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by passion__desire 2y ago
One thing that could explain this dichotomy is that writing such an article for oil refinery would be expensive task. Because data for such research may not be readily available online (not focussing on intentions). Just a guess. You will f
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by passion__desire 2y ago
Marcus Aurelis wrote in short snippets format. They were notes to himself which were latter organized into flowing organized essays by historians and writers.
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by passion__desire 2y ago
In similar vein, the following question is very apt. Please read the question because it captures all of our intuition when we try to understand something. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/46573/what-are
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by passion__desire 2y ago
Meme-pages are today's "brevity is the soul of wit". They really distill experience and wisdom in nice consumable package.
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by passion__desire 2y ago
I could be wrong in this. But wasn't his writings only for himself and was published only later. How many people really referred to his writings? When was printing press invented? How popular was it compared to Bible? Was it possible f
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by passion__desire 2y ago
If causality holds, acting externally will have changes to internal assessments assuming good faith dialogue. Plus Marcus Aurelius was helpless in that it would take him lot of time and energy to give personal attention to each individual a
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by passion__desire 2y ago
I sometimes think "algorithms" understand me more than other people. Through my actions, they can diagnose me better than any doctor. e.g. meme therapy pages on facebook and tiktoks. I believe a constant stream of "best match
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by passion__desire 2y ago
I think stoic ideas are from an era where their circumstances made them have those principles. We don't live in that era. It is possible to affect others and the associated cascading effect that can bring about a change in others actio
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by passion__desire 2y ago
I used to always wonder how do llms know whether a particular long article or audio transcript was written by say Alan Watts. Basically these kind of metadata annotation would be common while preparing training data for Llama models and so
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by passion__desire 2y ago
Embedding is a transformation which allows us to find semantically relevant chunks from a catalogue given a query. Through some nearness criteria, you would retrieve "semantically relevant" chunks which along with query would be f
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by passion__desire 2y ago
The other point is what if your Company's exit strategy is dependent on going big. Then it is pertinent that you plan for that 0.01% chance because there is no other exit.
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by passion__desire 2y ago
Can you provide a demo output of AI capabilities by using Enron emails dataset and how AI answers those questions asked by lawyers in that case?
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by passion__desire 2y ago
With that money, Larry begged Jensen to take it and deliver him the GPUs. Onto the new grift. In yesteryears it was database and now it is AI. Benedict Evans always compared AI to databases. Oracle of AI is THE Oracle of Databases.
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by passion__desire 2y ago
This idea could also be extended to domains like Art. Create new art styles for AI to learn from. But in future, that will also get automated. AI itself will create art styles and all humans would do is choose whether something is Hot or No
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by passion__desire 2y ago
Mossad said - "Explain to me why it is more noble to kill 10,000 men in battle than a dozen at dinner."
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by passion__desire 2y ago
I think this is the case of both sides knew about each other's plan all along and yet Oct 7 happened. What could be the reason for both sides to execute it. Just to find out what happens?
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by passion__desire 2y ago
I think this process of uncovering your stupidity / confusion could be gradual as Scott makes the point below. It need not be a single "Aha" moment. https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=4974 > OK, but why a doofu
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by passion__desire 2y ago
> this is the way to understand maybe I have this idea. Let's say I want to bring two words (AI and Apocalypse, Yud's thesis ) closer in some semantic space of ideas. How would I do it? I would write thousands of stories bring
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by passion__desire 2y ago
There is modern version of Charles Dickens' way of publishing a chapter each week in the newspaper. Artists on tiktok and instagram and youtube shorts are developing characters with backstories and so on. e.g. https://www.yo
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by passion__desire 2y ago
This was depicted in The Simpsons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_Job > "The Book Job" is the sixth episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It or
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by passion__desire 2y ago
I think you already know this then. https://youtu.be/r84pbPbBAFY
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by passion__desire 2y ago
The way I think is it is like a pattern trying to maintain itself. Pattern is the ghost in the machine. But the pattern isn't significant in itself in that apart from continuing its existence there is no other requirement. It's ju
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by passion__desire 2y ago
We have limited familial / personal attention and care to give to others. Either you could spread it thin by becoming a big leader but no personal depth among fans. Or you could increase depth among very few near and dear.
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by passion__desire 2y ago
I personally find process philosophy to be the ultimate description. i.e. Heraclitus position https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/ Put another way, it's dynamic structures all the way down o
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by passion__desire 2y ago
> the unification is an illusion or an appearance Julian Baggini - The Duality of Non-duality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAiE_ZQhiDs Bundle theories of the self, inspired by David Hume, view the self as a collection
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by passion__desire 2y ago
What about "Lean In"?
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by passion__desire 2y ago
> "financially innocent" and "alcoholly irresponsible". I want to know do these loans also provide for booze or binge drinking that happens in college campuses.
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by passion__desire 2y ago
Looked another way, isn't it great that we, as a society, are allowing such experiments to be conducted. At the same time, training people to build stuff who will go on to build other great stuff even if this particular experiment fail
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by passion__desire 2y ago
Would you stop having smartphones? Because "they" do the same thing as revealed in news reports recently.
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by passion__desire 2y ago
Existence of LLMs make Google search even more relevant for cross-checking rather than less relevant for deep research. Daniel Dennett said we should have all levels of searches available for everyone i.e. from basic string matching to sema

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