feoren

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by feoren 5d ago
Yeah, I'm so tired of people moaning about how huge swaths of Earth's ecosystem are being destroyed and rendered uninhabitable to humans, how secret police are murdering Americans in the streets, how the president is a child rap
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by feoren 5d ago
> 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 ... = 2 It's not necessarily clear that this statement requires infinity, if you're willing to treat "... =" as a shorthand. You might prefer something like "1 + 1/2 + 1&
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by feoren 5d ago
Really trying to assume good faith here, but it's hard ... We have record high levels of people needing support at the same time we have record high levels of spending on that support? What an outrage! Obviously nothing is working and
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by feoren 5d ago
These exemptions are not granted based on logic or precedent. "Less dirty" has nothing to do with it. They're entirely based on open bribery. This will be granted to any industry that bribes the administration enough. What&#x
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by feoren 7d ago
> 2) resist the urge to impart correlations into the generation I think the opposite. The more dimensions you have, the more "invalid space" there should be. Otherwise you end up with giant dinosaurs with tiny feet and fairy wi
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by feoren 12d ago
> Lightspeed intelligence ... biology might also be able to evolve computation at the speed of light I feel like this is dramatically missing the point. It is trivial to come up with a communication system where signals travel at the spe
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by feoren 14d ago
You've taken the understanding back out of the person's brain again. Remember, the whole experiment is to try to claim that there is no understanding , anywhere. Yes, I actually think Google Translate basically "understands&
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by feoren 14d ago
This is a great illustration of why most database designs are so bad. Hear me out. I think you can imagine a situation where you end up with a table named "Salad" (or "Salads", or maybe even "SALADS" if you&#x2
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by feoren 20d ago
So you could put this person in a room with a bunch of native Chinese speakers, and he could hold conversations fluently with all of them. Yet you claim he doesn't understand Chinese? How can you possibly defend that? This is very clos
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by feoren 20d ago
Yes, it's harder to evaluate whether someone can visualize well, but that does nothing to invalidate my point. Have you actually dedicated significant time to trying to learn how to visualize? I suspect that if you did, you'd real
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by feoren 20d ago
The point is that Searle's entire exercise is to show that there can be execution without understanding, and he does this by creating an agent whose only purpose is blind execution of rules. Since this agent doesn't have the under
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by feoren 20d ago
Here's my problem with this: take an fMRI of a bunch of professional jugglers while they imagine juggling. Now take an fMRI of a bunch of non-jugglers while they imagine juggling. I promise you they will be strikingly different, with t
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by feoren 20d ago
I think it is a skill you can practice, but I also think you're under-estimating how "visual" these visualizations actually can be. A question I find useful in these discussions is: how similar for you is the experience of v
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by feoren 20d ago
> If someone is born without a sense of smell, they don't have people question if they really can't smell anything or if it's a skill issue. You're talking about something that affects 1 in 10,000 people and is very e
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by feoren 20d ago
The problem with philosophy is that someone can present an argument that is pretty dumb, everyone can point out it's dumb, people can show evidence that it's dumb, reason through how dumb it is, and publish articles about the many
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by feoren 27d ago
> Unless things change, not everyone is going to benefit from AI. What are you doing today to end up on the team that wins? It is going to be a tiny minority of people who "win". The other 99.5% of humans will just be losers
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by feoren 27d ago
And you think that once the poor are no longer needed by the rich, the rich will decide to just give them money anyway? We already have dedicated campaigns to make sure people die sick and homeless on the streets when they become obsolete.
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by feoren 27d ago
There has already been a formally verified proof of the Collatz Conjecture. The AI agent formally verified it by exploiting previously undiscovered bugs in Lean. The Collatz Conjecture is still unsolved. > Let's say tomorrow someone
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by feoren 2mo ago
I used to go out dancing 4 nights per week. I had to stop because I had kids, but there are still thriving dance places around. It's still very possible if you live in a big city. I highly recommend trying it.
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by feoren 2mo ago
> I'm no business genius, but you'd assume that investors are. Absolutely not a reasonable assumption at all. Most people are not very good at their jobs. > What's the steelman argument here? If you're right about
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by feoren 2mo ago
> decide on a whim that a given word should be replaced with a more 'advanced' alternative without knowing what you'll find or understanding the nuances of your pick. From the article: > One really would have to have a
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by feoren 2mo ago
> people here are accepting things Question: what does not accepting these things look like? Because voting, protesting, donating, and lawsuits haven't gotten anywhere. What are you suggesting we actually do?
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by feoren 2mo ago
> I'm glad people like you downvote me HN doesn't let you downvote people who respond directly to you. Don't make assumptions like that.
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by feoren 2mo ago
Because causation != correlation. This could just as easily be explained as "severe depression has a genetic factor".
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by feoren 2mo ago
"Atheists are mentally incapable of handing psychedelics" is certainly a take.
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by feoren 2mo ago
I love the implication that thousands of people, from a broad spectrum, who all had the same negative experiences with what was obviously a serious endemic problem with the site, all just needed to understand the policy better. That was cle
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by feoren 2mo ago
"You can't possibly be right about something being mean, because you're negative about things". Do I have your argument correct?
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by feoren 2mo ago
As much as I hate the veneration of Steve Jobs, this is one thing he was good at. Does anyone seriously think the iPod and iPhone would have ended up the way they were if he was putting half-assed music players with bare wires in the hands
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by feoren 2mo ago
> Turns out I have ADHD You just magically found this out when the Mental Health Diagnosis Fairy visited you one night? You spent thousands of dollars for a neuropsych evaluation where the result was 40% reality, 40% chance, and 20% how
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by feoren 2mo ago
> If you never ship, how can you iterate? Our discipline has swung way too far in this direction. The useful insight of "watch your users use your product -- you will always be surprised about something" has turned into &quot

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