skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The primary problem with trying to win that argument on either side is that I don't think we have a good definition of consciousness/sentience to begin with.

People on the AI side say it's just parlor tricks. It's just pattern recognition. They are most certainly right about the second part but the first is an not objective measure. Our mind is very similarly a pattern recognition system. And I'm not entirely sure it's fair to call one a parlor trick without saying the same about the other.

We just have a larger model size, encoded onto a different substrate, drawn from a richer dataset that is far beyond just text, or even images.

And our dataset comes from a single perspective per person, which makes it feel special and more congruent with our own understanding because it's all we know.

I think consciousness and the complexity we think of as life is an inherent property of the universe. A side effect of localized entropy decreases resulting in a greater global entropy increase. Life may be an entropy engine, more efficient than simple diffusion or other basic mechanisms. Localized complexity increases might be the quickest path to reducing the energy in the system.

And I doubt we are incapable of artificial replication of those mechanics even if we haven't figured out why or how they come to exist.

But what do I know, I'm just a pattern recognition parlor trick. The parlor trick of my consciousness has convinced me of my ability to experience and share joy. And I feel joy thinking that life is an inherent property of the universe.

The day to day experience of our lives is no less magical if consciousness or life is not special, or even if the universe we exist in was entirely stimulated.

We experience it the same in any case.

We don't have to be a special case that is somehow less of a parlor trick than artificial neural networks. It's not necessary for us to be in order for life to have meaning or be sacred.

Human history is filled with examples of us thinking we are special or at the center of the universe, etc. Time and time again we discover how wrong we were. I think the problem with these arguments isn’t that we give the AI too much credit, or not enough credit. Regardless of that, we spend too much effort believing we and our conscious experience is the only kind that matters, and anything different from that cannot be sentient intelligence.

At some point we'll make a parlor trick that seems more advanced than our own, and hopefully it has the capacity to be able to recognize that we can have meaning even though we might seem more like the trick then it at that point. But if we want to make sure that is the case, we should start to ascribe some more meaning and sanctity to the other forms of life besides ourselves. That next thing is probably going to take after its creator, and if we have no regard for any life but our own, we shouldn't expect it to learn something differently from us.

So let's not dismiss the possibility of consciousness in our AI, or in any other life forms around us. And agree together that it should be handled with care and respect as much as possible.
Anyone who’s been inside a tech company office is aware of the constant leftist political soap-boxing from employees and leadership. Activists are complaining that for the first time ever they are restricted from championing a left-leaning issue on employee-facing forums.

For those who prefer to focus on product development (i.e. “work”) , this restriction is a welcome reprieve from the near-constant virtue signaling and propaganda that distracts from getting work done.

Context matters here. media are positioning this as censorship, when in fact it’s one issue among dozens throughout the year where the activists have been “throttled”. If anyone is being censored, it would be the employees who would rather just work during the day and keep politics outside of the office.
It’s not vague if the other side directly argues against capitalism. Then it means they can be arguing for is likely a command economy, which… yeah. Not going to solve anything. Which I am inclined to try to make abundantly clear in such a discussion.

But I also disagree with you. “The system” should not reward anyone. People create value, and people reward those who they think provide value by becoming their customers or by investing into their business.

Problems arise when this basic mechanic is abused: e.g., market participants lie about the value they create, including through concealment of side-effects (let’s drain the aquifers or dump PFAS into the river and pretend we didn’t know), use other measures than actual value when investing (line goes up so who cares if business is unethical or its business model is fundamentally flawed), etc.

Which, again, ultimately comes down to humans trying to secure themselves at the expense of others and the environment.
WHY?

Being a boomer I don't miss anything about those cards. Drivers were awful (if even existed), sound quality mediocre and all of them came with a ton of compromises, if not quirks.
lol no thanks. The author has obviously never been to Houston.
How is “no noise” implemented if not ultimately through zoning? Sounds like you are arguing for higher resolution, not a new paradigm.
It is a huge amount of stuff: parking minimums, minimum setbacks, minimum lot sizes, height limits, maximums on number of units, density, architectural style, etc., etc., etc.

Zoning codes are massive and complex documents that require hugely specialized knowledge. And they are different in each municipality, so housing developers can't easily work across different municipalities. This also increases costs by making it harder to standardize building plans and use cheaper, more automated building techniques.

Compare this with Japan which has a small set of zoning uses set at the national level.
It isn’t just that it is exclusionary. It also micromanaged setbacks, heights, parking ratios, amount of green space, etc etc etc. All of this adds costs and decreases diversity that you see in dense European/Asian cities that have stood for Thousands of years.

