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by zoogeny 3y ago
This analysis matches my current experience. I'm at a small startup and I've been trying my best to push them to invest in AI features. The company is willing to invest very trivial amounts of time/effort in AI embellishments
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I don't think AI is unethical by default. I mean, we've seen a multitude of tech markets that get filled with shovelware. I remember back in the Radio Shack days they would have a rack of shareware-like cheap software for hundreds
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Something of this story reminds me of the famous Ozymandias poem. In a very real sense we are surrounded by the artifacts of a kingdom that no longer exists. I think it is easy to feel the shock of massive and violent cultural revolutions l
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think your use of the word "memory" here is imprecise. For example, I can ask ChatGPT "Give me a 200 word summary of George Orwell's book Animal Farm". It gives me a pretty cogent description of the novel. That kn
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think this view is agnostic at its core but it requires each individual to make a choice between a simulation without an ultimate observer and a simulation with an ultimate observer. It can get even more tricky if you consider the multi-v
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I'll use your comment, which I agree with, to spring board into deeper thoughts I have about frequency since I love to think about this kind of stuff. There are frequencies within frequencies. For example, yes you eat every day, but ho
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think a lot about frequency. I think about the frequency I clean my house, or the frequency I maintain my yard. There were a lot of jokey TikToks about how frequently men change their bed sheets or how frequently they wash their bathroom
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I couldn't finish the entire article. At first I was impressed but soon the article descends into that particular flavor of business oriented self-help that is just repeating clichés. One thing he suggests that I disagree with is makin
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by zoogeny 3y ago
When I was a young man I was taking a language course while I was temporarily living in a foreign country. There was an older man in the course (not elderly, more like mid-fifties) who was very bad at the new language we were both learning.
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Your summary seems to miss a later quote from the article: > Extropic is also building semiconductor devices that operate at room temperature to extend our reach to a larger market. These devices trade the Josephson junction for the tran
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> enumerations give rise to the exceptional rule that the import of a type identifier also causes the (automatic) import of all associated constant identifiers I am confused by this assertion. I mean, if I had a module `Source` defining
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by zoogeny 3y ago
To be clear, I'm not saying the author is wrong. The author wants a thing that Go doesn't have (a thing that I would also like to have in Go). He is calling the thing he wants an "Enum". Then he is insinuating that Go ac
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I have a totally tangential ramble queued up on this topic. I like philosophy and I read it as a total amateur. Naming is a big topic in modern philosophy [1] with a huge amount of depth. I think of it in terms of my naïve understanding o
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Ok, to be fair I should have specified Internet Technologies rather than Web Technologies. And of course there are exceptions to all cases. But I would wager many people are like me, having made a comfortable income on the back of tcp/
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Musk contributed general non-restricted funding so the nonprofit can more or less do what they want with the money. Seems like "more or less" is doing a lot of work in this statement. I suppose this is what the legal system i
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I don't know how comparable it would be, but I imagine if I donated $44 million to a university under the agreement that they would use the money in a particular way (e.g. to build a specific building or to fund a specific program) and
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I'm cautious about picking winners and losers specifically. I remember back in the day all of the search engines: AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, Lycos, Web Crawler, Excite, etc. When Google popped up it was clearly superior to all of th
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I disagree with most of this article. My own anecdotal experience is that dozens of non-tech friends, coworkers, etc. tell me that they are using ChatGPT every day. These are people who are telling me how they use it to draft emails, create
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by zoogeny 3y ago
One of my favorite math/graphics YouTube creators Freya Holmér did an excellent intro to Geometric Algebra not that long ago [1]. If you have any interest in 3d graphics (especially but no limited to splines/Bezier curves) then be
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think a key takeaway from this story is that the author started getting subscriptions once he caused the software to stop working without a license. > If you did not provide a valid license key 15 minutes after the application started
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It is a lovely font but those angled o's and sloped n,m,h in the lower case are too distracting for me personally. I can imagine it being popular as slightly more professional looking Cooper Black (as discussed a few times in the artic
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think this exists outside of tech and AI as well. I was in a mall bookstore recently looking for a gift and I passed by a section of "Philosophy". I was curious and took a look and in that small section, a little over half a boo
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It reminds me of flies being caught in spiderwebs.
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I know a lot of people chide Google for being behind OpenAI in their commercial offerings. We also dunk on them for the over-protective nature of their fine-tuning. But Google is scarily capable on the LLM front and we shouldn't count
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Why watch your screen when you could feed in video from a wearable pair of glasses like those Instagram Ray Bans. And why stop at video when you could have it record and learn from a mic that is always on. And you might as well throw in a f
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by zoogeny 3y ago
That is some good context, thank you. I wasn't planning on reading Arendt specifically for her take on the holocaust - more for her general views. Adorno is another philosopher I hear brought up a lot in this context and I'm mostl
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by zoogeny 3y ago
There isn't a singular experience of the divine that you either have or do not have. The Bhagavad Gita, for example, in large part discusses the multitude of ways one can experience the divine. It strongly makes the case that doing one
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I admit that I haven't touched CL in decades and my most recent exposure to Lisp-ish stuff is writing a bit of Scheme and reading a bit of Clojure (maybe some elisp too). I like a lot of the ideas behind Lisp-like languages but I disli
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by zoogeny 3y ago
What is described in this post is the gold standard of software reliability testing. A world where all critical and foundational systems are tested to this level would be a massive step forward for technology in general. I'm skeptical
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> these intellectual and cultural giants of that time are argued to have not really _defined_ the thought of that time, but rather were elevated and canonized according to the needs of Cold War politics. I've often felt this, specif

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