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by AQuantized 28d ago
I think the essay has the implicit assumption that if you're 'better' at doing things, you'll end up happier. Since intelligent people aren't happier, the conclusion becomes that intelligence is mostly only relevant
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by AQuantized 2mo ago
Doesn't really make sense as there are already open weight models that are close to frontier models, and the compute to run them isn't outrageously expensive, and every indication that it will only get cheaper over time as has bee
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by AQuantized 11mo ago
> You really don't want to end up with dementia and related illnesses, it totally sours everyone's view of you. This seems like such an absurd conclusion to this, as though the opinions of other people of you are what matter wh
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by AQuantized 2y ago
Not sure how this is relevant given it's the effects of a future climate catastrophe being discussed, not something that has already happened.
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by AQuantized 2y ago
Einstein was enamored with the philosophies of Schopenhauer and Spinoza, in Schopenhauer's conception of the will and Spinoza's pantheism. The God of Spinoza (or indeed Einstein) is strictly deterministic, and we are all a part of
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by AQuantized 2y ago
This comment is a bit odd to me since I don't think those basic things you mention have been difficult to get working on most distros for quite a while now.
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by AQuantized 2y ago
I wonder if meditation could give you this ability? After having an intense 'breakthrough' during meditation I had an enhanced ability to imagine things, especially visually, for ~1 week. I stopped meditating for a while because i
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by AQuantized 2y ago
Game Programming Patterns is also excellent. There's something that feels quite 'honest' and straightforward about the style of both books. It sometimes seems like authors feel like they have to play along with the idea that
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by AQuantized 2y ago
To be fair that really isn't 'big money' in most of those cities, assuming big money has some connotation of significantly above average after tax and expenses disposable income in those areas, especially relative to your pee
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by AQuantized 2y ago
The stimulus starts the fixed action pattern, but that action pattern includes the behavior to make the entire web, not just the start off the process. Different species of spider have different fixed action patterns (and different neurolog
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by AQuantized 2y ago
There's an idea of 'fixed action patterns' where certain behaviors are encoded in the neurology of an animal, and triggered by certain stimulus. For spiders then there is an action pattern that upon certain stimulus they will
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by AQuantized 2y ago
I had the opposite experience. I always had such an intense 'inner monologue' that it dominated my experience of life. Outside of doing things that required all of my attention like playing games I never lived in the moment. It ma
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by AQuantized 2y ago
To be fair 'modelling the brain' might not include things like neuron metabolism that probably isn't required for AI but is a part of the substrate of our own consciousness.
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by AQuantized 2y ago
Using Prison Architect as an example, when playing can you 'remember' the dimensions of the different rooms you've built? Or would you have to zoom out to plan an extension of your prison? It definitely sounds like aphantasia
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by AQuantized 2y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with your eyes being open/closed, or even to do with your eyes at all, unless it's describing something different to what I assume. It's about mental images and visualization, not yo
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by AQuantized 3y ago
To be fair, for all its pitfalls, NPM does provide a limited version of that idea to millions of codebases.
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by AQuantized 3y ago
I saw a private dentist for the first time roughly a year ago. I was under the impression that I had 10+ fillings, and prior to lockdowns a dentist had told me I needed at least 2 more, which I assumed would still be the case. He said he co
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by AQuantized 3y ago
I managed to progress a long standing side project because of this psychology. Asking ChatGPT how to do what I think is the next step is easy, and it generally spits out a coherent if questionable solution. Finding the issues with its imple
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by AQuantized 3y ago
That should never happen at any 'good' company imo, and I haven't personally experienced it.
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by AQuantized 3y ago
So long as you don't stay like that all the time and vary your posture, it's probably not as negative as popularly assumed. Moving a lot is more important than assuming some static 'optimal' posture.
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by AQuantized 3y ago
I don't think the poster is trying to discredit her based on age, just contextualizing her comment about it not happening in her lifetime by estimating what period that's likely to refer to. The comment about her appeal to authori
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by AQuantized 3y ago
I don't think giving away 45% of your business for a 'network' is going to make sense in most cases, especially given the networking opportunities already available for e.g. YC companies, and it's going to be hard to exp
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by AQuantized 4y ago
It wouldn't be an advantage to make him a giant - arguably it would be a negative due to his style. However, HGH allows substantially faster recover, and basically any athlete would take it if possible. Messi was able to do so legally
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by AQuantized 4y ago
Why not just check the reference? If there isn't one it isn't to be trusted, if there is just cite that.
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by AQuantized 4y ago
Honestly while I would agree for a lot of obscure methods, I can't imagine a senior engineer not knowing how to convert an integer to a string.
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by AQuantized 4y ago
Does minoxidil alone have any of those potential side effects, perhaps at a lesser incidence? I wouldn't mind extending my hairspan a few years, but I'm unwilling to risk long term side effects. I'm leaning towards avoiding t
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by AQuantized 4y ago
I've had similar issues and started with simply lying down and holding my head a few mm off the ground and holding for 10 - 30 seconds. You may have to begin with only a few seconds if your neck is very weak and build up very slowly. B
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by AQuantized 4y ago
It's worth mentioning that being a theoretical physicist working in a niche subfield doesn't necessarily qualify you to talk broadly about other fields and assess their societal impacts. I think these types of videos work best whe
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by AQuantized 4y ago
Funny that your example sounds like a stereotypical self-congratulatory Hacker News article
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by AQuantized 4y ago
I actually don't think it's arguing for that typical stance, but rather for conscious experience to always 'be' in some sense regardless of specific physical instantiation. It seems purposefully vague, but it's almo

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