hcta

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by hcta 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
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by hcta 8mo ago
The figures (150 verbal IQ, etc.) seem to be plucked out of thin air, and the central idea---that there would be an IQ 'threshold' separating people who can be successful/good writers from those who can't---similarly bac
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by hcta 10mo ago
Trying to show off how smart one is is probably part of the motivation behind many interesting comments posted on here, and more generally, a big motivation behind a huge number of the useful things people do. Doing it in a non-obvious way
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by hcta 10mo ago
I located this course https://github.com/ATOMSLab/LFSE2024 with video lectures @ https://www.youtube.com/@tylerjosephson8860 . Let us know if it's good
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by hcta 1y ago
This guy was (is) a whole other level of genius.
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by hcta 1y ago
if you're going to claim that something is not a valid translation of a word, you should probably know what it means first--duh?
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by hcta 1y ago
> We recruited a total of 54 participants for Sessions 1, 2, 3, and 18 participants among them completed session 4. > We used electroencephalography (EEG) to record participants' brain activity in order to assess their cognitive
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by hcta 2y ago
They have each made the individual choice not to invest more effort in solving the case, the same as you have probably done.
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by hcta 2y ago
"so-and-so is crazy, so nothing they do can be explained" is right up there with intelligent design as a useless paradigm for understanding the world.
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by hcta 2y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loo#English
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by hcta 2y ago
i have a local llm installed already but thanks
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by hcta 2y ago
Then let us not descend to the level of our inferiors but maintain an intelligent standard of discussion. There is no reason to cry whataboutism which is what you are doing here in a roundabout way.
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by hcta 2y ago
The idea of "whataboutism" as something not "okay" is a rhetorical manipulation tactic.
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by hcta 2y ago
1. what you're describing as a "file" is really no different from a "password". I assume you're choosing to call it a "file" because you're picturing generating some huge blob, but a randomly gen
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by hcta 3y ago
should've just used a neural net
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by hcta 3y ago
you say that like it is a bad thing. Sign me up for the plane of existence without management frameworks please.
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by hcta 3y ago
surely being able to construct a turing-complete computing device is a sufficient condition to qualify as general intelligence, and it seems like a reasonable bar for considering a purported intelligent agent as interesting. > It seems f
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by hcta 3y ago
This post seems almost completely vacuous to me. I guess you could read it to mean that if a person cheats, there must be some "societal problem" causing it. That would seem to imply you believe society could in principle be &#x27
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by hcta 3y ago
Write a manual on how to do it, and then market yourself as a writer. What is your secret?
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by hcta 3y ago
what shenanigans? This reads like a kind of FUD. Once your software has been released under the GPL, you can continue developing it under the terms of the GPL.
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by hcta 3y ago
I wouldn't guess the risk of this causing major damage is greater than >1%, but it still seems like an unnecessary risk. It is a finger searching for a button and there are buttons out there; e.g. if the agent stumbles on code that,
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by hcta 4y ago
It's interesting to me how people will react to something that seems over-the-top ridiculous with responses along the lines of "omg, this has to be satire"---seemingly without considering the possibility that it is, in fact
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by hcta 4y ago
Why did you post it?
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by hcta 4y ago
I don't hold it as axiomatic. You can read arguments for this position in works like On Liberty by Mill https://www.econlib.org/library/Mill/mlLbty.html . But it seems obvious to me that it is true in that if
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by hcta 4y ago
Probably in more or less the same way multiple competing viewpoints and opinions improve the search for accurate information.
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by hcta 4y ago
This does not make sense. One does not have "control" over one's biometrics. The systems that maintain these correspondences belong to other people. Also, people may want to be identifiable, and/or they may want _not_ to
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by hcta 4y ago
I vaguely remember the treatment of statistics in my high school/college science classes where calculus wasn't used. It was confusing and tedious. They have you memorize quantiles of the normal distribution so you can answer quest
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by hcta 4y ago
Can you clarify what point you're making? If you're trying to argue that adding an extra layer can only reduce performance, any cache is an obvious exception to that. Are you saying it's extraneous to use a database as a stor
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by hcta 4y ago
I guess I'm outing myself as an American here, but what exactly are you referring to by "this way", and what part of the thinking in question is distorted/inaccurate?
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by hcta 4y ago
Almost every hard thing people have been doing for 200 years is easier now than it was 200 years ago.

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