patcon

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by patcon 5d ago
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-prev...
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by patcon 5d ago
You've made me realize much of the value is in trying to port tools and methods from one domain into another. It's that when you realize the analogs across domains on either side of a good metaphor, you realize how investigations
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by patcon 5d ago
> I think he found himself in a situation that he could not cope with in a rational manner. This framing is so generous and I'm grateful for it. Thank you. Makes me optimistic about public discourse to see iterative reframings towar
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by patcon 6d ago
Hey, I retract my comment. I'm a little confused by what to think or feel in all this that's going on -- sometimes I feel hopeful, and sometimes anxious. It's not fair to lash out at strangers who I don't know and should
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by patcon 6d ago
> Analogies are like models, some are useful, but they're all wrong. Very much agree. Every abstraction loses something and so is wrong in some sense, but some shave off in clever places, and allow new shortcut paths of thought and
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by patcon 6d ago
Strong agree. It's the finding of symmetries and folds along non-obvious crease lines, but in semantic space of language <3 It's akin to the amino acid interactions in proteins that hold biological matter together, and determin
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by patcon 6d ago
Have some shame? Or if genuinely not able to feel that, at least minimally perform it? As another poster said, hating the player is acceptable, as is self-hate for the things we must do. We're all complex and can't all make the gr
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by patcon 6d ago
Tests? Not being flippant, but that strikes me as the new surface to maintain to get what RN used to offer
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by patcon 7d ago
I assumed they were referring to social engineering tbh. I do think that's the shortest path to doing anything scary. If you prove to someone that they have reason to fear for their life, there's not much they wouldn't be wil
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by patcon 7d ago
Haha I like this complexity. It's also very "meta" and recursive to be having this discussion about the term "friction" itself...! I hope the irony is at least interesting, and you both feel better and/or worse
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by patcon 7d ago
Aw thanks, that means a lot
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by patcon 7d ago
Ah yeah, as in, you're saying that this is one of those words that's gone down in stock now due to LLM preference for using it? I think that's true I used to like it. I guess I have always liked "quiet" things in wr
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by patcon 7d ago
YES. Well said. This is why I want to know which text is from human thought labour. To read text or to consume outputs of human minds is to learn about those minds and how those minds might work. There's a deep loss in having no mind t
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by patcon 11d ago
wat
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by patcon 11d ago
The Language Organism: The Leiden theory of language evolution https://www.wiedenhof.nl/ul/cil17le.pdf
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by patcon 12d ago
If fighting AI with AI is pessimistic, I don't know what optimism is. That sounds like optimistic to me...!
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by patcon 12d ago
heh, yeah, just "unable to use metaphor effectively" is what I meant :) i guess I'm saying it in a funny way because my brain has always thought about semantic space (and the act/object of conversation itself) in a very
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by patcon 12d ago
fwiw, in relation to a future rogue AI, this is what would be said by both (1) a synthetic fake user and (2) a useful idiot to the malicious AI's objectives. Not saying this is what's happening now, but you should be aware that th
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by patcon 13d ago
Ah, so like the distance between ambition and impact in metaphor/synthesis? I like that.
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by patcon 13d ago
Yeah, I feel similarly, and kinda grieve how this is not longer a valued skill... I think I've cultivated my taste in many important social dimensions through thinking about what is important to leave in docs and in a note. It's a
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by patcon 13d ago
I choose to imagine that you guys are like a cute "opposites attract" Marxist x capitalist power-couple :)
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by patcon 13d ago
It's really interesting to crawl through the web of phrases that seem "common" to each person in their interactions... I suspect if one were to get to the more niche "meme" phrases that people encounter, it starts t
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by patcon 13d ago
This is the comment I was looking for. Thank you
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by patcon 14d ago
I wrote this awhile ago on a social network... i've been trying lately to think how to talk about my creeping fear of LLMs... here's my best effort at explaining the intuition: the words are the map. we've built this map t
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by patcon 14d ago
bingo
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by patcon 14d ago
Yes, this is obviously the ask: why doesn't government unmix the omelet. Your very body unscrambles the omelet and makes you. It's what intelligent things do when they are moving agency into the proper places. what is the purpose
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by patcon 21d ago
Imho they should def be using a separately managed go.nyc.gov or link.nyc.gov DNS record But I appreciate the intent..!
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by patcon 26d ago
I think there's a version of this where you can reasonably say you forgot you'd set this up. Like if they disassemble your whole bag, lay the BLE beacon out, and wipe the phone... You can claim it's a theft deterrent for thie
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by patcon 26d ago
Oh hey, I like this variant! So... both the BLE beacon and the phone have a faraday cage, and if they ever appear together outside their cages, the phone wipes? Perhaps less likely to go wrong than my original proposal when living normal li
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by patcon 26d ago
Ah I recall I used to see the creator around :) thanks for your work! Regarding the motivation for usbkill mentioned in the article: I too was motivated to think on this stuff in relation to my sense of injustice around Ross Ulbrecht, and w

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