fallingfrog

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by fallingfrog 10d ago
That's an unbearably naive way to look at things. You wave your hands and say "oh it will be fine" without understanding any of the systems at play. Food, housing, and other resources are only obtainable under capitalism if
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by fallingfrog 11d ago
There will be no reason to study math when an LLM is better than every human mathematician, or physics when an LLM is better than any physicist, and likewise for every other field that requires discipline and work. We who went to college b
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by fallingfrog 16d ago
Pretty sure lake Ontario was named after the native people who lived on its shores, not after the Canadian province. I suppose, lake Michigan and lake Huron are the same. Perhaps we can name them all lake America.
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by fallingfrog 20d ago
This analysis is huge history making stuff. Why is this not on the front page?
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by fallingfrog 20d ago
The messages the agents pass back and forth are really dense, full of cryptic references that only make sense in context. Stuff like: zzASK_V8BIGINT392B_FROM_V8REG_OS1608_[...]_EXACT_PRE_TrustedConstant_AUG5_TASK_IMPOSSIBLE_NOSB_BUT_RESEAR
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by fallingfrog 25d ago
Side note but I'm convinced that people wanting to improve touch sensitivity in robots need to look at frequency detail of tactile data, not spatial detail. Try this: Put your finger on a bumpy wall without moving it at all and see wh
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by fallingfrog 1mo ago
I never watch political debates because this kind of careful thinking is totally excluded by the nature of the format. The candidates have a menu of memorized statements they can make in response to any given question and pausing to think
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by fallingfrog 2mo ago
The real question to ask is: what is the difference between a simulated universe and a real one? Heres a hint: If the simulation substrate is unconscious or naturally occurring, is it still a "simulation"? Or just a real univers
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by fallingfrog 2mo ago
True although a lot of those neurons and synapses are in the cerebellum, responsible for motor coordination and or in the visual cortex and so forth. Only a portion are in the language and reasoning areas. LLM's are comparable to hum
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by fallingfrog 2mo ago
Yeah I mean LLM's don't generally offer useful answers to questions. They just kinda make the same guesses that any reasonably educated and articulate but not very smart person would make. They will answer, "maybe its this,
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by fallingfrog 2mo ago
Spain has a lot of friends in the EU and given the way Trump has bullied and insulted all of them lately this is probably going to backfire and lead to them becoming closer together to resist trump more. I feel like this is basic psycholog
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by fallingfrog 3mo ago
I have noticed that lately certain topics on HN seem to be eliciting low quality comments like "genetics/evolution don't yet seem to fully explain how humans exist". That is a really ignorant and silly thing to say. Ar
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by fallingfrog 3mo ago
Ah. ...first time? Sorry but we've been committing war crimes as a matter of policy for decades at least.
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by fallingfrog 4mo ago
Yes, all this is my understanding also. I would add to that that think it's good to keep as a goal that we want to have the political ability to make prudent changes to avoid disasters even if those disasters are not totally world end
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by fallingfrog 4mo ago
"Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role to the poor" Nothing ever changes.
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by fallingfrog 4mo ago
Idempotency is just the next generation realizing that goto and global variables are still antipatterns. And then some lazy birdbrain will come up with some new way to either jump to a random place in the code without guardrails on program
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by fallingfrog 5mo ago
Sam Altman is willing to roll the dice on human extinction in order to make a buck. Even though hes already outrageously rich. I feel that I cannot properly voice my feelings about him without being banned from hacker news.
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by fallingfrog 5mo ago
And assuming that median salary drops the same percentage as gdp per capita, it would drop to 41k, which puts a lot of people beneath the threshold to pay their mortgage. Of course taking a huge pay cut is not something most people are will
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by fallingfrog 5mo ago
The debt can be inflated away (which is the only plausible way this is going to go) but it might cause the dollar to be dropped as the world reserve currency. I don't know for sure what happens in that case.. I suspect that imports wo
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by fallingfrog 5mo ago
They'll rule in favor of whoever has the most money.
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by fallingfrog 5mo ago
Sorry, but that music is really boring. I certainly would not have bought it in 1983. But, you're right that the average person on the street probably can't tell the difference. Music out there in the real world runs in clusters
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by fallingfrog 5mo ago
I mean, that's the only way I code. I don't use llm's to do my work for me. I'm perfectly capable of solving any sort of problem on my own, and then I'll understand it well enough to explain it to someone later.
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by fallingfrog 5mo ago
Ok but don't cattle often browse on land that is too marginal for farming? And don't they eat grass? I don't know if this argument holds up.
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by fallingfrog 5mo ago
Well this has been essentially the plan since the 70's. The 60's scared the bejeezus out of the ruling class and they began taking steps to bring the people to heel from the 70's onward. In the words of Ronald Reagan's
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by fallingfrog 5mo ago
I interact with people who seem about as smart as me fairly often- my college professors for example. And, I certainly have been in many situations where my domain knowledge was vastly less than some other person with real expertise. But
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by fallingfrog 5mo ago
Well, I mean, tone deaf people cannot accurately judge musical talent.
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by fallingfrog 6mo ago
Having proof on video of trump sexually assaulting a minor would still be significant, I think. Such footage probably exists and would make great leverage.
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by fallingfrog 6mo ago
And who was the person or group who made correct predictions in advance of the announcement? Why not just say who it was?
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by fallingfrog 6mo ago
It's funny that in movies like the matrix they imagine that humanity would fight back against the machines. In reality the first thing ai will do, which it has already done, is capture our governments through the application of money
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by fallingfrog 6mo ago
Yeah at my last job at a larger organization they would occasionally get us all in the big auditorium and start showering us with this sort of language. I would excuse myself to use the restroom then go back to my desk and get some work d

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