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Comment · 9 months ago
Let me get this right. You're telling me that in your personal experience, you don't abstract away low level actions like pressing keys of your instrument or typing on the keyboard? You're genuinely telling me you derive equal pleasure from music as the feel of the keys?

Nah bro, most of us learn touch typing and musical instrument finger exercises etc when starting out, it's usually abstracted away once we get competent.

AI takes away the joy of creation, not the low level actions. That's like abstracted twice over..

Comment · 9 months ago
> I think there is a section of programmer who actually do like the actual typing of letters, numbers and special characters into a computer...

This sounds like an alien trying and failing to describe why people like creating things. No, the typing of characters in a keyboard has no special meaning, neither does dragging a brush across a canvas or pulling thread through fabric. It's the primitive desire to create something by your own hands. Have people using AI magically lost all understanding of creativity or creation, everything has to be utilitarian and business?

Comment · 11 months ago
As a lay person, huh, that's something you don't think about. But still even if that were true, I don't see how society, patients and their caretakers will accept high risk patients in trails. And wasn't there news recently of UK phasing out animal trails too?
Comment · 11 months ago
Imagine if someone did that.

"Hey, sorry I'm not here for a haircut. The other day when you were brushing my hair, I just thought it was really erotic and I wanted to apologize."

That's insanely creepy wow.

Comment · 11 months ago
Naturally, I'm a dev. Could it be something to do with limited genetic storage being dedicated to software instead of coding for hardware capabilities? In my limited knowledge, increasing DNA size comes at a maintainance cost(transcription, replication etc), so there's a soft upper bound.
Comment · 11 months ago
He may not be infected by GPL, but is definitely infected by American politics.
Comment · 1 year ago
Shodan? Like from system shock?
Comment · 1 year ago
On the topic of being explicit, why is it pub/pub(crate) rather than pub(extern)/pub?
Comment · 1 year ago
Won't this just become the fitness function for training future models?
Comment · 2 years ago
I asked around and a few people seem to have no problem "visualizing" tastes and smells, especially for common ones. I can imagine sense of touch too, I just assumed it's normal to be able to imagine all senses.
Comment · 2 years ago
Do you have an inner monologue? If you can hear your inner voice, you'll know that your inner voice is less of a voice and more of a speaker that can play anything you like. The only limits are my own knowledge, experience and creativity.
Comment · 2 years ago
Aphantasia might occur with other senses too. I'm almost certain I have aphantasia in taste and smells. I simply cannot conjure any in my head, even for extremely common ones like taste of apple or sun dried sheets. When people ask me about my opinion of food I just had, I'm simply recalling facts from my assessment made during the meal. It's very different from how I do it if I had to recall something visual like a painting, because I do have a vivid mental image.
Comment · 2 years ago
I found the 40 and 50 algorithms book from the same publisher at a library, most of it was machine learning algorithms though.
Comment · 3 years ago
So what is the takeaway from this? It isn't even the expectation of winning money that keeps people in casinos, just the dopamine hit from a slot machine itself? They would've played with or without reward the whole time?
Comment · 3 years ago
Because AoC has a leaderboard? Whenever you have a leaderboard of any kind, there will be people trying to get up there.

It's also likely that a lot of AI users will be skilled developers too. They already know they can solve the problems, they also think they deserve the leaderboard rankings, so using AI is ok.

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