confidantlake

These are not my rules. I was responding to the person above me. It was he who was saying consciousness is responding to the environment. I too disagree with that definition. A thermometer or a NAND gate responds to its environment but I do not believe either is conscious.

I strongly disagree that llm's are conscious of their environment. Even an insect reacts to light and someone attempting to swat at it. An llm barely even receives input from its environment.

Why does it matter how you "should" act if there is no free will. You are just going to act how your are going to act.

Who decides who is corrupt? The dictator that rules the country? You? Every single dictatorships always accuses their political enemies of corruption.

A country with high levels of corruption cannot be trusted to fairly carry out capital punishment.

yup I thought the same but had no idea wtf astra was. Some meteor belt I wasn't aware of or something? A moon on Jupiter? Idk wasn't obvious to me.

Isn't recreational drug use way down (especially alcohol)? All the others are definitely not helping.

Jevon's paradox has to do with consuming resources, not employment. There are plenty of examples of fields getting more efficient and employment falling. Farming and manufacturing being 2 examples.

North Koreans haven't revolted in what, 3 generations? You would be surprised how bad shit can get and still no revolts.

I'm aphantasic and also dream normally. I have also have had lucid dreams.

We have had nuclear weapons for less than a century. It takes one guy, one time for it to all go to shit. We are not out of the woods yet and we will never be.

Higher rates of obesity because we live longer?

He wasn't wrong.

The internet is dead, we just haven't caught on yet.

Wait you all are getting interviews?

I am also shocked that every time an article about guitar playing is posted the sheer number of posters who play guitar themselves. I mean what are the chances?

If the models are down you are probably in the same situation as when aws is down. A collective shrug, everyone is down, no one will take the blame individually.

It is over for me before it even started.

Software wins because of the sales team and the network effects. You could already create a better twitter or facebook that no one would use long before llms.

We've investigated ourselves and decided we are absolutely essential. In fact we deserve a raise for safely guiding the company during these uncertain times.

Yes because it is akin to producing a universe of slop and trying to find the single atom of gold.

I think you are right. One small exception I can think of is Microsoft Office still crushes Libre Office.

My father's generation had much more leisure time than my generation. When he was out of the office at 5pm work stopped. There were no laptops, slack pings, etc, etc. Vacations were longer, pensions were a thing. You could get a job supporting a family right out of high school. Things have absolutely gotten worse in the west no matter how much you want to twist the stats.

I'm sorry what? There isn't some super secret legal definition of every word. Buy means buy.

Opened this thread expecting to see a bunch of anecedotal sleep tips. Did not disappoint.

Ah I always felt like novels were a partnership in a way. He is putting down words and I am using that to create a world in my mind. 2 people reading the same novel are creating 2 different worlds.

That is an entirely unserious graph.

Try going for a walk when listening to an audiobook. When I do that I rarely zone out. When I don't I nearly always zone out.

Who trained the first philosopher?

If the purpose of college is not to get a job, then why do they give out degrees? Why do they give out loans?

Many colleges heavily advertise how it will help your career prospects. Yet when called out on the less than rosy outcomes they retreat to a position of oh it isn't about career at all.