wizofaus

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by wizofaus 4y ago
I'd argue that is the fundamental difference though - brains that were able to make good guesses about what was going on in the environment with very limited information are the ones whose owners reproduced successfully etc. And it&#x2
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Use non-breaking space for identifiers and regular/breaking space as a delimiter? Admittedly you'd want an editor that clearly showed the difference and made the former easy to type.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
My "plan"? How on earth did you read that into my comment... And yes some of those dwellings are pretty cramped, but is it somehow worse than the situation in many Western cities where there are those reduced to living in tents on
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Is that a comment about the excessive size of American bathrooms? From what I can find, 6000/sq.km2 equates to something like 45 sq.m of living space per apartment.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
How could it possibly help unless there were some independent verification mechanism though? If there's a motivation to lie about the content being "organically generated" because that's what search users prefer to find,
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by wizofaus 4y ago
It's possibly a contributing factor, but Japanese families are quite accustomed to the idea that their kids will grow up in what many of us in less-densely populated Western countries would consider uncomfortably small spaces. I'm
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by wizofaus 4y ago
"It's not normal to have cities with population densites of 6,158 persons per square kilometer" It's pretty normal for those who live in such places, and not really significantly more "unnatural" compared to so
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I thought we started with $15K? 30K you could do, but if it wasn't accompanied by other measures to control the amount of currency in circulation (vs just printing the extra money), I'd accept it would likely significantly devalu
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Even the awareness of our own thoughts, and certainly the sensation that we're somehow "in control of them" (vs being determined by the laws of physics) is almost certainly largely an illusion...
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by wizofaus 4y ago
That's a pretty good observation though - it's only because ChatGPT spits out language that appears to convey some of the sorts of thought patterns that humans have that we're even having this discussion, but is it even relev
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by wizofaus 4y ago
"Unless there are externally observable things that can't or are unlikely to be done without consciousness..." If it weren't, why would it have evolved in the first place? It seems me not unlikely that the only way we ca
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by wizofaus 4y ago
"the policy would have worked" - in what sense? Are you genuinely arguing that eugenicists would have objectively and accurately determined which genes led to strongest/most intelligent/most productive humans and only al
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Or I can propose that it doesn't need to be "paid for", because it's not asking the economy to produce any more goods and services than it already does. But sure, I'd accept there'd be medical care it couldn&#x
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Are we so certain it needs higher taxes? Have the trial schemes that have been run shown that?
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by wizofaus 4y ago
How can you prove that the government printing 3 trillion and handing out $15K to every adult citizen annually "doesn't make sense"? Assuming much of that will replace existing programs (e.g. the $1.2 trillion spent on socia
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I'd think COVID demonstrated that people's behaviour at a society-wide scale can be changed surprisingly easily.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
A meaningful UBI means everyone has enough to purchase all essentials, including health care and housing. So why consider it tangential? The only thing UBI won't help with is if the difficulties of providing adequate healthcare and hou
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Wow - I'd always assumed it was US-based for some reason (maybe because its articles get referred to on HN so frequently!).
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I'm sure this topic is already the subject of much discussion, but from the sessions I've had with ChatGPT, it's quite obvious it doesn't really "understand" very much in the way humans do. At best it seems to
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I'm more curious about the first word in that article - is "dodgy" becoming accepted as part of the US English vernacular now? It's particularly common in Aus English but I usually have to find alternatives when conversi
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by wizofaus 4y ago
"Grok" isn't really a good example - it was invented by a recent English speaker and used quite enough that it was clear enough what it meant (I'm not sure if Heinlein explained it outright but I don't believe he ob
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by wizofaus 4y ago
It's not so hard to believe we're living in a 50%- probability world though (assuming roughly 99% chance of no nuclear strikes for each year since 1945). Just the missile crisis and the Petrov incident alone had a decent chance of
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Surely it's worth asking why so many people share posts they believe to be factual so unquestioningly in the first place? Is it really so naive to think we couldn't significantly improve the average Joe's critical thinking sk
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Courtesy of you know who... There are several songs that have been named after computer terminology, some examples include: "404" by The Notwist "Blue Screen of Death" by The Flashbulb "Error&quot
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by wizofaus 4y ago
For me... Something went wrong :-( Something went wrong while trying to load this site; please try again later. Debugging tips If this is your site, and you just reloaded it, then the problem might simply be that it hasn&
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by wizofaus 4y ago
On the density aspect, I was just reading: https://www.accessmagazine.org/fall-2010/density-doesnt-tell... . I'd agree that having "evenly" spread low-medium density rather than "lumpy" density
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Given how terrible it is at solving crossword clues, or even answering simple questions like how long words are or "what's the 7th letter of the word 'eyebrow'" (apparently it's "b", and "eyebrow
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by wizofaus 4y ago
> I just fail to understand what the issue is. That to me suggests you've had very little exposure to cities that haven't so thoroughly given themselves over to one single mode of transport. Or that all the issues from having s
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I never suggested I thought it, was just curious what level of testing might have been done allowing human players unlimited time vs bots. That a bot would be still win in such cases, even against a GM, is not so surprising based on my unde
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Wouldn't it be simpler to assume those working at OpenAI were likely to favour sources that happened to share their own biases (alongside whatever likely top-down directives existed to ensure ChatGPT was a safer commercial bet)?

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