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by worrycue 3y ago
Blade Runner and the entire Cyberpunk genre* extrapolate Reagan’s America where corporations are completely unfettered, dominating the landscape and people’s everyday life in nearly every way. * Or at least it used to. Most of today’s Cyber
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by worrycue 3y ago
> it's just that a lot of its stable-states are hostile to ~~human~~ life FTFY. We humans are part of nature too.
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by worrycue 3y ago
Take it full circle. Minecraft running Terraria emulating a 32-bit RISC-V CPU running Pong written in Rust - someone already did the latter part I believe, https://youtu.be/zXPiqk0-zDY?si=M0IHSzRLkaddwwKC
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by worrycue 3y ago
> SF is pretty much always about the current day. SF is often speculative fiction that extrapolate current trends into the future - frequently taking them to their logic conclusion - to explore and critique. Good SF anyway.
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by worrycue 3y ago
Why the heck would anyone pay for the same thing from 2 different vendors?
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by worrycue 3y ago
Frankly, shifting money around might not do anything. The actual amount of goods and services produced will be lesser and/or be stretched thinner. The only real way to combat it is to import young people from places with a mostly young
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by worrycue 3y ago
You seem to be ignoring his point. An ever shrinking population of productive people (percentage-wise) is going to have to provide goods and services for an ever growing population of people who can no longer work. It’s a huge burden. Taxes
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by worrycue 3y ago
Does it do that because it can check it’s own reasoning? Or is it just doing so because OpenAI programmed it to not show alternative answers if the probability of the current answer being right is significantly higher than the alternatives?
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by worrycue 3y ago
Why do we have to feed the input back? Why doesn’t it do it itself? Maybe it’s because it can’t tell when it’s wrong and needs to “try again”, and we have to do it for them.
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by worrycue 3y ago
And how often does it get that wrong too? It’s more likely it’s just, once again, generating the most probable answer - and if you shake the magic 8 ball enough you will get the answer you were expecting.
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by worrycue 3y ago
The biggest evidence that LLMs can’t reason is hallucinations. If it could reason it would have rejected fictional generated output that make no sense.
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by worrycue 3y ago
> They excel at extracting patterns from noise and learning them. You can argue those are facts too.
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by worrycue 3y ago
> It seems to me that the real question here is what is true human intelligence. IMHO the main weakness with LLMs is they can’t really reason. They can statistically guess their way to an answer - and they do so surprisingly well I will
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by worrycue 3y ago
AI has open a real big can of worms. Frankly, I see AI training on publicly available images to learn a style which it will then reproduce similar to the problem of game clones. Imagine spending months/years making a game, coming up wi
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by worrycue 3y ago
I agree it's a social interaction. Just not an in-person one.
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by worrycue 3y ago
I wonder if that would even help. If an LLM knows nothing at all about the software, it might just make up complete bullshit anyway.
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by worrycue 3y ago
> local and provicial governments really dont matter. Local governments are broke though and their LGFVs owe people a lot of money and can't pay. The central government I believe is bailing them out - handing out longer term loans t
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by worrycue 3y ago
This isn't their only problem though. Local Government Financing Vehicles are also having trouble servicing their debts - the only way they make money is leasing out land but the real estate sector had imploded. One of their biggest le
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by worrycue 3y ago
> Rust does not have lazy evaluation Does one need lazy evaluation to be FP? Scheme isn't lazy to my knowledge.
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by worrycue 3y ago
> The Chinese housing market was fueled by the familial need to own a house. And as a store of value I believe since they have nowhere else to invest their savings.
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by worrycue 3y ago
That's kind of late ... Wasn't anyone there keeping an eye on the birthrate?
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by worrycue 3y ago
> Mainly caused by normalizing pork price, last year it went wild due to swine flu. Seriously? One food can cause the entire economy to slip into deflation?
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by worrycue 3y ago
China has the same demographic timebomb. China's peak labor was like in early 2010s I believe. Their birth rate has been declining the last few decades.
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by worrycue 3y ago
Evergrande has more debt than assets - including property - I believe. They can sell everything at book value and they will still owe money.
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by worrycue 3y ago
Actually it's the US government that made a killing with TARP loans and acquisitions. Bankers lost their shirts in the whole thing - having to pay interest on those TARP loans or had to sell their shares to the government to get capita
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by worrycue 3y ago
Jack Ma disappeared because he openly criticized the government. The "leisure class" (of which many party members are part of) operate with impunity as long as they stay in the good graces of the party leadership. You will only he
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by worrycue 3y ago
It's not about managing unknowns. It's about low information speculation taking up all the information bandwidth crowding out high information factual stuff.
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by worrycue 3y ago
The excitable people are certainly “loud” though. The last few weeks with the LK-99 hype combined with the usual ChatGPT stories, I actually started feeling that maybe the site should be renamed Hype News. > but that it's odd when t
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by worrycue 3y ago
> seemingly because politicians don't want to admit they fucked up How did politicians fuck up?
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by worrycue 3y ago
What’s the alternative? According to Cambridge dictionary, Capitalism is, “an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are controlled by private owners rather than by the state, with the purpose of making a pr

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