voidhorse

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by voidhorse 3mo ago
At a glance, this seems heavily recency-biased and not adjusted for inflation. I would expect a lot of other names that predate the 21st century to be on the list. The methodology page doesn't even contain the word 'inflation&#x27
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by voidhorse 3mo ago
Yeah, but my point is that "information" is not really a substantive concept. It is an abstraction. It is a useful technical tool. For the record, I am a nominalist when it comes to mathematics. Thinking that information is some
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by voidhorse 3mo ago
Sure, others would also claim the "financial view" of the universe has also provided insight. That doesn't mean I go around claiming the money is some fundamental universal substance of the real.
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by voidhorse 3mo ago
Computation as realized by computers is a formalism invented by Turing, Church, Kleene and others to make precise the intuitive notion of "algorithm". An algorithm, at its root, is a procedure rooted in human understanding that
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by voidhorse 3mo ago
There is no single "scientific method" to speak of. Your epistemic position is ultimately just as faith based as you claim faith in God etc. is, the sciences (plural) just have a set of operations which, as you point out, seem to
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by voidhorse 3mo ago
This. I'll never understand people who reify "information" as though it is some object with independent existence from man. No information without an interpretation. The "amount" of information is completely depende
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by voidhorse 3mo ago
Mamdani has been doing great in NYC so far. The hope is that he will inspire similar behavior in others. And drive similar approaches to politics in other constituencies.
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by voidhorse 3mo ago
"Hammers are now a very popular tool, and one can move quickly building exclusively with hammers, so we have decided to construct buildings strictly using nails, no more screws, bolts, or any other kind of fastener shall be used going
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by voidhorse 3mo ago
People seem to have adopted very liberal definitions of "personal attack". When someone criticizes you for things you could improve on that are within your control , it may be difficult to hear, but it is not a personal attack.
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by voidhorse 3mo ago
Maybe the only quoted text that I would read as a personal attack is "already writing slop well before he had access to LLMs" and maybe "low empathy". Just because the other bits are negative and not so nice pieces of
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by voidhorse 3mo ago
What you are asking for is a slippery slope. The history of humanity is full of biting polemics and attacks on the character of others, just read Voltaire. Sometimes, attacks are deserved. Yes, a world in which everyone is professional an
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by voidhorse 3mo ago
I'm not anti-AI at all but to call people who don't want to use it "moral puritans" is laughable. It's hard to read that as anything other than a self-report on your own extreme nonchalance when it comes to the man
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by voidhorse 3mo ago
Kind of tangential to the man Rust v. Zig culture debate but: > I tried to get into Zig even chatted with Loris Cro when he was streaming. I was looking to explore what my Rust project could look like in Zig but there were features simpl
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by voidhorse 3mo ago
> It seems the world is turning hostile to immigration in general - or maybe it is just the impression I get from the media? I don't know for sure. I view it as growing pains. We inhabit a highly interdependent and interconnected wo
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by voidhorse 3mo ago
A lot of people will view this as the decline of creative power in adulthood, but I actually think it's just a sign of maturity. Writing a lot of words when you are thirteen is easier for multiple reasons: - You know less about the wor
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by voidhorse 4mo ago
This looks really nice, great work so far! I see a macOS backend is still in development. I'd like to try the language out on macOS, so if I find the time I'll try to pitch in!
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by voidhorse 4mo ago
Amen. I never understood how such an avid blog reading community existed when, compared to published essays, the vast bulk of it is drivel. I guess I simply hadn't realized that many people out there may have never read a formal or pub
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by voidhorse 4mo ago
The argument doesn't state that at all. It very clearly admits consciousness to nonhuman animals, for example.
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by voidhorse 5mo ago
Many investments are considered a liquid asset precisely because they are basically money. You're missing the point on a stupid technicality. If I have more liquid and therefore more purchasing and capital power than you, I have access
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by voidhorse 5mo ago
I think there is a massive difference between wanting power and wanting freedom and security from undue exploitation and/or economic hardship. Most people I know don't "want power". They just want to be able to aff
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by voidhorse 5mo ago
> given back to society I wouldn't necessarily categorize giving people opportunity to do underpaid, tenuous, non-career, zero-mobility gig work as "giving back to society" nor would I classify the unregulated harms of soc
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by voidhorse 5mo ago
I don't think anyone is simply envious. People mean to point out that allowing individual accumulation of wealth to extreme degrees lead to runaway structural problems. Billionaires and companies existing and providing wages are not in
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by voidhorse 5mo ago
yawn hack writer issues wealth-hoarding and inequality apologia. Economics is simple. Resources are finite, and money plus markets preserve that finitude as an invariant (that's why it works as a store of value). If you sit on more m
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by voidhorse 5mo ago
This. Neural Nets have existed conceptually since the 1950s. They weren't realized materially and practically until later, but it's astonishing how ignorant people are of the history of AI.
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by voidhorse 5mo ago
But one of the reasons they switched was because the compiler upstream for the original language they used, Zig, wouldn't accept slop contributions they wanted to make for Bun perf. What will they do when they need to try to push a slo
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by voidhorse 5mo ago
All great things, but helping other philosophers have careers and inspiring cool art does not necessarily imply that you yourself had substantial philosophical concepts.
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by voidhorse 5mo ago
Yeah, believe me, I'm not a fan of the misapplication and misunderstanding of much of this work. It's a bitter lesson in why making one's ideas clear in straightforward prose is so essential. I think Foucault at least, could
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by voidhorse 5mo ago
Funnily enough, iirc Foucault viewed a large part of his work as extending the style of investigation Neitzsche initiated in Genealogy of Morals . I think Nietzsche is great. His prose is a breath of fresh air and he's arguably the gr
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by voidhorse 5mo ago
Biopower is the most famous one, but I actually think his greatest contribution was to make philosophers pay more attention to the ways in which epistemic systems and ways of organizing knowledge are connected to political power. I actually
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by voidhorse 5mo ago
I have a lot of issues with latter 20th cen continental (particularly french) philosophers, but of all of them Foucault is the last one anyone should have an issue with. While he's guilty of some of the pompous and needlessly intelligi

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