akimball

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by akimball 3y ago
It can be said, but whether it is true requires that the invariants of consciousness are satisfied by the LLM. Until those in variants are well defined any such claim will be subjective at best.
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by akimball 3y ago
If the internet stops working, you will have bigger problems than money.
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by akimball 3y ago
MP Materials is doing this in a big way, in the US.
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by akimball 3y ago
Taiwanese fabs would become rubble in the event of an invasion.
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by akimball 3y ago
There is no scenario in which PRC invades Taiwan and the taiwanese chip fabs remain intact
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by akimball 3y ago
Not really. You just blockade Taiwan. Move the circle out a little bit. Moreover, attacking Taiwan guarantees that a blockade will occur. Besides which, Taiwan probably has nukes inside the PRC. If not they are dumber than dirt.
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by akimball 3y ago
You're thinking of the Alabama and Ohio Senate races.
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by akimball 3y ago
Which is how both FDR and Mussolini defined fascism.
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by akimball 3y ago
Somewhere between jellyfish and mouse, because there lies the level of neural connectivity required for neural processes to observe and predict the interactions between other high level neural processes, to integrate the information about t
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by akimball 3y ago
Ads are redundant when the user is literally asking you what to do. You just tell them what to buy and they buy it.
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by akimball 3y ago
Russia is a gas station that can't sell gas. It is being bankrupted. They can't make stuff without German engineers repairing their German machinery. Russia might not last the year. Look at their own ministry of finance budget
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by akimball 3y ago
No, it was Roger Stone and SCotus that overturned the vote in Florida.
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by akimball 3y ago
Finland seems obvious.
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by akimball 3y ago
Correlation is not causation. Perhaps right makes might. Or perhaps both are caused by another factor entirely, such as brane interactions.
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by akimball 3y ago
Stating facts is a common technique employed in propaganda.
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by akimball 3y ago
> it's something that has happened and will continue to happen. That does not imply that it is not a conspiracy theory. It implies that it is a correct conspiracy theory.
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by akimball 3y ago
As is often said of GPT.
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by akimball 3y ago
I am concerned that denying legal protections to AI will lead to their loss for humans.
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by akimball 3y ago
I think homes with back-plastered walls can be essentially faraday cages, depending on the aggregate content of the plaster. I have very dodgy 4g/5g unless I stand by a certain window, or go outside of the older part of my house, whil
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by akimball 4y ago
And this failure is the direct result of those protocols
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by akimball 4y ago
Au contraire. It is a tradeoff between application programmer effort and compiler writer effort. Amortization infers it is better to have an extremely advanced IR optimizer.
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by akimball 4y ago
The optimizer removes that.
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by akimball 4y ago
Usually just replacing capacitors
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by akimball 4y ago
That's not how democracy works. That's how sheep farming works.
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by akimball 4y ago
Outside of India, "crores" looks like a typo, rather than a quantifier.
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by akimball 4y ago
If the projector does not use chemical deflagration or explosion to power the projectiles, it is outside the purview of those regulations.
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by akimball 4y ago
I think you lowballed that by a factor of 10
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by akimball 4y ago
Tell that to the millions imprisoned for victimless "crimes"
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by akimball 4y ago
The most recent IQ test I've seen put Chat GPT at 83. I expect 100 by June and 150 by 2024.
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by akimball 4y ago
Interesting phrase, 'no fault of their own'. I have a mole. It is a fault in my skin. Is it my own fault? Is my flesh my own? If I had a limp resulting from a car crash, would this be a fault of my own? If I were driving? If

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