- justonceokayDoes this line of thinking make you an anarchist?
- I’ve used both and I think that’s cope. There’s more younger creators and maybe more varied content on TikTok.
If you want proof, watch someone’s feed with them. Invariably they will start to apologize. Classic “he’s different when we’re alone” rationalization for an addictive substance
- It’s uncomfortable for some people to experience an idea they can’t fit in their head all at once
- That’s do interesting. I never would have assumed that single-celled animals have significantly more nuclear material per-weight than meat.
- I’m ideologically alighted with you but that isn’t an argument in good faith. We let convicted murderers buy cars.
Your quip about stock options is actually funny, because if the engineers were killing people then those stock options shouldn’t be worth so much.
- I suppose in this facility they would have special access to the knowledge and practice of how to raise a child
- It’s like incel mentality except applied to literacy
- Like an orphanage? I think people like raising their children
- The causal relationship here is murky. If have a hard time believing that a change in Italian shipping in 1345 was the only thing that allowed the bubonic plague to enter the otherwise hermetically sealed Europe.
The reason for the plague was disastrous health and cleanliness standards.
- Blaming slow sales on salespeople is almost always a scapegoat. Reality is that either the product sells or it doesn’t.
Not saying that sales is useless, far from it. But with an established product that people know about, the sales team is more of a conduit than they are a resource-gathering operation.
- What is a free model worth if it’s running on another company’s server farm, trained with data you do not have access to?
- Try not to be a woman
- Frustration is an emotional response that can lead to many things, including inaction. Laziness is a moral perspective on inaction. Was Bartleby the Scrivener lazy?
- Learning where you fit in the social hierarchy and attempting to navigate that hierarchy is more important than anything you’ll learn in math class. Even if it is embarrassing. It’s not like you graduate high school and then the bullies go away.
- GP obviously meant passive tone, not passive noun-verb relationship.
- The problem with this line of reasoning is that “truth” is a word, and therefore not “enough” be definition of not being a physical thing in the world. Without communication there can be no lies, so truth doesnt mean anything.
If by “truth” you mean more like Kants “the thing in itself”, then the problem there is we need abstraction. If I show you how to make an arrowhead, somehow I need to convey that you can follow the same process with your own piece of flint, and that they are both arrowheads. Without any language abstraction my arrowhead and your arrowhead are just two different rocks with no relation to each other.
- In philosophy of mind, there is the concept of a “zombie”. This is a person who acts just like a real person would in all circumstances, except that they do not have an internal experience of their senses. No “qualia”.
My little engineering brain has always recoiled at any use of these zombies in an argument. In my reckoning the only way a machine could act human in all circumstances would be if it had a rich internal representation of the world, including sensory data, goals, opinions, fears, weaknesses…
The LLMs are getting better at the Turing test, and as they get better I wonder how correct my intuition about zombies is.
- There’s a reason most insects have thousands of offspring. Wikipedia states that houseflies have about 5k. Since their population isn’t exponentially exploding, you can assume the chance of reproducing as a fly is something like 1/5000
- I know it’s silly, but I think I represent over 90% of apples customers in that way. I just need something that reads emails and shows me porn.
- For perspective I have a 12 year old MacBook with 8 gigs of ram and it’s still perfectly usable for all the things I do on it. If you need more RAM because you are video encoding, compiling, or gaming (why!?) then you aren’t a basic consumer.
I’m not trying into be a fanboy and maybe it’s a little bit “cope”, but apple has always put as much RAM as is necessary for the computer to work—and not a lot more—in their base models.