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Comment · 3 hours ago
I was just reading about some environmental protestors outside the first minister's residence in Edinburgh. They're doing a Halloween protest with lots of pumpkins, it seems quite nice.
Comment · 5 hours ago
Seems correct though? "Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics". I guess medicine is a science. Political science might be engineering.
Comment · 5 hours ago
GDP is linked to stability, an economist can't alter that, it just takes time post-revolution. Having the army run the country would improve security and stability and GDP, but then you've got the army running the country, which perhaps hasn't been going so well for another nearby country, the one that probably causes the security anxieties I imagine.
Comment · 18 hours ago
The other LLM is obviously transformative because it's a different LLM and therefore is not even the same kind of thing, like how a white horse is not a horse, obviously.
Comment · 20 hours ago
Yes, any fungi. Brewer's yeast, for instance.
Comment · 21 hours ago
The presence of all the Shakespeare references is quite coincidental, if Patrick Stewart didn't influence the writing at all.
Comment · 22 hours ago
Using a computer to do "by hand" is a vague concept, yes, but laws routinely embrace vague concepts. You used it yourself! "Hand-crafting", you said. It could be pinned down more closely to something like a single action that happens quite soon after you press a button or ... and further wrangling could ensue because it's never going to have all the vagueness removed. It's probably relative to current norms of computer use and what we do or don't automate casually (and thus describe as "by hand").
Comment · 1 day ago
There are also many other irrelevant parameters. A thing isn't beautiful because it's pressurized, biodegradable, scheduled, dusty, reversed, volatile, modular, or rubber. However, beautiful things should last, because that would be better.
Wait, was that a Picard quote, in fact? It has the right tone. (Nope, looks like it's from Age of Ultron.)
Comment · 1 day ago
Well now I just want The Picard Song ... ah, here it is. https://archive.org/details/darkmateria_picard
Comment · 1 day ago
Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) died too, a few days ago.
Comment · 3 days ago
So, I'll pick up on the weak points:
> As long as we have questions to ask, they are not theoretically constrained
> some infinities are bigger than others
Those are both limitations. They need conjectures and they need training data. Can they produce their own conjectures and training data, and feed off it forever, while staying meaningful and not being stuck in a loop (a very large set of repeating cliches) or descending into confused noise?
Comment · 3 days ago
Yeah, I have some questions to add to their faq: https://centurylibrary.com/license-info/
* Will you actually sue anybody who doesn't follow your very fussy rules about what they can't do with the public domain works that you've scanned?
* Will you win if you try?
* Do you deliberately hide the original sources and names in case people go straight to the source instead of paying you?
* What happens to the rare books after you scan them?
Comment · 4 days ago
Today I read this news story: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv62yg0erp8zo
They are doing damnatio memoriae on a footballer (who plays for Real Madrid), canceling his branded products, no longer mentioning him in news stories, and saying he should stay out of China, because he indirectly implied that Mao was a dictator.
So, OK, that's a kind of social harmony: they're very unified in telling you what you mustn't even suggest.
Comment · 4 days ago
It's parasitic on humans and it's not an infinitely deep well. Wrong?
Comment · 5 days ago
But it was also stated that their labor is extracted, which sounds like slavery, and that they are exploited, which sounds like fraud, and that they take some psychic damage, which sounds like a JRPG. Those would all be bad things.