was briefly lifted in 2011, when a set of threat intelligence firms plotted to disrupt the hacktivis
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An LLM, chat G-P-T Was terrible at poetry No concept of stress Made its scansion a mess And it rhymed but approximately

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