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by Jimmy 4y ago
I think asking some basic troubleshooting questions is helpful. Is your product worth paying for? Is it even worth someone’s time to look at it or download it for free? Is it the type of thing that you yourself have paid for in the past? (E
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by Jimmy 4y ago
Naturally, the first step for AI mathematics would be generating proofs of theorems that humans have already deemed interesting, rather than the AI generating entirely new research directions all by itself. Certainly it’s an interesting pro
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by Jimmy 4y ago
There’s a very simple solution, of course: turn off the computer and physically interact with real people.
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by Jimmy 4y ago
>Each time this happens, the AGI pessimists raise the bar (a little) for what constitutes AGI. Let’s say I have a coworker. We write code together, but we also hang out outside of work sometimes, maybe go for a couple rounds of golf, may
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by Jimmy 4y ago
Do you think you’ll see true AGI in your lifetime? I certainly don’t think I’ll see it in mine. No other domain of the sciences is “complete” yet. There are still unanswered questions in physics, biology, neuroscience, every field. Why are
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by Jimmy 4y ago
I agree. People will be quick to say that that’s just your nostalgia talking, but taken to an extreme, that argument would entail that culture and patterns of behavior never change, which is equally implausible.
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by Jimmy 4y ago
Well, no, I wouldn’t say that my post was about “intention”. I could imagine, in principle, someone saying “hey GPT-3, write me a philosophical masterpiece” or “write me a hit novel” and it does. No intentionality required. It’s just that i
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by Jimmy 4y ago
Between this and DALL-E 2, I’ve been ruminating on David Hilbert’s old quip about a student: “For a mathematician, he did not have enough imagination. But now he is a poet, and everything is fine.” As someone with experience in both STEM an
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by Jimmy 4y ago
I don’t really disagree. I’m not a luddite and I don’t advocate for turning off the internet. Computers are certainly here to stay. It’s an extremely complex issue, and I don’t have all the answers, or even know how to phrase all the questi
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by Jimmy 4y ago
Sorry, that may have been poorly worded. I wanted to preempt the objection of “well, you say you don’t want to be dependent on smartphones, but then you’ll just be dependent on some other type of computer”. I wanted to make it clear that th
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by Jimmy 4y ago
I simply won’t use any service that requires a phone and doesn’t allow other options. I am opposed to a future in which phones are a necessity of life rather than merely a convenience. And to the people who say “but desktops/laptops ar
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by Jimmy 4y ago
Yours don't?
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by Jimmy 4y ago
>Honestly, I'd assume that pretty much any of these flaws are more fixable than you'd expect. The first 90% of the project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% of the project takes the other 90% of the time. I don't think i
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by Jimmy 4y ago
>So what? DALL-E 2 is very impressive. So impressive that many people have wondered if all commercial artists will be out of a job as soon as DALL-E 2 is made publicly available. These limitations form a strong argument that DALL-E 2 i
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by Jimmy 7y ago
>Instead, we're only interested in finding the logically valid theorems which serve the above purpose of explaining the patterns in the world concisely. That's just empirically false though. Take the "perfectoid spaces&qu
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by Jimmy 9y ago
Oh, now I see how my sentence was ambiguous. The "anxiously enumerating pros and cons part" is bad. Cohabitation is fine.
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by Jimmy 9y ago
>We spent weeks anxiously enumerating the pros and cons of cohabitation. The older I get, the more I come around to the conclusion that thought is bad.
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by Jimmy 9y ago
I mean, I know this conversation is all about railing against the snobbish "you just don't understand fine art" attitude, but I find the stubborn "he really needs to reign it in and not be so crazy" attitude to be u
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by Jimmy 9y ago
>You'd essentially be stating that a whole domain of tradition, practice, and procedure which organically grows and evolves, and I might add, in almost logical progressions at times, was ousted by the whims of one foppish professor
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by Jimmy 9y ago
The final chapter is a lengthy stream-of-consciousness with almost no punctuation. Other parts of the novel are structured more traditionally.
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by Jimmy 9y ago
>I now know that liking Harry Potter more than Joyce's "Ulysses" doesn't mean there's something wrong with my brain. Oh, I do wish people wouldn't bash on Ulysses as much... there's some nonsense in the
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by Jimmy 9y ago
>The vast majority of philosophers are not good writers. I never understood this claim. I have to assume that people are letting their judgement of the content affect the judgement of the writing style. Plenty of canonical philosophers
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by Jimmy 9y ago
>It's kind of funny to see such a profound and important lesson distilled in to such a kitsch cross-stitch type musing. Yeah, this is definitely one of the aspects of PG's writing that I enjoy and admire the most. Though there
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Copy What You Like (2006)(paulgraham.com)
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by Jimmy 9y ago
It's not bad writing, and it's certainly not a Sokal-style hoax. These are the kinds of things that philosophers think about and this is how they write about them. I take it you're just not familiar with modern academic philo
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by Jimmy 9y ago
Why do you think it's a joke?
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by Jimmy 9y ago
If you want to keep compiling any existing C++ code, then the answer is "yes".
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by Jimmy 9y ago
I can't wait to see modules, namespaces, and preprocessor include guards all working together in the same application.
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by Jimmy 9y ago
>7. If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely. Video game designers especially should take note of this one!
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by Jimmy 9y ago
>What holds them back is that they don’t learn to be original. More than likely, they simply lacked the capacity to be original (as in, world-class historical originality, which is the subject under discussion here), just in the same way

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