drdaeman

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by drdaeman 4d ago
We didn’t have laws but every TV at the dawn of the era came with full schematics and documentation. That said, I’m not arguing that we don’t need laws today - we do, or at least I have no other idea how to do a course correction from where
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by drdaeman 4d ago
Which ones?
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by drdaeman 6d ago
Aren’t we all living with an illusion of intentionality of our actions, and the uncanniness of a machine is because it doesn’t pretend? Meaning is listener’s own perception (author’s own intent is a suggestion at best - if I’d be paid a dol
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by drdaeman 6d ago
Two completely different stories. One is public data scraping, another is private conversation scraping (where they're a first-party to the conversation). The key difference is that in the former case, no one made any promises, in the
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by drdaeman 6d ago
Isn't modulo-twelve (if we ignore microtonal) the core underlying structure, and then you pick scale (like 2 2 1 2 2 2 1) and a key as a mapping, and then use degree as an 1-based index into the scale? I don't really know a thing
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by drdaeman 7d ago
Same exact duration for all authors: as long as they’re around and capable of caring. It’s not the same when duration is expressed numerically, sure. But consider: no life is the same in this way (until immortality is discovered), yet all s
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by drdaeman 11d ago
> The framing of something as a disease Is a well-known cognitive quirk, Sapolsky covered that in “Behave” and “Determined”. As I get it, our morality piggybacks on the sense of disgust from insula activation, which lights up the same wa
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by drdaeman 19d ago
> a computer can never be sad or horny or have taste So far ;-)
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by drdaeman 20d ago
What we need are refinement types, where there’s a base type and a predicate. F* has this: val (/) : int -> (divisor:int { divisor <> 0 }) -> int
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by drdaeman 24d ago
Check out this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402232 both article and comments. There are a lot of knobs to tweak, and some are pretty impactful.
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by drdaeman 24d ago
I’m not sure what kind of peripherals the article talks about, but I’ve had a lot of weird crashes with ASUS MB onboard feature that provides RGB lightning to various fans and whatever. I may misremember the details; it was 6 or so years ag
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by drdaeman 29d ago
“How” as in “what tool” is a different “how” as in “with what intent”. LLM was used to produce a bunch of arguments supporting a pre-intended outcome. Doesn’t matter much whether it was a machine or a human (and whether it was “expert” hims
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
Yea, my bad, that was a brain fart. I guess I was thinking about it from the thing’s perspective rather than owners’.
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
Yes. Although, to be pedantic - stealing relocates (it doesn’t leave one less, it moves the only thing into another person’s possession), while copying duplicates. Copy vs move is IMHO accurate semantics.
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
Read it in the context. The “made up” wasn’t a general statement. No one argues stealing doesn’t exist at all. My friend’s bike was stolen. What’s made up is application of this word to situations that are incompatible with what stealing is
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
No, and we collectively had this decades ago already. “Stealing” instead of “infringement” is originally MAFIAA language intentionally (ab)used to encourage emotional reaction despite original owner not losing their copy. If you broke into
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
ESP32 in my OpenSprinkler pulls the weather (among a few more things it does) just fine and it has 520 kilobytes or RAM total.
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
Network isolation, unless it's true airgapping (and then lack of remote access is a feature), relies on router not forwarding traffic where it shouldn't go. Same goes for NVR or intermediate hub(s) (if NVR is somewhere outside of
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, but I think this would be true if "AI" art would have a limited set of distinct styles - and it surely does not. I agree - there are a few distinct neuroslop styles from major models,
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
Agree on the substance, but hate the way things ended up colloquially called. AI art is human art. It is based on human intent and choices (and in non-trivial cases it’s a lot of effort to get the machine to produce something that resembl
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
From the first principles, I suspect it’s an attitude thing, management-to-individual-contributors relationships. If management treats ICs as equals and tries to form a healthy human-centric culture, you get unlimited PTO. If the management
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
I don’t think it’s about powerful people or personality cults. The same dynamic surely can be observed in any communities (interest groups, even families), where people take sides based on personalities rather than facts about events alone.
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by drdaeman 2mo ago
I’m not sure how you interpreted it all, but neither I was talking about any foreseeable future (I explicitly said that I dunno if LLMs are somewhat relatable to all this), nor I’m a religious type (I merely used a term “spirit” because thi
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by drdaeman 2mo ago
And so we’re essentially back to <font color=red size=10>?
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by drdaeman 2mo ago
> You’re not talking about a transcendence, or at least, not one that I recognise. Does the gap scare you somehow? Why? Any artificial biology (and whatever hosts a live human spirit automatically becomes a life form - thus, a biology) i
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by drdaeman 2mo ago
> Would you want the machine to write literature if, hypothetically it could write indistinguishably from any great writer? I guess not. I sure would. If you want a religious tone to it… It would be a signal suggesting that the human spi
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by drdaeman 2mo ago
The article allows for breathing and blinking, but has an odd constraint of “don’t move”, which AFAIK will make one fight their own neural system trying to autoregulate arousal. I’m not an expert but in my limited understanding, remaining c
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by drdaeman 2mo ago
There’s no person in case of a fetus.
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by drdaeman 2mo ago
It is mainly so because of lack of education and emotional manipulation into mixing up human biology and human personhood. Heartbeat doesn’t make a person. It’s not even a requirement to be a person (people with continuous-flow artificial h
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by drdaeman 2mo ago
It did not, for example my /home is a btfrs mounted with compress=zstd:3 And some machines I’ve used, had swap on zram…

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