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Cremieux is the pen name of reddit user u/TrannyPornO just read some of his comments.

Some form of prediction being used by the higher-level neurons doesn't make the brain a prediction engine.

> Have you heard of information theory?

> Your argument against deriving meaning from statistics completely ignores that the brain also works this way.

The brain is not predicting it's compressing.

This talk by Feynman is slightly related:

https://youtu.be/obCjODeoLVw

> I understand that you may believe your ability to think is magic.

Nobody said that. I am sick of the false dichotomy of being given only two choices:

a) It's magic

b) It's akin to our latest discovery

If it's continious then nothing is emerging and it can be explained by the sum of it's sub-systems.

> Of course it's just statistics, but so are we.

Where is this coming from?

> Do you see?

Emergence can only be discontinuous.

Thanks for sharing! In the 1st example ["computer nerds", "hackernews", "geeky", "computer tones"] seem to make the result sound more like an old-school RPG soundtrack rather than a song.

I still cant believe people voluntarily scanned their fucking eyeballs!

You think privacy has no value?

> Really, has there been a backlash against me? I hadn't noticed any change. I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before. This sort of thing happens to a lot of people, and I would really like to avoid it.

http://lemonodor.com/archives/001091.html

I blame Substack.

> society and the economy like never before. This process carries enormous risks and opportunities, which are currently basically... ignored (well, the risk side)

What risks are you talking about here?

Not achievable with current methods != Impossible

I dont think its fair to say that LLMs have passed the Turing test.

From the wikipedia page you linked:

Isaac Asimov's Corollary to Clarke's First Law: "When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervour and emotion – the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right."

> This thread's article was written by a high-IQ intelligent author.

Does he also have a Mensa membership?

If not convincing what argument for and against do you think is the strongest?

hn is not pleased ofc.

do you mind sharing why you consider handmade hero a con ?

clearnet link to the complaint section of said forum: https://xss.is/threads/34768/

https://nostarch.com/Effective_C by Robert C. Seacord. a little about the book and the motivation behind "Why C": https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9237323

this recent book published by No Starch implements everything in pure c: https://nostarch.com/algorithmic-thinking

slightly unrelated : the javascript edition of SICP is also coming in April 2022. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-...

clearnet link : https://njal.la/blog/t/legal/