heyjamesknight

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by heyjamesknight 8d ago
Posts about Meta must bring up general distrust of the company and its leadership. Posts about Google have to mention them sunsetting products often. It's just tradition at this point.
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by heyjamesknight 13d ago
I think our AI systems are essentially massive Central Executive Networks. But novel ideas (creativity) come from the Default Mode Network. These are the difference in what Kahneman called System 2&1 thinking and what the ancients calle
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by heyjamesknight 14d ago
Gemini 4 pre training is underway: https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2079594867161022817 My guess is we skip 3.5 and go straight to 4 Pro. With the monthly Flash releases, releasing 4.0 Flash and Pro in 6-8 week
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by heyjamesknight 15d ago
A question I've often wondered: is the "cost" of bad recycling higher or lower than the cost of not recycling? We've moved a few times over the years and it's often surprising what is and isn't recyclable in di
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by heyjamesknight 24d ago
More than half of states have significantly more permissive abortion laws than OP's gone country of Denmark (18 weeks). Most of Europe limits at 14 weeks. You are misinformed.
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by heyjamesknight 24d ago
More than half of the US has more liberal abortion laws than Denmark (25 states and DC). 6 states with a combined population roughly 5-6X that of Denmark legalized gay marriage before your home country. You are misinformed.
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by heyjamesknight 25d ago
The US is objectively one of the most liberal states in the world in all three of those metrics, especially abortion. Who are you comparing us to?
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by heyjamesknight 2mo ago
Arab Orthodox Christians have been saying "inshallah" longer than Muslims have been around.
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by heyjamesknight 4mo ago
No, welfare is when you're given money for value you're not providing. It's a net drain on the system. This is a government entity procuring a product they need from a private entity. You can dislike it, but it's not a
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by heyjamesknight 4mo ago
The Department of War is a customer, there's no handout here. The government does procure services from private firms, this isn't new or special.
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by heyjamesknight 8mo ago
No, I have the feeling that “feeling safe” is “unhealthy” because these online communities children get access to are full of predators who wish them harm. The online communities in question do more damage than good. They encourage isolatio
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by heyjamesknight 8mo ago
But that's the problem: they're NOT safe in those communities. We've created these unhealthy gardens where young people feel safe, removing any reason for them to engage in the real world. They don't thrive in these plac
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by heyjamesknight 8mo ago
You've cherry-picked a situation where there is an obvious social norm being broken. A better example would be going to the park and sitting on the bench you used to sit on with your ex. I agree with GP that this is healthier than lyin
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by heyjamesknight 8mo ago
Coping mechanisms are complex and diverse. The individual in question lost a major source of meaning-making in their life and was struggling to cope with that loss. I don't believe this is any less healthy than other common responses,
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by heyjamesknight 8mo ago
A mentally healthy person wants to be helpful. They want to be seen as helpful and they expect others around them to be helpful as well. This is the foundation of "pro-social" behavior: I benefit the group as much or more than the
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by heyjamesknight 9mo ago
In Positive Psychology, the science of meaning in life (not of life) breaks meaning down into three dimensions: coherence, significance, and purpose. If your job isn’t affording you significance (because your actions don’t “matter” in your
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by heyjamesknight 9mo ago
I love your “clean source of sustainable energy” metaphor. This is a great example of “eudaimonic” well-being, or the idea of “doing well.”
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by heyjamesknight 9mo ago
Hedonic treadmill only applies to hedonia, not the eudaimonia that meaningful work typically brings. “Doing well” doesn’t have the same elastic snap back that “being well” does, and there’s some evidence it can provide a buffer on the hedon
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by heyjamesknight 9mo ago
The center of the normal ditribution is “normal” or “normative.” That’s where the term comes from. It’s like saying we shouldn’t call immigrants “aliens” because that conjures images of space. Where do you think the term comes from?
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by heyjamesknight 11mo ago
Multimodal models aren't really multimodal. The images are mapped to words and then the words are expanded upon by a single mode LLM. If you didn't know the word "duck", you could still see the duck, hunt the duck, use t
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by heyjamesknight 11mo ago
But language is the input and the vector space within which their knowledge is encoded and stored. The don't have a concept of a duck beyond what others have described the duck as. Humans got by for millions of years with our current b
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by heyjamesknight 11mo ago
You’ve said the same thing fifteen times now. I still don’t want to play with you, sorry.
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by heyjamesknight 11mo ago
Okie dokie mate, whatever you say. Best of luck!
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by heyjamesknight 11mo ago
No moral posturing and no insults. Your behavior is just objectively noxious. Not just to me, not just in this thread: the vast majority of your conversations here go roughly the way this one did. A quick glance at your profile shows roughl
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by heyjamesknight 11mo ago
Nah, mate, the conversation never went "beyond my depth." You're just not an enjoyable conversation partner. It doesn't matter how smart (you think) you are. If nobody wants to talk to you, you'll be spinning all th
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by heyjamesknight 11mo ago
I’m pretty sure everyone reading can see which of us is the arrogant one. Good day, sir.
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by heyjamesknight 11mo ago
Look, mate, you can keep jumping up and down about this all you want. But you're arguing science fiction at this point. Not really worth continuing the conversation, but thanks. Best of luck.
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by heyjamesknight 11mo ago
> We don’t yet understand the full physics of the brain, and we don’t fully understand LLMs either. That’s the point. The same kind of ignorance applies to both. Yet both produce coherent language, emotion like responses, creativity, rea
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by heyjamesknight 11mo ago
At this point, you’re describing a machine which depends on a level of physics that simply isn’t possible. Even if it were theoretically possible to reconstruct the state of a human mind from physical components, we are so far from understa
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by heyjamesknight 11mo ago
You are mistaking the map for the territory. The TERRITORY of human experience is higher dimensional. The LLM utilizes a lower resolution mapping of that territory, a projection from experience to textual (or pixel, or waveform, etc.) repre

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