SnazzyJeff

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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
Well, the part that was claimed. "The brain has a narrow window for learning to speak beginning around ages 2 to 3, he explained. After age 5, the window for learning spoken language is permanently shut." The person seems to mista
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
if only this site could manage something more complicated than the dialectic of "not retarded enough for y-combinator" and "too retarded for y-ycombinator" one day, y-combinator will give a shit about disability. There i
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
> Power drives consensus. Power is able to manipulate consensus, but ultimately it exists despite consensus. Its existence is relative by definition. > Capitalism has uses other than consensus as well. False > Ah. I think I was t
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
> But no matter how well the gene therapy works, the researchers recognize that Aissam may never be able to understand or speak a language, Dr. Germiller said. The brain has a narrow window for learning to speak beginning around ages 2 t
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
> It's fascinating how our brains are wired in such a way to enable read-only mode at an certain age in development. You're responding to a quote that is trivially false with a quick google. Ok.
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
> Worth keeping in mind that Helen Keller didn't loose her hearing (and sight) until an illness at 19 months old. While this is in fact an important sample, this doesn't imply much about how humans develop after 19 months, much
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
Hellen Keller never developed the skill to listen to spoken language. I agree with you fwiw, but your argument needs to acknowledge the above statement.
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
> Gives me hope that one day my tinnitus may have a cure. We are all chained to reality. We must all accept reality or kill ourselves trying to.
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
> Consensus would exist due to the power of the state regardless of the economic system. What does this mean? Genuinely confused what you think a state is in the modern age if not the infrastructure necessary to support a market.
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
I mean, I'd also like to find elves. I don't see any reason to suspect either exists. There's an assumption that intelligence is a natural progression for evolution of life, which seems irrational. Why is intelligence so spec
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
Do you have a point? Humans are self-evidently self-interested. You don't need to justify it.
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
> Prisoner's dilemma This falls apart pretty rapidly when you move beyond one person—groups of people don't tend to act collectively rationally. Hell, the entire reason "capitalism" is a thing at all is it provides so
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
I can't be the only person who absolutely doesn't care about intelligent life. Either it makes its relevance clear or it doesn't. I see no particular reason why "intelligence" is noteworthy enough to look for in the
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
> By now, everyone knows that serverless doesn't actually mean without servers; it just means using someone else's servers. What? Is this some kind of confusing reference to lambda and competing providers? As far as I know most
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
Knowing what exploits are like in the private/state sector that seems like a no-brainer if your threat model includes a well-funded attacker.
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
LLMs are not capable of passing the chinese room test, fairly trivially.
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
IMO a chatbot is sufficient to demonstrate AGI. I think the chinese room problem is as good as anything. Of course, there isn't much money in teaching a bot that only knows english chinese. EDIT, Wikipedia page for context: https:&#x2
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
> Placing a skull on a bookshelf is not conducive to this public veneration. Veneration is enormously culturally subjective. There are many, many, many cultures that would have seen placing the skull of an ancestor in a prominent place a
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
That may be true, but I'm guessing you're not going to improve the situation without better wages. People likely don't get into this field in order to pursue a passion for tissue theft.
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
> All of these arguments seem totally compatible with anarchism, especially the type of modernism-questioning anarchism that would stem from anthropology. Given that virtually all political theories stem from the structuralist assumption
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
> But it turns out that it's illegal to remove parts from a human body in the US. This is not true, it's just a highly regulated market. Look up tissue banks.
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
I imagine a lot of things tested at the USAF base aren't the "most advanced in the world"—and frankly the assumption that they would be is somewhat odd. There's only so much throwing wads of cash at contractors can solve
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by SnazzyJeff 3y ago
> Download firefox? What's that? All the top links are fine? No one's looking at the 7th listing for a simple query to download a program. They are if the first six results are SEO bullshit. Which is the de-facto state of affai