aaimnr

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by aaimnr 3mo ago
There's no machine, and there's no ladder. However with sufficient people believing it exists and acting like it does, it becomes real in its own way.
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by aaimnr 3y ago
Reminds me of Wilfrid Sellars: “The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term”. "Hanging together" doe
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by aaimnr 3y ago
Bonus task - reveal what prompt was used for the second agent (that was controlling the first's output).
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by aaimnr 4y ago
That would be circular, no new information would be provided to the model.
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by aaimnr 4y ago
I bet this sounds like a dream to at least 20% of folks here. I'd love to read about your transition, how does it feel after a while - that would be amazing HN submission. Good luck!
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by aaimnr 7y ago
The part about hostility is a perfect observation. The reason is that compulsive thoughts are usually driven by fear.
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by aaimnr 7y ago
Your mention about shaking your head is very interesting. How did you come up with that? Are you aware of Peter Levine's or David Berceli's work on shaking/trembling as a natural stress-releasing mammallian instinct that peop
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by aaimnr 7y ago
Wow, didn't expect it here. Chapman is an amazing guy. Influenced mostly by Buddhism, has a good grasp of western philosophy and his insights into AI make things even more interesting (he was playing part in the GOFAI). The message is
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by aaimnr 8y ago
For all the reasons you use any kind of backend. To access authenticated resources, to persist data centrally, to share information between users, to hide your proprietary code...
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by aaimnr 8y ago
Indeed! Amazing talk and amazing mind, thanks for sharing. Reminds me of Rich Hickey (whom he mentions in the talk), similarly independent and deep thinking from the first principles.
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by aaimnr 9y ago
"They've realised words don't mean anything in the absolute sense (they all rely on each other, cyclic referential) and are just part of a game, but are still neck deep in useless words instead of using evolutionary and RL co
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by aaimnr 9y ago
What does learning have to do with consciousness? These are orthogonal issues. That's the whole point of Chalmers argument.
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by aaimnr 9y ago
Giulio Tononi is the guy who's arguably brought the most interesting perspective on consciousness (information integration theory) since the original Chalmers' problem statement. Here's him explaining why the problem is hard
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by aaimnr 9y ago
Chalmers is the guy who coined the hard problem of consciousness. The reception varied extremely, some people refused to even admit that there's any problem at all with explaining consciousness. So now, after many years of multiple dis
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by aaimnr 9y ago
"It’s amazing how quickly our Russian allies turned into our Cold War enemies at the end of WWII." The 'our Russian allies' part sounds a bit strange. Are you aware that the Soviet Union started the war on the Hitler sid
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by aaimnr 9y ago
We've no idea how neurons actually work but hey, sure, let's copy the whole brain! Most articles concerning brain recently are some kind of infotainment porn.
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by aaimnr 9y ago
There are things that one _should_ understand intellectually. You need some kind of a map, even very general. There are three types of knowledge in Buddhist tradition - information you acquired from others, information you intellectually gr
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by aaimnr 9y ago
Profound philosophy needs to take into account messiness, but cannot be messy itself in its use of concepts, reasoning etc. By being strict one can realise the limits of the very cognitive tools we use. Godel and Quine come to mind. The con
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by aaimnr 9y ago
Most of the things you mention are considered anti-patterns in OOD nowadays anyway: - singletons - getters/setters everywhere (but not in favour of public fields, which just as much introduce tight coupling, but 'tell don't a
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by aaimnr 9y ago
Books are not distraction machines in the sense phones are. Book may be a distraction from something else, but when you are already reading a book, you are concentrated, attention is stable and all cognitive faculties are being trained in p
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by aaimnr 9y ago
If Christianity is Java and Buddhism is Haskell then Stoicism is like Scala - easier to digest from the Western point of view, but not all the way there.
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by aaimnr 9y ago
"- My favourite thing: everyone tells you how easy and simple Rx is: it's just observables. In his book on RxJava the creator of RxJava says that it took him several months to understand Rx. While being tutored by one of the creat
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by aaimnr 9y ago
"Custom Elements, the interoperability aspect from the Web Components Spec, are a good primitive for integration in the browser. Each team builds their component using their web technology of choice and wraps it inside a Custom Element
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by aaimnr 9y ago
Mark Seemann, TFA's autor wrote a highly praised book Dependency Injection in.NET and then slowly gravitated towards F# and Haskell. He presents lot of perspectives on FP often in the context of OO alternatives making it easier to appr
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by aaimnr 9y ago
> Let's say you're writing a crud app on an express server that communicates via http to a database service. As a side note - a 'database service' that's only job is to serve as an HTTP wrapper over DB seems like
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by aaimnr 9y ago
From TFA: "I don't think anyone should approach management as a thing they move in to permanently. It's psychologically disfiguring." Such a great quote. The longer I only do management-only work, the more anxiety creeps
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by aaimnr 9y ago
Slatestarcodex in the article cited here multiple times made a point that men didn't push out women out of other high paying fields like law or medicine. If the theory is right, why did it only happen in IT?
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by aaimnr 9y ago
I stumbled upon this edit war concerning Huffman Coding article on Wikipedia [1], where the ANS algorithm author (Jarek Duda) justifies his edits back in 2007 as a way to "shorten the delay for its [ANS] current wide use in modern comp
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by aaimnr 9y ago
>Being one of the most expressive and efficient (I am not talking about clock cycles here) languages I've used "Productive" seems to be the right word here.
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by aaimnr 9y ago
It may be a creep in the sense that otherwise it would be a truly public space rather than closed private one. The government may be treating it as a kind of 'outsourcing' and public space gets gradually privatised. So it's n

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