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by dwd 14d ago
Given the number of neurons, hash collisions are inevitable? /s Our model of the world, and this includes "memories" is very highly compressed, and extremely lossy. We reconstruct everything from what neurons activate when we
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by dwd 17d ago
Bought four Hemnes last year for my sitting room library and various pieces of molded hardwood for a kick board and fascia. Finished up as a single fairly solid built-in bookcase the full length of one wall. The legs allowed for passing wir
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by dwd 19d ago
It could possibly be less nausea-inducing and make the turns less jarring if the follow pespective was slightly elevated and not at ground level.
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by dwd 20d ago
The one to watch is Iluka who received a AUD 1.65b loan from the Australian Government to build the Eneabba rare earth plant, currently to come online in 2027. Their stockpile is xenotime and monazite and Yytrium and Erbium are a priority f
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by dwd 20d ago
Be careful not to equate conscious with subjective experience. - Conscious is the substrate or architecture of the system. - Awareness is the active resolution of inputs (external and internal) against that system's model. - Subjective
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by dwd 20d ago
The drone footage out of Ukraine was like this. Some of it is cartoonish or like watching an action movie or video game. It's when you recognise the humanity of the individual - for example IR footage of a soldier trying to sleep in a
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by dwd 27d ago
Consciousness is a bucket of things. Putting subjective experience to the side, the main components could be: - An internal model that is actively revised (the Markov blanket/s) - A continuing active resolution of inputs (either sensor
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by dwd 1mo ago
The visual alien form is superficial, the underlying cognitive process is very much the same, but different. McGichrist write about the Master and the Emissary to explain the conscious and subconscious human brain. The octopus takes this to
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by dwd 1mo ago
I don't have a problem with hallucinations, rather the confabulations. We want AI to make predictions under uncertainty that could be wrong. What we don't need is getting know facts wrong. One of the best responses I got from Chat
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by dwd 1mo ago
Generally dreams are simply the continuing resolution of externalities against your brain's internal world model. When dreaming they become unhinged from reality because there is no actual sensory checks to keep them grounded. A simple
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by dwd 1mo ago
Silk was always a bad person, but had the best dialog. In the Sparhawk series, Faran was the likeable character.
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by dwd 1mo ago
Also Kurt Cobain, as noted by Rick Beato: "It doesn't matter if people know what they are doing, if they can just do it intuitively" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1ZnWc-sFd0
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by dwd 2mo ago
You have to question what of the person filtered through to their works. As a teen I voraciously read my way through the Belgariad, and later the Malloreon, Elenium and the Tamuli. Shocked to learn that Eddings and his wife were both convic
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by dwd 2mo ago
A system is conscious if: (1) It maintains an internal model whose states are revised through interaction with constraints not fully determined by the model's own prior state. Constraints normally would mean reality (the world outside
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by dwd 2mo ago
Nicely done. Going offroad I discovered some nice physics like hitting a small rock at speed and it bouncing along beside me for a few seconds, or nearly getting stuck on the lip of something resembling a volcano. Only suggestion would be s
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by dwd 2mo ago
When someone outs themself as a panpsychist I find myself reading everything with a large degree of skepticism. "The first step is defining what "consciousness" is!" This is a compression I've been working on. There
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by dwd 2mo ago
Working in Malaysia in 2001, had to fireup some backup fans some weekends, as the building owner would switch off our floor aircon. Fortunately lived in the neighbouring residential tower so it wasn't far to walk to check on it. Eventu
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by dwd 2mo ago
Been doing something similar and I would add that playing multiple LLMs off on each other gets a far superior result. One LLM would suggest a tightening of a particular axiom, and I would ask the rest what the consequences are: what is gain
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by dwd 2mo ago
Actually quite a lot in the last week, as it seems to frame the responses better. I complimented ChatGPT yesterday for saying "I don't know". It thanked me for observing that, before explaining in depth why that was the most
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by dwd 2mo ago
yes, the early days when the web was mostly decentralised and members of a community had their own individual sites.
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by dwd 3mo ago
Since when has Palantir sold surveillance software? They sell data integration software and they don't store, transfer or share customer's data. If surveillance software is your issue, then companies like Cisco or Huawei are prov
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by dwd 3mo ago
Absolutely. Woodworking was part of my first 3 years of high school, but it was mainly about learning safety and tool usage and not planning, estimating, selecting or purchasing timber. These days I only want to go to the lumberyard once fo
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by dwd 3mo ago
Someone in ICE uses Microsoft Excel to maintain a list of people who they believe should be send to an internment camp. Therefore Microsoft is an accessory to that? Where do you draw the line? Are we arguing there is a level of software cap
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by dwd 3mo ago
Unless you have endless budget, many things can be one-shot. You can't do a test run first, or roll back a cut if the length is too short. You can patch misplaced nail holes, or re-dig a hole (messing up filling a hole with concrete is
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by dwd 3mo ago
Shrapnel is an issue, and depends what it takes out. Take this incident for example: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-...
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by dwd 3mo ago
It already is in a lot of jurisdictions for photo-shopping photos. Doctoring a photo slightly to make an area look larger, or just using a wide-angle lens though it can cause visible distortion. Removing unsightly poles, signs, trees, neigh
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by dwd 3mo ago
Had to laugh at the disabled contextmenu. Site is built with Bootstrap 5 fwiw.
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by dwd 3mo ago
Same, sprained my wrist/forearm a while back and couldn't rotate it without pain or take any weight palm up. Couldn't even rotate a door knob. It wasn't until I pushed through with weights, avoiding any underhand grips o
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by dwd 3mo ago
This... Gemini will ask for the specific images it needs to see and show you examples of what each slice will look like. But unlike the specialists who often come across as abrupt and rush you, Gemini will happily take you on a deep dive an
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by dwd 3mo ago
Maybe because Albanese stands for nothing, though deep down he does what the unions tell him to do, which makes him left-leaning rather than centrist. His centrist positioning is more to do with appeasing vocal boomers than anything else, a

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