whatnow37373

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by whatnow37373 1y ago
I think AGI implies it: I can learn something through audio and apply it visually and the other wat around. I don’t think that’s some abstract human quirk. Isn’t that what enabled literacy? It seems kind of obvious intelligence is beneath t
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Maybe we can learn some lessons from digital artists who naturally fret over the use of their skills and how they will be replaced by stable diffusion and friends. In one way, yes, this massively shifts power into the hands of the less skil
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
I can’t remember ever asking a question and getting a helpful answer to be completely honest.. I feel weird when I read about people needing support. Maybe there is something wrong with me.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Yes, that’s true and very cool but you’re an expert. Where do the next generation you’s come from? The ones that did not do weeks of dead-end research which built resilience, skill and the experience to tell Claude now saves them time? You
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
You miss the point. It’s not I don’t believe in scarcity or the second law of thermodynamics, it’s that I critique capitalism’s handing of it that is by its very nature exploitative, short-sighted and unsustainable. It needs various and ext
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
That’s strange, because capitalism is the one that thinks infinity is real. Also it’s trying to break nature, quite literally given the state of our climate. There are other ways to cooperate that don’t depend on sociopathy and infighting.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Capitalism is just one solution to that problem and I’m not convinced it’s the best one.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
In capitalism everything is a function of scarcity. I wonder how long we are going to keep up that particular charade.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
So, basically, be super rare? And hard to work with?
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
If you earn some dough and are treated somewhat nice you have already hit the jackpot. Don’t give up a perfectly good job just because you have power fantasy issues. You will always be a worker bee, that’s just how the world is set up. Some
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
It’s not sci-fi though. If Star Wars is sci-fi then Jurassic Park is a biology documentary.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
No matter how you twist it at some point two consciousnesses differentiate on some contradictory issue maybe not name, but surely they differ on some issue otherwise they wouldn’t be .. different consciousnesses. Life as a human moves and i
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
It’s a single narrative that controls the body is what I mean. If one consciousness says “I am Peter” then other consciousnesses would know that and be conflicted about, if they don’t call themselves that. What I mean is that a single narra
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Which one controls the body? There is a problem there. You can’t just have a bunch of disembodied consciousnesses. Well, maybe.. but that sounds kind of strange.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Then there is the beautiful issue of memory: maybe you are X consciousnesses but only one leaves a memory trace? Consciousness and memory are two very different things. Don’t think too much about this when you have to undergo surgery. Maybe
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Possible. Reminds me of playing the piano with both hands and other stuff like walking stairs, talking, carrying things, planning your day and thinking about some abstract philosophical thing at the same time. It’s not easy or natural, but
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
At this point I will intentionally include a cookie banner even if my sites doesn’t need it. It exudes this … je ne sais quoi.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Powerful the Force is, young Padawan, as is the strength of your doubts. Release them you must.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
While this issue is complicated and caused by a variety of factors I believe it is indicative of the quality we are going to be seeing in the coming decades. Well, that plus ads. The ads will always work.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
You’re making it seem those guys worked the fields 14 hours straight. It’s just some paperwork..
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
People will start caring when their devices start bricking, loading websites takes 12sec and registering for medicaid is only possible between 9 and 11AM and then only if lucky. We are in this weird twilight zone where everything is still r
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
I’m European, so: heavy—ass regulation. Don’t trust the market. We don’t trust capitalism with all important bits of civilization: government, water and food quality, care, education, etc. I don’t see why it has to be let loose here. Social
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Alright. I confess, it has parts that functionally work. You can press buttons and enter text and most of the time they respond. I literally cannot access the “content”, usually a single sentence, without signing in. I’m frustrated because
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
I am not going to analyze my peers’ abilities for my manager. That is literally his F job. It creates unnecessary tensions and again, his job. Why do so many people roll along with this? I see engineers often bad-mouthing each other. Why do
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
X is completely unusable and it saddens me people keep posting valuable content to it.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
I don’t particularly care either way but I can see the argument that any human no matter how brilliant is a product of the society he/she was raised and thus purely personal ownership does not exist. Your work is our work, we just play
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
I believe this was already settled? Didn’t it just experience gravity the same way?
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Trigram count can be enough. I saw a demo of that on HN users to look for alt account a year or two ago. Worked great. Found all my alts.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
The CPU development curve is often thrown around but it very seldomly fits anything else in reality. It was a very rare and extraordinary set of coincidences that got it us here. Computation using silicon turned out to have massive growth p
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Yeah but any abstraction can be made to work if it remains sufficiently abstract. All of life is “energy conversion”. All of programming is “translation”. All programming is “solving problems”. Etc. Not all abstractions generalize (in an us

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