madaxe_again

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by madaxe_again 3d ago
Thanks - that was an excellent read!
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by madaxe_again 3d ago
I gate it exactly as the parent says - automation only runs between 0530 and 0800, and when we’re home. I literally couldn’t do without HA - I live off-grid, and it manages everything from monitoring water tank levels & running pumps to
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by madaxe_again 3d ago
Yeah! If you’ve got nothing to hide you’ve got nothing to fear! looks at you suspiciously Are those… curtains?
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by madaxe_again 3d ago
They aren’t 20-30 years old - they are 160 years old. Samuel Butler wrote Erewhon in 1872 - which was based on an essay he wrote about RSI and superintelligence - in 1863 .
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by madaxe_again 3d ago
I did similar with our coffee machine a year ago - I was bored of getting home from the school run to a cold pot of coffee because the machine automatically turns off the hot plate after 30 minutes, and it seems there is no such thing as a
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by madaxe_again 4d ago
Yeah, transparency on gifs is binary, so you always had a crunchy edge. Plenty of use cases, but nice looking text wasn't one of them. And position: absolute did not behave the same way across IE, NN, FF, or safari. For some reason I f
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by madaxe_again 4d ago
Basically, it was easier. Or even... barely even possible to do what you describe. Maybe you could, but it would have been nightmarish whack-a-mole, and a good chance that the next update to any given browser would break it completely. In ‘
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by madaxe_again 5d ago
Absolutely you do. I can’t prove that I have cognition. I merely have the impression that I do, and we accept as a general axiom that others do too - but it is not provable. You are examining a system from within the confines of that system
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by madaxe_again 5d ago
And just to ice the cake, after they crashed and caught fire, PF jumped out of the window and abandoned PM to burn.
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by madaxe_again 5d ago
This is obviously wrong. I have no source but it’s self-evident.
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by madaxe_again 5d ago
How about an LLM connected to a robotic arm. What then? As for cognition - can you prove that you possess it, to an external observer? Could you, confined to a box through which you can only communicate through textual messages, prove that
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by madaxe_again 6d ago
“obviously of different kinds” What’s your basis for that “obviously”? You have a unique insight of the phenomenology of duck-ness? You can prove that your consciousness is somehow real, somehow different? A duck synthesises with its cognit
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by madaxe_again 6d ago
There are four Teslas in the village; FSD is likely to be available in six weeks or less, as it’s about to be homologated across the EU - I’m half considering running an informal robotaxi service with ours. And yeah, it ain’t easy for them
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by madaxe_again 6d ago
That really depends on where you live. Where I live there are no taxis, no public transport, no shops or services in the village - you want anything , it’s a minimum 30 minute drive to town - which includes collecting your mail, as they no
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by madaxe_again 6d ago
I dunno. Brasilia is the epitome of a city built by 50s urban planners, was highly structured around the car - and yet they managed to build a metro.
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by madaxe_again 6d ago
Actually, my undergraduate degree was physics and philosophy. And yes, synthesis is synthesis whether a human, a machine, or a duck does it, and people prompt one another all the time - “have you thought about trying X?” Or “I need the TPS
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by madaxe_again 6d ago
That’s Wikipedia I copy pasted but sure, you do you. And yes - without Grossmann, Einstein likely would never have posited relativity. Grossmann literally prompted him, saying “look at this, read that, learn this, then try this approach”. W
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by madaxe_again 6d ago
Uh, he did. Marcel Grossmann. “It was Grossmann who emphasized the importance of a non-Euclidean geometry called Riemannian geometry (also elliptic geometry) to Einstein, which was a necessary step in the development of Einstein's gene
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by madaxe_again 6d ago
But this is what we do. Nobody ever invented or discovered anything in a vacuum - all discovery is synthesis of existing ideas and concepts applied to a novel domain. We laud Einstein for instance, but his work was a logical extension of
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by madaxe_again 6d ago
You do have control over it, but the external pressure to be “normal” is enormous and insurmountable for a majority of people. There’d be no such thing as “normal” otherwise. I look at my cohort who I schooled with, and they are all so terr
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by madaxe_again 7d ago
Because it will create enormous prosperity for capital holders. Everyone else - talk to your congressman. “Vast economic disruption” is not quite the good marketing angle it appears to be.
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by madaxe_again 7d ago
I see it in much the same light - and the spending going into it leads me to infer that those doing the spending see the same thing. Whoever gets to RSI first and has the compute to act on it, wins the future - assuming they don’t lose cont
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by madaxe_again 7d ago
I think we need to worry about paperclip maximisation as much as we need to worry about “Jon is having a bad day so brews up a novel plague”. There are likely ways it can go wrong that we haven’t even considered, too.
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by madaxe_again 7d ago
I was also recently in France, at a very similar affair - little fortnightly village fete, with a band and food and all that. Most everyone over 40 or so, talking. Most everyone under 40, preening and posing. I saw so many people holding pl
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by madaxe_again 7d ago
I’m not sure that informants are the way to go either. More often than not in history, this has just been used as a tool to mess with the lives of people you do not like.
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by madaxe_again 8d ago
There won’t be a next 100 years.
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by madaxe_again 8d ago
Did you miss the last 15 years of social media? So many people I just stopped spending time with altogether as instead of being present they’d be posing for their 90th instagram shot by 10am - and then of course they want you to pose, too.
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by madaxe_again 8d ago
The actual money launderers don’t leave honking great big digital footprints everywhere, and so aren’t found by these systems.
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by madaxe_again 8d ago
I live in Europe. I’ve been under investigation for money laundering twice in the last three years - not because I’ve laundered a single dime, but because I have no discernible employment and move large capital sums around the globe almost
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by madaxe_again 8d ago
You don’t. You have RO at the point of consumption. At any rate, it’s our approach, we store 150,000L in a cistern over the winter and use it through the summer. An under-the-counter domestic RO system can be had for like $200, the membrane

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