subjectivationx

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by subjectivationx 4mo ago
Jevon's paradox is a 19th century economic observation about coal that has turned into a meme that people are using to support the most profound bullshit that they already believe to be true a priori. Lawyers are exactly the counter ex
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by subjectivationx 4mo ago
Gold is an even better example. The price has doubled but it takes 10-15 years on average just for the permitting of a new mine in the US. Offshore drilling for oil is a 7-8 year project. People in software I think can't but help to ha
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
Smil to me shows that most people that talk about this subject are completely full of shit. The subject is far too complicated to have any rational discussion on.
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
This is not a personal belief this is a regurgitation of the most standard neoliberal orthodoxy.
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
I think the main mistake with this is that the concept of a "complex machine" has no meaning. A “machine” is precisely what eliminates complexity by design. "People are complex machines" already has no meaning and then a
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
We are paying the price now for not teaching language philosophy as a core educational requirement. Most people have had no exposure to even the most basic ideas of language philosophy. The idea all these people go to school for years and d
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
This is all nonsense. It is like saying the airplane understands how to fly. "You disagree? Well lets see you fly! You are saying the airplane doesn't understand how to fly and you can't even fly yourself?" This would be
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
Everyone reading this understands the meaning of a sunrise. It is a wonderful example of the use theory of meaning. If you raised a baby inside a windowless solitary confinement cell for 20 years and then one day show them the sunrise on a
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
The taste of chocolate is also assuming information-theoretic models are correct and not a use-based, pragmatic theory of meaning. I don't agree with information-theoretic models in this context but we come to the same conclusion. Loss
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
Totally agree. I would never use windows at home but Excel at work is the main reason to ever use Windows. I have Libre Calc installed because I am on mint at home and even if it could do everything excel could do, I don't know how to
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
I have used linux for 10 years now but I think you just have to view a mac mini as the cost of a hardware synth or a guitar. Then all your problems are solved. At this point, I need a nice gpu on a linux machine and a mac mini. It is a drea
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
You are spot on and summed it up perfectly. I am using language models as much as anyone and they work but they don't work the way the marketing and popular delusion behind them is pretending they work. The best book on LLMs and agenti
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
The idea of no social hierarchy is completely absurd. There is even a small amount of hierarchy at our 15 person Thanksgiving family dinner.
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
The problem is Debt to GDP is largely meaningless. It is the total debt that matters. I am sick of reading this bullshit. You don't know what you are talking about and it is just always repeated as a reason to spend more.
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
Searle also has almost 20 books, most written after 1980 and the Chinese room. None that I have read are pop science NYT best seller types. I suspect that is why most people only know the Chinese room. His depth of thought was much more t
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
I am not a software engineer but I am using my own vibe coded video efx software, my own vibe coded audio synth, my own vibe coded art generator for art. These aren't software products though. No one else is ever going to use them. Th
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
I don't think you can really compare because the culture is so different. Before the internet, you weren't going to get famous without being an actor, musician, artist, author, etc. Sam Walton was not famous the way Elon or Jeff B
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
I love chatGPT5 and Claude but they aren't as big of a deal as going from no internet to having the internet. That I think is the entire mistake of this bubble. We confused what we do have with some kind of science fiction fantasy and
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
I suffered through the book and I just think it is a rather boring writing style. The poseur part is that it doesn't matter if you know what is in the book or not. That is actually the interesting part of the book to me but also why it
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
I just assume when I read someone post Dunning-Kruger like this they are trying to make an ironic joke.
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by subjectivationx 11mo ago
I think at some point we will stop pretending we have real AI. We have a breakthrough in natural language processing but LLMs are much closer to Microsoft Word than something as fantastical as "AGI". We don't blame Microsoft