ChainOfFools

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by ChainOfFools 1y ago
The risk analysis is no better or worse than it is for other loosely/weakly understood technology such as flying. It amounts to noticing that few if any of the people you know or are acquainted with through two or three removals from p
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by ChainOfFools 1y ago
You could certainly get help that was 'mechanical' but which did not involve machines or robots as we think of them today. More of an older, original definition of robot.
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by ChainOfFools 1y ago
I'm not convinced that the unprecedented advantages of setting up base camp on the other end of a major global ocean on both sides of the landmass, the almost completely unfettered access to a continent of largely untapped natural reso
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by ChainOfFools 1y ago
I wanted to hate this aspect of it, but since I like Debian and and use it as my daily driver on a lot of systems anyway, I just couldn't work up enough ire to complain.
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by ChainOfFools 1y ago
They are emulating the behavior of every power-seeking mediocrity ever, who crave affirmation above all else. Lots of them practiced - indeed an entire industry is dedicated toward promoting and validating - making daily affirmations on the
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by ChainOfFools 1y ago
Not just ChatGPT, Claude sounds exactly the same if not worse, even when you set your preferences to not do this. rather interesting, if grimly dispiriting, to watch these models develop, in the direction of nutrient flow, toward sycophancy
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by ChainOfFools 1y ago
Intermodal freight drayage industry, which is largely comprised of a thousands of very small and ineffocoently run mom and pop nepo-companies run dependent upon an open tolerance of very scammy business tactics extending temporary surcharg
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by ChainOfFools 1y ago
The fact that Bitcoin (and kin) turbocharges corruption, and its success is a direct result of doing so on a wide scale (the whole point is to undermine state power by dwpriving it of control over currency) is proof to the armchair economi
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by ChainOfFools 1y ago
I think we may be talking at cross purposes. I specifically used the number one because it behaves like a unit here. unlike 2 or any other number, 1 is also the standard 1D unit vector, so 1apples is indeed the same quantity as apples/
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by ChainOfFools 1y ago
I don't see what's wrong about OP's use of the term in the context they are using it. In the context given the number of days in the denominated unit is 1. Which means as dividend or factor it is going to give you the same r
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> If weak intelligence is everywhere, Earth-like planets are everywhere, ... where are the aliens? Someone has to be first (in our speed-of-causality bubble), maybe it's us?
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
It looks like this service may be intended to have a significant off label use as a professional networking / online matchmaking app, judging by the choice of human pairs given in the stock images on the website. They're all male&
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
"interprets damage as censorship and..." where these terms are being treated as equivalent
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> It's more or less a computer on a single chip. How does this chip, and your wonderfully whimsical mega SoC implementation of it, compare to the claims (and the even more fantastical dreadnought-class workstation scenario) of the C
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
The city is locally referred to as Fontucky, evidently for good reason.
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> My heart can exist independently of me, and be transplanted into other people, but does it mean that it is alive? Interesting analogy, made more interesting still if one replaces "heart" with "brain." And what if
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Very early in my experimentation with some of the GPT family, one of the first things I noticed was that at no point did the model ask questions of its own, except (perhaps - I don't quite recall if I'm the one hallucinating here
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Okay that makes sense, that's how the classes went for me in the US, with Calc 3 being multi variable (and as you say, a brush with linear alg via vector-valued functions), and 2 sideways steps from there, one being a course on PDEs an
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
curious, what was covered in Calculus 4? Quadruple integrals? More vector valued stuff shading into proper linear algebra? Diff Eq?
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I physically winced at how accurate this take is. TikTok's market function burns the internet's race-to-the-bottom candle at both ends: depth of the typical content piece and attention span of the typical content consumer dynamica
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Wealth is a proxy for having options, even if you do not exercise them. There are thus many forms of wealth, and some do not translate directly across domain boundaries. Arnold Schwarzenegger famously explained that he remains committed to
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
So it's 2029 and the entire world has become intensely suspicious of anyone wearing glasses. well done 'information wants to be free' gang. coda: it's 2032, and the entire world is wearing glasses.
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
This actually may be true although somewhat indirectly with respect to at least one well-known conspiracy belief. If I recall correctly, the Flat Earth Society was originally concieved as a prank intended to lampoon actual conspiratorial gr
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I predict it will get even worse than that, in the next couple of decades I expect any document or work that has a substantial reward associated with it, either financially or in terms of career advancement or a grade for critical course wo
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> but I'm slowly starting to suspect that most of it is just covert shilling by vested persons. It's almost as if the horde of former kleptocurrency bros have found a promising new seam of fool's gold to mine
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
There are some very big outlier exceptions to this however. In a handful of markets (such as the city of Riverside) which are served by a nonprofit municipal power authority with its own generation and distribution, local rates are decouple
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Pretty hard to catch people in the act of fiddling with their phones while driving, at least directly. However, were police to get extremely aggressive about the abysmal lack of turn signal use in recent years...
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
How strange is it that this console is to be priced considerably higher in its home market than it is in the US. Either that or Sony is hinting that they expect the yen to crash dramatically against the dollar (from 142:1 over 170:1) betwe
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
By selecting for efficient test taking robots at the critical gateways to the graduate level education necessary to obtain these decision-making "leadership" roles. A comparable phenomenon is at work in medical school admissions,
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I would add one of my guilty pleasures, Xah Lee, who still updates his unironically retro blog quite regularly, although a lot of his content is in vlog format as well. Sadly he may not actually be as earnestly nutty in person as his online

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