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Comment · 1 year ago
Is Musk's red car a spaceship btw? Because if we are able to send such stuff to space, other intelligent beings would most probably do the same. Or they are more intelligent?
Comment · 1 year ago
So is it a spaceship or not?
Comment · 1 year ago
Why is that in English speaking world a joke is almost always a pun?
Comment · 1 year ago
Just look at the Java installer: What is Java? Java is everywhere!
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't get the point. The article says that if you "somewhat" measure, then you lose "somewhat" from the wavelike nature. So the photon is a wave by X%, and a particle by 100-X%?
Comment · 1 year ago
I had a similar feeling. But I think this is indeed a glimpse to the intrinsic structure of reality itself, not just a promise of seeing reality. Like we can have a blink of turning around in Plato's cave. I think the patterns of the Mandelbrot set is a similar thing. And there are only a handful of other things that shows the very basic structure of reality. And the encouraging thing is that it seems the core of reality is not an infinite void.
Comment · 1 year ago
Recording yourself is not a violation, only publishing on Youtube. Content generated with LLMs are not a violation. Publishing the content you generated might be.
Comment · 1 year ago
Quotation is fair use in all sensible copyright system. An LLM will mostly be able to quote anything, and should be. Quotation is not derived work. LLMs are not stealing copyrighted work. They just show that Harry Potter is in English and a mostly logical story. If someone is stabbed, they will die in most stories, that's not copyrightable. If you have an engine that knows everything, it will be able to quote everything.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm so tired of the enforced password changes, that I just write them on a post-it note now.
Comment · 1 year ago
The website frustratingly assumes 4K display?
Comment · 1 year ago
An example of an actual grammar, like arithmetic expressions, would be helpful.
Comment · 1 year ago
People are usually interested in the transients.
Comment · 1 year ago
There is scientific consensus that Jesus was a historical figure, so the book referred here is probably fiction.
Comment · 1 year ago
Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind describes this ín details.
Comment · 2 years ago
Plus what must have been lost in 500 years, all photonegative pictures, fragments, descriptions, recipes, any references for such imagery etc. It is very strange that this is the only image that remained. And an image of a nude Jesus from the back. For which no other instance is known anywhere.

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