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by hermitShell 7mo ago
The Sammy Jankis link was certainly interesting. Thanks for sharing. Whether or not AGI is imminent, and whether or not Sammy Jankis is or will be conscious... it's going to become so close that for most people, there will be no differ
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by hermitShell 7mo ago
After looking for a top level comment pointing to why instead of how , I logged in just for this as I could not find one. Extremely bullish on this move, let me try to explain. As most engineers realize right away, it is not going to be
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by hermitShell 10mo ago
If you are interested in UX a youtube series I found enjoyable and thought provoking is "liber indigo" (sorry, on mobile) What comes after the desktop metaphor and mobile? There is VR but... no one is sure it will get anywhere. It
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by hermitShell 10mo ago
I think this is an excellent point. I believe the possibility of 'computing' a conscious mind is proportional to the capability of computing a meaningful reality for it to exist in. So you are begging the question: Is it possible
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by hermitShell 1y ago
This is very fascinating as a limit case, which always serve as a good example of the bound. I think it highlights that “efficiency isn’t everything” just like in so many other systems like healthcare and justice. In this case we could figu
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by hermitShell 1y ago
It would be great to put Carmack and Moxie in a room to discuss low level software.
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by hermitShell 1y ago
To do that we would need society to agree about what the emission cost is . Making electricity so abundant and efficient is probably more solvable. You can’t solve stu… society
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Yes, with pci-e fingers on the ‘motherboard’ of the daughter computer. Like a pci-e carrier for the RPI compute. Good point about high speed networking. I guess that’s a lot more straightforward.
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by hermitShell 1y ago
I don’t know why there aren’t full fledged computers in a GPU sized package. Just run windows on your GPU, Linux on your main cpu. There’s some challenges to overcome but I think it would be nice to be able to extend your arm PC with an x86
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Very much agree, I first encountered the idea of an engineering team ‘diva’ or ‘prima donna’ on the zipcpu blog. The archetype immediately resonated with me because I could see it in myself and in others, especially the high potential, high
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Maybe orange man will abolish the FCC because rules are inefficient
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Suddenly, Microsoft makes perfect sense!
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Point 1 is why growth/debt is not a good economic model in the long run. We should have a care & maintenance focused economy and center our macro scale efforts on the overall good of the human race, not perceived wealth of the few.
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Yeah we’re not likely to ever face such a situation and still even need that many computers. It’s an interesting project though in the sense that someone has a 32 bit OS running on every ISA out there (or even aims to). Interesting but not
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Coming at it the other way, someone is intellectually and philosophically free if they choose to be that way, full stop. They bend their neck to the yoke of an organization in order to gain what they could not gain themselves without access
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by hermitShell 1y ago
It makes sense that fundamental advances have become more rare as our cumulative scientific progress grows bigger. In order to contribute something fundamentally new, people have to travel further / climb higher in order to see past wh
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by hermitShell 1y ago
You know, I didn’t get the joke until you spelled it out so clearly. Thank you. Also I’ve heard comments to the effect that hyper loop and similar companies are basically performative art, a sort of protest against the heavy regulation req
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Is there any evidence towards this allegiance? Why should we attribute to malice what we could attribute to incompetence, or greed?
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by hermitShell 1y ago
As I understand the benefits of electric cars themselves, the burning of hydrocarbons at scale is more efficient than piecemeal. So if the ‘bus’ contained a turbine, there would probably be net benefit. Or a nuclear bus! Plus, even if it’s
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by hermitShell 1y ago
It's a great essay, and I came away with a similar thought. They mention Erdos and applaud his intensity, transparently mentioning that he was an addict to antidepressants and amphetamines, and without the substance abuse he wasn'
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Wouldn’t it be great to enable electric cars to go long distances with platoons? Like a bus system for electric cars to go between cities and charge while you drive. The ‘bus’ is basically a big efficient generator that can charge up the c
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Regarding growth, there are different career phases. For a new entrant to the industry (new grad) or to the company, just executing on any project is growth. How do you do things around here? What technology do you use? Years later the gai
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by hermitShell 1y ago
That’s a very cool abstract, thanks. I suppose it’s the plasticity that poses a pretty serious challenge. Anyway, if this kind of computer was so great maybe we should just encourage people to employ the human reproduction system to make mo
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by hermitShell 1y ago
I have wondered this and occasionally seen some related news. Transistors can do more than on and off, there is also the linear region of operation where the gate voltage allows a proportional current to flow. So you would be constructing a
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by hermitShell 1y ago
I had an incident where an older couple were stopped at a green light, angled down hill, in a snowstorm, with parking brake instead of foot pedal, in a borrowed vehicle. When they asked me for insurance I just dragged it out and made friend
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by hermitShell 1y ago
JVM I think I can understand, but do you happen to know more about LISP machines and whether they use an ISA specifically optimized for the language, or if the compilers for x86 end up just doing the same thing? In general I think the pract
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by hermitShell 1y ago
fantastic project. Do you envision this as living on FPGA's forever, or getting into silicon directly? Maybe an extension of RISC-V?
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by hermitShell 1y ago
100% agree ‘chat bots’ will not be a revolutionary technology, but other uses of the underlying technology will be. General robotics, pharmaceuticals, new matter… and eventually 1st line medicines and law sure, but I sure don’t want doctors
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by hermitShell 1y ago
I enjoyed your thoughts about non linear success and I think there is a sense in which the principle holds. but in both life and Balatro experientially, most win conditions are reached linearly, and the really crazy combos just let you expl
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Agreed, our whole computing paradigm needs to shift at a fundamental level in order to let AI be 'magic', not just token prediction. Chatbots will provide some linear improvements, but ultimately I very much agree with you and the

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