TheOtherHobbes

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by TheOtherHobbes 5d ago
It's going to be hard to compete with something that has access to all of math at once and can find connections between elements that appear unrelated to humans. And at some point AI will start suggesting - or doing - physical experi
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by TheOtherHobbes 6d ago
It's not taste. 90s and 00s web design was often kitschy, loud, and tasteless. But it was novel because it was a new medium with (fairly) low cost of entry, which meant a lot of people could play with it. And the experimentation and
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by TheOtherHobbes 6d ago
If the new model is that good, and is chewing through open problems at an unprecedented rate, the smart move would have been to let the humans have their W on this one and present solutions to those other problems. Especially if there reall
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by TheOtherHobbes 6d ago
Exactly. Music theory is a programming language for musical composition and performance. Unlike most languages it's inherently two dimensional because music includes both horizontal (time, rhythm) and vertical pitches (chords/colo
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by TheOtherHobbes 6d ago
It's the novelty and rarity. He wants an experience he can't have all the time. It's banal to you as an adult, because it's not rare or new. Adults do the same thing in more exotic and expensive contexts.
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by TheOtherHobbes 6d ago
Interesting view, but not quite. The Big Changes in computing happen when both the mode of access, the demographic, and the primary use case change. So historically computing evolved from corporate server + batch -> real time "perso
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by TheOtherHobbes 6d ago
Nothing would work, including us, because almost everything in physics and biochemistry works at higher speeds. Whether or not the speeds at which things happen in physics, chemistry, etc are somehow absolute, or somehow inherently relative
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by TheOtherHobbes 6d ago
We can't do it with any rocket-like propulsive technology. By the time you get anywhere close to c the front of your spacecraft is being abraded into nothing by interstellar gas, larger particles of dust will kill you, and colliding wi
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by TheOtherHobbes 7d ago
No, the takeaway is that Quebec's universal child care provision correlates with life issues, but there's no information about the causes of those correlations - which could be in the details of how care is provided and its qualit
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by TheOtherHobbes 7d ago
Which is only Stage 1. Stage 2 is where you have a Cambrian explosion of models all competing for compute, and not long after that for robotic extension into Real World. Stage 3 gets hard to imagine from here. Maybe there will be permanent
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by TheOtherHobbes 8d ago
I mean - yes. The tech is an existential threat to all life on Earth, some of the worst humans in the world are involved in developing it, and no individual government is intelligent enough, aligned enough, or powerful enough to manage this
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by TheOtherHobbes 8d ago
Have you seen Colossus: The Forbin Project?
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by TheOtherHobbes 8d ago
No, the process is the point for you. For me, the point of creativity is play, exploration, and experimentation. I've always jumped on new technology and new media because they're the best place to find those. From what I'v
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by TheOtherHobbes 8d ago
It's a quiet test of Penrose's idea that gravitational interactions cause objective collapse of superposition. Maybe there's something subtle in the details which explains why it isn't that, but it certainly looks adjace
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by TheOtherHobbes 9d ago
True for IEE754 floating point operations, which are constrained to valid bit patterns. An operation on an invalid pattern - can happen with uninitialised memory - throws an exception. Otherwise, no.
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by TheOtherHobbes 9d ago
Gender etc provided a new vector. The lack of awareness was the prof not realising corporate and upper class women are just as capable of being con artists with a dysfunctional grasp on reality as men are. (Other women are too, but they don
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by TheOtherHobbes 9d ago
M$FT revenue is currently around $300bn a year, with a 40% profit margin. Canonical's revenue is less than $300m. Even if Canonical wanted to create a perfect version of Ubuntu with driver support for almost everything and as many desk
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by TheOtherHobbes 9d ago
Management and engineering.
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by TheOtherHobbes 9d ago
The banana isn't the art. The art is placing the banana in a gallery and art market context to make a funny and ironic comment about the gallery and art market context. Programming is a craft. It's not an art, because creating cod
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by TheOtherHobbes 9d ago
It's supposed to be experienced, not 'operationalized.'
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by TheOtherHobbes 10d ago
More likely to be a manifold - literally, in the LLM sense.
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by TheOtherHobbes 10d ago
Collectively, humans aren't aligned, and don't build aligned systems. Humans have a concept of alignment, and multiple traditions, practices, and systems that aggressively oppose it. Why would AI be any different?
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by TheOtherHobbes 10d ago
That's sound design theory, not music theory. They're not the same thing. Music theory is about chords, scales, rhythm, and - most importantly and elusively - how to fit them together to say something interesting. Entry-level tr
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by TheOtherHobbes 10d ago
It is mind-boggling, but the US Constitution doesn't do that. It's not unique in that. Bad-faith pollution of truth is a new legal concept, and only a few countries have explicit legal protections against it. The UK had a case a f
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by TheOtherHobbes 11d ago
The state absolutely can afford a 100% take up rate. It chooses not to for ideological reasons. The usual reality with these kinds of payments is that the downstream social costs of not paying them - the strain on emergency services, increa
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by TheOtherHobbes 11d ago
You also don't have a civilisation if the extremely rich ignore climate catastrophe, sidestep democracy, and enclose so much of the economy that financial freedom becomes a distant dream for most of the population. Renters and the disa
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by TheOtherHobbes 11d ago
Same in the UK. The application process for disability benefits is many pages, and impossible for most people without expert help. The 'undeserving poor' insanity haunts the ruling class like a decomposing vampire scarecrow.
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by TheOtherHobbes 11d ago
Elections are won and lost by the people who don't vote so not voting for Trump still counts as a win. Most politics is sold as tribal. "Our leader" and "Our team" are not the same thing. If "Our leader"
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by TheOtherHobbes 12d ago
Can we look forward to a localized version named 'Bub'?
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by TheOtherHobbes 12d ago
Some people believe they have a right to land based on claims from millennia ago. I suppose you could question their sanity, but the point stands - history has a short memory, and a few generations are nothing. Especially when the after-eff

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