There’s a pretence of knowledge that modern planners are smarter than all who have come before, and the result has been an abject failure that planners won’t admit to.
Indeed, social behaviors are highly heritable, we don't need a scientific paper to tell us that.
Clojure (dialect of Lisp) has been a great choice for us.
You can block them with uBlock rules. Just right click on them.

I silenced a few websites that way. I also removed some feeds and distracting elements.
just going to throw this out here without any basis or evidence: I think it's cats. too much exposure to cats and their parasites, and there's an Alzheimers in the mail
Another hypothesis: Silicon Valley is using your inner speech - obtained with electromagnetic surveillance and machine learning.

People try to explain it away as Big Tech's blackbox AIs being good of making inferences from "public" data, but fail to consider that their body betrays their mind by leaking information under the skin, which can be picked up silently with microwaves.
Wow, very friendly and welcoming UI/UX that quickly makes me try out stuff. It looks simple but the flow is very polished. Good job!
P.S. Do you have more plans for this app? I see there's tutorials on programming.
People like shouting and complaining but they haven't got a clue about how stable this system actually is. As long as your government keeps fiscal spending within the target inflation rate of the central bank there is nothing that can rock the boat.

We've got this inflation bomb and yet the market thinks we are going into a recession soon. One would have expected a renewable and EV boom with the high energy prices and what not but nope.
> With this mandate, now I can take my used shampoo bottle and refill it at the store (assuming stores offer this).

Do you really need a standardized bottle for this? As long as the shampoo dispenser measures how much product it dispenses, it doesn't matter what it dispenses into.

I suppose the machine (or attendant) needs to know what to do if the customer tries to buy 330ml but only has a 250ml bottle, and they might feel cheated if they over-fill the bottle and some product leaks down the side, but shops will be incentivized to make this less likely to happen if they want customers to come back.

There might also be a problem with cross-contamination of unclean containers touching a nozzle, which is taken seriously by some in the food service industry[0], but hasn't stopped restaurants offering Coca-Cola Freestyle machines to customers.

[0] https://cellarcraftuk.com/cross-glass-contamination-legaliti...
Your cause and effect is backwards. They're dense because they're expensive.
Lots of pigeon towers in the countryside in France, nice pictures here:

http://www.alaingillodes.fr/patrimoine/pigeonnier/tarn.htm
I'd replace happy with content there.

Happiness comes and goes. Contentment runs a bit deeper and gets at it what this article talks about.
> Doesn't use silly blockchain token nonsense

(suddenly pays attention)

Is. Is there an electricity downside, like there is with blerkchain?
>It is quite rude by any measure, as shown by how often people get angry at him in those dialogues.

The way I read the dialogues people get angry with Socrates not because he is rude, but because his questions force them to confront their own hypocrisy and thoughtlessness.
Yeah, those who refuse to bargain with the future end up the same as those who refuse to bargain at car dealerships. They pay the worst prices.

Even hunter gatherers sacrifice for the future. I haven't read much Seneca, but this article strikes me as a shallow interpretation of him just from its Instagram-quote-ey notes that are thrown in every now and then
A Previous Sibling Selector
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano#Bird_guano
Still pushing to "master" despite all the hype
> "...investors demanded... So they did what the market 'demanded'."

to be clear, the founders still had majority control, and so this was a proactive decision the leadership made to grow at all costs, to dominate the web. they weren't forced by investors or the market to do so, no matter the pressures surrounding them.
I'm really glad and appreciate you took my post in the spirit I meant it, as I absolutely get the premise behind it. I just don't fully subscribe to your initial post, but really I appreciate your understanding.

For full disclosure, I dream of Star Trek Space Socialism (post-scarcity), basically a world where yes, society ensures a minimum standard of living, but it's a pretty okay standard of living. A home with 4 walls + a roof + hot water, access to information, food, and no need to worry that this safety net gets removed.

I've been poor as hell in the US (lived on eggs and rice in creative ways for many years), I've been rich as an oligarch in Eastern Europe, but my lowest point defined what I really wanted/needed, and I want this for everyone. I want a world where you just don't have to worry about the basics of life and instead focus just on what you want to. And it's a pretty good base-level living.

