webern777

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by webern777 6d ago
I would just add that what task doesn't need classification or decision making? That is basically all tasks and humans are terrible at these kind of decisions. I only read about jev an hour ago and this is a real "oh fuck" mo
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by webern777 7d ago
If you look at the statistics, 50-80% of people globally believe in something persisting after death. The eliminativism position is a hard to argue because 50%-80% of people are not going to be able to really engage with the argument from t
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by webern777 9d ago
The goal is to win the next election but I think the populace is to blame for this more than anything. The populace is who is too interested in winning politics as a sport that the politicians have really no choice other than to focus entir
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by webern777 9d ago
It doesn't seem like there is evidence that LLMs have counterfactual reasoning in the causal graph sense. It is hard to see how something can have skepticism without counterfactual reasoning. The part about disbelief I don't reall
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by webern777 9d ago
Searle's thought experiment just kicks the can down the road. Since the room as a whole produces fluent Chinese it becomes a language philosophy debate about where meaning comes from. Brandom's inferentialism gets into this more t
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by webern777 9d ago
This is the same social process as to why science tends to progress one funeral at a time. So many people have their financial and self worth tied to their expertise in phlogiston theory that the truth is second to advancing the field of ph
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by webern777 9d ago
I tried to read Map and Territory, it just isn't that good if expecting Nietzsche or Heidegger. A sex cult though is obviously a salacious framing. It is just sad if even San Francisco culture is trending toward a sexual morality and s
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by webern777 10d ago
I don't feel like the models are becoming any better at writing. Rap lyrics are a good test. They are on the level of a censored version of Insane Clown Posse. Just terrible.
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by webern777 10d ago
Great stuff. I am really interested in reading some of the books mentioned. Self involved political gossip that leads to a culture of policing deviant behavior is my worry. It is just hard for me to not see how this all doesn't create
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by webern777 10d ago
They are pricing as a first mover AGI monopoly that makes no sense. I think the core mistake is this partial-equilibrium reasoning. Take the new technology and then hold everything else fixed. $40 trillion of knowledge work routed unchanged
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by webern777 10d ago
The real issue IMO is that is not really what Anthropic and OpenAI are operating on. That is the after the fact justification of the AGI dollar auction. Each round is kind of 3x the previous cost and neither can really stop because second p
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by webern777 12d ago
They have so much demand because they are giving so much away for free. I used 76 million sol tokens on Saturday, I have 45% still left on the week and I still have two full resets to use before October. For $20. I used $61 dollars in Fable
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by webern777 12d ago
Or you could argue that the super intelligence will turn us into a pet of some kind. Then the risk is we think we are controlling it while we are really the super intelligence's lap dog. That is an argument that at least makes sense. T
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by webern777 13d ago
Fable 5.1 has a much better classifier for biology than when it came out. It has no problem talking about the chemistry of cell signaling pathways. When it first came out even basic biology questions were tripping the guard rails but not no
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by webern777 14d ago
It doesn't even make sense that geometric designs would be influenced by datura. I have read every trip report on Erowid in relation to tropanes. Art influenced by datura would look like Clive Barkers Hell Raiser. The trip reports are
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by webern777 14d ago
Most things can be presented as nodes and edges. It is why graph theory is powerful. Spider webs and auto traffic also have a relationship in this sense but that doesn't say much about the relationship of cars and spiders. Maybe you ne
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by webern777 14d ago
This is from the intellectual con artist Terence McKenna. McKenna never let things like this get in the way of his theory. There was a flaw in the math of his ridiculous Time Wave Zero idea that when pointed out to him, didn't change
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by webern777 14d ago
I believe in the US alcohol consumption peaked in the mid 19th century. It was common for alcohol to be provided on the job and for drinking breaks like coffee breaks.
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by webern777 14d ago
The problem with this is I won't get any clicks posting that performance is the same and I don't let facts get in the way of more clicks.
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by webern777 14d ago
This is really 12 tet music theory. A very complete and great resource from the looks of it IMO. I love Balinese gamelan and also the Bohlen–Pierce scale. It is not tractable to to cover non-12 tet. Each of just those subjects could cover t
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by webern777 14d ago
Exactly. It is hard to explain how great this is unless you tried to learn this by just looking at staff notation with having no idea what the sound actually was. Literally like trying to learn color theory without vision.
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by webern777 14d ago
I think it like saying a human is made of water,protein, fat and minerals in a discussion about the behavior of humans. A correct statement that is neither interesting or of much relevance to the discussion.
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by webern777 16d ago
It is a nice bumper sticker slogan but public transportation operates at a loss almost universally. It is really a problem with liberal democracy. Everyone has different values, everyone thinks their subjective values are the morally correc
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by webern777 16d ago
A nurse and doctor have personal liability in the US. Imagine having to do paperwork as a nurse after working a 12 hour physical job, overnight, 8pm to 8am. The idea mistakes happen because the nurse doesn't "care" is utter b
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by webern777 16d ago
My parents are in their 70s and retired, I can't even vaguely imagine what they would use this for. If they have any problems in life, it is that they have too much time on their hands already. An AI agent that automates tasks so they