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by subsistence234 5d ago
optimistic in comparison to the alternative, where humans can't understand anything anymore. if a particularly intelligent sixth grader was highly motivated to understand chromatic homotopy and had a highly capable private teacher avai
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by subsistence234 5d ago
>hmm let's see... important applications of math... i guess there's matrix multiplication and fourier transform. anything else? probably not. t. low information voter.
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by subsistence234 15d ago
Post the actual articles that you have in mind. What I've seen is vague slop. A good example is https://richardaragon.substack.com/p/a-universal-prime-funct... describing a supposed "universal prime function&
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by subsistence234 29d ago
does niche coding cause men to transition? does autism cause men to become niche coders and transition? does porn addiction cause autistic male niche coders to transition? does niche coding cause autism, and that combined with porn addictio
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by subsistence234 1mo ago
LLMS aren't the only thing that has changed over time in the way texts are written. if they used older texts as training data, to some extent pangram would just be an age classifier for writing style.
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by subsistence234 2mo ago
The supposed "magicality" of human consciousness is hard to reconcile with evolution -- where on that long path from amoeba to homo sapiens did God (PBUH) implant our connections to the soul realm? Even evolution-deniers run into
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by subsistence234 2mo ago
NP doesn't mean "we don't know a polynomial time algorithm for it", it means "a proposed answer can be verified as correct in polynomial time"
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by subsistence234 2mo ago
"AI solved another conjecture" is exciting for a lot of people who have otherwise no interest in math. So the fact that it goes viral may have very little connection to the mathematical importance of the result.
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by subsistence234 2mo ago
> all Romani and Muslims Not at all. Only the ones that (1) cause constant stress, squalor or random violence, and also (2) aren't citizens of the country. The standards and expectations for immigrants should be higher than the stan
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by subsistence234 2mo ago
Destroying the public space this way results in only the rich being able to escape the constant stress, squalor, random violence. For some reason that's "progressive." If you believe that even the non-rich, of all ethnicities
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by subsistence234 2mo ago
yes, your plan would require extreme levels of oppression. it's a non-starter in anything remotely resembling a democracy. and if implemented, the outcome would still not be what you expect. houses get more expensive due to changes in
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by subsistence234 2mo ago
the article isn't saying you should be scared of chinese models
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by subsistence234 3mo ago
aside from the huge domestic market (or potential in the future), china has built incredibly efficient infrastructure for manufacturing prototyping/production. but it's also thanks to protectionism, and their strictly controlled (
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by subsistence234 3mo ago
a stranger is asking you to risk $100k on his half-baked plan in exchange for nothing, and you say "sure go ahead take my money!"? no. it doesn't work like that in the islamic world. as a borrower who's not allowed to co
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by subsistence234 6mo ago
The regime spent the past 50 years teaching everyone that their nation is just a source of shame and at best just a meaningless social construct, and that their culture and people's history is trash, that really nothing about it is wor
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by subsistence234 6mo ago
Really exposes the current state of journalism in Germany and more broadly Europe: just propaganda and gossip. A functioning "fourth estate" would have reported on this *before* the law was passed.
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by subsistence234 7mo ago
> This isn't X \emdash it's Y! On top of analyzing vast amounts of surveillance data, AI also has to write HN comments defending the mass surveillance! Busy life.
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by subsistence234 8mo ago
it's crypto-fascist misogynoir!
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by subsistence234 8mo ago
yeah it may not be helpful, but at least it's starting a conversation. most people aren't even aware yet, and there's no way to raise awareness without a vacation. for example none of our web designers knows how to put a mess
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by subsistence234 8mo ago
sounds like it's a religious ceremony to you. the purpose of the strike is to increase pressure on the government, you're demanding actions that decrease that pressure, apparently for piety reasons.
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by subsistence234 8mo ago
you're at least 10 years too late with that idea
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by subsistence234 8mo ago
what do you think changed culturally around 2014 (I'd say it started a little earlier, maybe 2011)?
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by subsistence234 8mo ago
Because the German law only harms Germans, whereas the Italian law in question demands global bans.
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by subsistence234 8mo ago
what in the marvel slop redditor fantasy is this?
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by subsistence234 8mo ago
There's no accountability or due process. According to this brilliant law, if some crony with write-privilege adds your website to a list, the whole world has to ban your website within 30 minutes no questions asked.
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by subsistence234 8mo ago
Really? A group of people who were elected by nobody, should, without any accountability or due process, be able to ban any website they don't like from the internet? And not just for Italians but globally? Even if you think this is a
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by subsistence234 8mo ago
where is the mythical land of people that prefer gamey metallic beef?
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by subsistence234 11mo ago
> he is accused of targeted harassment yeah but that's an accusation without basis in reality.
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by subsistence234 1y ago
Is there really a dearth of maintainers for the originals? They already work fine, no? To me it sounds a bit like: "Addition has become stagnant, so we need to re-implement it in higher category theory. Sure, 99% of even research math
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by subsistence234 1y ago
non-LTS release means beta now?

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