pacificmaelstrm

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by pacificmaelstrm 1y ago
This is an engineer perspective. Reading/studying is only really about learning what knowledge exists so you can find it and employ it later in the service of building something. Trying to memorize many specific details or formulas or
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by pacificmaelstrm 1y ago
The article is not fluent, it's difficult to read and written in broken English. Possibly not written by AI? Understandable enough but difficult and weirdly painful to read. Definitely don't rely on AI to substitute for a lack of
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by pacificmaelstrm 1y ago
Seems like excessive government overreach. Even California hasn't gone so far as to ban mere hiking as far as I'm aware. Failures by the government in forestry management and firefighting shouldn't be used to restrict people&
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by pacificmaelstrm 1y ago
You can just ask chat GTP to help you plan your vacation.
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by pacificmaelstrm 1y ago
Pretty clear that OP signed away his shares and ended up with only 1% of what they were worth. Presumably they told him his shares would be worthless anyway an if he didn't take this "great offer" it would expire when he left
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by pacificmaelstrm 1y ago
Turing test failed, human.
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by pacificmaelstrm 1y ago
Darn
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by pacificmaelstrm 1y ago
My first thought was who could possibly say with a straight face that we are close to super after the spectacular failure of AI to scale up with more compute. Oh right, Sam Altman.
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by pacificmaelstrm 1y ago
Lesswrong: The support group for humans who are bad at the Turing test.
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by pacificmaelstrm 2y ago
"Player Piano"
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by pacificmaelstrm 2y ago
While it's true most people can't fly around the world to shop, e-commerce brings the shops of the world right to their door. And sure, middle class westerners don't have a lot of servants that physically work in their house,
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by pacificmaelstrm 2y ago
Octopus are a tricky case. We just don't know. On the other hand we can confidently say clams don't believe in conspiracy theories. Neither do jellyfish.
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by pacificmaelstrm 2y ago
"conspiracy theory" is usually defined narrowly so that it is invariably something "only other, stupider people believe" I think that's hypocritical.
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by pacificmaelstrm 2y ago
Interesting information but his key point wasn't really presented with any evidence. He didn't make a good case that octopus don't believe in conspiracy theories. How would we know? Instead he assumed they don't becau
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
But there's nothing stopping anyone from making their own website. There are even lots of free options for hosting, the problem is audience, which is captured and driven by platforms. There must be a way to dispense with platforms enti
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
DNA is a form of code, but it doesn't encode programs. Instead, like an STL or STEP file it encodes HARDWARE designs. While you could think of it as encoding infrastructure AND code (as in IaS) you'd need to go beyond that to incl
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
An equally valid and troubling question, doesn't really make your point.
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
His best example of a patient outcome is "patient came to believe in a Higher Power and felt at peace". Why are we being so credulous?
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
Physical damage is not the only kind of damage. I'd be more concerned with psychological damage. People who drink alcohol typically don't go around telling people they communed with entities from another dimension and they realize
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
As I said, rhetoric.
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
It is a very unpopular opinion, I am well aware. Mind-altering drugs are bad. If you have used them, you may have damaged your mind permanently. You wouldn't even know. And you'd even go far as to tell me that it made you smarter&
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
Calm and acceptance are two different things. It's self defeating to judge a situation as "I can't do anything about it I should calmly accept it." You can rarely if ever know with 100% certainty that you "can'
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
Our bodies have the enzymes to process alcohol (as opposed to similar chemicals like isopropyl alcohol) since animals have been ingesting fermented foods since the beginning of time. These rhetorical attacks on Alcohol in an attempt to norm
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
Simple answer, It's not. Approaching a horrible situation with calm acceptance and resignation is pathological insanity. Don't let anyone tell you different. Especially not someone whose mind has been impaired by drugs. Drugs alte
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
Simple answer, It's not. Approaching a horrible situation with calm acceptance and resignation is pathological insanity. Don't let anyone tell you different.
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
How would you know the difference between someone who has to learn and someone who learns without trying? Maybe that they talk about it. Saying "I learned charisma" isn't a charismatic thing to say.
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
I think with AI it's a bit of a different question then space travel. The flip side you have a limited time to add value before the activity is no longer valuable due to AI. In general once a machine can do something (and AI is a machi
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
I feel like this is one of those things you learn pretty early on in your life as a programmer and then just accept it without question and then start adding in superfluous variable declarations and assignments to preserve the behavior you
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
"no stealth in space"
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by pacificmaelstrm 3y ago
"assuming the economy incentivizes efficiency" In the long run it does. Today's stupid rich people are tomorrow's "my grandfather was x and now I'm middle class" Happens more and faster than you think. Eco

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