pretendscholar

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by pretendscholar 9d ago
Using a shovel means you give it credit for the hole?
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by pretendscholar 2mo ago
Why do that when steel is lighter, easier to clean, easier to maintain?
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by pretendscholar 2y ago
It’s funny though you can learn to visualize in chess through solving puzzles. I couldn’t do it at all at first but after awhile it clicked and I could just move pieces in my head.
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by pretendscholar 2y ago
Let me just spin up a nuclear powerplant on my laptop here
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by pretendscholar 2y ago
They should call it non-translating-to-protein-but-probably-has-some-function DNA
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by pretendscholar 2y ago
Okay yes so not really having an artists vocabulary I couldn't compress it as well as someone who has a better understanding of Starry Night. An artist that understands what makes Starry Night great could create a work that evokes simi
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by pretendscholar 2y ago
When we say life on earth we mean human life and civilization. Prokaryotes, while alive, are not really what people mean. Yes they would survive asteroids, nukes, possibly nanobot swarms.
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by pretendscholar 2y ago
They are in 0g environments presumably having 1-6th isn't as bad and there might be ways to prevent/mitigate those issues.
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by pretendscholar 2y ago
That wouldn't prevent one off extinction type events like asteroids. We can improve our understanding of ecology by trying to design such systems for lunar colony artificial biospheres. I do agree that we should better manage our impac
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by pretendscholar 2y ago
Distributing human populations to ensure survival. With current tech the lunar colony couldn't be self-sustaining but the ideal is that humans would be able to propagate and sustain themselves outside of Earth so that a single event co
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by pretendscholar 2y ago
The best compression is some form of understanding
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by pretendscholar 3y ago
They don’t actually share an alphabet if the letters don’t correspond to the same sounds.
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by pretendscholar 3y ago
I should say a lot of this is internal as a form of social signaling about worldliness. Also not against loan words its just that you should adjust loan words and concepts to fit the phonetics and grammar of the language.
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by pretendscholar 3y ago
One of the most annoying things about speaking the dominant world language (obviously it is also great in many respects) is that there is some pressure to change your language rather than just adjusting the sounds and spelling to the pre-e
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by pretendscholar 3y ago
What exactly are these first principles everyone keeps talking about? Kind of like how everyone keeps talking about updating Bayesian priors without ever actually using bayes rule.
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by pretendscholar 3y ago
Preferably not all at the same time
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by pretendscholar 3y ago
sonsick?
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by pretendscholar 3y ago
As an amatuer I think Markov chains are explicitly a crude frequency association whereas what exactly a neural network is storing to predict the next token involves stored representations in neural weights which can be far more nuanced.
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by pretendscholar 3y ago
Furthermore the man on the scale is faced the other way and wouldn’t know someone is stepping on the scale. There’s an element of theory of mind there. You would have to understand that the man on the scale is unaware of Obama’s action.
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by pretendscholar 3y ago
Bot detected
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by pretendscholar 3y ago
Lol what would they even use to measure a million of a currency in De Tocquevilles time?
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
Make models that work without freeloading.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
I’m not sure I understand a definition of AI that doesn’t include the ability to generate things.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
Basically the point is to be funny about it or use it as a generator for a new topic. Skill at conversation is almost topic agnostic. Entertaining people can be entertaining about almost anything.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
Lol I think you are missing the point. It could even be better to not know and argue about it for the purpose of conversation.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
So now there is zero pretense about OpenAI being any kind of altruistic force for good.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
Height and basketball skill are very highly correlated especially at the higher end. Something like 25 percent of 7 ft tall men between the ages of 20 and 40 are in the nba.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
Take your pick. Even just in the tech sector in silicon valley there are many examples of collusion. Mind you this involves some of the most desirable employees on the planet. But back to the central point the basic nash equilibrium is in t
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
That's a theory that only models certain market conditions. In practice there is an information asymmetry (contrary to the presuppositions of the Nash Equilibrium) and often the employer side has a small number of companies so coordina
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
I’ve used plausible but wrong human code too. I understand the difference is scale but it’s worth remembering that people write answers like this too

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