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by willy_k 2y ago
Totally, I mixed up my spacewalk associations, thanks.
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by willy_k 2y ago
For what it’s worth, people have already fixed telescopes in space (ISS astronauts operating on Hubble).
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by willy_k 2y ago
Just anecdotally, I’ve experienced the same. The speed of traffic on highways is regularly 5-25 mph above the limit, and this mindset does translate to other types of road.
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by willy_k 3y ago
What do we call the people who created the simulation? Is it unreasonable that they would give us stories to impose their own morals on us? Maybe they have a punishment or a reward for you depending on your qualities, such as getting to liv
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by willy_k 3y ago
If you can write the code, it could be pretty straightforward. From a quick search, motorized turntables already exist, from $10-100, both with and without remotes. So you could either wire a controller into one, or reverse the remote’s sig
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by willy_k 3y ago
Yes, because it is rational. Maybe taking it this far isn’t when you consider personal impact, but questioning things is very rational, and there are more than enough legitimate examples (MKULTRA, Operation Northwoods, and countless other d
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by willy_k 3y ago
One Sam down, one to go
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by willy_k 3y ago
To each their own, but it’s a fascinating topic that has considerable implications for religion, culture, history, art, science, and health. Worth reading about IMO
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by willy_k 3y ago
Sure? It could be bad for you if it’s bad for you, but the factors and reactions are pretty varied. Taking psychedelics is kind of like driving up a mountain - if it’s storming (anxiety etc.) and/or your lights are out (preconceptions,
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by willy_k 3y ago
Not currently AFAIK. It is an active field of study though, mechanistic interpretability. https://arena3-chapter1-transformer-interp.streamlit.app/%5B...
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by willy_k 3y ago
I agree that there probably will be “uncensored” fine tuned models that become available, my point was just that it’s not accurate to call Gemma “the opposite of censored” because there is a somewhat involved step that needs to be taken bef
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by willy_k 3y ago
Is “the opposite of censored” accurate for something that’s default and considerably easier to access mode of operation won’t say many things for sociopolitical reasons? Able to be un censored, sure, but the extent of that is debatable as w
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by willy_k 3y ago
Maybe I’m misinterpreting, but wouldn’t a “massive game of life” also be a simulation? I guess there’s a difference between a mechanistic simulation with emergent intelligence vs a Matrix-like one designed to accommodate (an) intelligence.
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by willy_k 3y ago
> Apple is happy to engage in backroom deals. There's a future where Apple could acquire either or both of these companies. Maybe they’d want to, but would regulators really let those mergers happen unless apple makes some big chang
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by willy_k 3y ago
Doesn’t come off as shallow or a dismissal of the work. Maybe tangential, but OP is just voicing their disapproval of the common tendency to dismiss new ideas, often motivated by fear or stubbornness rather than a real and unsolvable proble
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by willy_k 3y ago
Yeah, I probably should have googled that. In my defense, the emoji it chose was , so a tad misleading to the mudbrick-ignorant.
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by willy_k 3y ago
One man’s nonsense is another’s profound truth. mud + brick = Adobe, for example. Doesn’t seem to make sense, yet it does.
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by willy_k 3y ago
If you mean the “analyzing” behavior, the indicator can be clicked on to show what it’s doing. It’s still going character-by-character, but writing code that it executes (or attempts to) to get the contents of a file, the solution for an eq
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by willy_k 3y ago
Tangential, but the trailing “/“ in the URL you gave seems to include the “);” in the hyperlink, giving a “Not Found” error. Working link: https://www.netsurf-browser.org
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by willy_k 3y ago
I think the “bi-stable” part of this somewhat addresses this, it’s designed to snap into either a tall or flat configuration, so it should at least be harder to distort than a freely moving version would be.
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by willy_k 3y ago
Could you elaborate? Do you mean the current state of AI? I would argue that current models have some behaviors that one could liken to intelligence, even if it’s all just operations on 1s and 0s. Of course, this depends on your definition
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by willy_k 3y ago
We both agree that they didn’t know the tool, but GP seems to blame them for deciding to use the tool without training. I was more or less defending their choice to use git, while also acknowledging the potential of a tool like Diversion. M
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by willy_k 3y ago
Or, git is both very complex and very useful, and a large portion of its users have a poor understanding of git but enough for it to be a useful tool. If you want to do source control (which you do), then you’re investing time into learning
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by willy_k 3y ago
So evolution is copying the state of a running executable (one that’s poorly memory managed and dependent on external variables) instead of the file itself, and evolution favors favors the copies that survive and maybe even run faster or ar
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by willy_k 3y ago
Molten salt reactors don’t need a source of water, as much staffing, and could be used for industrial and other purposes given their improved safety profile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor
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by willy_k 3y ago
Psilocybin and other psychedelics may be that exogenous agent, they release Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) [0], which plausibly could cause “rewiring of the cerebellum” [1][2], and may even do this with sub-perceptible (micro)dose
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by willy_k 3y ago
> Wouldn’t it be great if there were a libc in the JS world. Something portable and standardised. I mean, it’s not necessarily “in the JS world”, but WASM is basically that.
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by willy_k 3y ago
I’m assuming you are asking if the brain uses transformer-like structures or otherwise exhibits similar behavior. I don’t know, but it does share some processes with simpler ML ideas, and I’d be very interested to see if it uses anything re
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by willy_k 3y ago
Ah, I think there’s a misunderstanding of the parent comment. They aren’t necessarily saying that the problem is pro-renewable regulation, just that there are heavy (safety) barriers for nuclear.

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