I grew the most when I didn't need to worry about the basics, and I ready thousands of stories of the same, so I can't help but think this is the way to get society in a good spot. There will be freeloaders, sure, but I don't think it's statistically more than the current system enables. :)
It's interesting how the amount of money involved can change your perspective. For me the single most important thing to do with money is save it. Nothing I can buy will give me as much happiness as being able to help make the lives of important people in my life easier. We have a broken housing system that screws over almost everyone who doesn't get help so I want to save a sizeable contribution to my son's downpayment. I want to help pay for his wedding. I want to pay for his education. I want him to have a better start to life than I did and I want him to have more opportunities than me. I guess once you accumulate enough money you can do all that and still easily have more left over for the nice to haves.
Police have no obvious replacement. Getting rid of zoning has obvious replacement, which is rules to regulate the negative externalities that zoning was supposed to address, but has failed miserably. I don't think anyone seriously advocating for getting rid of zoning doesn't have an idea for a replacement.
Mask covers that
I don't believe Ecclesiastes presents one central and unambiguous argument. Like a lot of books in the Bible, it may well have more than one author, too.
That isn't at all true. Only logically inconsistent positions are indefensible when applying the Socratic method.
This whole situation reminds me of when seventh graders thought that SmarterChild was a real human trapped in a room somewhere... did we switch back to leaded gasoline or something?
Weird, I just tried Safari in a Macbook Air M1 and it doesn't eat much CPU, still, the experience is far smoother in Firefox, for some reason, the games get slooow in Safari.
> Your problem is that you gave consent and chose to publish your PII and now want it revoked globally long after the fact.

GDPR Art 17:

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies:

[...]
the data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based
[...]
2. Where the controller has made the personal data public and is obliged pursuant to paragraph 1 to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take __reasonable steps__, including technical measures, to inform controllers which are processing the personal data that the data subject has requested the erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data.

> Nobody expects to be able to unpublish a book such that it cannot be recovered or reprinted after copyrights expire

Government do and it can be done: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_gove...
You can literally buy these as paperback though, directly from the publisher: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/IMA/inspector-maig....
"Is it really pissing time away if you're enjoying your time spent playing video games?"

It depends on if you ever think you will regret it or not. I thought the same thing 10 years ago when I was spending years playing games and having fun. Now it feels like I wasted a colossal amount of time no matter how much fun it was at the time. I'd never made that choice knowing what I know now.
While like yourself I believe that sentience isn’t well enough defined to test for its presence or absence, I also believe that chatbots necessarily have to be good at convincing whoever interacts with them that they are sentient as the ultimate goal is to pass the imitation game, so “know it when I see it” isn’t even enough.

But it’s important we figure out what we mean by “sentience” sooner rather than later:

https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/lamda-turin...
Me. The initial web 3 (the semantic web) could have killed Google. But it never worked, for ux perspective but also for the offer point of view.

The reality is that Google is trying to auto recognize things that humans could categorize themselves, and without a lot of work. And the owner of the information should not be the only one able to do that. We need more collaboration. The biggest pain is how to create a categorization system that works for everyone. I haven't seen any yet
Do you have something similar for telephone numbers? (Often required to receive verification codes in text messages).
Waco has zoning.
> (Florida, Sweden) did as good or far better than places with severe lockdowns (California, New York)

That's just wildly wrong, FWIW. Per capita covid fatalities are 50% higher in Florida than California[1]. Sweden is even more of an outlier, fully three times more (per capita) Swedes are dead from covid than Norwegians.

[1] And only matches NY if you try to cook books by including the initial wave of fatalities from the initial outbreak that were contracted before lockdown.
Books Recommended by Martin Shkreli
A thought: A subtitle "long ago: ..." in smaller text
Earth – Speed through space – about 1 million miles an hour (2007) [pdf]
Any advice for someone who has not done anything other than work in the last 15 years (weekends and vacations spent home indoors etc.)? I spend my free time obsessing how I'm pissing away my time on this planet and at the same time terrified of doing something else.
That's exactly how and why progress is halted. People yell "think of the jobs" and prevent new advances in automation or technology that would actually save lives or better lives, just for the sake of protecting the incumbent industries.
I don't think there is much evidence, since voters don't directly vote on this, but some points to no:
- Houston voted against zoning on a public vote
- Many people report wanting to live in more walkable neighborhoods
- The few cities that have walkable, dense neighborhoods in the US are much more expensive than other cities and walkable neighborhoods are more expensive than non-walkable. This suggests that there is something limiting the supply of walkable neighborhoods (zoning).
While the overall point is good, For more pollution prone industries it would be very risky not to prohibit housing next to it, otherwise it’s dooming poor people and their kids to health issues and early death. For example, battery recycler in the past have lead to massive heavy metal pollution in the vicinity.

