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by viccis 2y ago
Brought me back to the cowherding missions in RDR. Not a fond memory, but still a memory nonetheless.
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by viccis 2y ago
Build an LLM on a corpus with all documents containing mathematical ideas removed. Not a single one about numbers, geometry, etc. Now figure out how to get it to tell you what the shortest path between two points in space is.
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by viccis 2y ago
Regarding "AGI", is there any evidence of true synthetic a priori knowledge from an LLM?
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by viccis 2y ago
>Your contention is that only billionaires can get contraband in prison? That's a whole new sentence. There's no logical progression from: "Billionaires like him should serve the same time in the same manner as any other c
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by viccis 2y ago
If SBF was able to get a smuggled phone, as the article speculates, to do an unauthorized interview, then he is clearly using his connections to sidestep aspects of his incarceration. Putting him in solitary is an appropriate way to cut him
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by viccis 2y ago
>“What this bill is focused on is someone who goes out in public, picks a fight — and when the victim responds — they shoot them and claim self-defense,” Zbur told CalMatters. Is there any evidence this happens with any regularity ther
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by viccis 2y ago
help() is great, but my favorite tool for getting quick info about an object from the Python REPL is still wat. Just `pip install wat` and then if you need info about some object o, do `wat / o`. If you want full docstrings, do `wat.lo
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by viccis 2y ago
>Pretending this is philosophy rather than policy seems a bit silly. You are entirely correct. Nussbaum is a reactionary hack whose main goal is to pick and prod away at anyone with a moral stance because she has none. She is like Ayn Ra
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by viccis 2y ago
If I recall correctly, yes, but it was like, enter your email and username BAM now you have an account. It's not quite so easy anymore, partly because when you reach a certain size, it's all about controlling bots and whatnot.
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by viccis 2y ago
Its killer feature was how frictionless it was to adopt initially. If I sent you a Discord link, back then you could just click it and be going in under a minute. Same reason Zoom quickly took over video chat. It was so easy to use that you
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by viccis 2y ago
>It kicks the can further down the road of poverty, basically embraces socialism Ah yes, the US, famously under a socialist regime currently.
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by viccis 2y ago
How do you define "exists"? Remember, this is about Cartesian duality (mind-brain duality), so the key question here is not whether a brain exists, but whether the mind exists independently of it.
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by viccis 2y ago
Kant addressed this Cartesian duality in the "The paralogisms of pure reason" section of the Transcendental Dialectic within his Critique of Pure Reason. He points out that the "I" in "I think, therefore I am"
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by viccis 2y ago
As someone who started using Blender before 1.8, posting on the old blender.nl forums before its move to BA, it's just been pretty insane to watch it reach this point. Back then it didn't even have ray tracing, and all of the atte
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by viccis 2y ago
The purpose of a system is what it does. DOGE was created to facilitate kleptocracy.
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by viccis 2y ago
The entire concept of causality and entropy as something that happens in a linear progression at approximately the same rate is 100% a concept that is "made up" insofar as it is, as Kant would put it, the process of apprehending a
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by viccis 2y ago
I'm fortunate to work for a company with great PMs at the moment, but in the past, it's usually been the case that PMs blur the line between PMs and engineers by making us do their job for them. That they can use AI to appear prod
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by viccis 2y ago
Haha that was actually the same one I posted in my comment. This was some old website. A coworker sent it to me on Hipchat at my previous job about 10 years ago. And finding anything online older than like 5 years is nearly impossible unles
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by viccis 2y ago
Yeah, putting it on the opposite side of that comparison chart was a sleezy but likely effective move.
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by viccis 2y ago
Yep, that was my point.
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by viccis 2y ago
I live somewhere like that. Houses have doubled in cost over the past 5 years.
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by viccis 2y ago
I like Clojure well enough, but it feels like every single time I see it mentioned now is an write up trying to justify using it.
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by viccis 2y ago
I really wish I still had the link, but there used to be a website that listed a bunch of times in which machine learning was used (mostly via reinforcement learning) to teach a computer how to play a video game and it ended up using perver
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by viccis 2y ago
> can survive drastic, chaotic and insane levels of cuts I get ads on X that are just videos of animals being slowly shot multiple times to death. There's also some for tools to slim jim car locks. None of the mainstream/normal
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by viccis 2y ago
Same. I built a rockin Pokemon website with it when I was 9.
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by viccis 2y ago
>A good non-NSA agency should also learn from this to be able to effectively false-flag as NSA It seems like such a lapse in tradecraft that, absent other indicators, I would just assume it's a crude false flag attempt.
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by viccis 2y ago
Life becomes much happier when you realize that there's no reason for 2% of people to be your people and, instead of expecting life to be a matter of searching for those few who are special and wonderful enough to be your 2% unicorn,
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by viccis 2y ago
>There is debate between memory experts as to the role of language in infantile amnesia. Human researchers suggest memories may be limited by an inability to give language to early experiences. “But there must be something more fundament
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by viccis 2y ago
It's only true if you are bickering about aesthetics of an argument versus its content.
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by viccis 2y ago
The bigger problem in my experience isn't even junior devs using it. It's senior people who haven't been individual contributors in many years who love that AI means they can just hop in and patch whatever problem comes up. I

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