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Comment · 1 year ago
The article went straight from mind to intelligence before the first paragraph; admitting defeat before making a move. Intelligence is still riding the wave of an evolutionary hype cycle. Mind, on the other hand, is some supremely useful stuff.
Comment · 1 year ago
Philosophy is precisely the domain of things that cannot be objectively testable because they are grounded in experience. You can not prove that you are conscious (especially in a world of LLMs) but you know it to be true. Should I assume you are an automaton simply because I can’t prove you are conscious?
Comment · 13 years ago
First, they are not attempting to shard, they are just adding redundancy. Second, it is not surprising that someone encountered a bug in a piece of server software released literally two days ago.
Comment · 14 years ago
It's wikipedia, you should fix it :)
Comment · 14 years ago
We use Plastic SCM as our UI and repo, but I hear it can connect to git (somewhat) seamlessly. The interface is very slick, and the user experience is great when you use the Plastic Repo, not sure how it translates when pulling from git though.
Comment · 17 years ago
Agreed, Pandora can get a bit one dimensional if you're not diligent. I've heard it's best to upvote sparingly and downvote heavily if you want a good mix. Also adding multiple bands and/or songs to a channel helps.
Comment · 17 years ago
Comment · 17 years ago
Nope.
Comment · 18 years ago
Comment · 18 years ago
I find that I can quickly get a feel for a candidate's general reasoning ability through a game of 20 questions.

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