AbouBenAdhem

@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choosing to not to help your friends dying child doesn't make you an asshole⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, that doesn’t make you an asshole.

  Being an asshole is the cause, not the effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turing speculated that acting human would be the best indication of humanlike thought, but a better indication would be the inability to act otherwise.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The humans and machines that are behind the curtain have to be motivated to try and replicate a human

  In a Turing test, yes. What I’m suggesting is to change the motivation, to see if the machine fails like a human even when motivated not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turing speculated that acting human would be the best indication of humanlike thought, but a better indication would be the inability to act otherwise.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In the original Turning test, the black box isn’t the machine—it’s the human. The test is to see whether a (known) machine is an accurate model of an unknown system.

  While the tester is blind as to which is which, the experimenter knows the construction of the machine and can presumably tell if it’s artificially constraining itself. When I say “the inability to act otherwise”, I’m assuming the experimenter can distinguish a true inability from an induced one (even if the tester can’t).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turing speculated that acting human would be the best indication of humanlike thought, but a better indication would be the inability to act otherwise.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with the Turing test (like Ptolemy’s epicycles) is that the real unknown isn’t the machine being tested, but the system it’s supposed to be a model of.

  A machine whose behavior is a superset of the target system isn’t a true model of the system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turing speculated that acting human would be the best indication of humanlike thought, but a better indication would be the inability to act otherwise.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking of the example of syntax: the ability of LLMs to produce syntactic sentences is taken as evidence that they’re producing sentences the same way humans do, but LLMs can also (with training) produce sentences in artificial languages whose syntax is totally unnatural to humans.

• Turing speculated that acting human would be the best indication of humanlike thought, but a better indication would be the inability to act otherwise.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I should assume I'm not going tomorrow, right?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is [contingency] something that may be contingent on other things that may take time to verify?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archaeologists Discover Mysterious 7,000-Year-Old Stone Wall Beneath the Waves Off the Coast of France⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  a nearly 400-foot-long linear structure off the coast of France […] it measures roughly 66 feet wide at the base and stands roughly 7 feet tall

  Sounds more like a jetty than a wall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When they named the planet Uranus they probably didn't know it was full of methane.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Astronomers had pretty much all agreed on the name “Uranus” by 1850, and the first spectrographic studies began in 1861—so yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of actors never get into drugs, and lots of other people do anyway. We’re just more aware of the actors because they’re living under a spotlight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it’ll be when the majority of the working population is Gen Z or younger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism rewards risk-taking, which can be good when there are potential opportunities that are otherwise too risky to explore.

  But after they’re exploited the highest risk/reward opportunities, capitalists increasingly rely on creating new risks, to the detriment of everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno—on the one hand, I can see where data consent that’s folded into a long user agreement might get overlooked and approved without thinking, and a second verification would be helpful; but on the other hand, the more times users are asked for consent, the more likely they are to agree reflexively to everything.

  It seems like a user-configurable setting would be the best solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the worst enemy of feudalism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a ritual of social inversion (a fool was crowned king, personal status was ignored and identities concealed, religious and social rules were relaxed, etc.)

  There are differing views, but one theory is that it served as a reminder to both lords and commoners that the social order could be overthrown if the lords became too oppressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the worst enemy of feudalism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Carnival.

• The first evidence of human activity every archaeological expedition encounters is evidence of an archeological expedition.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the article on Public.Resource.Org:

  Malamud called for increased awareness that Westlaw was a commercial broker of the United States Federal Reporter, Federal Supplement, and Federal Appendix. While Westlaw had been adding value to the content by indexing it with their proprietary West American Digest System and accompanying summaries, the purchase of their products was the only way to access much of the public domain material they hosted.

• I wonder what humans do when they’re not taking showers. And where does all this water come from? And how did I become sentient?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New Year’s is celebrated by everyone

  More so than Christmas, perhaps—but you still have people with different calendars (Chinese, Jewish, Muslim, etc.).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone else trying to follow this research, the article is describing the paper by Moody et al. from a year and a half ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word or (concise) phrase to describe the paradox of sharing something (like a website) that you don't like, but because you're sharing it you're tacitly helping it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Feeding the trolls?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Water Chestnuts are a fantastic substitute if you like the crunch.

  My opinion of celery vs water chestnuts is apparently the exact reverse of yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  @remindme@mstdn.social 14,000,000,000 years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are all dinosaur fossils 'replicas'?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the sense that the original organic material has been replaced by minerals? I guess that’s a version of the old Ship of Theseus question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We could use one, and assume we’re operating in the field of complex numbers:

  North
  i North
  -North
  i^3^ North.

  And we could use the complex modulus to indicate distance… or we could map the Riemann sphere onto the surface of the earth and use a single complex number to indicate location.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theoretical Physics with Generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like the Sokal affair in reverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come there is not a pope without grey hair? I mean a much younger pope like 30s 40s. Really can't be that hard. You got an ocean of cardinals and priests who pretty much tell say?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many of the people electing the pope have hopes of becoming pope one day themselves, so they elect someone they expect to outlive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once we get good, universal real-time translation, we might start to see a new proliferation of local languages. And of small groups inventing their own cryptolects for privacy, trying to evolve them faster than AI can keep up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Aphasia or aphrasia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Montreal need to prove that it's a real place? What happened to the people who called it Montimaginary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Montreal is just the real subspace of Montcomplex.