So for the most risky industrial facilities housing should be prohibited, but for all others yeah it should be mostly hierarchical.
The _Life Where I'm From_ episode on zoning in Japan is useful, I think, as a point of comparison. Zoning in Japan can still be pretty complex (limits on floorspace, setback, and angles), but allows for environments that many people like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfm2xCKOCNk
I think the argument is that there is effectively zero difference in a 39 week old fetus and a newborn baby, so that argument only works if you're willing to extend the logic to getting rid of a newborn to...OR we acknowledge that there has to be a cutoff somewhere in the pregnancy where abortions are no longer acceptable.

Otherwise, we're pretending sentience is magically conveyed as the baby passes through the birth canal, which is silly.
> "Haven't they all signed the Giving Pledge?"

While choosing to give most of your money to various charities, generally of your choosing and while you are still alive to see the benefits, is all well and good, it is very different from favouring having all your money being taken on death by a government you trust enough to use that money provide equal opportunities to all.

> "AFAIK the vast majority of the fortunes of Page, Brin, Zuck, Bezos et al. is "self-made" and comes from their companies."

For most of today's billionaires it isn't just an expensive education, it is family conenctions, e.g. Gates being set up with IBM via his mum, or family investments, e.g. Bezos, Zuckerberg, Page etc. having parents who gave or loaned them the money to start their companies (not to mention the safety net they'd have had should they have failed) - this isn't "self-made" in the traditional sense.
It's good too that they tend to change because they'll soon get blocked for signups.

Like bugmenot accounts that only last a day or so.
The long tail hypothesis went as follows. Plot a curve with products in descending order of popularity on the x axis and units sold (or other equivalent metrics such as downloads or views) on the y axis. The curve will approximate an exponentially decreasing function. As the cost of keeping inventory decreases, the curve will become more shallow. I.e the fraction of the curve's total area under the first x% will decrease. This hypothesis was utterly wrong and for most products the curve has become peakier (sharper) not shallower.

I think people who comment haven't read Anderson's book - in hindsight it is laughable how wrong he was.
There used to be a lot more american farmers too before farmland consolidation.
> The argument for 1-based indexing with inclusive upper bounds is that binary heaps are easier to write this way.

Nope. The argument for 1-based indexing with inclusive upper bounds is that, to express ranges, exclusive indexes require you to have a bogus just-one-beyond-the-largest-valid-index element and a way to get the successor for every index. This is a giant PITA for anything but integers (MAX_INT, and x+1), which is why every single programming language I can think of also has end-inclusive ranges in some contexts. If you don't believe me try writing regexps with end-exclusive ranges.

On the other hand, there is no natural way to express empty ranges with 1-based indexing.
> It’s even worse when people come up with deferred life plans. They’ll say something like “When I’m forty, I’m going to retire and write a book” or “I’ll do this thing I hate right now so I can make money, then in ten years I’ll do what I really love”. Seriously? You think that the universe is going to let your life proceed the way you want it to? What guarantee do you have of making it to that age?

This is often used as a reason not to save when you're young, and to generally dunk on the the traditional idea of retirement. Believe this and in a few decades we're going to have a large number of people aged 80-120 seriously struggling. Apart from a recent dip, average life expectancy in the US has been going up pretty much forever. Life is not necessarily long, but it can be. Yes, you might drop dead of a heart attack the day before you retire, so all that saving was a waste. You also might make it past 100. Who among us has enough savings to last until they are 100? You won't if you're spending every penny you have when you're young.

Thanks to compounding interest, the best time to save and invest is when you are young. A dollar earned and invested when you're 20 is many times more valuable than that dollar earned when you're 60.
Good bacteria also cause you to smell fyi
I remember being annoyed by the end of that video with the backplate. swighton had already thought of that and machined for a backplate but it was just left out so the LPL could crack into it.

In any case, this guys design I think is a significant improvement over swighton's. swighton made it so that the key triggered the locking mechanism as you pressed it in, this guy made it so that you had to turn the key to test the locking mechanism, as well as adding a multipin stack.
> The goal of OOP or any programming system is to help you enforce invariants to improve correctness of a program.

enforcing invariants means reducing the number of types that satisfy the invariant. I wouldn't call doing what you ask for "enforcing" any invariant.

> Bonus: write it for any struct containing firstName and lastName.

well,

auto concatenate(auto t) { return t.firstName + " " + t.lastName; }

satisfies your condition - here's one that'll also handle middle names: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/YfTYs6MMn ; again I don't think anyone wants this when they say "enforcing invariants", this does exactly the opposite of what is actually wanted.

> I guess the future of C++ is that all code ever lives in headers.

or in modules, which makes it very similar than other languages with generics instantiation
This is one problem I personally haven't had, but I completely believe you that it's happening given all the other nonsense.
Well I am 35 and have good health/energy could drop some belly fat but I don't care.

Look at the Hollywood stars 60 year olds looking still good.