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by viccis 9mo ago
>which is not a social network, but I’m tired of arguing with people online about it I know this was a throwaway parenthetical, but I agree 100%. I don't know when the meaning of "social media" went from "internet bas
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by viccis 9mo ago
The first blog post or two is great, but it eventually goes down a really annoying grindset pop psychology route.
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by viccis 9mo ago
The problem is that it hasn't really made any significant new concepts in physics. I'm not even asking for quantum mechanics 2.0, I'm just asking for a novel concept that, much like QM and a lot of post-classical physics rese
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by viccis 9mo ago
Which is why it's incoherent!
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by viccis 9mo ago
How does this worldview reconcile the fact that thought demonstrably exists independent of either language or vision/audio sense?
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by viccis 9mo ago
>The problem with all this is that we don't actually know what human cognition is doing either. We do know what it's not doing, and that is operating only through reproducing linguistic patterns. There's no more cause to t
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by viccis 9mo ago
In addition to what I have posted elsewhere in here, I would point to the fact that this is not indeed an "open question", as LLMs have not produced an entirely new and more advanced model of physics. So there is no reason to supp
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by viccis 9mo ago
Kant's model of epistemology, with humans schematizing conceptual understanding of objects through apperception of manifold impressions from our sensibility, and then reasoning about these objects using transcendental application of th
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by viccis 9mo ago
>Ironically, the other crucial ingredient for AGI which LLMs don't have, but we do, is exactly that animal nature which we always try to shove under the rug, over-attributing our success to the stochastic parrot part of us, and igno
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by viccis 9mo ago
I also believe strongly in the role of language, and more loosely in semiotics as a whole, to our cognitive development. To the extent that I think there are some meaningful ideas within the mountain of gibberish from Lacan, who was the fir
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by viccis 9mo ago
Yes. That is correct. If I told you I planned on going outside this evening to test whether the sun sets in the east, the best response would be to let me know ahead of time that my hypothesis is wrong.
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by viccis 9mo ago
>It's insane to me that so many people need these to get off the processed foods killing them in the US. If you understood how super stimulants work, then you wouldn't have found it "insane."
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by viccis 9mo ago
LLMs are models that predict tokens. They don't think, they don't build with blocks. They would never be able to synthesize knowledge about QM.
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by viccis 9mo ago
The US generally doesn't build big things like this any more.
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by viccis 9mo ago
I think this is much better as a relative pitch training tool for people with a very basic background in piano and music in general. I would have loved something like this back in high school to use for practicing over and over. I think &qu
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by viccis 9mo ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I saw reports that the telnet endpoint was down and didn't think to check.
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by viccis 10mo ago
Ah I remember playing this one. My first MUD/MUSH was Elendor. Looks like it went down in the last year or so. RIP Aardwolf was fun, though I remember my big gripe was that it had a bunch of weird little themed zones like the Star Trek
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by viccis 10mo ago
Yeah there's a popular self hosted media server designed for... other purposes
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by viccis 10mo ago
I remember going to buy a new car in 2015. My girlfriend had a Honda Fit from a few years prior and I loved driving in it. Felt so roomy given the tiny size. Went for a test drive in one and every single button was digital. Not even a volum
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by viccis 10mo ago
Reminds me of when I was looking for good workflows for note taking tools like Obsidian that would be relevant to me, but so many of the big articles on how to do various types of note organizations strategies all used theirs to organize no
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by viccis 10mo ago
Ironically unironically.
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by viccis 10mo ago
The maze would never have been painted by a human
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by viccis 10mo ago
My point was that the mistake didn't happen during prop creation. Those aren't milk cartons, those are HDP cartons, so the props are correct. As to the content of your post: It doesn't make sense. Thinking something is not hu
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by viccis 10mo ago
This is a very confused article, I think. The fact that people associate these extravagant roaring 20s parties with the character of Gatsby has everything to do with his character and over-the-top parties being the strongest cultural touchs
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by viccis 10mo ago
This is a situation in which a government would typically step in and force companies to stop ratfucking end users in favor of business partners, but the problem here is that (a) it's an international problem that would require coopera
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by viccis 10mo ago
>We do allow them to use LLMs, it would be stupid not to. I'm not sure why you're saying this so confidently. Using LLMs on school work is like using a forklift at the gym. You'll technically finish the task you set out to
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by viccis 10mo ago
Not the person you're replying to, but I've had some courses in which you received your graded exams and had an opportunity to regain some points by choosing some number of incorrect responses and redoing the work to obtain a corr
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by viccis 10mo ago
"I always draw and paint by hand and sometimes incorporate standard digital tools" would apply if I were to make a 30 second scribble in MS Paint and then upload it to ChatGPT or similar tools and ask them to make a version of it
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by viccis 10mo ago
You are wrong; the image is clearly AI made.
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by viccis 10mo ago
It's funny that this comment is also an example of a confidently wrong judgment. The props are 100% accurate to what's going on in the show. Not really possible to explain why without spoiling it, but the milk cartons are supposed

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