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by truculent 27d ago
The problem here is that you still have to do some pointless and tedious conversion between generated data structures and your domain data structures. Maybe with LLMs, some of that tedium goes away, but you still have to test, maintain and
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by truculent 3mo ago
> These theories are flawed in the sense that they cannot account for subjective experience and agency, amongst other things. That agency or free will exists outside of our subjective experience is an assumption; does any given theory ne
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by truculent 3mo ago
The point is that if you have a 10% chance of frying motherboard, at 10 a week, you might expect 1 fried p/w, but it could easily be more which may be catastrophic. At 1000, the number of fried boards will be more predictable and there
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by truculent 4mo ago
Ted Chiang vindicated again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Obje...
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by truculent 6mo ago
Hypothetically speaking, if people in the last group were right, and that is the logical conclusion to be reached from careful evaluation of the evidence, wouldn’t the other positions indeed be ones of wilful denial of the state of the clim
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by truculent 8mo ago
> This isn’t some hipster nostalgia trip or a flip phone for people who think the 90s were peak civilization. This is something way cooler. A phone that gives you back something we didn’t even realize we’d lost. The ability to actually,
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by truculent 9mo ago
> As an example: I'm autistic and I learn inside-out, building larger new concepts out of smaller existing ones; those with Asperger's on the other paw, learn outside-in instead, breaking down larger existing concepts into smal
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by truculent 9mo ago
Privilege isn't just about wealth. The point is that although anyone can ignore the news, the news won't necessarily ignore them!
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by truculent 10mo ago
You may enjoy https://pugsql.org
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by truculent 10mo ago
> For some reason > _brief_ but enjoyable era
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by truculent 11mo ago
> AGI will behave as if it were sentient but will not have consciousness How could we possibly know that with any certainty?
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by truculent 11mo ago
I like all of the above but have no understanding of the BEAM or OTP. Can you recommend a good place to start learning about that?
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by truculent 1y ago
Was it Waterland by Graham Swift (fiction, but has some eel diversions IIRC)?
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by truculent 1y ago
Isn't the issue that historical data is consistent with the overturning model, which adds weight to our assumption that it has previously been stable. These new measurements (and observations?) are consistent with the overturning circu
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by truculent 1y ago
I quite like the idea of ruling that device sellers have to either offer software support, or allow the hardware to be unlocked
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by truculent 1y ago
Lovely idea - thanks
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by truculent 1y ago
Is this you have implemented in practice? Sounds like a great idea, but I have no idea how you would make it work it a structured way (or am I missing the point…?)
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by truculent 1y ago
> I'm guessing even a busy/congested freeway has a greater throughput per lane than transit Not even remotely close: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_capacity
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by truculent 1y ago
Are you suggesting that the authors’ “bounce” would only happen if the energy was not enough to put them into different states?
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by truculent 1y ago
> The black hole universe also offers a new perspective on our place in the cosmos. In this framework, our entire observable universe lies inside the interior of a black hole formed in some larger “parent” universe. What specifically is
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by truculent 1y ago
I think their point is that that is a commit message. You can then review the set of changes as you would a PR.
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by truculent 1y ago
A favourite of mine is the London Underground having warnings about using the escalators, stating that last year there were 100 incidents from people not being sufficiently careful. Given the number of people using the service, this is incr
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by truculent 1y ago
I think the argument is that the real issue is political will and not structural issues in government. Personally, it seems fair to call that political dysfunction too, but it’s reasonable to try and make the distinction.
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by truculent 1y ago
It is centrist because it fails to propose a different way of doing things or structuring society. Just because it’s a liberal vision, doesn’t mean it’s not centrist. There is certainly overlap with right wing elements, too. Although UK foc
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by truculent 1y ago
A nominal increase in value, while becoming more affordable in real terms might be feasible. However to do this would require inflation of other goods, matched by wage rises, which would require actions that the British political establishm
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by truculent 1y ago
Northern Ireland has done much better over the past decade IIRC, with more government spending and investment per head than the rest of the UK. I visited last year and felt the difference was immediately noticeable.
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by truculent 1y ago
Any sufficiently advanced method of programming will start to look less like natural language and more like a programming language. If you still don’t want to do programming, then you need some way to instruct or direct the intelligence tha
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by truculent 1y ago
The polycrisis? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycrisis
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by truculent 2y ago
If you want software to exhibit human values, the development process probably looks more like education or parenting prompting. Or so says Ted Chiang: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Ob...
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by truculent 2y ago
While it shares some similarities with animism, it’s a fundamentally materialist viewpoint, which puts it at odds with animism. Materialism is so rooted within our culture that I think it can be hard to fully grok alternative viewpoints.

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