axlprose

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by axlprose 3y ago
Your guess is about as good as anyone else's at this point. The best we can do is attempt to put safety mechanisms in place under the hood, but even that would just be speculative, because we can't actually tell what's goin
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by axlprose 3y ago
Disincentivizing it from saying mean things just strengthens it's agreeableness, and inadvertently incentivizes it to acquire social engineering skills. It's potential to cause havoc doesn't go away, it just teaches AI how to
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by axlprose 4y ago
The "Grokking _" series by Manning is also along similar lines.
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by axlprose 4y ago
Hm, the only Alice in Wonderland themed CS book I recall, is "Foundations of Databases" which has sections on datalog : http://webdam.inria.fr/Alice/
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by axlprose 4y ago
I would think "The Unix-Haters Handbook" certainly qualifies: https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
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by axlprose 4y ago
HN is probably the last place I expected to run into a LoS reference, so I'm pleasantly surprised. In keeping with that topic, 'The Unseen Realm' by Michael Heiser (OT and ancient language scholar) is also worth checking out
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by axlprose 4y ago
Unless you have a specific set of scathing reviews in mind, the reviews of it in the literature don't really appear to match up with that characterization very much: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.108
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by axlprose 4y ago
> Just like the left/right brain. To clarify, popularized over-simplified descriptions of the left hemisphere being "analytical" and the right hemisphere being "creative" are inaccurate, but left/right hem
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by axlprose 4y ago
Yes, I'm inclined to believe such an "in-between" might possibly arise from Iain McGilchrist's line of research into the difference between the brain hemispheres and the relatively recent dominance of left-hemispheric th
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by axlprose 4y ago
> People who think otherwise probably don’t understand why people like javascript and python and will never write any product that catches on. Ironically, this has been posted on a popular site written in a dialect of scheme: http:&#x
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by axlprose 4y ago
Reminds me of the SICP lecture[0] where Hal Abelson introduces the concept of linguistic abstraction (or Stratified Design[1]) as an alternative to the approach of decomposing a program into a tree of well-specified sub-components/task
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by axlprose 4y ago
I find it somewhat amusing that this view is now gaining traction on the same site that was originally deeply influenced by "The Blub Paradox": http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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by axlprose 4y ago
Begrudgingly accepting the mainstream way of doing things sounds a bit more in line with the blue pill than the red pill to me, idk. Though I guess realizing the silliness of the whole situation would give it a bit of a purplish tint maybe.
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by axlprose 4y ago
When taking into account the total amount of time involved in a traditional multi-round interview process (which can potentially go on for months depending on the company), the travel time required for any in-person interview rounds, and th
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by axlprose 7y ago
Well, the original context here was about comparing python to fortran, which also doesn't fit this "competitor" criteria. It's an apples to oranges comparison, sure, but that's the way this whole discussion started.
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by axlprose 7y ago
> What about the hypothesis that focusing on empathy is the problem, rather than its application the cure? This is the thesis of the aptly named book "Against Empathy" by Paul Bloom. I always highly recommend it to everybody w
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by axlprose 7y ago
> particularly Haskell programmers, seem not to care about readability and maintainability Say what you want about the foreign-ness of the syntax, but Haskell code is some of the most maintainable code out there. I can often times dive
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by axlprose 8y ago
> If you use how you drive only to predict likelihood of car accident that's ok. We may say that now , but what if later some algorithm finds there's a hidden correlation between driving performance and race/gender? will
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by axlprose 8y ago
> I was raised atheist and I've always felt like a believe in the supernatural doesn't mix with an intellectual, scientific view on the world. This is of course completely due to my upbringing; there are plenty of great scient
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by axlprose 8y ago
I clearly stated: > in the time it takes you to "research" whether a book is worth your time or not, you could've already read a couple chapters of it Meaning that there would be no actual trade-off in the time invested
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by axlprose 8y ago
by previewing/skimming them first? I don't get how this is some big black/white issue. You don't have to finish every book you start, nor do you only have to read a single book at a time, and you can listen to audiobooks
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by axlprose 8y ago
Forgot to respond to this particular point: > I think you're also wrong about its aims and methods. I once again very well might be, but I should highlight the fact that "good intentions" alone are not enough to produce
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by axlprose 8y ago
> That you now disdain the details as "minutia" [sic] goes a long way to explaining not only why you can't fathom it, but why you probably never will. It could be that, or it could be that I simply disagree philosophical
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by axlprose 8y ago
> If you can't fathom what this has to do with race, I'd suggest you haven't studied the topic enough Unfortunately I have studied it a fair amount, and I still don't see it. What I do see is a lot of opinionated hi
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by axlprose 8y ago
> Your experience counts because it's your experience. But it doesn't say beans about privilege as a system. Your attitude, does, though. You're shocked and angry that a minor slip-up might end up with you out on the stre
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by axlprose 8y ago
> if the leanings are genetic, why a change over the course of one or two generations? A trait not being the direct result of nurture does not imply it's the result of a traditional long generic process, and this is something that
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by axlprose 8y ago
is there a reason why you're so intently focused on the metric of intelligence here, as if it's the end-all-be-all of psychological factors? I work in personality psychology research, so this whole IQ-centric line of reasoning is
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by axlprose 8y ago
Beautiful Racket[0] is a good starting point that covers a lot of nice small examples that incrementally build up your understanding of the different components involved in making languages. And it uses Racket[1], which incorporates the ide
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by axlprose 8y ago
> How did we get to the state where the "truth" is such an elusive concept? Look into the fields of epistemology and the philosophy of science, in particular the works of Karl Popper such as The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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by axlprose 8y ago
> Yet when we talk about an environment needing to be politically neutral, then their opinion must be treated with equal weight. No, that is absolutely not how science works. There's a reason why scientists undergo a peer review p

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