vouaobrasil

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by vouaobrasil 2mo ago
But then again, knowing what is fun does not automatically imply that one can build what is fun. Rapid prototyping at the expense of slow development often leads to superficiality in a direction of interesting which is never actually reache
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by vouaobrasil 2mo ago
The general direction of society is still immense destruction of the biosphere. That doesn't change because you can make conditions better locally and in the short term, especially when such actions don't go against the general mo
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by vouaobrasil 2mo ago
But that's the entire purpose of AI: bring the value of the work of others down so that those at the top lessen the dependence of the economy on the masses. Of course, this will in turn eventually slow down the economy but if AI can ta
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by vouaobrasil 2mo ago
Quit? There's no joy in working with AI. Find something else to do in life that doesn't require AI.
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by vouaobrasil 2mo ago
Yes, that's correct. I've done research in pure math, but left after the postdoc level. I enjoyed it for its artistic sake but it's not something that gives anything practical. Most pure mathematicians don't ever work on
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by vouaobrasil 2mo ago
Most modern pure math has no practical use whatsoever. It's amazing how few people understand this. Mathematics is a service department and maybe one in a hundred thousand results have any practical use. (Speaking as someone with a PhD
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
I don't want better search. I'd rather have less commercialization of the internet. And as for SPAM, it's good to have spam filters but even better to have less incentive to send spam in the first place....
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
But maybe there's a limit to the usefulness of this abstraction. Perhaps forgetting too many basic skills lower down isn't always as useful as going from Assembly to C. I'd argue that there's a law of diminishing returns
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
I just feel the whole process of emerging AI and then AI detectors is dehumanizing. If someone were to use it on my work, I would feel another layer of the machine between me and that person, another layer of distrust. I think it's sic
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
Exactly. Luddites are not necessarily completely anti-tool. They were against large scale applications of complex technology to replace human beings en-masse. Personally I'd consider myself a Luddite but I'm not against a hammer o
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
The goal of math is perhaps the answer but also the understanding. One can't use the answers without understanding them, which is a fundamental difference between math and a program. Most modern math isn't applicable in the sense
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
I guess if you're older, retired, sufficiently wealthy and have few needs (house paid off, lots of savings, don't care too much about acquiring new tech) then you can easily not be affected.
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
I switched to fortified soy milk and haven't looked back. Milk is tasty but soy has less sugar as well and now I prefer it. Cheese is harder to make a substitute but eating it 1-2 per year satisfies my craving.
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
Not exactly. A drawing program could just create a new "blank slate" that substitutes some old skill requirements for new skills. The key point is that SOME machines create a sufficient mass of "blank slate"-like environ
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
> Do you guys think we're going to see a de-evolution of human beings due to technology? A de-evolution of culture for the sake of efficiency, sure. The entire culture will shift to a greater degree of superficiality, not just becau
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
I wonder if in the long run it's really learning in the traditional sense, or just a shallow version of it along the lines of absorbing a bit of knowledge along the lines of reading a pop science book? Nothing wrong with that but I&#x2
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
The scary thing is that the system moves in a direction such that it seems that it doesn't really matter. People on an individual level care but due to the strange economic conditions, LLM use is still rampant because experienced peopl
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
There's always some component of a skill that is not merely knowing something but practising something seemingly procedurally. Even if I understand integration well and have done it thousands of times, if I don't continually pract
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
I think it depends on who has the hot paper and who has the outdated results. I was in academia for quite some time and when sometime cool comes out that renders other results less important, there are always winners and losers beccause the
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
You actually can blame OpenAI for it. Because if a tool exists and people use it, that tool is an effective means of normalizing behaviour. We change our perception and behaviour through the use of tools, at least partially. So if someone i
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
But one can say that previous technologies only magnify and exacerbate this lack of caring. The internet for example, makes most of our interactions casual and sometimes anonymous, and we get trained and even grow up on that model. And on t
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
I think fighting for a purpose-based ideology of the internet is actually doomed to fail because the form of the technology will dictate how its used and regulation and efforts will only slightly affect that. E.g. If the internet is super-f
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
I mean this stuff is obvious. I think those that put "human-level intelligence" as a goal for AI are doing so mainly for two reasons: either they like the goal, or they want to be deceptive because they know it can't happen b
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
The most important thing is that you are really, truly engaged in trying to connect with the person. I've had great success with cold emails, but only because I write to people that I seriously want to get to know, even beyond just qui
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
Every week I take one "internet-free" day and it's become my favourite day of the week. Once I settle down a little more I'm going to increase it to 2 or even 3. (Can't do too much more as I work remotely.)
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
That's correct! AI is a negative for society no matter how you look at it. That's the entire idea!
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
AI is a uniformizer - it's suppose to make us more machine like so that we're more replaceable. People use it because there's an economic advantage, and because it provides a dopamine hit, but that's it. A guy I knew use
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
I don't think it's really a golden age. Personally I find people more superficial and distracted in their hobby though. It always has to be something to be superfially shared on the internet.... some people are fine with that but
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
Never updating if you don't want an update. I see no reason for my e-reader to have updates. I have a Kobo and after I updated it once about 5 years ago I haven't since because it already does everything I need it to.
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by vouaobrasil 3mo ago
I think the main difficulty you'll face is that there are too few eyes on so many repos. The good thing about movies, which isn't the same with code as you pointed out, is that they are time-consuming to make and not many are made

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