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by walleeee 1y ago
> It did not take trillions of dollars to produce you and I. Indeed, an alien ethnographer might be forgiven for boggling at the speed and enthusiasm with which we are trading a wealth of the most advanced technology in the known univers
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by walleeee 1y ago
Friend, if you're trying to convert people to your point of view, neither is yours. Cheers from someone with at least a few somewhat similar political sympathies.
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by walleeee 1y ago
I am glad for our (rather dismissive) interlocutor's comment, because I can now ask you: do you see this in any tension with Marx as an early constructivist? Social construction as I think of it is hardly compatible with a teleological
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by walleeee 1y ago
> One must have a very warped understanding of Marx Materialism is an extraordinarily overloaded word/concept. OP's proposing an idiosyncratic take on Marx's reading of one of his main influences seems rather more in the d
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by walleeee 1y ago
I can't easily recognize (post-)modern social construction in his worldview, especially construction of reality at large (morality it is easier to see the argument) but I admit it has been years since my reading. I agree with you that
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by walleeee 1y ago
Where in Marx do you find claims like reality is a middle-class fiction or all value is subjective? The labor theory of value is premised on an idea of surplus value as a very real thing. Substituting subjective theories takes the air out o
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by walleeee 1y ago
It can simultaneously be true that people in these positions have less agency than most other people assume, and more than they themselves might think. Another reply mentions that Bezos can't imagine anything different. If that is so (
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by walleeee 1y ago
> addiction is [dependency] plus inability to quit the habit despite strong and persistent effort > I am not saying tech addiction can't happen, I just haven't seen any evidence to that effect Which planet do you live on? It
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by walleeee 1y ago
A public library is actually free and its contents, collectively, are a far better "mentor" than ChatGPT. Plus the library doesn't build a psychological profile on you while you use it.
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by walleeee 1y ago
> It's really cool to hear a public figure seriously talk about self-replicating machines. To me this is the key to unlocking human potential and ending material scarcity. You are a self-replicating machine running on top of a mas
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by walleeee 1y ago
Idpol can exacerbate corruption. There are strong feedback dynamics. And to reply to the comment above yours, there are material factors upstream of idpol. It's not a coincidence that sort of thing is in renaissance across the world.
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by walleeee 1y ago
Agreed, knowledge of how to use an energy source is as important as its presence. The former will not have the opportunity to emerge without the latter, though the former may be the more proximate cause of a "revolution". (I think
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by walleeee 1y ago
Energy and materials. In particular, discovery and exploitation of hydrocarbons changed the entire trajectory of human technology development. It is very interesting to wonder if we may have seen "convergent evolution" towards cer
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by walleeee 1y ago
If you're so concerned about class warfare, as I agree we ought to be, you need to get along with the people from middle America or anywhere else who consider this a perfectly respectable way of life. Many of them are equally fed up wi
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by walleeee 1y ago
Thanks, I'll stand partially corrected. It was a badly written comment, or muddled thoughts, or both. I didn't mean to doubt the existence of superposition or our ability to achieve it for sustained periods. But doesn't the p
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by walleeee 1y ago
Transistors, plants, hands, and tables are all macroscopic. We see quantum mechanical effects, but we do not see stable superpositions. None of these real-world examples seem to shield a quantum state from decoherence in the way a quantum c
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by walleeee 1y ago
Yeah, indeed it does. Can't know what each ear needs to hear to come alive to that, I guess.
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by walleeee 1y ago
Shrimp shaped more reliably, ime.
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by walleeee 1y ago
The tools we use shape us. Habits have inertia. The parent may be hyperbolic but it's not wrong. But it didn't start with computers or programming, this tendency has been a long time developing.
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by walleeee 1y ago
Cheers. I saw that one and liked it. I do wish the title was "It's not just the incentives". Incentives are people and artifices. The latter deceptive or not. But the point being in feedback.
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by walleeee 1y ago
The point is not that boredom is good but that the fidget spinner in your pocket conditions you to experience boredom in an absence of stimuli. To sit and contentedly daydream or watch the world go by is very different from the anxious ennu
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by walleeee 1y ago
It sounds worthwhile. I just wonder how you envision the author encoding their reasoning state. If as (terse) text, how would the author know the LLM successfully unpacks its meaning without interrogating it in detail, and then fine-tuning
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by walleeee 1y ago
I don't think form and function can be separated so cleanly in natural language. However you encode what's between your ears into text, you've made (re)presentational choices. A piece of text does not have a single inherently
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by walleeee 1y ago
This attitude willingly donates what agency you have to the people and things trying to take it from you. Lead by example. Mimicry is real, we all do it whether or not we are aware. Every node in the graph influences others. If you must exh
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by walleeee 1y ago
I think it might be more urgent for the star-AI'd (ha) programmers to go out and touch grass. Do we really need more people in that pile right now? There is a lot of mundane but interesting/challenging work out there, humming alon
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by walleeee 1y ago
I don't think B necessarily follows from A, here.
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by walleeee 1y ago
Regarding mathematical > concepts that are intrinsically complicated, I'm not a mathematician, but I figure mathematicians aim for clean, composable abstractions the same way programmers do. Something complicated, not just complex i
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by walleeee 1y ago
Anthropic had a recent paper on why llms can't even get e.g. simple arithmetic consistently correct, much less generalize the concept of infinite series. The finding was that they don't find a way to represent the mechanics of an
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by walleeee 1y ago
What is "task management" in this context and why did your coworkers find llms useful for it?
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by walleeee 1y ago
Do you keep your dicts fastidiously flat?

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